Your analogy is seriously flawed with an English paper. If you write the paper correct the first time it is done for good. There are no changes, and no other outside variables to consider at all. Yes, I am seeing stars now from the headshot... Dude, I really don't care one way or the other, the system is what it is and it sucks, period. If there are that ma
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--An economy specialized planet is always my first planet now. By the time I colonize my third planet for technology, the second one is half done with its economic buildings, which will support it financially. Otherwise I go broke fast. I guess I am missing something here. The way it reads to me, you are focusing on getting a 'top three' list of planets in a way, correct? You are of course shooting to grab every hunk of rock that you can, right? I find
Reading your post it come to my mind your comp could have defective RAM. At work we're using a free program to test this issue: memtest86 (www.memtest86.com). Yeah, Kryo mentioned it last week and I've already done that. Everything checks fine so I feel pretty confident (also ran two other program tests, the names escape me at the moment) that my hardware is up to snuff although I am DEFINITELY upgrading from 1GB to 3GB just because. I also know that th
Also, I'd like an option to tell other civilizations to get their ships out of my territory. This is by far the one feature I would REALLY like to see implemented. Even if we got nothing else (except any issues/bugs fixed of course) but this feature I would be extremely satisfied. Strange how it was never put into the game in the first place.
Okay, so I never claimed to be great with a PC but since my CTD issues have been pretty steady with regards to any gigantic, huge, or even large galaxies I decided to try a medium sized map and see what happens. I still had a CTD with the infamous header of 'memory write error', which is always the case so I decided to get the most out of my vid card and hook up an old monitor so that I could monitor a few things while playing. I started a new game, medium galaxy w/all abundant and had Fre
Here's my friggin rant! I am tired of everyone I come across using lame excuses for not doing their job well or even properly for that matter, and no, this isn't picking on software developers specifically, this is aimed at ALL of those who claim to know their job, who claim to do their job, yet don't. To all of those who say, "why should I care", or "what's in it for me", or "let him worry about it"... Never have I seen such a level of laziness and incompetence. There was a time when cust
Users eh! Who'd have 'em? I guess you and all the others who are in the same profession as you... for how would you pay your bills if us 'users' didn't pay for your products? Hmmm, I think it should have been the other way around, since in all reality, we really don't need to spend our hard earned cash on the items you produce. Want and need are two different things. Believe me, I can understand where you are coming from, but if everyone else had t
What gets me is that the minor races are able to build these scout ships and constructors even before they have Hyperdrive technology. Why on Earth would this bother you? The minors never really do much of anything so it isn't like they are a threat to you in some way, now is it?
I like Popcorn Avenger's post... even though I am a dog lover! But you guys should have offered up some women... like 99 virgins or something like that. Finding them however...
Try running the game in windowed mode, and see if that helps (untick the Fullscreen box in the options menu). If you could clarify for me Kryo, what exactly does running the game in windowed mode vs. full screen do? And yes, I realize the part about making it 'run in a window'... just thought maybe it could be a root cause of my CTD's as well.
Kryo, isn't there something we can do about this? I admit, despite the purple heart medal being a sign of my defeats, it would be kind of cool to have it displayed on the forum. Ahhh, the sweet smell of defeat.
You can ofcourse test it untill you find all bugs, but that will take a lot of time and money. And there we have the bottom line... time and MONEY. It is all well and good to make money but there is the problem. A customer pays for something... they should get the best product there is. So you say it takes money to test for all the bugs, therefore it is a possibility according to you, since I am considered to be illiterate when it comes to programming (
I HAVE PLAYED 1000's OF GAMES ONLINE AND HAVE ONLY MADE 1 FRIEND. TO PUT IT MILDLY THE PEOPLE WHO USE THOSE BOARDS ARE JERKS. Maybe it's you...
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And as a note, I did find your use of certain words and near-words to be offensive. theres no need for it. And someone is supposed to care about this because...? Yes, there is a need for it. It is a part of our language. It is much worse to use *@#$! and such instead of just using the word in its correct grammatical context/spelling. But I see that someone left the back door open today and the Inspector General of Verbage strolled in to grace us...
To the ones that think all software should be perfect and bug free well ... My name is _______, I'm a software engineer and the software I write has bugs in it. There I said it. The project I work on has getting close to 2million lines of code with 6 developers. That's more than 300,000 lines of code each. Try this little experiment, write a short story, or a short report on a subject you know well - three of four pages should do. Spell check it and proof read it. Now
a good product is worth a little effort on the recipients part to help keep it going. Agreed, a good product is worth a LITTLE effort... unfortunately some of us have had to put forth a LOT of effort for something that shouldn't be this way. A game shouldn't be released with bugs/issues. People like you say that corporate greed and the rush to put out the product is the root of this problem... okay then, if Stardock doesn't have shareholders and it isn'
But I think that since we all have the maximum RAM for our motherboards that helps more than anything else. Not to be a pest here Cari, but are you basically saying that the bottom line is it is all about the RAM when it comes to this game (aside from graphics cards of course). If so then I would assume that the root of my problem is 'probably' due to only having one gig of RAM, regardless of what I set virtual to, and that I like to play with gigantic
Well put trancejeremy. But then again, I hate all forms of restriction in general when it comes to the capitalist reality.
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Just to let you know Kryo, and Mistralok, I did what Kryo said with regards to going into the regedit. My version for DA (didn't even look for anything related to DL) said something odd, I believe it was 1.50x.059 for DA. I changed the version number to 1.50, exited and logged onto SDC. SDC acted a little strange at first with regards to the order of updating and whatnot, but it did allow me to update both games, as far as I can tell at least. I did click run from SDC for DA and it fired up the
I take ES that you have found the great new feature that the devs put in called "crash machine randomly so no one can finish a game in a timely fashion". Wow lucky you! Yes, as you can see I am quite ecstatic about this! Nothing better than having one great game... that you can just look at, I guess, if I open the debug that is... and read senseless jargon which I know nothing about! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Laugh.g
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The most likely causes of a 'Memory can not be written' OS error are bad memory or a bad cluster on the hard drive where the pagefile is located. Okay, even though everything checks out okay on my PC, I am still upgrading the RAM, so that isn't part of this equasion. I've run scans on my hard drive that specifically looked for bad or erroneous clusters and come up with none. Now, aside from buying a new hard drive, what can be done about this 'if it is
I also love the fact that I don't have to have a CD/DVD in the drive to play GCI/II - that is priceless to me because I hate that crap I still can't figure out what the heck is so hard about popping a cd into the drive? Are we becoming that lazy and ignorant that something that takes a few seconds to do causes so much grief? All of this is moot anyways, regardless of why things are done the way they are. I've learned my lesson, I hope.
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Physical Memory: 2048MB RAM Page File: 495MB used, 1398MB available In dxdiag, the "Page File" entry is actually listing the combined total of physical RAM & page file size - in this case it is saying that the combined total (1893MB) is less than the actual physical RAM it has detected installed. The main reason I do not believe it's my hardware is I have run just about every diagnostics test I could download (using suggestions from here)an
The defense issue has been addressed for the next update. When is this due out and will it also address the CTD issues that some of us are having since updating?
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I never received anything from you about that, just those SE reports. [Commander] [5 Game Winner] [Over 5 Battles] [Very Evil] [Obscene] Never received what? I emailed everything I was able to pull with the debug so what am I missing. You said not to send the reports as they were useless to you, but you would forward them to the appropriate channels. That's what I was trying to do. Sorry if you got in trouble Kryo. Oh, and since I haven't hear