Gh0st_Note-

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Reply to How do you guys deal with a superpower? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Frankly, cultural flipping/victory and such is not cheese. That's like saying the United States is gonna declare war on Germany because Americans like Mercedes Benz cars. Or having England declare war on the United States because british kids eat mcdonalds and shop at aeropostale. Come on man, snap out of it. Same goes with music, food, furniture, any consumer goods and/or products from another culture. It's a matter of citizens liking a product or service another culture offe

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Reply to Is there ANYTHING I can do to get Dark Avatar to run better? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Incidently, Dark Avatar is a cakewalk on my 7950. I can turn the anti-aliasing up to six and have all the bells and whistles turned on with no problems at all. And this is on a 1680 X 1050 widescreen monitor, which is fairly high resolution. Of course I also have 2 gig of RAM which probably helps as well. I even added the high resolution graphics mod that someone has come up with. They look great BTW. Thanks man. Yeah I heard about the new high resoluti

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Reply to Is there ANYTHING I can do to get Dark Avatar to run better? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah I think it's ram that I need, though I definitly need a new graphics card. All in all, I think I'm going to buy a new PC. Any PC's that anyone recommends for less than $1200? Something decent for gaming and internet. Like, for example the Dell XPS's? I wouldn't go with Dell, they're usually really basic computers. Not all designed with gaming in mind. They definitely don't come with the kind of video card you'll be needing.

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Reply to Is there ANYTHING I can do to get Dark Avatar to run better? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! The main problem in running this game that I am having is sluggish frame rates. My comp is far worse than your (P4-1.5GHz) but has slughty better graphics card (128MB Radeon 9200). However I can play DA without any performance problems. The trick is I play EXCLUSIVELY in zoomed-out mode, where everything is "iconized". You can set the level at which that view mode starts in the main menu. IIRC I set mine to 10%.

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Reply to Is there ANYTHING I can do to get Dark Avatar to run better? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Get yourself a decent graphics card, those onboard Intel jobs are just pieces of crap. There's not much else you can do really. As for installing one, it's quite simple. Just locate the slot it goes in, which is directly above your PCI slots, and plug it in. Depending on the card, you might also have to plug in a power cable. Then just install your drivers and other software. If you buy one, just be sure you're getting the right type for your motherboard. It

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Is there ANYTHING I can do to get Dark Avatar to run better? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

The frame rates are atrocious, my PC sucks. Are there any optimizations I can use to improve performance aside from buying a new graphics cards? Also, could anyone give me tips on improving performance for this game or how to install grpahics cards into a computer? My system stats are as follows: Debug Message: Version v1.50X2 Dark Avatar last updated on: Tue Mar 6 17:59:51 2007 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info<

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Dread Lords runs better than Dark Avatar. in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I can definitly say it's true. The frame rates in Dark Avatar on my PC are terrible from the start. Yet Dread Lords runs fine for the most part until alot of ships have been made. I thought the two games have the same requirements?

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Reply to Your ideas for the next update! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Please make DA have better game performance for lower end systems... it's the only thing keeping me from fully enjoying the game. Frame rate drops considerably once ships FIRST start appearing on the map. And from then on I have to resort to the tactical view (which is still cool) to play the rest of the game. I miss seeing the planets in detail because the frame rate gets so bogged down. Anyways, more in-d

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Reply to Your ideas for the next update! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Hm, just thought of something. How about more trade and influence options, rather than military. Or a more "down-to-earth" way to get to your citizens. For example, being able to actually check out a job market within your labor force... and hiring people with abilities that can enhance different areas of your civilization. Like hiring "John Smith" who is 28 and is an excellent navigator who gives a bonus to your ship sensors. Or "Mike Whatever" who is a a skilled engineer and manager and can ad

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Reply to Your ideas for the next update! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Would it be possible to update the game to run better on older/weaker graphics cards? Or atleast to increase game performance by a decent amount for said cards like the Intel Integrated Graphics card? Just wondering because the frame rate can be pretty bad sometimes, even when first loading up a game. Other then that I can't really think of anything update worthy ... the game is absolutely amazing on every level.

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Reply to Driver crashing? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have the same graphics card... I'm also getting some random crashes from time to time. My driver is fully updated, I don't know what it could be except that the graphics card sucks (which it does...).

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Reply to Dune Mod. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah I know, that would be the only major problem with making a Gal Civ Dune Mod. However, through lots of research and study of the books, it is feasable to try and show the space side of the Dune books. It's there, it just isn't talked about as much. It wouldn't be a perfect mod just for the fact that it takes place in space... but it would be cool to see the politics between the houses in action. The books do have space segments, only a few sure, but we could build off of it very easily. The

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Dune Mod. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've always dreamed of being able to control and reenact the Dune books in a game like Gal Civ. I don't have the technical ability to create a mod for it though unfortunately. I'm talking about an ultimate Dune mod. Based off of Frank Herbert's books, not the movies/tv show. The whole thing, tweaked Dune-specifc technology trees, Bene Gesserit, all the houses, CHOAM, arrakeen worms, trading, houses that interact with eachother (i.e. Harkonnen V.S. Atreides), Dune themed minievents (mega events a

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Any suggestions for improving performance? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What are some good tips for increasing performance on a pentium 4 2.5 ghz machine? I'm using an old intel imbed graphics card. It's a 2002 system... shitty. For the most part, everything runs okay... at first. Further into the game though, it bogs down and there are some excruciating wait times between turns. That's the only problem I'm having really (slow wait times in mid-late games) aside from choppy Combat viewer sequences. So is there anything I can do to get it to run better aside from buy

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