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Problem with setting ship launch direction in DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I have been a long time player of Gal Civ II, but recently I had to rebuild my system due to a windows corruption problem. Having now reinstalled the game on a freshly installed windows os I have encountered a problem. When I attempt to set the ship launch direction the highlighted area around the planet appears and I make my selection but the setting remains the same default (lower right) setting. Anybody have a clue to what is wrong. It has b

Frustrating GCII Issue in Games Support Stardock Forums

I am experiencing a problem with GCII. I have played about a dozen games now and three of them have come to abrubt ends. I reach a point where I take a turn and the game never returns. To be more specific the "Turn" button never reappears and I am unable to continue. I usually play long game (thousands of turns) and this has only happened late in the game. Once this occurs I am unable to proceed even if I reload the autosave or previous autosave game as the probl

Reply to GETTING HELP for GalCiv II / Dark Avatar in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote]Planets and ships spinning out of control is most generally due to the use of an Athlon 64 x2 CPU without updated CPU drivers. If this the case with your machine, download and install the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (x86 and x64 exe) file found at the bottom of this page.[/quote] Everything seems to be working now. Again, awesome customer service. Much better than what I have come to expect from dealing with other

Reply to GETTING HELP for GalCiv II / Dark Avatar in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote]Might try scaling the resolution back down in the prefs.ini file, then (1024 x 768 is the default, so give that a shot). Keep it in windowed mode for the moment, though.[/quote] Thank you, that did the trick. However there is another issue. This was a problem when I used to play as well. When in the shipyard the picture of the ship is spastic. The ship in the picture flips and flops like crazy instead of rotating slowly. Also, when the mouse reaches the edge of the g

Reply to GETTING HELP for GalCiv II / Dark Avatar in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I made the changes to the prefs.ini file and there is an improvement. I now get to the screen with the options for: New, Load, etc... The ships are flying in the background and my mouse is active but when I click on the New button or any other button nothing happens and I have to kill the process via the task manager. Below are the contents of the debug.err file. Debug Message: Version v1.80g Dark Avatar last updated on: Wed Dec 19 15:10:23 2007 Debug Message: Checking DX Versi

Reply to GETTING HELP for GalCiv II / Dark Avatar in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote]* Your Debug.err (located in the GalCiv II directory). - A debug file not was created* If you're running Dark Avatar it's in the galciv2\darkavatar directory That's actaully outdated. It was moved to the My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar folder (to avoid issues with not being able to write it on limited accounts). So there should be one there that you can post to show what it did.[/quote] Here is the debug.err contents: Debug Message: Version v1.80g Dark Avatar la

Reply to GETTING HELP for GalCiv II / Dark Avatar in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I purchased Galciv II Dread Lords Gold Edition which includes the Dark Avatar expansion several months ago. I played the DA game for a 2 or 3 months and everything was fine. This weekend I installed Impulse and downloaded the latest patches and tried to fire up DA. The top 4/5 of the screen turns black, while the bottom 1/5 remains the desktop and then nothing. DL seems to work fine. I updated my bios and video drivers, but this did not change the behavior. * What OS yo