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Reply to [Bug] Fences transparent background doenst match to wallpaper on multiple monitors in Fences Stardock Forums

I have no idea why my .png image loaded in as text (at least for me). Here's the same as a .jpg. Hopefully it works better. <img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAYABgAAD/2wBDAAYEBQYFBAYGBQYHBwYIChAKCgkJChQODwwQFxQYGBcUFhYaHSUfGhsjHBYWICwgIyYnKSopGR8tMC0oMCUoKSj/2wBDAQcHBwoIChMKChMoGhYaKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCj/wAARCADGAnoDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAHAAAAQUBAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAABQADBAYHAgEI/8QASxAAAgEDAwIEAwYDBwIEA

Reply to [Bug] Fences transparent background doenst match to wallpaper on multiple monitors in Fences Stardock Forums

I have the issue as well, on dual monitors. You can see part of the image on the left monitor appearing on the right. When the left image changes, it leaves a ghost on Fences on the right monitor, and vice versa. Moreover, if a Fence is set to 0% opacity, it shows the ghost image of the other screen's image only on mouseover. I've deleted the image from this so it doesn't spam out other people. It can be found below

SDCentral not accepting my Dregin.net registration number in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I popped open SDCentral this evening to see if there were any updates, and was informed that it could not validate my registration information. So I opened the registration box to see what was causing the problem. It said that my "Games Subscription" didn't have a valid registration number attached to it, so i opened up my old email to re-enter the number. It wouldn't take (said that "the Serial Number you have entered is invalid."). So i clicked on the Lookup serial number button an

Reply to Bug Reports for 1.13 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]The driver irq not being equal is the exact same trouble I was having.updating my sound drivers fixed it....does your board have a c-media CMI-9739A chip in it?if it does goto C-Media's website for the newest driver [/quote] Yes, and no. My board has the chip, but I've got the soundcard portion of my board turned off. I do, however, have the Hercules Muse Gamesurround DVD 5.1 sound card, and was finally able to get driver updates for it. The odd thing is, none of the flavours

Reply to Bug Reports for 1.13 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Between 80 and 90% of the time when I try to start up a game, I get a BSOD after the scrollbar finishes its trek to 100%. This crash can occur either at the beginning or the end of the animation. The particular BSOC error message I get is DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL For information, I'm of Win2k SP4, if that helps (I'm trying to avoid reinstalling Win2k if I can at all help it, although I might go to WinXP Pro if need be). ~SDC~

Reply to SDC crashes when installing Altarian Prophecy Beta in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]The are currently 2 problems with GalCiv and trying to install it through SDC. To install the game normally (not archiving it) go into the SDC settings and untick the option to "Prompt to enter an installation directory" under the Installation heading. This option is what is causing SDC to crash. Select OK and go ahead and install the game as normally and everything should now be fine. The second problem is the archiving option, do not use this option at all as the archving name currently

Reply to Canadian Star Federation Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I am proudly part of the CSF. But since I've gone from working 3 days a week to 4, and have picked up a Friday night Role Playing Group (Mage: The ascension one week, Chivalry and Sorcery the next), I've got less time for playing. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Culture Bombing Quest-Ye-On in Strategies Stardock Forums

I just completed a game in which I ringed an opponent's home sector with star bases inside his boundaries, then started making the bases into culture bases (not Culture Terror Stars). His 3 systems in that sector started flipping to me every turn, so I kept giving them back to him through diplomacy. Culture stacking can get quite insane, quite fast. If there was a way to post a screenshot, you could see that I've got him out-cultured 53,785,224 to 8,944. And I was nowhere near maxxed

Reply to Culture Bombing Quest-Ye-On in Strategies Stardock Forums

Re: #3 by Citizen NutButter - 7/23/2003 9:58:59 AM [quote]Finally, when a system flips, what's up with the 1% morale start? I usuallly don't have enough in the treasury for quick upgrades and loans are too expensive. Jacking my tax rate down slows my growth. Any quicker way to make 'em happier....and FAST?[/quote] I've found that it really helps if you've got as many of the morale boosters as you can get: 1. Max out the specialized mining modules on starbases that

Reply to Metaverse Submission problems in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

After upgraqding to 1.09[b].001 I find that I am unable to get any scores submitted to the metaverse to show. It may be because I'm playing it on a different computer (went to visit my parents for a week), but both my Dregin.net and GalCiv serial numbers seem to work perfectly fine for everything else. I'll try upgrading and resubmitting when I get home over the weekend, just to see if it is the computer I submit from that has any real bearing. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Metaverse Submission problems in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

After upgraqding to 1.09[b].001 I find that I am unable to get any scores submitted to the metaverse to show. It may be because I'm playing it on a different computer (went to visit my parents for a week), but both my Dregin.net and GalCiv serial numbers seem to work perfectly fine for everything else. I'll try upgrading and resubmitting when I get home over the weekend, just to see if it is the computer I submit from that has any real bearing. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Things you would like to see in a Galactic Civilization expansion set in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Don't know if it's been mentioned before, but I would REALLY like to see a way to move ships as a fleet. I just had a late game (August 2208) Precursor Corvette event, and now I have a stack of 100 (Yes, One Hundred) Corvettes to deal with. I'll perobably have to set them to guard, because I don't think they can all fit into Star System they were found in (which is odd in and of itself. :) ~SDC~ [Message Edited]

Reply to 1.04.59 or later bug reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Version 1.05.71, Windowed mode Due to an increasing defect in my monitor, I'm losing the top 10 - 15% of my screen (the lines there are going all screwy, like a really bad vertical adjust, and any graphic in that area gets split into multiple lines), so I tried to play GalCiv in windowed mode. Starts up ok, but CTDs when i click on the "Close" button on the first message window (before you even get to set any techs). Stardock SmartException Logging Information ------------

Reply to If you are experiencing crashes after updating to 1.04a.062 Read This! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Isn't there an easier way to recover those lost files than a full uninstall/reinstall? And will this actually fix the governor problem? No one seems to have specifically addressed that. [/quote] I don't know about recovering lost files, but if you have the game installed, you can download the 1.04 stand alone patch and use it to downgrade to that stable version. Not perfect, but it at least lets you play in the meantime. ~SDC~

Reply to 1.04.59 or later bug reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've found what seems to be a playable workaround for that. You can go and get the downloadable standalone patch to version 1.04.059, and then run the updating program. I haven't tried running the program, but StarDock Central is now telling me that I need to upgrade to 1.04.068. :) ~SDC~

Reply to If you are experiencing crashes after updating to 1.04a.062 Read This! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've got 1.05.068, but I've also bugreported a serious bug in it's governor routine. ~SDC~

Reply to 1.04.59 or later bug reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Error in 1.05.068: When I go into my governor's screen at the start of game and double click on "Soil Improvement" to add it to the top of the build queue, I CTD. The Only thing I've done in game before this was to modify my spending allocations. Could it be that since I had allocated 0% of my spending to social improvments it choked? Stardock SmartException Logging Information ------------------------------------------- OS Version : Windows 2000 Video Card :

Reply to resolution in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]by Citizen kiteMaster - 6/8/2003 11:49:53 AM Hi there, I recently upgraded my system and now have a nice 1280x1024 resolution of a flatscreen tft. However, when I try to run galciv the monitor gets out of range. I tried to run in windowed mode, but putting -W after the command didn't run the game windowed, still full screen. Running version 1.04. Can I change the start-up resolution of galciv? Any help appreciated. Ciao, Wim [/quote] If you logon via Stardock Central, you'll see (

Reply to 1.04.59 or later bug reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Blithely going along, I hit a CTD. I don't know what's wrong, and I'm fairly sure that I still have the autosave set for the default 12 game turn save ratio. Anyway, here's what SmartException pulled out: Stardock SmartException Logging Information ------------------------------------------- OS Version : Windows 2000 Video Card : RADEON 7000 SERIES Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION Crash Addr: 005B54F2 01:001B44F2 C:\Program Files\Stra

Reply to 1.04.59 or later bug reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote][quote]Don't know if this is a bug or not, but I just won a Small/Simple game via Military Conquest. I never captured a planet with attacking troops, and mostly just defended myself. Since I had Cultural victory turned off, it may have been that the game was scoring my planetary "conquests' as if they were Military takeovers[/quote]That's by design. If the Terrans have culturally absorbed all other star systems but cultural victory has been disabled the game _has_ to end in some fashion.[

Reply to 1.04.59 or later bug reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Don't know if this is a bug or not, but I just won a Small/Simple game via Military Conquest. I never captured a planet with attacking troops, and mostly just defended myself. Since I had Cultural victory turned off, it may have been that the game was scoring my planetary "conquests' as if they were Military takeovers. :) I wound up with a score of 46712 MetaPoints. I'm going to try this again over the weekend and see if it continues to happen. If it does. I may well wind up in the

Reply to Things you would like to see in a Galactic Civilization expansion set in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Don't know if it's been mentioned or not (too many messages to scroll through), but being able to take disadvantages in order to buy more advantages would really help. I tried to edit the English.str file to introduce a -10% modification on planet quality (Heavy Polluters), that would give a -10 point bones, but when I ran the game all it gave me for values there was 0 and 0. Also, having scroll bars in the abilities section would be nice for when you've got more than 4 levels

Reply to Things you would like to see in a Galactic Civilization expansion set in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Re #245 by DMF If you double click on the planet in the planets list, it'll take you to that particular planet's display, and you should be able to launch the ships from there. And the planet list will stay there on the screen. ~SDC~

Reply to Dial Up vs DSL vs CABLE vs T1 vs T3 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Personally, I use DSL and am quite happy with it. I've currently got a 2528k/864k link for $45CAN/month. But I don't need that much speed, so I'm dropping it back to 1500k/640k for $35CAN/month. On that I get 2 IP addresses (cable in this area only gets one), 25Mb of web space, and 25Mb of email space (and for some reason, they don't include attachments when calculating space allotments). I tried to send an 8Mb file to a friend with cable and, even though his email account wa

Reply to I WANT A JOB in Mods Stardock Forums

You wear the suit to go to the interview. You don't necessarily use it for the job. The main thing I try to do is to dress at least one degree more formal than the job will require. ~SDC~