My last game I played had a planet with a PQ of 43. I got mine that way by colonizing a 30 something planet and then was asked to make a morality decision and picked the bottom choice that gave me a 40-50% increase. I'm new to the game so I was playing with a difficulty of "Cakewalk" :)
Have you updated your BIOS, video and sound card drivers? ~SDC~
KiloOhm Thanks for the explanation regarding the AGP Aperture Size, I was obviously mistaken in my understanding of its definition. My MB manual is sparse on its information and I've only just recently started to seriously poke around in the BIOS in computers. I have no complaints regarding the game itself but offered my advice as to what worked for me. Yes my MB is somewhat old with an AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz and 256 megs of RAM. I will probably replace the MB and processor at the end of th
Sorry for the typos, should be Aperture not Aperature. ~SDC~
GalCiv was constantly freezing on my computer until I went into the BIOS to check my AGP Graphics Aperature Size. I had recently bought a Nvidia Ti4200 with 128 megs of RAM but forgot to change the Aperature Size in my BIOS. It was set to 32 megs but I changed it to 128 megs and now the game hasn't froze since then. I thought I might pass this along for the purpose of helping people with the same problem. It worked for me. ~SDC~
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