straybearx

Reply to Screen lockup when attacking ships in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Happy Bear :) Having down loaded Microsofts latest service pack 1 (7.9MB) then selected the most likely Microsft patches 17.9MB) I installed the lot and bingo! Game is perfect. Pity If I'd remembered to install patches etc one at a time I may have found out where the problem actualy lay. This would have cured my curiosity and even prehaps helped others. Anyway many thanks for the replies - I'll go away and learn how to play the game now regards Straybear

Reply to Screen lockup when attacking ships in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think I am creeping up on this one. The game as I have stated works perfectly in all things,including trouble fee music. Only when I attack a ship does the screen appear to freeze. Techically it does not completely lock the cursor is always available and moves correctly (but no selections are accepted/ possible) eventualy the rockets (or what ever is beeing fired) appear and slooowly move across the screen If I leave the game 20-30 mins an outcome of the particular attack is resolved and the g

Reply to Screen lockup when attacking ships in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Update, I have purchased an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card and loaded the latest drivers - No Luck! I have found newer Audigy drivers - still no luck. I am going to get an audigy 2 tomorrow - I have a feeling its a sound problem. I do have realtime multimeadia installed - guess I had better remove this also. Again thanks for the interest. Straybear

Reply to Screen lockup when attacking ships in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thanks, I have the latest Radeon 8500 drivers but could only find audigy drivers dated Aug 2003 may well be newer ones I look again. I am using Directx v 9.b i belive this is probably ok? Thanks for the input Straybear

Screen lockup when attacking ships in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

On starting an attack on another ship my screen virtualy freezes (action very slooow -ie 30 secs for one salvo to leave a ship and much longer to arrive at target) On selecting Cont-Alt-Del thetask manager flashes in the back ground (does not actualy appear on screen) the shooting the speeds up slightly - but still un playable. The rest of the game is fine. I am using ver 1.13 ( and new to this game) Any help would be great otherwise the one week old game will hit the back of the drawer