https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5adj6his59mgld/debug.err?dl=0

Link to debugerr file

Houston, We have lift off.

I followed the Intell link        https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html            to update drivers. It scanned my system and they recommended four updates. I updated all but the graphics driver because Intel suggested I use the manufacturer's updates because Intel may remove their "customizations". 

I went to the Manufacturer's web site (Lenova) they scaned my computer , and installed their updates. They didn't specify what they were updating.

After my computer restarted, I tried to start Galactic Civilizations III and play a game.  It started up as usual stopping at "Setting up players", I waited ten minutes, nothing happened except the audio kept playing, but the "Spiral Galaxy" in the center of the screen stopped spinning. 

I checked in Windows settings and checked device manager, to see if my graphics card had been updated, but it said I had the latest driver update and I saw where the update was two years old. 

I than went back to intel, and despite their warnings, I downloaded their latest graphics driver update, and now device manager says I have a 10/17/2021 driver update installed.

I went back to start up Galactic Civilizations, and after about 30 seconds after clicking start, the game is running. I repeated this four times and even changed the map size to huge, with no problems. 

Also I haven't seen any changes in my graphics that Lenova may have customized.

I thank you very much, for your time, and help. 

Over and out.

I'm afraid I got ahead of myself., I did download the new drivers from Intel, and the game did work, but my other programs were a mess. Microsoft programs, Excell, Access, etc. had many problems with slow graphics. When I clicked commands, they paused before they did anything, other programs and games also were having problems. The new driver helped GCIII, but messed up my other programs.

I couldn't remove the new drivers without help from Intel support. After about two hours of work, we finally got my computer back to the way it was with the old drivers, which were "Lenova's" latest drivers, which means everything is working except Galactic Civilizations III. Back to square one.