Ships and planets animation crazy fast

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Having an issue where the animations for ships and planets run and spin so fast you can barely tell what they are.

Running Windows XP x64
Amd athalon XP64 4800 x2 processor
Nvidia gforce 7800gtx video card
2 gigs Ram
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yep me too. real annoying. Perhaps the game hates 64bit machines and SLI cards. My specs are essentially the same as yours.

Running Windows XP PRO x32
Amd athalon XP64 4200 x2 processor
Nvidia gforce 7800gt x2 video cards
2 gigs Ram
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
See these 2 threads, I thought it was solved but apperently not

https://www.galciv2.com/Journals.aspx?AID=95579
https://www.galciv2.com/Journals.aspx?AID=87504

There's a little solution in the second link you can try for the time being (make a backup off course)
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the info Seer. Looks like the game isn't AMD dual core friendly as noted by the beta testers months prior to the release. To bad they couldn't squash that bug. Hate having to mess with the affinity switch every time I play the game.

I wonder if they tried to implement the SetThreadAffinityMask() function in one of there builds.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had a number of games that don't like my dual core. I used to use imagecfg to permanently set affinity to 1 core for problem games.
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But it makes a change to the exe and that recently caused a problem with one games copy protection.

This link has a number of possible solutions. I went with the hot fix and haven't had any problems since. But it is an unsupported hot fix, so use at your own risk.
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Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I'm having the same problem. I'll try those fixes when I get home from work.