Metaverse Login Crashes - GalCiv2 Ultimate Edition (DVD)

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Greetings,

Everytime I try to login to the Metaverse, GalCiv2 - Ultimate Edition stops responding and crashes on me. I tried reinputting my serial, creating a new user account, and trying to access the Metaverse through different computers. I'm running Vista64bit and Windows7. I do have the lastest patch update. I was wondering if anyone else has had similar problems and if there is a solution to the problem.

 

Thank you for the assistance.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

The crash appears to be related to user credentials not correctly getting copied/written to HKCU registry locations.

 

  1. Workaround:

Extracting the contents of http://sd.stardock.com/gc2_ultimate_2.04.2.zip to the GalCiv2\Twilight directory should also fix the crash.

 

  1. More/better fix to make sure all HKCU settings keys are set properly from registration:

 

Start / Run / regedit.exe (will request elevation)

Delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Settings

 

Erase C:\ProgramData\Stardock\GC2UL\sig.bin (will request elevation)

May need to remove the sig.bin from ProgramData\Stardock\Twilight instead.

 

Run the GalCiv2\Twilight\GC2TwilightoftheArnor.exe and enter your Stardock account information and serial when prompted.

 

This will update the registry keys in HKCU that you just removed as well to cache the user credentials the Metaverse login is expecting.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Hello,

I have the same problem as described above. Every time I try to log-in to the metaverse from GalCivII - Ultimate Edition, the game just crashes to windows.

Can anyone help?

 

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Sorry for the double-post.

The solution using the .zip seems to work just fine.