Tiny map, mid game, lots of ships. All civilizations still alive.

1.73Ghz Athlon
1024 RAM
64mb Geforce 2 MX 440
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Todibus, there is currently no way of seeing the Trade Goods you have traded for. You could see the effects of the TG obtained in your stats screen though. The TGs wouldn't appear in your Diplo screen as you can't re-sell the TGs that you have traded for.

Wraith, that button is for the Xpack. Shouldn't be there. Clicking that will always result in CTD.

If it shouldn't be there..then why is it there. :notsure:

Bah I've been dumped to desktop six times tonight for no good reason. I even closed everything in the background. Considerably more issues than other games I've played, this one doesn't like me for some reason. (:(

Try the mp3codecs that are linked in a message above.


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Michael: Glad to hear that.

LorenPechtel: If you have a save game that shows this, please e-mail it to me at cbegle@stardock.com.  I'll need the .sav file and the corresponding folder.

Wraith10: if you still get inexplicable crashes, install SmartException from the Free Stuff tab in Stardock Central.  If SmartException is running when GC crashes, it will pop up a dialog asking you to submit a crash report. Click Submit, then open log directory.  This should open folder containing a file named Galciv.exe.cra.  If not, you'll have to search for the file on your harddrive.  (it's usually in the same directory as SE is installed).  Then you can send that e-mail to me.

Hello all,

I have Gal Civ (with the newest patch) but have been experiencing random drops to the desktop lately. They come without warning, and do not leave an error message.

I have SmartException installed, and this program seems to hang as well when the game quits.

Any suggestions?

My specs:

Win XP Home (with all the latest patches)
AMD 1.0 Gig
GeForce II MX 32 Meg
Hercules Fortissimo II Sound Card
700+ MG RAM

Thanks,
Ronnie

It could be a sound problem.  Do you have Winamp3, WinDVD, DVD2MP, or Moonlight Coordless's Xmuxer installed? These have all been known to cause crashes either because of buggy codecs or conflicting drivers.

Sometimes programs overwrite Microsoft's mp3 codecs, and this link will fix it:

http://www.stardock.com/files/ms_mp3codec.exe

You can e-mail me to reply at cbegle@stardock.com

 

2 bugs here.

#1 I was being sadistic and i built terror stars next to everyones stars.... anyways, i noticed some of my terrors had 10/1 moves or 7/1 moves. I think it only happened on the terrors i had other ships stacked with on guard mode.

#2 The "Show Routes" button makes me crash. Every time.

Known bugs here, andy.

Fleeting TS with any ship would confer the TS with the ship's movement points.

Show Routes is a xpack button which should be hidden. It was an oversight.

When viewing any of the ship or planet qeues along the right side of the screen, I have to scroll for the list of planets/ships before they re-sort. The lists never seem to remember my last sort preference (ie. highest to lowest)my does remember the category (morale, sector, etc.)

It would be nice for the list to display starting at the top with the sort order I chose.

A very minor bug. On the archives summary screen for research the techs with long summaries are cut off and you can't read the whole thing. Perhaps a scroll bar is in order?

And while we are talking scroll bars would it be possible to make it so on the research tech screen you could hold down the arrow to scroll instead of having to keep clicking?

v1.05. The date in the upper-left RARELY matches the actual date of the game. This bug has appeared since I bought the game. Start a new game... say DONE on everything. Click TURN button. No date change. Did the turn take effect? I quit playing the game because of this bug! I NEVER know if my turn took effect or not. Sometimes the date lags behind the actual date. In other words, the date will change, but then you'll click somewhere in the window, and the date will change AGAIN... without clicking the turn button! Very disappointing. Are they even working on this bug?

I crash to the desktop directly or sometimes shortly after a random event. To fix this i deleted all the event files in the data folder. It worked fine at first, I got to play until the I-Leauge formed and bam, my friend the desktop appears! Ive tried re-installing, i took out all of my mods, i loaded the recommended mp3 codec, ive even turned the music off, but it never fails, if any kind of random event happens i crash to the desktop. The united Planets meeting works just fine though and doesnt crash me, im stumped! Advice? Id realy like to play my game. By the way version 1 runs perfectly its got to be 1.5. Help!

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Anyone else have the problem of 1.05 just shutting down on XP Pro?

I find saving about every 10 turns helps a lot, but ... (:( (:(

CariElf,

Thanks for talking to Ian about my problem.

The answer to your question is: Yes, I have to log onto my DSL (I hate DSL BTW but had to go to it after moving to an area where cable was not available) account but I log in immediately after booting my computer and stay connected 24/7 (well I attempt to but DSL has an annoying habit of logging people off when they least expect it which is why I tried an endless ping session).

I hope the next update has a fix cause I have lots of games to upload...

Tim


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It's not really a bug, but can we get a button so the "automatically launch ships" could be applied to every planet one owns at once..and perhaps a setting for what percentage of the population to autolaunch on transports.

"(well I attempt to but DSL has an annoying habit of logging people off when they least expect it which is why I tried an endless ping session)"

Not all DSL does that by the way ... you have a PPPOE ADSL which so over sells the switch bandwidth to keep the price down.
There are dedicated SDSL and IDSL lines which are just that, dedicated.

Just FYI.

It's not XP Pro itself unless it's a specific setting you changed on your computer. I've never had the game crash using XP Pro. It's true I'm playing the beta now but I never had any problem with 1.05

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Brad Tritone: I've fixed it on my end.  It'll be in the next beta build of the Expansion Pack.

Richard Frade: Please install SmartException from the Free STuff tab in Stardock Central.  If it is running when GalCiv crashes, it will bring up a dialog asking you to submit a report. Click Submit, then Open Log Directory.  This should open the directory where the GalCiv.exe.cra file is.  (If not, it should be in the folder where SmartException was installed).  You can then attach the file to an e-mail to me at cbegle@stardock.com along with your debug.err file.  Make sure to mention in your e-mail that the crashes seem to happen with the events.

Llaamaboy: SmartException would probably also be helpful to you.  See instructions to Richard. 

TexasTim: Well, Ian has to get the new IsInternetAvailable code done for his own project, so I don't think that it will be very long before he gets it done and I can add it to Gal Civ.

A small bug.

When starting a new game I adjust the Economy to 100% Military and then adjust the tax rate and Gov spending until I get the mix I want. Most of the time this works, but sometimes when I raise the tax rate past 55% it will change from generating 13bc to 3bc. Raising it further will get it up to 4,5,6 ......
I noticed it only seems to happen when the starting planets PQ is 17.

If you raise the taxes too high, your people will be unhappy at you and so more of them will cheat on their taxes.

I have problems with mouse wheel on some scrollable lists, like technology list and planet list. The list will not scroll in one direction, until I click on the scrollbar, or try to "wheel" in the other direction.

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Like CariElf said this is intentional. The population it lists on your planet is only tax payers. Set your tax to high, and people won't pay it.

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well i just tried playing again & the have had 2 ctd's already. guess my lats run was a fluke. though they seem to happen less commonly. still under 10 turns though wich makes this game unplayable. i still think it is either audiy2 &/or media player9 & something about 1.05. those are the only difference from my previous 1.03 install. anybody else having problems that they think might be related? fix?