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GalCiv III 1.01FROG

May 24, 2015 4:47:07 PM from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

For those of you willing to play with my personal build off my machine where I test different AI strategies and performance tweaks, you're welcome to try out what i have.

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8051911/GalCiv3101frog.zip

 

This is the 1.01frog build.  If you play MP, don't bother with this as it will prevent you from playing MP. Make sure you backup your existing galciv3.exe as I have no idea whether this even works with the current Steam build or not.

What's different:

+ Should be substantially faster especially on larger maps

+ Should run better on lower end systems

+ AI should be substantially smarter.

+ Slightly smoother animations

Note: Only tested on one machine. Mine. At home. On Memorial Day.  

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Reply #1 May 24, 2015 4:56:00 PM
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all glory to the hypno-frog

 

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Reply #2 May 24, 2015 4:58:34 PM
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I'm testing mods right now, so maybe I won't be using it today, because what if the new exe broke something and not my mod... but I'ma save it and pop this in later. Good stuff.

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Reply #3 May 24, 2015 5:02:28 PM
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Ha, just posted in :  The GalCiv III Memorial Day Steam AMA  on steam asking  about this

 

I hope the diplo numbers are in there

 

Said it before and I'll say it again:  You really rock! 

 

i honestly don't see how you have the time to be so interactive with up but so glad you do.  (course we are the paying your bills

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Reply #4 May 24, 2015 5:11:42 PM
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Some people like watching movies. I like making games.

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Reply #5 May 24, 2015 5:37:07 PM
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Low end machine improvements you say? I'm in. 

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Reply #6 May 24, 2015 5:41:03 PM
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The Star Date: May 24th, 2315

The Occasion: Annual video message to the people of Earth.

And so once again it is my pleasure to open the annual commencement of Peace Day with this free game from Stardock Ulimate Gaming.  As we begin the 250th anniversary of world peace let us never forget the immortal words of Frogboy. "Some people like watching movies. I like making games."  His vision has given us the Utopia our ancestors could only envision in their "movies".

Emperor Brad "Frogboy" Wardell V.   

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Reply #7 May 24, 2015 6:04:04 PM
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It looks like a bunch of stuff from xml files is actually right in the exe for this atm. So, mods you might be running to hotfix individual issues not yet patched may not be compatible. 

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Reply #8 May 24, 2015 6:26:43 PM
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Quoting ,
quoting post

For those of you willing to play with my personal build off my machine where I test different AI strategies and performance tweaks, you're welcome to try out what i have.

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8051911/GalCiv3101frog.zip

 

This is the 1.01frog build.  If you play MP, don't bother with this as it will prevent you from playing MP. Make sure you backup your existing galciv3.exe as I have no idea whether this even works with the current Steam build or not.

What's different:

+ Should be substantially faster especially on larger maps

+ Should run better on lower end systems

+ AI should be substantially smarter.

+ Slightly smoother animations

Note: Only tested on one machine. Mine. At home. On Memorial Day.  

Any of this planned for future official builds?

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Reply #9 May 24, 2015 7:17:37 PM
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FYI, I just tried this and it crashed to desktop when creating the map (with the current Steam build, no mods). Anyone else have any luck?

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Reply #10 May 24, 2015 7:41:36 PM
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Quoting Uncle_Joe,
reply 9

FYI, I just tried this and it crashed to desktop when creating the map (with the current Steam build, no mods). Anyone else have any luck?

Mine crashes too.

 

Removed mods, still crashes. Maybe it's because I'm running the game off of my SSD on the C drive (which has more aggressive permissions): C:\SteamLibrary

 

Perusing debug.err doesn't really reveal anything.

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Reply #11 May 24, 2015 8:20:37 PM
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I'm also experiencing crash when creating the map. (no mods) I'm also having an error message at the beginning right after the loading screen, a white box appears with many messsages an i can chose continue or skip.

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Reply #12 May 24, 2015 8:27:46 PM
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Quoting gothvan,
reply 11

I'm also experiencing crash when creating the map. (no mods) I'm also having an error message at the beginning right after the loading screen, a white box appears with many messsages an i can chose continue or skip.

Yeah I get that too.

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Reply #13 May 24, 2015 8:37:29 PM
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I tried skip and continue.

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Reply #14 May 24, 2015 8:49:25 PM
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It looks like my build is requiring other "stuff" that I'm not aware of.

 

Sorry guys!

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