Moving to new PC

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Just a quicky and i want to make sure i do things right as i am not currently playing the game but will be returning some time after i change machine. I don't care about my saves because i would just start a new game anyway but the main thing i am worried about is my custom ship designs i spent hours doing. How can i make sure that my ship templates make it across to the new machine?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

How about in Steam do a full backup of the game and then restore the game on the new machine.

And for the MyGames folder also copy and restore.

On another note how did you move to a new PC; are you an electron.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Backup your folder C:\Users\yourusername\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Designs

Once you got the new machine running, copy your designs from there into that folder of the new system. That should be all.

 

(edit: dunno if there's a diff location on other Winversions, I use Win 10)

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Upload your ship designs to the Steam Workshop as Private if you don't want anybody else to see them.  Then subscribe to them and have full cloud backup.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

You are likely to have a lot of files on your old machine that you want to move onto your new one. Windows, some time ago, started the convention of keeping personal files in C:\Users\<user name>\Documents and its sub-folders, and copying all files in that folder and its sub-folders from the old machine to the new one as part of the migration. Since your personal ship definitions are saved within this structure (...\Documents\My games\Galciv3\ and its sub-folders), along with your saved games and much more of your private GC3 stuff (this is also where you should have put any mods you may be using), you will find all of it on your new machine once you have followed this standard migration convention.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Should start playing again tomorow. New machine is a laptop with I7 7820HK Cpu (just came out this month) 16GB Ram, GTX 1060 and 960GB solid state hard drive. That should solve any performance issues!!

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Be sure to learn how to make integrated Intel® HD Graphics 630 work best with your GTX 1060.

 

AND -- especially -- watch the heat carefully. Excess heat causes the CPU and/or GPUs to reduce clock speed. So far, GC3 has been less of a heat generator than Civ V and even some older but rebooted games I have played. So far, my impression is that the biggest cause of heat is graphics resolution.