[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="8" id="3660064"] 1. You know I just realized it feels a bit strange being able to access the bazaar before researching Universal Translator. [/quote] My guess is that the bazaar guy already has Universal Translator, otherwise, how does he/she expect to do any business.
[quote who="hedetet" reply="2" id="3658744"] Don't you have engineers in your company that can handle performance improvement? Or is that a "CEO's privilege"? [/quote] Brad is talking about the AIs only. Don't forget that CariElf just rejoined the team and she is a performance improver extra-ordinare.
[quote who="DST1348" reply="33" id="3658260"] Are we sure Frogboy is not a Yor? [/quote] You got to the gist of it but I think you missed the race. He has often stated that he identifies closely with the Drengin. (At least, that is what he has said. [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] )
I can state that it is a problem with list boxes, but I can't answer to scrolling text. I will watch for that in the game I am currently playing. Have you any suggestion as to where I may find a long enough text box to check it out?
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="24" id="3657821"] In preparation for the fact that I'm an old, cranky man now, [/quote] Brad? Old? Come on. We have met (you probably don't remember). It was during the development of GC1 and I visited your facility. I had just retired then. If you want to claim to be old, you must exceed my age (77, and I still feel young). BTW, all of your aims sound great. There is only one more feature that I would like t
[quote who="mrblondini" reply="12" id="3657885"] Master Of Orion. Never played it, myself, so no idea where it ranks in the world of 4X but apparantly it's not too tacky for it's time. On further thought about things: the mix of species Frogboy mentions in relation of Master of Orion: That lends itself to espionage (your enemy appeals to a certain species on your planet etc etc)... [/quote] The first two of the original MOO series (M
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="3657839"] I am told that people just like explosions and battles. [/quote] Actually, that's only SOME people. That's why they only get the shoot'em up games. Most of us GC lovers are strategy aficionadi.
Watch the temps and the fan speed. I have an HP with a BIOS problem where it is not controlling the fan speed properly in some conditions and it starts overheating, even without any games running. I have to check again for a newer BIOS. I upgraded its BIOS once and it did fix part of the problem.
I think you are all missing one big important point. Sometimes the OS can throttle performance simply because an OS setting is too constraining. MS recommends that the setting for "virtual memory" be 1*RAM for "initial size" and 3*RAM for "maximum size". This is such an easy, quick, and inexpensive thing to check that I am surprised to see so much resistance to doing so. Added to that is the large number of people that solved their performance problems during EA by ensuring that these setting
The speeds and refresh rates you mention shows that your CPU is still being seriously constrained. Again, I think you should take a look at your system's "virtual memory" settings (on Win8.1 -- Control panel -> all control panel items -> system -> system protection -> advanced -> "settings" under "performance" -> "change" under "virtual memory -- sorry, I don't know the path on Win10.). If you have "custom size" checked then your settings should be "Initia
Hey, CariElf. A great big welcome back. With icing. And I already have a problem for you to dig into. My biggest complaint about many games is that they don't seem to be able to handle list scrolling in a manner consistent with word processors. For some reason they seem to think that when you click on the dark part of the scroll bar, you want the list to jump to some approximation of where the pointer is in the list, instead of -- like a word processor -- to jump to the lines just
[quote]the page file is set to around 2.7GB initial with 4GB max [/quote] This is where your problem is. The swap file needs to be able to expand to 48GB. The OS is going to be crippled if the swap (page) file is constrained to less than the amount of RAM you have, and ideally should be capable of at least 3*RAM. Remember that the swap file is for the entire computer, not just for GC3, and does more than back up virtual memory for all applications, and the OS, running on y
Will there be an EA program for the expansion? If so, will we receive notification by e-mail or on this forum?
Publius of NV -- You remember correctly. That was a carry-over from GC1 and GC2. It is also a rather common way of handling the problem. BTW, I like that way better than what we have now.
Seilore's comment makes sense, although I am not sure how the maps should be affected. Should all -- A) occupied planets -- B) systems with occupied planets or C) all of the galaxy explored by the UP members -- show at the conclusion of the first UP meeting? Should there be a vote on whether all UP members are to be required to provide -- 1) All UP members are required to provide the location of all of the planets they own? -- 2 ) All members are required to provide the location of all sy
I find that I MUST micro-manage some of my ships because of the inability of the game to manage ship movement at least as well as GC1 and GC2 did. Two ship modes are of particular concern: 1) Ships in the "auto-pilot" mode; 2) Survey ships auto-surveying anomalies. When ships in auto-pilot mode complete their journey, any movement points left get discarded. When survey ships in auto-survey mode survey an anomaly any movement points are discarded AND the ship continues its auto-surveying in th
Since the simplest answer is more often the best answer, I think you have your problem isolated. The screen as outlasted its expected life time. While there can be a few causes to a totally dead screen, with a laptop, there is only one fix -- replacement of the whole laptop. At this point I would have to see further evidence pointing to a failure in the AMD card before I could assume it is faulty. I would expect normal display operation through the projector until proven otherwise. </
[quote who="GaiasGuard" reply="5" id="3655308"] the screen stays dead either way. [/quote] This surprises me. Does the screen light up at all or is it always totally black? I was under the impression that the screen would work with either GPU. Have you tried removing the AMD card from the laptop and booting it without the projector? Could it be that the screen itself has expired? (What I am getting into here is more detailed diagnostics. Perhaps you should see a technician,
[quote]Intel Core i7-2720QM [/quote]??????? This, based on what I see on the Intel web site, is a second generation CPU chipset that was launched in 4Q 2011, and is past "end of life" as Intel calls it. It also has an integrated GPU chip. During the EA of Galciv 3 there were many problems discovered with the drivers for Intel chips made for laptops that had integrated GPUs, which Stardock and Intel had to work together to correct. You may wish to check the Intel website to see i
The "decommission" function has disappeared from the "command" list for some ships. I just saw it for two ships I got from anomalies, a "defender" and a "gunboat". The list looks like it has room for the function at the top of the list, but it is not displayed. Since it appears at the bottom of the list for ships I designed, perhaps it is not displayed because the list is being shifted downward by a blank entry for the first item. The function still appears in the "deta
1. I believe you are correct about version 1.8 introducing some lag. I thought that problem had been fixed. 2. RAM is assigned by the OS to all tasks running, including the OS itself. The Swap file is used for more than backing up the virtual storage of all of the tasks currently in operation. You shouldn't expect there to be a correlation between the amount of RAM in use and the amount of swap file allocated. The OS may be allocating mor
Can't say I ever heard of anyone trying to do this before, but I can make a suggestion. Send it to the shipyard sponsored by your trade world and put it in orbit. Then launch it. Will a menu appear that asks you to assign it to the world you want it assigned to? Anyway, this is what I would try. I have no idea whether it will work. If you try it, please let us know if it works.
Mormegil, thanks for your response. I no longer have a saved game prior to this happening. I will watch for it and preserve it the next time I see it. However, this message is still useless unless it gives more information, such as a ship or fleet name or a planet name.
Erischild: The last ship selected during your turn remains selected through End Of Turn processing, so you cannot count on the message to refer to the ship shown as selected.
I really don't think so, but it sounds like as good a guess as any. I do not let my survey ships travel that freely. If the same might be true for colony ships, then perhaps that is what is happening, but, let's face it, such a message for such an occurrence, regardless of the ship class, goes beyond confusing. Worse, I had no indication what so ever of the location of the problem, or the name of the ship involved, hence, no clue what so ever to help me figure out what to do about wha