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[quote who="thenewteddy" reply="15" id="3515117"] Is there any way I can tell my computer to use the paging file more sparingly? [/quote] Yes, get more RAM so the computer doesn't need to use the page file. That's the only way. Otherwise you're game is just going to crash on you because of insufficient memory, as the page file is only used as a last resort. If you have an extra $500/month to play with, you shouldn't have any problems getting more

[quote who="JetJaguar72" reply="2" id="3508432"] How similar is the GalCiv 3 universe to the Star Trek universe? [/quote] On it's own, not at all. But when the game is finally completed there will no doubt be mods to make it more like Star Trek. In GalCiv2, there was even a Babylon 5 universe mod. Which is where my avatar came from.

I think for me this would make my games very boring after awhile. I generally tend to be honourable in my games so eventually all the races would treat me as if I could be trusted, and there would be no surprises anymore. Each game would end up playing out like all the ones before it diplomatically. Ditto if you played as a backstabber. All your games would end up with the other races always having the same attitude towards you.

[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="1" id="3502128"] See, that's the only reason why I don't like that GC3 requires Steam. Steam keeps track of how many hours you play, and I don't necessarily want to know that. [/quote] Steam can't keep track of your time if you play in Offline mode.

[quote who="danielost" reply="31" id="3501797"] this was my problem, [/quote] Well for future reference, if you buy a new computer with an OS installed insist on having the discs for it as well. If they won't do that for you, then don't buy the machine. There could be a number of reasons why you might need to reinstall your OS, like getting hit with a virus for instance, and you'll be SOL if you don't have the discs. It's a scam that some businesses

[quote who="pendrokar" reply="13" id="3496307"] What does Stardock staff suggest regarding modding of GalCiv3? To wait for a newer version as many files may change and break mods? [/quote] The game is still in Beta so a lot of things will change before it's finally ready. So it's not a good idea to do any modding right now.

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="28" id="3496047"] In fact, most copies of windows usually comes with 32 and a 64 bit copy of it. (I know my last two purchases of windows OS's, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 came with both a 32 bit and 64 bit OS) [/quote] Vista didn't, you had to send away to Microsoft in order to get it. Windows 7 however had both. The issue for some people though is that they may have had the OS installed by the manufacturer and don't have the disks

How's the shipbuilding in the game? Will there be any need to pester Kryo to make another one of his great shipbuilding mods? That was a must have for me in GalCiv2. It was about the only mod I used actually. That and Formis's excellent alien animations.

[quote who="Alstein" reply="22" id="3495782"] I think the issue might be people might not know that their version of XP isn't 64-bit [/quote] XP isn't the only Windows version with a 32 bit mode. Vista and Windows 7 has them as well, I'm not sure about 8. And the OP did mention that he/she was using Windows 7.

[quote who="Edladner" reply="25" id="3495628"] Dark Avatar [/quote] Yes, thank you. The AI in that expansion was much better than in Twilight of the Arnor.

[quote who="Ryat" reply="23" id="3495551"] They will. The devs even consider it a very important feature of the GalCiv franchise and aim at improving it over GalCiv2. [/quote] So what are your thoughts about the AI so far? I was rather disappointed with Twilight of the Arnor. I felt the AI had degraded since the previous version, the name of which I forget at the moment.

[quote who="Echelion" reply="19" id="3495488"] Plus Derek Paxton has proved that 100 player games are possible he has a separate thread on this forum with screen shots [e digicons]:grin:[/e] [/quote] Yes, I was looking at that one. Pretty awesome! [quote who="Gaunathor" reply="18" id="3495485"] There'll be eight major races (Terrans, Drengin, Altarians, Iridium, Krynn, Yor, Iconians, Thalan), plus an indefinite amount of minor races. More

I realize this a long dead thread, but I was hoping if there were any plans on implementing the idea of an automated patrol route I brought up here long ago. It's something I would very much like to see in the game. I haven't been around for awhile and I was wondering if there was any thoughts towards including this feature since I last posted the request.

[quote who="AuraBoy" reply="13" id="3490801"] Even though I am an Elite Founder - I would be willing to pay for packs of animated aliens that don't necessarily have the rest of the major race treatments. Just unique, cool looking and sometimes bizarre alien animation sets - that fit in the developers aesthetic of the game - which we can use in the game - especially when we are playing on these massive maps. [/quote] I'd certainly agree with you with you on this

[quote who="jadefire01" reply="36" id="3492289"] As someone with a 32 bit computer, I have to say I'm not completely happy. [e digicons] [/quote] You don't have 32 bit computer, you have a 32 bit OS. Computer hardware has been 64 bit for many years now. All you'll need to do is upgrade your OS.

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="16" id="3495472"] Higher ram requirements will be necessary for late game huge maps, but they haven't really release that yet. [/quote] Well that's certainly something I'll be considering, as I like to play on truly large maps. The bigger the better IMO. I was pleased when they added Immense in GalCiv2 with the Twilight of the Arnor expansion. I always felt the maps before that were too small. BTW, how many races are going to be in

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="14" id="3495456"] More couldn't hurt. I looking to get more as I too have 8 gig. [/quote] So what kind of RAM usage have you been seeing, or haven't you been keeping an eye on that?

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="8" id="3494107"] It runs fine on my 760 gtx. [/quote] Great, I should have no problems with my 780 then. Wonderful card! Has anyone been monitoring their RAM usage? I have 8 gig right now, would it make any sense to get some more when I get the game? I still have a couple of slots left over so it wouldn't a problem.

While I don't have a smart phone and so don't play mobile games, I really don't see the idea as being feasible. There are just too many limitations for that type of device. The game would need to be scaled back so much that it wouldn't even resemble the original anymore. So why bother even trying? Not everything needs to be cross-platform. These games, and I include GalCiv 2, were meant to be played on a PC and that is where they should stay. By having them on a PC platform, y

[quote who="Ryat" reply="8" id="3494613"] Yep, you are going to need to upgrade your computer to 64 bit. [/quote] He doesn't have to upgrade his computer, just his OS. Computer hardware has been 64 bit for a long time now. [quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="12" id="3495382"] I would like to repeat, and emphasize, a previous request I made to have GC3 report in a window before going down any time it is started on a system that does not meet the minimum ope

[quote who="nrcrane" reply="3" id="3456731"] As far as overscan problems go, I don't know how to check on that, but I do use a TV for my main screen, and it's refresh rate is 30Hz. Not sure if that could be the cause of the problem.[/quote] I suspect it does as most computer monitors these days have a refresh rate of 60 Hz. You might be able to change the rate from within your video card's control software.

What would be really nice to see would be the ability to set patrol routes. So you could send some ships to your borders and they would follow a path around your empire to detect enemy ships, rather than just sitting passively waiting for something to cross their paths. Alpha Centauri has a feature like that and it comes in very handy. I have yet to come across another 4X game that has this as well.

[quote who="Tergon" reply="13" id="3447339"] Why the hell we would wish to switch into system which is not widespread and offers no benefit over the existing one?[/quote] Especially one that quite obviously has some serious security flaws. [quote who="Tridus" reply="14" id="3447353"] Credit card processing & transaction fees suck. [/quote] Then use PayPal instead. Almost every online store accepts it these days. The only drawback is that it c

[quote who="thetraviler" reply="8" id="3445676"] I still think it wouldn't hurt though [/quote] It remains to be seen whether or not Bitcoin is even going to survive the latest fiascoes. It isn't doing so well right now. As mentioned, public perception is going to play a big role as to whether it will become adopted or not, and confidence in the system is pretty much at an all-time low right now.

[quote who="devcopycat" reply="12" id="3443974"] But I'm curious how serious we are really taken. I know one user made a forum on new races by players and never got a reaction by stardock. much less saying if any ideas would be used. [/quote] Stardock has a very good reputation for paying attention to player's ideas. Of course not everything can be used, but if the idea is good enough they will try to fit it in. Mostly though, they will respond to tweaks sugge