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Reply to Conspiracy and game reviews in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Maybe I'm late to the game on this topic, but I just read all the reviews, the comments on the CGW boards, etc., and came away with the following impressions: 1. Sure it's a potential conflict. Games in general -- but strategy games in particular demand a great deal of our time, and we make choices about which ones to play. I'm playing GalCiv2 and not SotS, in part because of reviews. I work in the publishing industry, and we deal with the appearance of conflict through the u

Reply to Frequent Crashes in Windows Vista RC1 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

@ eride: What was I thinking? 1. That a forum post is about sharing experiences with issues that we've solved. I looked at other threads where people were running successfully with Vista Beta 2, not RC1 and may have encountered and subsequently fixed similar problems. 2. I'm successfully playing Half-Life 2 and Episode 1, Guild Wars, Far Cry, Counter-Strike and Halo. Why not try GalCiv2? 3. I heard a lot about the great support from both Stardock and the f

Frequent Crashes in Windows Vista RC1 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Hi, I'm running Gal Civ II under Windows Vista RC1. Installation went smoothly after I ran from setup.exe, and I've been playing for about 4 hours. Now the system hangs -- turn button disappears, and nothing happens -- waited up to 20 minutes on one occurence. Task Manager lists Gal Civ II as Not Responding. I've tried loading an earlier save, and the results are the same after a few turns. I know that Vista is beta, and that I can't post debug.err, but I would really apprecia