How hard would it be to make an options choice of "Disable Stock Designs?" I know they have other priorities, but it seems like it should be a very easy tweak. I do respect that they went to the effort of creating all these designs, but, once you've figured out how to design ships, you can make ships that are much better designed for your style of play. Unfortunate
I got it to work. It turns out that it no longer works after the last Windows 10 build, unless it is launched as an admin. My normal Windows profile is a standard user with another user as the local admin. I have to launch Steam as an admin and then start GC3. It then starts normally. <span sty
[quote who="pshaw" reply="15" id="3607593"] Quoting MountainViking, reply 14 I upgraded to the beta graphics driver (I had the latest non-beta before). It still crashes the same way. If you are getting a "disk read error" on install, have you tried the following: <a href="https://su
I upgraded to the beta graphics driver (I had the latest non-beta before). It still crashes the same way.
I'm having exactly the same problem. I played it over the weekend using 1.5 opt-in. My computer updated to the 1511 build of Windows 10. After that, it crashes every time on launch. It gets past the "loading" screen, but crashes before it gets to the main menu. The only thing that changed was the 1511 build of Windows 10. I have a Radeon HD 7950 Black Edition 3GB video card, 16GB RAM, 3770K i7 CPU, etc. Worked fine before. I tried the verifying
[quote quoting="post"] Other idea – say on an insane map, if I come across a planet that is a 5 and I do not want it, yet I do not want the other races to get it, maybe I can nuke it? Make it uninhabitable? [/quote] I'm pretty new, yet, but . . . can't you colonize the planet then immediately destroy it so they can't use it?