Boz46

I did ALL of the usual steps. I had to Uninstall the latest windows update to continue playing GC 3.

I have the EXACT same problem as well. I am currently on Save 212 right now. I refuse to play a new game as I have a 25 & a 19 planet 1 parsec away from my home world. I am hoping 2.8 fixes the memory issues. -I had to disable auto-save. Saved games that were saved on the same "Saved game file" over and over again like auto-save had it the worst. I am BARELY able to play right now as when I create a new Saved game, 50% of the time the game freezes up and never saves the game.

I had this same problem when I updated Windows a few weeks ago with the newest patch. It had something to do with Direct X and the game wouldn't even load. I uninstalled the windows update and now it works.

I have been playing Gal Civ for 2 years no problems. A few days ago Windows had a fairly big update and now my game won't load when I click on it. With 2.61 it gave me this error "DirectX DirectInput" failed or something like that. It gave me a "Yes or No" screen. I pressed both options and the game still doesn't work. I updated to 2.71 and now it doesn't even give me that error screen. It just immediately drops the game and doesn't work. I have Direct X 12 and I m