Galactic Civ 2 Dread lords

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Bought yesterday through impulse. Game downloaded, installed and activated.

Started game, campaign windows are blank (and Dred Lords Campaign folder in the game directory is also empty). Started new game, after selecting opponents and clicking next button, game crashes to desktop every time.

Windows 7 release 64bit. Nvidia 260 - display drivers 195.62

This from the error log:

Debug Message:  Danger Will Robinson, no Stars!!!!
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask ./Data//Tutorials/*.xml
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask ./Data//Campaigns/*.gc2Campaign
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask D:\Games\Stardock\GalCiv2\Mods\Default\Data\CustomMaps\*.gc2map
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask ./Data//Scenarios/*.GC2Scenario
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask D:\Games\Stardock\GalCiv2\Mods\Default\Data\Scenarios\*.gc2scenario

Anyone else have this problem? Any ideas for fixing?

Thanks.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

While I'm not having any issue having also bought and downloaded yesterday on Win7, you might want to try changing the .exe file compatibility to WinXP. This solves most issues I have seen with software in Win7.

 

Change GalCiv2.exe in C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\GalCiv2 by right clicking and selecting the compatibility tab.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Happens on WinXP too.

I'm having exactly same problem, no campaigns, no tutorial and game crashes when starting new game.

I have tried to download/install game twice now.

 

EDIT: Found solution https://forums.stardock.com/332877 \o/

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