Markus Aurelius

Reply to The BETA is about to close.. in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I renewed my TotalGaming subscription but this does not seem to grant access to the new Beta...

Found what was causing my crashes in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Hi, I was reporting trouble with crashes on startup. It seems that my gfx card was already in the process of dying and that must have caused the crashes. I replaced it with a new GeForce 6600GT and I have not had crashes since. Sorry for the false alarm, Markus

Reply to General comments on beta 0.11b[b].002 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Marcus Aurelius, please e-mail me your debug.err file. Done. I don't see anything suspicious in that trace but at least you can see the exact system specs and driver versions.

Reply to General comments on beta 0.11b[b].002 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Also not a bad idea to check to make sure that you have the latest drivers for your video card. AFAIK Catylyst 5.3 is the latest ATI driver at the moment. I just upgraded last week when I first installed Galciv2. I don't think I will risk thrasing my installation anymore. I thinks it is better to wait for a late b

Reply to General comments on beta 0.11b[b].002 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Now it doesn't crash on startup anymore. It starts up fine but none of the buttons has any text. I guessed that the topmost button must be for starting a new game and clicked the bottom right button on the following screens. After a bit of loading it badly crashed my machine. (Video seems to be dead, monitor goes to stand by because it loses the signal. Otherwise the machine seems to be alive but I see no other option but to shut it down.) Sy

Reply to Game does not start in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I was havin' that problem then updated to DirectX 9C it didn't work at all with DirectX 9B. I already had DirectX 9c. Today I upgraded to Catalyst 5.3 but it does not make a difference. When I try to start it the screen goes blank and it immediately crashes. Maybe its an Athlon 64 problem because I have DEP en

Reply to Game does not start in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I updated to the latest ATI drivers to see if that would help here as well. Unfortunately it stil crashes with the same crash dump.

Reply to Game does not start in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think I have the same problem. I'm going to install smart exception to verify this. Edit: seems to be a different problem but it also crashes everytime I try to start it. Stardock SmartException Logging Information ------------------------------------------- OS Version : Windows XP Video Card : RADEON 9800 XT Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION Crash Addr: 00586777 01:00185777 H:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\GalCiv2\GalCi