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Does this continue if you turn mipmaps all the way down?

You don't have the correct font loaded--try copying the contents of the fonts folder to C:\Windows\Fonts.

The game's fonts haven't installed correctly (thus the Arial)--try copying the files from the fonts folder to C:\Windows\Fonts.

Non-conquest victories are disabled, yes.

A spontaneous reboot often means your computer is tossing a Blue Screen of Death but is set to not display it. BSODs are generally caused by hardware or driver problems, and the error message it shows can help pin down exactly what the issue is. To have your computer display BSODs instead of rebooting immediately, go to Control Panel->System Properties->Advanced Tab->Startup and Recovery Settings and uncheck 'automatically restart'. The next time it crashes, you

[quote]BUT! then again, this game has a multiplayer component, Gal Civ didn't. The AI doesn't need to compete with human players for understanding portals, other players do.[/quote] "Players can handle it, so it's ok if the AI can't" is not a valid excuse, since Elemental is a single-player game first and multiplayer second. [quote]maps become an intricated and confused set of locations where the actual distance between places is something that can't really be examined b

It's worth noting that teleportation was specifically excluded in GalCiv because of the issues involved in making the AI utilize it as well as a human could. I wouldn't jump to expect it for certain here just because many other fantasy games have them.

If you already preordered (whether or not you've actually downloaded it yet) the deadline doesn't affect you--just hit up support about the download issue and they'll get you sorted.

Bad discs can cause that sort of behavior in a drive, scratches or no (It's just as likely a bad pressing, had a game I just bought recently that did that--had to stream it across the network from a drive that was less picky). If you need the disc and bought it recently, see if you can exchange it for another at the store. Or if you have another drive available, see if it works there and take an image to make a backup.

Sure you're not trying to put a DVD in a CD drive? CD/DVD drives are pretty standardized these days, so it's very unusual to need a special driver for them.

They're only disabled so people don't complain about them during the beta. Anyone attempting to play them anyway will be beaten, then fried.

There is an issue with IE as well where pasting in junk HTML generated by MS Word can break the page rendering at the start of a post (rather than at an arbitrary page length as the OP noted, regardless where that winds up), but it's easily remedied by editing the post or not copy/pasting directly from Word. In the case of this issue it tends to be replies by particular users who frequently do that that are at issue, rather than the thread just being really long. If you see one of the

It's a very old bug in Firefox itself. Amazingly it seems they've finally fixed it but won't incorporate it until 3.6. (sigh)

The current thinking on the family tree issue is that the video cards are not properly reporting their texture capabilities, so the texture atlas has issues. In which case further texture issues are not wholly unexpected.

Screenshot?

[quote]this faction?[/quote] Which faction?

Any more detail than that? Was it a completely random unit? Was a unit in the road-building path and got stuck there? Etc.

[quote]Unfortunately if you install it 3 or more times you'll have to call Microsoft because it won't "activate" over the internet anymore.[/quote] There is no such limitation that I'm aware of . The only limit on automatic activation with XP is that it'll only work once per 120 days. If you have a retail copy you can transfer it from machine to machine as many times as necessary as long as you don't do it too often. <

Roundup updated.

Known, please see the [link="http://elemental.kryofx.com"]roundup[/link] before reporting further issues.

Try uninstalling and reinstalling the game itself as well.

A screenshot of this would be helpful.

Please post your map seed in the "bad start locations" sticky if you still have the debug from that session.

[quote](I think it may be conquoring a city)[/quote] Other testers have previously reported that production is not cleared in captured cities, so it is likely you got a unit that the AI had queued up.

The debug shows the game running at 1280x1024--try it at 1024x768.