Recently, after a hard drive crash, I reinstalled GalCiv II from Stardock Central. It appeared that the game had been updated since last I checked Central, but I paid this no heed at the time.

When I loaded the game after installing, a message box appeared claiming that my video card was out of date and this may cause problems (I have a laptop and nothing else, so I can't update the card). I clicked "OK", and the game ran just fine, maybe with a bit of flickering. When I tried loading the program again, it loaded seemingly without problems, but when I tried to load my saved game, the game would just sit on the loading screen forever. I forced a shutdown, came back, and tried starting a new game, but the same thing happened.

I reinstalled the software, but the game still failed to load, even one first time.

The debug.err file contains several thousand copies of the following error:

Debug Message: Error flipping back buffer to primary buffer.
Debug Message: Driver internal error

I'd really appreciate any help I could get with this problem. If it can't be solved, the old version seemed to work: how might I go about installing the game un-patched?

As a side-note, what files are my saved games stored in? I can't seem to find them anywhere, and it annoys me that every time I reinstall I'll lose them again.

Thank you very much for your help.