I have the same issue as IsAlreadyInUse. No problem with individual ships, but fleets don't go where you want them to-- they just sit in the same place, round after round unless you move them manually a short distance (one day's travel) at a time. Very annoying.

I didn't have this issue until I upgraded to Dark Avatar, so I'm thinking something got goofed up in the expansion pack. I have the latest version of both.

Hope this gets fixed soon. Annoying to micro-manage fleets.

Maybe it is just fleets. But I have been playing DA for quite some time on my old XP rig and never had this problem, with fleets or individual ships.

See this

I figured out that despite the update from SDC, my computer still reads the game as version 1.8e instead of 1.8 q. Thus, the fixed pathfinding error still exists. I also reinstalled it, the same thing happened. Then I read on another post that I have to ALTER MY REGISTRY to fix it such that the computer will recognize the update.

Bad. I will not mess with my registry--to me, thats like messing with the DNA of my body.

I love you folks at Stardock, but this need s to be a fix from SDC, not a tweak by me to my registry.

Thanks for the tip. I Took the plunge and did the registry fix and all is well.

The registry does not exist like normal files do.

Start-->Run: Type "regedit" (without quotes). Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar. Modify Version to 1.7. Then run SDC and update DA.

Rebooting is actually not necessary, but can be done if you'd like.

Alternatively, http://files.filefront.com/Keyreg/;9530968;/fileinfo.html will do the job for you on any Windows version 98 or newer. While I haven't verified that it works with Vista, I can't find any reason that it shouldn't. Feel free to run it through a virus scanner and/or open it in notepad; it's clean.

Your other option would be to uninstall and reinstall.

It happened also to me after updating to the latest version at some moment in December. In my opinion the problem came included in a revision of the game. I also experienced stealth ships attacking my rear lines since them. None of this issues are comfortable and seriously affect the playability of the game. Furthermore I started having ramdom crashes when I never have this before, and this is far more serious.

Two weeks ago I had to format my computer and reinstall everything again, including the latest version displayed at Stardock. The three problems mentioned are still there and by now I am getting disappointed at the way Stardock is handling this. Somehow I was totally sure that an official correction would be posted somewhere after few weeks of having the people complaining about this. To my knowledge there are at least four posts raising this issue.

I will try the solution proposed by Sole Soul for lack of other alternative. Thanks for that Sole!