Patch NEEDED soon please

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I love this game, Yet it makes me sooooo angry sometimes lol. I guess I should have said I love PLAYING this game and yet the constant crashes make me insane
Seems it doesnt take alot for the game to crashe either. Sometimes all I have to do is click the NEXT button for it to crash. One thing that is guanteed to make the game crash is to have an update or whatnot interrupt the game. When I attempt to get back in, POOF, crash! grrrr
I sure hope that this next version of the game that is coming out fixes ALOT of these problems. It is sooooo frustrating sometimes. Luckily I have the game setup so that it saves every 6 turns. At least I dont have to make up three months worth of work. LOL... just a month and a half
Anyway, I guess this post was more for me to vent than to ask a question. Though I would like to hear from those of you who are experiencing ALOT of crashes too. At least then I wont feel so alone hehe. You know, I may be in a sinking ship but I feel comforted that alot of others are gonna drown with me.. LOL

Ohh and for those who may be wondering... YEP, I post every single crash I get with thier SMART EXCEPTION program
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've stopped playin until new patch comes out, but Im prepared to wait as long as it takes so we can have a through update
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Meh, I'm in no hurry, I'm playing on a huge map and don't want to change the AI until that game is done.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I hate to say this but if you find 1.0X very unstable, odds are, 1.1 will be unstable for you as well. 

If you have a URL to your smartexception reports, I'll certainly look at them.  But 1.1, while fixing glitches and bugs as we find them, is primarily about new features. We're really not aware of very many reproduceable crashes that aren't solved by driver updates (though certainly in the 1.1 betas we introduced and later fixed a lot of new bugs).

That isn't to say 1.1 won't work better for you, but if you find 1.0X really unstable, that's not a good sign.

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I'm new to the game (read as: I installed it at 2:00 am), but so far I've documented seventeen crashes (haven't bothered reporting them to MicroSoft... waste of time). The crashes aren't deliberately reproducable, mostly because they make no sense, and they don't destabilize the o/s. Any little thing can set the game on its ear: MSN, LimeWire, anti-virus events, clicking your mouse the wrong way...

I'm running a fairly high-end machine, and I update my drivers more often than I sleep; so what is it about the game engine that its so sensitive to what Windows is doing in the background?
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes, the game is very sensitive to things that try to take over window focus, expecially when it's busy trying to process something. Yes, this is a big problem that eneds to be resolved. But I have to ask one question: why do you have automatic updates turned on for anything, and if you really need them, why do you not have them set for silent updating?

I have automatic everything turned off in Windows, Norton Anti-Virus (still auto-updates, but silently in the background with no notification), Ewido (awesome anti-spyware), ZoneAlarm and everything else I have ever needed to, and I can even run BitComet under heavy load in the background with no effect on GC2. The rare crashes I get (average 1 per day, not bad for a beta) are entirely related to the interaction between GC2, DirectCrap and Winblows.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Having had a bit of crash problems in prior version I have found the recent updates to have fairly ended my crash issues. I'm running a definitely mid-low level machine, but I tend to run it clean with only essential stuff going on in the background, and no real memory hogs at all.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
but so far I've documented seventeen crashes (haven't bothered reporting them to MicroSoft... waste of time)


Why don't you report them to Microsoft? Believe it or not, Microsoft actually forwards that information on to the company who made the product, if the company has at least told Microsoft "yes, we make that program, we're interested in the Dr Watson crash reports".

If the company didn't sign up, then it's only a second or two to click "Send report" that's wasted. If the company did sign up, then you might be giving them the information they need to fix the issue. How often Microsoft fixes issues in their own products from Dr Watson reports compared to what other companies do with it may be debatable, but it never hurts to try to help.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm new to the game (read as: I installed it at 2:00 am), but so far I've documented seventeen crashes (haven't bothered reporting them to MicroSoft... waste of time). The crashes aren't deliberately reproducable, mostly because they make no sense, and they don't destabilize the o/s. Any little thing can set the game on its ear: MSN, LimeWire, anti-virus events, clicking your mouse the wrong way...


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Download the "Galactic Civilizations II Bonus Pack" and that should fix your problems. Make sure that the "Throttle Frame Rate" option is checked under video options.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Frogboy, I dont have a URL for my Smart Exception info. I have forwarded onto stardock the game file and short discription everytime I experience a crash. If you cant obtain the information that way, I am not sure how to get it to you otherwise. At this point I would estimate that I have sent in roughly 40 or so crash reports.