Choppy Cinamatic Video Play...

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I'm having trouble with choppy video playback, and frames stopping and going, and so forth. Audio is also playing cut-off to choppy. The first cinamatic when you colonize your first planet is fine, but after then the feedback be comes unstable, and choppy. Any ideas as to what's causing this? I have the latest verison installed, and my system meets recommended requirements. So is there a setting I can change, or an easy fix to at least elimate some of the choppy video playback?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Post your debug.err information. It might give a clue.

It is a file located in the main program folder, usually C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2.
Just open the file with Notepad, select everything, copy and paste it in the post.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had the same problem until I turned of the anti-alising to 0. no it plays fine
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
How do I go about adjusting that? Sounds like a possible solution.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
1gig of fast memory, 2.5ghz proc and a 256 meg video card, these are the real minimums for this game
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can change it in the option under video. I never noticed that it had 4 levels turned on. Even with the most up to date drivers it was choppy videos. Now the movies play smothly, and the game does not seem to want to crash as often for no reason.

Star Dagger is also right in that a faster processor and a good video card fixes alot of problems. But not all of us have cash growing off the trees in the back yard. After all I can only beat up so many school kids for lunch money a year ( JUST KIDDING)

Try turning off the Anti-Aliacing to 0 from the defalt 4 and see if that fixes your problem

Brother Angelon
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
1. Make sure your drivers are up to date.
2. Make sure you are running the game on its own with no other major programs running.
3. Reduce your anti-aliasing down to 1 and the problems with playback should stop.



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Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
1gig of fast memory, 2.5ghz proc and a 256 meg video card, these are the real minimums for this game


That's totally incorrect. My machine operates at half of those specs (except for the processor, but the CPU speed is no longer as important as it once was), and it runs fine with maximum settings.



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Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This happens the longer you play a game (memory leak?). I've got 2 GB ram, 2.0 AMD 64 bit with a 6600GT. The more objects you see on the main map, the laggier it becomes over time. The best solution is to simply save, quit, reset, and then come back in when it gets too laggy.