Noob ship question

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Noob question...I've been looking at the cool ships in the sticky thread and notice a lot of interesting colors and what looks like lights/windows on the sides of the ships.

I don't see anything in the ship pieces that look like the window grids. Am I missing something or are those pieces only available in mods like Kryo's?

Can I change the color of my ships or is that also a mod thing?

Thanks.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can pick what colors your ships will be when you customize your race at the start of a game. As to windows, it's just a matter of finding the right pieces, some do have textures with windows. My mod doesn't add anything new like that, but it does let you use all the hulls as jewelry and some of them have windows as well.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can change your ship colors in the race setup. Some of those ships are using Kryo's hull mod, but some seem to have some custom added parts. Kryo's hull mod doesn't add anymore parts, it allows you to use all races hulls and use them as jewelry. It also gives alot more options with blank hardpoints and such. Highly recommended!  

Edit: Musta been typing at the same time Kryo  
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Just as a side note, your video card has to be able to handle the textures. Cards that only comply with DX7 or DX8 standards may not be able to display everything.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
My main computer was on the fritz, so in order to play the game, I down graded to one of my old Pentium 3 paper weights. Load times were terrible and the only way I was able to play the game at all was to remove the textures completely.

I never knew what I would miss in the game until I did that. Now I know.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I play on 2 desktops (2.8 P4 fours with 1g ram), and a laptop (1.8 AMD Turion with 1g ram) I find the load time on my laptop horrible. I think I'd freak trying to play on a P3
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
After playing for an hour or so, I did freak and decided to wait till my P4 got fixed. Just wasn't worth playing.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I play on a 900Mhz celeron but that's the only PC I've played on, what am I missing?
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
@Mumblefraz
You never miss a trick buddy.. but you MAY suffer excess load or turn times ???
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I play on a 900Mhz celeron but that's the only PC I've played on, what am I missing?


Depends on what you have turned off or down. I know you play gigantic maps, so I'm sure you have some things down as my XP3000 slows if I don't disable some bells and whistles in that size map.

When I recently upgraded my video card, I could finally see things like the planet lights,a lot more detail to the ships,and better overall dynamic lighting. Oh yea.. also the movies play great, where before they were either choppy or froze totally.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes DethAdder !!!!

Strive to NEVER turn down bells and whistles.

The gameplay is GREAT !!!! No doubt about ...

BUT THE EYE CANDY IS DANDY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's all a matter of what you like. I'm running on a 1.2G processer with only 512M of RAM, and even with my pathetically obsolete hardware I'm able to play. I just turn down the detail level and run a few less items and it works great. However, I've found that smaller maps allow for more give. On everything medium and lower, I can crank up the system to max and it will run fine (depending on the stars, planets, enemies, etc.). Just go with what you're content with.
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Cards that only comply with DX7 or DX8 standards may not be able to display everything.


I learned this the hard way by mistakenly reporting my below-spec hardware as a graphics bug.

Re the "matters what you like" thing, *indeed*. Still, the Eye Candy does seem dandy, but I've taken to avoiding lots of screencaps until I can scrounge up a better card. Kind of like how ignoring the regular milk and cereal brands makes paying organic food prices seem "normal" after a while.

If you had to pick between CPU and the graphics adapter, I'd vote for the CPU. I'm on a 1.6ghz P4 with a gig of RAM and that seems basically adequate. I have the slow-load problem with my huge games, but I think at least part of that is b/c I have to use virtual memory for graphics and my "DX9" is emulated, not for real.
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
BUT THE EYE CANDY IS DANDY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker!  Sorry, had to say it!
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
Actually, I had to buy a graphics card to play the game. I only spent $90 (at the time) for a GeForce 5500. It does support full DirectX 9.0c but my frame rate is pretty low. I also have anti-aliasing turned down quite a bit. But I do get the planet lights and get decent textures on ships and suns when I infrequently zoom in that close. I think overall game performance is more limited by ram size than cpu frequency. I have 1GB of ram and I think my performance is reasonable even with *only* a 900Mhz, L2 cacheless processor.