Spinning, crazy map scrolling and buggy battle movies.

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Hi I am really excited to play Galciv Dread Lords on my new computer but it's having lots of trouble. My old machine runs it OK but a bit laggy. My new and upgraded uber machine runs everything perfectly except for this. My troubles are:

1) The little display window that shows rotatable objects such as planets in the planet managing screen, or ships in the shipyard spin REALLY fast and nonstop. It's not terrible but it sure is annoying,

2) If I scroll the mouse around I have serious problems such as the screen turning black, or zooming way in and out. I disabled mouse scrolling and it ran fine.

3) Battle movies are terrible. Flickery, buggy and weird looking. No lockups just the movies don't work. The battles resolve after awhile normally but I can't watch.


I am using windows xp professional x64 edition.

2 gigs of ram
nvidia 7950gt
AMD 3200 x2 dual core


Thanks
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Planets and ships spinning out of control is most generally due to the use of an Athlon 64 x2 CPU without updated CPU drivers. If this the case with your machine, download and install the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (x86 and x64 exe) file found at the bottom of this page.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Another thing, Don't hold shift during any of them. I had my maths book holding down the shift key during all of them and It completely ruined my game.