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Old February 26th, 2006, 04:50 PM
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Default Re: Galactic Civilizations II impressions

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It was only a subset of ATI cards where the game wouldn't start, and in many cases it was a matter of Microsoft's DirectX 9.0c install routine not properly updating the drivers.
Irrelevant. There is no reason why the game shouldn't have been able to run _at all_ with 1 version out of date drivers.

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I never experienced any crashes that I would consider regular. Even so, one crash every two hours is extremely low for any kind of game.
*cringes* More like, extremely high. There is no excuse for a $50 game from a huge company to crash in anything but the most obscure of situations. The game would crash _every turn_ after playing for a while in many cases... It was absurd.

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Do you have the recommended 512 MB of RAM? You'd probably want at least 1 GB to prevent slowdowns.
High amounts of RAM didn't help anyone I know. Game was still unstable and crashed a lot with a gig or more. It has been fixed now, but the beta release 1.0 was really bad...
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