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by Senator CariElf - 12/14/2004 3:16:58 PM

Please always check Stardock Central (SDC) to see if you have the latest version before reporting bugs as we may have already fixed the bug you're about to report.

If you have a save game that can reproduce the bug, chances are good that I will want it.

If you are getting constant crashes please read the thread entitled Sound Problems/Frequent crashes. If nothing there helps, please install SmartException from www.stardock.com/products/smartexception. There are instructions there to help. Then the next time that Gal Civ crashes, send GalCiv.exe.cra to me along with your debug.err file and tell me what was happening when the crash ocurred.

If you e-mail me, please describe your problem in the e-mail so that I know what I'm supposed to be looking for. Do not erase quoted text from any replies that you make as it saves me time having to hunt through my mail folders looking for your previous messages.

If you are using mods that replace or add graphic files, I will need those files if you need me to look at a save game, so either include them in a zip or give me a link to where I can get them.

--Cari

carielf@stardock.com

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#1 by Citizen Professor Xavier - 12/14/2004 8:38:44 PM

I noticed a couple of things that, while not game crashing bugs, are errors (I think):

1. Anywhere a text window describes a stat with a % it adds a %. For example 20% will read 20%%. Not sure if this is intentional but it seems redundant.

2. If Animate Ship Data Win is set to "on" ships in the Ship Data Win are still not animated. Would be cool to see them be animated (I like the animated planets and aliens a lot).

Hope this helps! If not please excuse the "Professor".

#2 by Citizen Professor Xavier - 12/15/2004 7:29:47 PM

Here are some more of what could be glitches:

1. When your first freightor is destroyed and you get the mini-movie there is no audio.

2. When you click on a star base and get the Ship Data Window it doesn't display any image for the star base, it just displays stars.

3. Sometimes, if the name of the Empire is too long, in some of the windows it will block out some of the information that is displayed below it. The info cannot be accessed as the Empire name goes over one line...

#3 by Citizen Professor Xavier - 12/15/2004 7:36:52 PM

I noticed some of the planets don't spin. Is this because the PQ isn't high enough?

#4 by Senator CariElf - 12/16/2004 5:24:02 PM

1. Anywhere a text window describes a stat with a % it adds a %. For example 20% will read 20%%. Not sure if this is intentional but it seems redundant.
Hmm...are you running the most recent version of Gal Civ? I thought that I'd fixed all of those.

2. If Animate Ship Data Win is set to "on" ships in the Ship Data Win are still not animated. Would be cool to see them be animated (I like the animated planets and aliens a lot).

2) By Animate Ship Data Win, it means that it does the little open/close animation when you switch from the main game screen to one of the other screens like the research screen.

1. When your first freightor is destroyed and you get the mini-movie there is no audio.

There are two movies, freighterblown.bik and freighterblownout.bik in your movies directory. Switch the names and you'll get the sound.

I noticed some of the planets don't spin. Is this because the PQ isn't high enough?

On the Planet Data screen? I don't think that we made .bik files for all the movies because we were trying to keep the file size down. The only other thing I can think of would be if you didn't have the multimedia pack installed.