I just bought Galactic Civ II Gold.  Looks to be a fantastic game, but I have a problem with it crashing randomly, especially in the expansion.  I found out what the problem is.  Actually, I had two, but the one was easily fixed.  The other is because my graphics drivers are too old.  Unfortunately, Intel has dropped support for the ones I need. (82845g)  Now I'm stuck with a great game that constantly crashes and no easy (or at least free) way of fixing it.

I think I'll go bang my head up against a wall a few times now.

What graphics card do you have? You may be able to just upgrade that for a decent amount. Granted, it's not free, but it's a solution.

It's an integrated graphics card.

It's happening less now that I've turned down some of the graphics options.  Once you get a certain part of the game, it's easier to zoom out to the graphics-light tactical mode anyway and I really can't tell much different even in the 3d zoom mode.

It still happens, but I've sort of learned to live with it.  I can sometimes play for a few hours with no interruption, and I've got the autosave set to kick in rather frequently.

Quote from: catwhowalksbyhimself on June 10, 2007, 04:02:28 PM
It's an integrated graphics card.

Well, there's your problem. Integrated graphics are terrible :thumbdown:

But if you think you can live with the crashes, then by all means, go ahead.

I don't play graphics-intense games.  No shooters, no sports or racing games.  Mostly strategy and rpg.  NWN II is beyond my reach, but other than that, I can play what I want to.

And the card works perfectly with this game, if you didn't read my original post very carefully, it's just that any graphics cards with drivers more than a year old have this problem.  The support for this card has been dropped.  If it hadn't, it wouldn't be an issue.

No, I read your first post (Hello, I was the second  :rolleyes:...).  I was merely telling you how you could rid yourself of the problem.
If you can live with it though, that's cool.

I had much the same problem, fortunatley some new drivers did clear it up for me. before that i was relying on the autosave feature waaaay too much :P.
It's a great game though and i've had a lot of fun with it so far. I was a little disappointed with the espionage system, i was hoping for something a bit more involved but hey i'll take what i can get :).

A LOT of people are complaining that the original espionage system was better than the expansion version.  They may end of changing it in a future patch.

Latest update:  I recently found out about woot.com.  Nifty website.  Anyway, I installed a Firefox extension that tells me what they're selling for the day, and today's item is a cheep, no-frills ATI Radeon X600.  Nothing too fancy, but it's twice as good as the built-in one, should clear up this problem completely, and will allow me to run Neverwinter Nights 2--and all for only $20.  That, I can afford.  It's already ordered, and my problem should be over in a week or so.