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Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords 1.x



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NameGalactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords
Version1.x
License Retail
URLhttp://www.galciv2.com/
Votes 20
RatingPlatinum
Wine Version1.5.2

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Description
Retail versions between 1.0 to 1.5.
Old test results
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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works

* installing

* running with wine GalCiv2.exe

* Opening video

* Options


What does not

* New Game

* Campaign


What was not tested
* Metaverse


Additional Comments
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 12.04 "Precise" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Apr 14 20121.5.2 Yes Yes Platinum an anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jun 01 20101.2-rc1 Yes Yes Silver emkay 
ShowUbuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 21 20091.1.25 Yes Yes Silver lwolf 
ShowLinux Mint 5 "Elyssa"Apr 13 20091.1.19 Yes Yes Silver an anonymous user 
CurrentUbuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Apr 09 20091.1.18 Yes No Garbage an anonymous user 

Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
10433 Galactic civilizations 2 crashes on certain (and random) occations NEW View
19293 Galactic Civilizations 2 v. 1.0D Digital:Bonus Pack. Program crashes after starting a new game. UNCONFIRMED View
23839 Neverwinter Nights 2 : Unable to detect video card NEW View

 
Adding msttcorefonts

GalCiv2 requires a number of TrueType fonts to be available.

On Ubuntu and Debian these are found in a package called msttcorefonts. This can be found in the non free Universe repository and installed using your favourite package manager such as Synaptic, or via the command line:

$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts


 
Fixing mouse pointer
Mouse pointer changes to large white square block in Options menu. Enabling hardware mouse cursor in Video options menu corrects this but leaves block on screen until options are saved and game restarted.

 
Font artefacts

There are minor artefacts on some text when running in Windows XP emulation. Switching to Windows 98 resolution corrects this. This has been logged as a bug.

Carriage returns are not rendered correctly and were shown as a box outline in Wine prior to 0.9.34, and as a '<' since. Although cosmetically distracting this has not caused any major problems with gameplay so far.


 
Ship Textures

On my ATI graphics card using the fglrx driver there are no textures displayed for ships.

 A workaround is to Disable Ship Textures in the Video Options menu.
 

 

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Starting new game or campaign freeze!
by lwolf on Thursday April 9th 2009, 13:25
When starting new game or campaign in GC2 (demo and Dread Lords also tested), not just Wine, but also X Server stops responding!! => only Reset button helps.
(Galactic Civilization 1 working fine on this config)

- Wine 1.1.18 + DirectX 9 DLL overrides
- ATI Radeon 9600 card with AMD fglrx 8.582 driver (3D OpenGL works)
- 1 GB RAM
- 2,4GHz Celeron
- Ubuntu 8.10

I have no idea... :(

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Crash after intro with nVidia graphics?
by FeepingCreature on Friday March 20th 2009, 17:17
If you have a nVidia graphics card with the 180.* drivers and the game crashes on startup, try to downgrade to 177.*.

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Weird errors...
by James on Monday February 23rd 2009, 19:43
The game installs fine for me, but I get really strange errors like:

"Your desktop appears to be usuing a 23,000(or something) x 0 resolution. blah blah blah blah..."

"Your desktop appears to be using 128 bit color depth" ????

O_o

Kind of amusing...I've always wanted 128 bit color :p

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Ship Textures
by David Hilton on Thursday October 30th 2008, 0:05
Apparently my video card (onboard ATI - HD 3200?, fglrx) doesn't support some features - my X log gives me ~50 warnings saying that " AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23" to 0x72.

My X server always froze after the first page of trying to start a new game until I disabled just about every fancy graphical feature. I later tried reenabling a few features, but simply enabling textures caused X to go into a comatose state shortly after starting a game.

I didn't want to find out exactly how closely related these things are, as I very much dislike rebooting my computer to get rid of an unresponsive X.

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Installation problem
by Xavier Vachon on Saturday June 21st 2008, 14:34
I have the Gold version of the game. When I need to put the second CD in, Wine does not let me eject the disc. I get the error "an application is preventing "CD" from being unmounted".

Wine 1.0 & PlayonLinux
Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit

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HUGE performance improvement with one click
by Christian on Sunday February 24th 2008, 11:00
Hi,

if you click on a ship the game freezes for a small amount of time.
The workaround is to diable "Ship Range" (the last option) on the minimap.

It took ages to find it out.

Have fun!

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some help...
by Brian on Monday February 4th 2008, 16:30
I'm running GalCiv with Ubuntu 7.10 & wine-.9.54 and am getting the three pop-ups mentioned above about resolution, color depth, and DirectX. Only I cannot get past them at all... Am I missing something?

Thanks

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Windows 98
by Gustavo Hexsel on Sunday January 27th 2008, 14:52
Using Ubuntu 8.04 beta, wine-0.9.54. Installer caused Wine to crash on WinXP mode, switched to win98 mode and all worked fine, except the resolution stays low after you exit the game (seems to be a known issue).

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Post 0.9.41 may have a regression
by Peter on Saturday November 3rd 2007, 3:09
There is one report that 0.9.41 works more reliably than later releases (up to 0.9.47).

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