I'm wanting a game like this. Should I buy COTA or just wait and get BFTB?

karlxii, I guess it'll come as a shock to you that the AI in GalCiv2 gets major economic bonuses at the higher difficulty levels to provide a challenge to players.

<r> That is a shame.&nbsp; That resolution looks <B><s>[b]</s>bad<e>[/b]</e></B> on my monitor.&nbsp; If you can't support higher resolutions or a windowed display (I can put up with small but clear, just not blurry to the point of being unreadable), I'll pass.&nbsp; The eye strain isn't worth it ...

I apologize, I should not have reacted personally.

Unwarranted personal attack removed - I realize now that Mr. La Vean is only trying to make CoG a better product

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Warpstorm, when you try any of the suggested fixes, do you ever see the taskbar, even momemtarily?

Sure do, just can't select anything.

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1) I close all useless prgrams like ICQ, MSN to free a max of memory<br/>
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I don't think anyone posted that it <I><s>[i]</s>didn't<e>[/i]</e></I> work, in fact. Give it a go, anyway.
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Reg Pither<br/>
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You mean, we aren't computer nerds? I'm glad that's cleared up. I was under the misconception that I fell smack in the ...

<t> I am one of the unlucky ones for whom it does not work. This is particularly annoying to me since I realize what it takes to honor this request (and I do it in all of my programs (even the DirectX ones)).<br/>
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Having said that, I am glad that I didn't give up on it. There is a very good ...

<t> I just read Tom Chick's Gamespy review and I must say, he gave intelligent reasons for what he didn't like. He didn't say "Dude, like they actually expected me to read the manual before starting. And there's no pixel shader support for my new GT 7800." His primary complaint was that it was too ...

Oddly enough, I'd have given Victoria a 2 star myself. Boring. Which is a shame, because I really wanted to like it (sad to say, I keep saying that about Paradox's games).

<t> Okay, I broke down and loaded the pdfs onto my laptop to try this and have the manual usable. Not ideal, needing two computers to play it, but...<br/>
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This is a very deep game with a lot of detail. I look forward to diving into it deeper.<br/>
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<t> If I could get it, I'd ask for my money back. While the game may be good, I'll never know because of the sub-standard programming. C'mon, a windowed mode is trivial (even using DirectX) and really needed for those of us with LCD monitors, as is responding to the alt-tab request (for those of us ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: bluemonday<br/>
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No problem - I just think that if you look at the reviews in the US PC gaming magazines, you will find very fair reviews. That is simply my prediction.<br/>
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In fact, I will go out on a limb and say that of the major US magazines (PC ...

The nVidia drivers do have an overclocking util, but you need to change your registry to expose it. Google Coolbits nvidia for detailed instructions.

Multi-Man Publishing and GMT games are my favorite wargame publishers these days.

Boardgames have had a major comeback (both casual and wargames). To find out what is available, start at www.boardgamegeek.com.

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Thanks for the info old man of the sea....I forgot all about Bob McNamara and I'm happy to know they're alive and well....<br/>
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But GOVERNMENT WORK!!!???[X(]<br/>
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Don't we have enough goobers to do that kind of stuff ...

I understand exactly what going gold means (I am in the business). Why not set up the direct download immediately? Why wait till the disks are ready before allowing those of who just want the download version to do it now since it is in fact done?

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: coralsaw<br/>
Did you not like Europa Universalis 2? To me, an all-time classic and still on my hard drive (heavily modded, of course), until EU3 comes out in a coupe of years.
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