Hello everybody, I have the following problems with my PA. I bought it in Gamma version when the galactic war was released and I can't play with some biomes like Arctic planet, desert planet, Earth template, Exotic planet and lava planets (all in fact exept moon and metal). I also can't play with more than two different planets and my computer also crash when there is so many units on the planet. Sometime, the planets and the star appears totally black. So I turned the graphics down but there is no changes. Can someone help me please? (sorry if my english is not understandable)
Your English is fine. Try updating your graphics drivers, since you said something about black planets and stars.
Sounds like you do not have enough RAM, if its dying when unit count increases too much Can you post your dxdiag.txt so we can see what kind of hardware and driver versions you are running?
I don't know, he must have VERY low RAM, I run this with 4 gigs and don't have those problems, though the game can crash.. But I believe it has more to do with overheating possibly? Unsure.
overheating should cause entire system failure, not just game crash. 4 gigs is enough RAM, the problems occur when trying to run on a 32 bit OS or an ancient system with less RAM. regardless, need that dxdiag
You need to post more information so we can help you. Post your GPU specs, CPU, RAM, and mainly the Dxdiag.
I think that i have 8 go of RAM but my CPU is running on windows vista and that could a problem isn't it?
If you have Nvidia graphics card then you just need to get most recent drivers, but I can't say for sure without your DxDiag.txt.
All information you need about DxDiag is in my signature. There also extended how-to about that: http://steamcommunity.com/app/233250/discussions/2/648814845450819657/
Your problem caused by 32-bit OS memory limitations. For more information and workaround check this topic: http://steamcommunity.com/app/233250/discussions/2/648816742979172000/
Now, I have the following questions: 1- I'm on windows vista 32bits. Do you advise windows vista 64bits or moving to windows 7 64bits? 2- on top of windows 7 (or vista) 64bits, do you advise 8giga RAM (I'm 4giga)?
GPU manufacturers slowly dropping Vista support from mainline drivers so I usually recommend go for Win7. In your case it's useless because AMD dropped 4XXX GPU drivers support about year ago. I'm not 100% sure about Vista, but for Windows 7 you can use your license key for both 32-bit and 64-bit edition so if you can do same and not pay for new license/upgrade better get 64-bit Vista. It's only depends on amount of money you have. Your PC is about 5 years old and it's might be just don't worth to upgrade it. E.g new mid-class PC will cost $600-800 and will be a lot more faster. And your graphics card won't able to handle large systems/planets anyway.
