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Galactic Civilizations

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Galactic Civilizations
Galactic Civilizations cover
Developers
Stardock Entertainment
Release dates
Windows March 26, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 83
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres 4X, TBS
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Galactic Civilizations
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Galactic Civilizations is a singleplayer bird's-eye view 4X and TBS game in the Galactic Civilizations series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
CD key
Windows
GamersGate
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Ultimate Edition.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Ultimate Edition.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Ultimate Edition.
Windows
Steam
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Ultimate Edition. The base game executable does not require the Steam client to run, but the expansion one (which is launched by default) does.
Windows
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Version differences

The Ultimate Edition includes the base game and the Altarian Prophecy expansion pack.

Monetization

Type Notes
Expansion pack The expansion pack includes a new campaign, 2 new factions (Drath and Korx), new ships, technologies and maps.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Altarian Prophecy
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\GalCiv\movies\.
  2. Delete or rename Intro.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GalCiv\Data\Prefs.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/214150/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GalCiv\Data\SaveGames\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/214150/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings
General settings

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects and music are separated, but only music has a volume slider.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Official translation by «Logrus». Available here.

Issues fixed

Steam version of game doesn't launch

Manually run installers and set compatibility Mode[1][2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Run GalCiv1_steam_setup.exe.
  3. Choose Yes if a security prompt appears.
  4. Go to <path-to-game>\GalCiv\.
  5. Run register_dart.exe.
  6. Choose Yes if a security prompt appears.
  7. Choose OK or Ignore at any installer prompts.
  8. Go to <path-to-game>\AltarianProphecy\.
  9. Set GalCiv.exe to run in Windows XP (Service Pack 3) compatibility mode.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/214150/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (214150) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References