It is always the same thing. Buffer overrun detected.\Program galciv A buffer run has been detected which has corrupted the program's internal state. The program cannot safely continue and must be terminated.

If you're having difficulty getting Galactic Civilizations I to run, odds are that some of the install steps aren't being run correctly. We have published updates recently that should handle things automatically (again), but if you still have issues, try the following: Things to try: Turn Off Anti-Virus During Install AV programs can sometimes lock files as they're being written to disk, etc. Try turning off your AV program during the install and first-run procedures. Reinstall DirectX Try...

I spent hundreds, perhaps thousand hours with this game. Completed the domination of galaxy (I mean not a campaign). Couple years back I started AP campaign on one of the hard diff, and did couple of missions. I had plenty of random landing encounters back then. I lost those saves long ago. So today I wanted to play that campaign again. In my very first landing I got "starships boost encounter", but I was trying to remember basics so I restarted the campaign to play it now for real.. I didn't get a singl...

I thought from the graphics and gameplay it was from the 80-90s

Let's get this straight before I start, I have tried everything from running in compatibility mode to running it as an administrator. No matter what I do, the game gets permanently stuck in my background processes and every time I verify my files it tells me one file failed to verify. (Consistently) EDIT : So, after attempting to run register_dart.exe, this comes up. http://i.imgur.com/eJMyreS.png...