Galactic Civilizations II Forum

I'm wondering if any of you are running the Ultimate Edition of this game successfully on the Mac platform. If not, that's fine; if so, I'd like to know how you managed it, because I've not had success, even with the Tips & Tricks article--I'm assuming it's because of differences in the version.

Hi, Jason! Sorry to get back to you late.

I'm running the Ultimate Edition from the CD.
I'm running is on OS X 10.6.4 (though I originally installed on 10.6.5).
I'm currently running on a 9.1 beta, but the results will be the same on Crossover Games 9.0.

I originally used the Tips and Tricks, but with a few differences.

Here's what I did.
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2860;forum=1;msg=68037
See: 2010-02-12 07:45

I'll quote it here for simplicity:

crispy wrote:

I bought the Galactic Civilizations II Ultimate Edition on CD from
Amazon.

Here's what worked for me.

When you put the CD in, you will get a pop-up asking if you want to
do an Express Install, Advanced Install, or Ignore. Ignore.
Neither Express nor Advanced Install from the pop-up worked for me.
(note, this no longer applies in 9.0) Instead, from the Crossover
Games menu, I selected "Install Unsupported Software." I created a
Windows Vista bottle, and I manually selected the installer. I
chose the setup.exe. Apparently the autorun.exe was the problem
because setup.exe worked just fine.

Partway into the installation, I got an error message:
impulse.exe - .NET Framework Initialization Error
c:/windows/microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.5072/mscorwks.dll could not
be loaded.

In case it messed up the install, I ignored it. When the the
install went to 100%, I clicked "ok" and that got rid of the error
message and the game finished installation.

The game crashed when I tried to load it from the regular icon, so I
used the RUN command in the Crossover Games menu, selected the
bottle and then selected GalCiv2.exe from the Program Files folder
and ran that.

I got a whole bunch of error messages but just clicked through them.
The game started up beautifully.

Still some of the minor yellow fonts are garbled at this point. I'd
love to work that out. Also, the game crashed pretty quickly
because I didn't fix the resolution (as mentioned here and in the
tips&tricks section).

If anybody else comes along with the CD version, I hope this will
help you get your game going.

Thanks also to all the people here who helped me get my copy going.

UPDATE***
Font issue: I went to my home PC (running XP) and copied the fonts
from the c:/windows/fonts folder. I then went to my mac. I
right-clicked the icon for Crossover Games, selected "show package
contents" and selected
contents/SharedSupport/CrossOverGames/share/wine/fonts and pasted
the windows fonts. All my garbled fonts in GC2 are no longer
garbled.

Crash issue: Every time I tried to load a saved game, it crashed.
If I messed with the screen resolution settings in the GC2 menu, it
crashed more often, even in a new game. The more I tried to fix it,
the more it crashed.

I reinstalled. This time, from the Crossover Games menu, I selected
"manage bottles", I then selected the bottle for GC2, then "control
panel", then "winecfg" and "launch selected item". From the
"winecfg", I clicked "graphics" and checked the box "Emulate a
virtual desktop". I then followed the tips and tricks and entered
my screen size minus 22 pixels for the menu bar.

I don't know 100% if I solved the crashes (perhaps not), but for the
first time I was able to load a game without crashing the program,
so at least I've made progress.

Also: the exact fonts you need:

crispy wrote:

I followed the tips & tricks and forum suggestions to get it sort of
working 8.1.4, but suffered repeated crashes.

Under 9.0, it is MUCH more stable. I can run the game in different
resolutions now, I can load easily using the load button. A couple
of times, I still got a crash, but only when exiting.

I also tracked down the font that was causing the garbled yellow
fonts on some of the menus:
lucon.ttf

You need to put this font in the 'fonts' folder under 'windows' in
the C drive for the bottle where you put GCII. Fonts will magically
clear up. There might still be a little garbling, but nothing
major.

I really hope this helps. If not, let me know. I'll check back from time to time.

I don't understand what happened. I added the game just like the instructions said, by unzipping a zipped installation file of the Impulse downloaded game. It worked fine! Then I go to sleep, start up the computer, load the game again. I try to change the resolution so the font doesn't look so cramped up together, the game restarts, and now I can't even get CrossOver to acknowledge the game and launch it by double clicking GalCiv2.exe. And when I use the Run Command, it just ends up with a "Fatal Error".

Can anybody help? I've removed the zipped file, and added it, I've also removed CrossOver and re-added it. I'm not very computer savvy but nothing is working at all....

Any help is appreciated!