Collectors Edition GUI Theme

Published on February 24, 2006 By Ryan Vincent In Galactic Civilizations II

Hi, Thanks to a recent email from Stardock I was able to unlock the collectors edition content..

Downloaded the Desktop theme and would like to say that I am very pleased with it, It looks very nice after the same (censored) happy blue desktop we have all come to know and hate the past 4 or so years XP has been out.

It blends seamlessly with my copy of firefox (Which is great) and has even prompted me to do a massive desktop cleanup!

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My only negative comment is that on the wallpaper of the Drengin Shock Troopers, Its rather hard to read the text underneath the icons..

Otherwise, Great job!

Comments

Geckomind

on Feb 25, 2006

Does yours also look funny when you play the game in windoes mode? I mean the border around the game window?

Heavens Door

on Feb 25, 2006

Hi, i Downloaded and installed the desktop theme too, but when i play Galciv 2 in windows mode the game is blurry (text is very difficult to read, and as Geckomind says the border around the window is black witn no visible borders, i reinstalled windows theme and all is back to normal

. (i run windows XP, and i did no change, only installed special Galciv 2 theme)

Monkey Pants

on Feb 25, 2006

I get that too, I thought it was a problem on my laptop. The GalCiv2 theme works great with everything other than GalCiv2 itself!

The window frame gets allocaed but not drawn, showing what was there before.

Geckomind

on Feb 26, 2006

Hmmm.... Can we get a word from Stardock on this? It's such a nice theme... Would be a shame.....

Nakor

on Feb 26, 2006

The game is using Direct3D. WindowBlinds ignores it by default.

Create a wbdbg.ini file in the ThemeManager or WindowBlinds directory with the content below, that should sort it.

[galciv2.exe]
ActiveFix=1
DirectXisOk=1

Geckomind

on Feb 26, 2006

Nope. Tried it. Doesn't work...

Tilarium

on Feb 26, 2006

I've had the basic windows look with a differant wallpaper for the last two years LOL. Never liked any of the themes and stuff I've picked up but put on the gal civ 2 theme and have kept it up so far. It's great, I love the looks of it, great job guys! Can you get us some screensavers, that would be cool..... or if we could save our ship battles and merg them togather and make a screensaver....

Kyle

Geckomind

on Feb 26, 2006

Any other ideas for a solution? I currently only have the Theme Manager installed. I'm running Windows XP (latest updates) and GalCiv II 1.0D.008.

Geckomind

on Feb 28, 2006

Any more input on this problem?

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