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I believe this only works if you get the nest in your territory AFTER you research the xenomass well tech. It might be a bug.

In Linux, adding more RAM alone rather than using a filesystem in RAM (tmpfs) should help a lot if the problem is that the game is I/O-bound. The disk cache is pretty good, and will keep a lot of those Python scripts in RAM if they keep getting accessed by the game and there isn't something...

I'm thinking of creating a mod kind of like "advanced combat odds" for Civ IV, but as both sides can get damaged, the plan is to make a 2D heatmap-type image to visualize the probability of each damage combination.

Hi, I'm working on a mod, and I'm wondering if there's some way to create an image on-the-fly within the game to display within the UI. Any thoughts?

I'm pretty sure that this wouldn't work. You can force Steam to launch your game without patching if and only if you set it to offline mode before the patch came out and stay in offline mode. In step 2, Steam now "knows" about the new version. When you re-install at step 5, Steam will see...

I tried redownloading it, and it's the same exact driver package that I already have. Perhaps it took them a while to release it (testing, etc.) after they had their final version. Oh well, I'm hopeful to be able to play Civ V again at some point. At least Civ IV still works ;)

No, seriously, if I go to the AMD site, and put in the card I have, it says that the latest version is 12.6, and I have version 12.6.

The card is old enough that the drivers are on maintenance-release schedule.

Unfortunately, they're already up-to-date.

I get some weird graphical corruption in DX9 which seems to occur when I try to make a ranged attack. The rendered arrow pointing at the unit to attack starts to smear, and then it seems like the lighting for everything gets messed up, and the text scrambles randomly. I see lots of red and...

It seems like the hardest part is getting your PA partner to go culture. I got a 1932 AD win by dragging Mansa Musa into the victory kicking and screaming. He did manage to build some culture multipliers in his two best cities, but I had to settle tons of GAs in his two cities; he never...

Just keep in mind, if switching from Free Market to Environmentalism, that you're going from -25% corp. maintenance to +25%. Your corporation maintenance costs are going to rise by (125%-75%)/75% = 67%. Corporations with Environmentalism can work, but mass corporation spread can get VERY...

This is a simple real-world clock for Civilization 5. So you sat down at your computer after dinner to play just a few turns of Civilization to relax. After a little while, you get up to get a drink, notice the clock in the next room, and realize it's 3 AM. This mod hopefully will help...

You do need some information from the Steam servers beyond the current date and time. The files need to be decrypted. If you look at your Civ V folder, you'll see all the files there now, but you can't read any of the data because everything's encrypted.

The things that look like civ borders seem to be interesting. Note how the northernmost hex that is in red/gold's border is 3 hexes away from the city, whereas a tile 2 hexes away from the same city isn't inside, and doesn't cross water. Maybe you'll be able to choose how your borders expand...