I have gotten the galactic prison thing several times but without any breakouts. Sometimes I get an event that says that pirates are attacking trade ships, but I never see them.
I have the problem where my computer will randomly exit out of galactic civilizations 2 or the whole computer will crash and I have to manually restart it. The game was working fine for several days and now this happens every 20 minutes or so. The windows error report said that it is caused by a video driver error even though I have the latest catalyst drivers for my card the whole time I had the game. Overheating doesn't seem to be the issue since the system temps are normal during the game and
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