[Empire Total War] The Discussion Thread

2009-03-04 18:43:09

#176

krazed: Admiral of the Bathtub; +619|7001|Great Brown North

strange, usually steam saves were you stopped downloading at

2009-03-04 18:43:59

#177

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6928|67.222.138.85

Anyone else having problems alt-tabbing out of this game?

2009-03-04 19:38:24

#178

jsnipy: ...; +3,276|6744|...

how well is this running for those of you who have installed it (mention your hardware please)

2009-03-04 19:53:11

#179

GR34: Member; +215|6766|ALBERTA> CANADA

Crap for me

4200+ X2 2.95 GHz
x1800 512mb
2gb ram 800MHz
XP

but my pooter does suck but I was expecting to run at at least medium oh well By the end of the month I will have my Q9400 4870 1GB and 4 gigs of ram

2009-03-04 20:23:03

#180

Flecco: iPod is broken.; +1,048|6886|NT, like Mick Dundee

Aaaaaaaaaaaaa fuck.

Guess I wont get it then. My PC is worse than GR34.

Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.

2009-03-04 20:41:33

#181

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6928|67.222.138.85

Max settings run ~25-30 fps conservatively in normal time. Ramping up the time makes it drop sub ten, doesn't really make a difference game play wise though. Have not had any large naval battles, pretty sure I have maxed out the battlefield on land though.

Specs in sig.

2009-03-04 20:45:24

#182

Bevo: Nah; +718|6742|Austin, Texas

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Max settings run ~25-30 fps conservatively in normal time. Ramping up the time makes it drop sub ten, doesn't really make a difference game play wise though. Have not had any large naval battles, pretty sure I have maxed out the battlefield on land though.

Specs in sig.

I've got a bit better specs than flaming (Quad core AMD/2x 8800 GTX, 8g RAM), and I'm about to give it a test run here.

...if it ever finishes. It says it's been on 100% for about an hour now. I'm watching the progress from the folder properties rather than the Steam window. GG steam downloader

To top it off, I'm writing a history essay on WWI/WWII while watching this game download. Ew.

2009-03-04 21:17:56

#183

GR34: Member; +215|6766|ALBERTA> CANADA

Flecco wrote:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa fuck.

Guess I wont get it then. My PC is worse than GR34.

I have just been testing it a bit more and I can turn everything to medium with no AA and no shadows and I get 35fps almost constant

at 1680x1050

Last edited by GR34 (2009-03-04 21:19:16)

2009-03-04 21:36:59

#184

Bevo: Nah; +718|6742|Austin, Texas

Everything runs great at 1680x1050, all high on my machine. Might jack it up to ultra.

2009-03-04 21:49:15

#185

Flecco: iPod is broken.; +1,048|6886|NT, like Mick Dundee

Nah my PC is pretty rubbish.

256mb VRAM on a pixel shader 3.0 nVidia.

2GB of shit ram.

Dual Core Intel CPU that isn't that great. Might have to get the demo.

Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.

2009-03-05 00:15:52

#186

Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|7031|Nårvei

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Anyone else having problems alt-tabbing out of this game?

Just have a random window open so you have something to alt-tab into ...

Wait behind the line ..............................................................

2009-03-05 04:24:06

#187

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6692

Windowed mode and alt-tabbing sucks in this game, it just doesn't work, and never has done really.

Game runs Shader 3.0 High, all Ultra/Max settings with 4xAA at fluid framerates. Have a pretty standard 2-year old rig, the usual overclocked q6600/oc'd 4Gb PC2-8500, oc'd 8800GTX x2 SLI, fatal1ty sound-card etc.etc. It's definitely not a Crysis or another GTA 4. Just have to run the game realistically and realize that there's a lot of difference between low-quality smallscale battles and max-quality epic sieges.

Steam sucks nowadays too, what's with that? Steam was telling me the game was currently unavailable even when I bought the fucking disc from retail and only needed to use their junk-ass service to validate my CD-key. I really do think at times whenever it comes to a patch-day/release-day that Steam are biting off way more than they can technologically chew... and have no sign of slowing down on the expansion front .

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2009-03-05 05:12:03

#188

Flecco: iPod is broken.; +1,048|6886|NT, like Mick Dundee

I think Valve's problem is their size and market share.

Seem like a 'small company' style company. Shit, the TF2 and L4D dev teams can't exactly be huge. So I was wondering what kind of logistical and technical support crew they have on Steam, and what size it is. I'm thinking it's too small to cope with the beast Steam has become. Wiki says Valve employs 190 people. That is all of the admin/game dev/marketing etc. etc. How many are there to look after Steam? For comparison, Gearbox software employs '200+'... They are just a straight up games dev. studio.

I mean it can't be easy coordinating a global content delivery system with the myriad of publishers, various content hosts and service providers they work with.

Last edited by Flecco (2009-03-05 05:17:19)

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2009-03-05 05:17:00

#189

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6928|67.222.138.85

Varegg wrote:
Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Anyone else having problems alt-tabbing out of this game?
Just have a random window open so you have something to alt-tab into ...

Also was not working.

Kinda gay, I was looking forward to a singleplayer game that I could multi-task during...

2009-03-05 05:18:40

#190

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6374|what

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Varegg wrote:
Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Anyone else having problems alt-tabbing out of this game?
Just have a random window open so you have something to alt-tab into ...
Also was not working.

Kinda gay, I was looking forward to a singleplayer game that I could multi-task during...

Might sound silly, but have you tried playing it in windowed mode?

I mean, I don't use windowed mode, but it might be a way around your problem.

2009-03-05 05:19:22

#191

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6692

Yeah, I agree Maniac, it's the sort of game that begs for windowed-mode support at least. Just doesn't want to play along, for now... patch perhaps. @ Aussie, windowed mode doesn't work for many reasons, e.g. the camera mouse-panning does not work when the mouse is working within a windowed area.

Did anyone else find that the Québec siege in the Road to Independence campaign played in slow-motion? The rain-effect seemed to make my entire armies movement slow to Matrix-like bullet-time speeds, very frustrating because I spent about an hour reconfiguring graphics settings in an attempt to smoothen this bug out!

Last edited by Uzique (2009-03-05 05:20:15)

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2009-03-05 05:19:41

#192

Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|7031|Nårvei

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Varegg wrote:
Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Anyone else having problems alt-tabbing out of this game?
Just have a random window open so you have something to alt-tab into ...
Also was not working.

Kinda gay, I was looking forward to a singleplayer game that I could multi-task during...

... fapping?

Hm ... alt+tab + some random window works for me ... or was it shift+tab?

Wait behind the line ..............................................................

2009-03-05 05:19:45

#193

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6928|67.222.138.85

AussieReaper wrote:
Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Varegg wrote:

Just have a random window open so you have something to alt-tab into ...
Also was not working.

Kinda gay, I was looking forward to a singleplayer game that I could multi-task during...
Might sound silly, but have you tried playing it in windowed mode?

I mean, I don't use windowed mode, but it might be a way around your problem.

ewwwwwwwwwww

No I haven't tried it, gay workaround but I will try it.

2009-03-05 05:20:38

#194

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6692

Myself wrote:
@ Aussie, windowed mode doesn't work for many reasons, e.g. the camera mouse-panning does not work when the mouse is working within a windowed area.

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2009-03-05 05:21:17

#195

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6842|London, England

I wish I had a good PC for this

Beduin wrote:
Arab quickly takes side... Ottoman empire FTW!

So I could kill all the Ottomans and Mughals

also French but that's a given

2009-03-05 05:29:33

#196

Flecco: iPod is broken.; +1,048|6886|NT, like Mick Dundee

Ctrl+Esc doesn't work in a TW game?

Wtf.............. Or do you guys only ever use alt+tab.....

Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.

2009-03-05 05:44:11

#197

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|6937

Am I the only one who can't buy it here. Fucking A, they won't sell it in Asia. Anyone know the Asian release date?

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2009-03-05 05:59:56

#198

Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|7031|Nårvei

Cybargs wrote:
Am I the only one who can't buy it here. Fucking A, they won't sell it in Asia. Anyone know the Asian release date?

32nd of March

Wait behind the line ..............................................................

2009-03-05 06:03:26

#199

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|6937

Varegg wrote:
Cybargs wrote:
Am I the only one who can't buy it here. Fucking A, they won't sell it in Asia. Anyone know the Asian release date?
32nd of March

You mean 31st? fucking gay

2009-03-05 06:19:48

#200

Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|7031|Nårvei

Cybargs wrote:
Varegg wrote:
Cybargs wrote:
Am I the only one who can't buy it here. Fucking A, they won't sell it in Asia. Anyone know the Asian release date?
32nd of March
You mean 31st? fucking gay

If so I would have written 31st ...

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