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Hotfix coming soon! Dear All, I'd like to take this opportunity to outline our update plans more clearly. The next hotfix will be released very soon, this fixes those critical issues described in Sensei's recent post. We're working very hard to get that tested and released as soon as possible. We're currently following a model of releasing a hot-fix, followed by a large gameplay update afterwards. This will then be followed by further hot-fixes and again, a later large gameplay upgrade. The gameplay updates address everything to do with gameplay, naval landings, AI behaviour, unit balancing, the lot. The hot-fixes correct game code issues that cause crashes and instability on some systems. The larger gameplay upgrades are being developed in parallel and will be released in a timely fashion following the fixes. So in summary: i. The next patch is coming shortly, this will fix a number of critical code issues. ii. Following the next patch a massive gameplay update is being prepared which will address: balancing, naval units, AI behaviour and other issues. iii. This cycle of 'fix-upgrade' will then continue. We are genuine about intending to support the community in the long run and we are all still working on Empire, games sold are not games forgotten. I'm aware everyone will inevitably ask 'when' and all I can say is very shortly for the next hot-fix and within a few weeks for the major gameplay upgrade. Kind regards, Kieran [url]http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/sreply/690394/t/Next-update-details-.html[/url] I still have hope to the next patch!

Wait, is the patch out already? Fuck, that means it did not fix my CTD...

Uhm, where are saves located? xp

C:\Documents and Settings\*USER*\Application Data\The Creative Assembly

[QUOTE=RayvenQ;14307871]C:\Documents and Settings\*USER*\Application Data\The Creative Assembly[/QUOTE] great thanks

Is there anyway to increase the amount of units in a regiment? How are you getting 3000 vs 2000 unit battles?

[QUOTE=The Best;14308292]Is there anyway to increase the amount of units in a regiment? How are you getting 3000 vs 2000 unit battles?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=232113[/url] I have mine set to 1.5, 240 men in a Line Infantry unit.

How can you get First Rates in a multiplayer sea battle?

Needs to be a Late battle, possibly needs large or ultra unit sizes, and maybe large funds too.

Patch gave me crashes :|

Any tips for increasing FPS in massive battles?

This is probably a stupid question but how do I name units and armies?

Open the unit card and click on where is says "First Battalion of Infantry" or whatever, and you can usually edit that. And to improve to your FPS, turn some settings down, particularly stuff like anti-aliasing.

My List of my armies as pussia so far General (Forgot the name) I Berlin Cavalry II Berlin Cavalry III Berlin Cavalry IV Berlin Cavalry I Berlin Artillery "Hansel" II Berlin Artillery "Gretel" III Berlin Artillery "Katja" IV Berlin Artillery "Greta" I Berlin Rifles - X Berlin Rifles Same above for my 2nd one except replace the Berlin with Konigsberg, with the Artillery being Kayla, Brega, Lara and Laurena I also have a guard army in Stockholm, which is half the size of my two others. My berliners have done all the conquering so far, with the Konigsburg army guarding my starting areas.

Quick question, what setting are people running it at? I want to see if anyone else is running it as low as me :<

[QUOTE=The Best;14313824]Quick question, what setting are people running it at? I want to see if anyone else is running it as low as me :<[/QUOTE] Everything maxed.

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;14313834]Everything maxed.[/QUOTE] Fff. May I see a picture, and what are your specs? I'm going to upgrade to a quad core + something in the nVidia 200 series (relatively high, 280/290?) What will I expect to see then? I have 4 gigs of RAM, although I have 32-bit OS.

[QUOTE=The Best;14313854]Fff. May I see a picture, and what are your specs? I'm going to upgrade to a quad core + something in the nVidia 200 series (relatively high, 280/290?) What will I expect to see then? I have 4 gigs of RAM, although I have 32-bit OS.[/QUOTE] I'm to lazy to post pics but here are my specs. I think with the specs you posted you should be able max out the game too. Q9550 Sapphire 4870 4 gigs of RAM Vista Ultimate 64-bit

[QUOTE=The Best;14313824]Quick question, what setting are people running it at? I want to see if anyone else is running it as low as me :<[/QUOTE] Max

yeaa, im running on maxed out too. It works perfectly except for 2 vs 2 when im facing 6000+ foes, then it starts to die... or with smoke mod and about half dozen line squads firing... but yea im on Intel Quad Core i7 2.67 GHz ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 4 gigs RAM XP 32-bit

I'm running maxed out on: HD4850 512 2GB RAM Vista Ult. 32 bit. E8500 @ 3.16ghz

Gah I despise this game. I love it, but it's optimized like shit. I own half of Europe, half of the US, and All of india, and it lags like a BITCH on the campaign map. Not to mention it takes like a minute to load everytime I click on a ship in the campaign map. It's not my PC, I can handle crysis on high, I should be able to handle a fucking campaign map :ARGH:

[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;14315237]Gah I despise this game. I love it, but it's optimized like shit. I own half of Europe, half of the US, and All of india, and it lags like a BITCH on the campaign map. Not to mention it takes like a minute to load everytime I click on a ship in the campaign map. It's not my PC, I can handle crysis on high, I should be able to handle a fucking campaign map :ARGH:[/QUOTE] Take the time to fiddle around with the video settings. Turn off SSAO firstly. This helped me plenty; [url]http://blogs.sega.com/totalwar/2009/03/05/empire-total-war-graphics-work-shop/[/url]

Jesus, I just took Paris, then eliminated the French within about 5 turns as the English. This is on very hard campaign map/hard battles AND with Darth Mod which is meant to improve the AI and make it harder. Something's not right [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[QUOTE=occer;14316311]Jesus, I just took Paris, then eliminated the French within about 5 turns as the English. This is on very hard campaign map/hard battles AND with Darth Mod which is meant to improve the AI and make it harder. Something's not right [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/rolleyes.gif[/img][/QUOTE] No even on my plain install, they were only saved by the spanish because they put a bigger army next to paris

[QUOTE=The Best;14313824]Quick question, what setting are people running it at? I want to see if anyone else is running it as low as me :<[/QUOTE] I run it on medium.

Is there any way to shut off weather effects? I'm running the game on medium, and it's going pretty smooth, but when it snows(rain too probably) I get horrible FPS:

I upgraded my pc once again 1 week ago just to run this thing over the top. 2x ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB 8 gigs RAM vista 64-bit E8500 @ 3.16ghz 6 fans Gurant i think there was a setting that you could turn them off. I'm not 100% sure.

[QUOTE=The Best;14311750]How can you get First Rates in a multiplayer sea battle?[/QUOTE] Check the time period of the game, put it into late if it isn't already and you should be able to get first rates although I'm sure certain factions don't have first rate technology.

I've never crashed in this game before. Have finished RTI, played like 3-4 hours at the grand campaign as Sweden & Austria, but now when I was going to play that Martha Steward Confederacy I crashed after 5 rounds...