Empire: Total War Demo Available Now Exclusively on Steam

DrPepper · Feb 21, 2009

DarkMatter said:
It has just happened that to me. It minimises, but when I click again it enters, but as I said it takes some good time to load, and it's as if the game was freezed, ctrl+alt+del and it's reported as freezed, but don't worry just wait. At least that works for me. Good luck. The game's worth that and more.

Hmm must be a bug. Damn this game will be good I know it will but they should really fix these bugs before releasing it, Same happened with Med 2.

DarkMatter · Feb 21, 2009

Yeah I hope they fix them before release. At least in Europe we have the advantage that by the time it is at retail the first patch is usually applied or some kind of patch zero of sort. The most evident bugs that sometimes go into the release US copies are fixed before it reaches Europe. Sometimes even when they've been released at the same time!! That's something I never really understood HOW.

BTW sea battles are amazing! You have to micromanage the ships a lot, especially for movement, but it rocks!

Damn, I can't buy this game yet. I have many others yet unfinished. I don't want to buy this game yet, because that could mean that I never finish Fallout 3, for example. Because if I start with this game...

kid41212003 · Feb 21, 2009

Weird, I have no problems playing it on my system.

DarkMatter · Feb 21, 2009

kid41212003 said:
Weird, I have no problems playing it on my system.

Lucky bastard.

It's weird, because I think it's loading the main menu what it takes the time. Maybe has something to do with the Vram?

DrPepper · Feb 21, 2009

Dear sweet god I can't believe they released it in this condition. It has random lockups which require the pc to be restarted, Sometimes I get massive amounts of lag even though at 1920 x 1080 all ultra i get 30 - 60 fps usualy and it happens when units are retreating.

CDdude55 · Feb 21, 2009

Amazing demo, i loved the ship battle.

Only problem is when i get up close on the action it lags a bit(on medium). I am only not a fan of the grand campaign in total war games, just the battles.(which the demo had)

kid41212003 · Feb 21, 2009

DrPepper said:
Dear sweet god I can't believe they released it in this condition. It has random lockups which require the pc to be restarted, Sometimes I get massive amounts of lag even though at 1920 x 1080 all ultra i get 30 - 60 fps usualy and it happens when units are retreating.

That's really weird, I already replay the battles more than 10 times, and I didn't have any problems :wtf:

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PVTCaboose1337 · Feb 21, 2009

It lags pretty bad for me at some bits. I fixed it. Once putting everything on high, it worked better than medium. Strange, but win.

DrPepper · Feb 21, 2009

kid41212003 said:
That's really weird, I already replay the battles more than 10 times, and I didn't have any problems .

I tried it without fraps and that gets rid of those problems but now it just stops responding every so often :ohwell:

CDdude55 · Feb 21, 2009

Oh ya, and it take so long for it to go back to the desktop when i quit out.

kid41212003 · Feb 21, 2009

Games on steam always load slow, even exit game.

Guru Janitor · Feb 21, 2009

This is an awesome demo, playing it on Very High 1280x1024 and no lag whatsoever. The game play is amazing, and even just the two battles are tremendous. Definitely gonna buy it!

slyfox2151 · Feb 22, 2009

I run all settings ultra with 4x aa and 16x af @ 1920 / 1200 and have no lag at all, not sure what your problems with the game is.

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AsRock · Feb 22, 2009

No problems here, i might get it it just depends on the multilayer options if i do or not.

ArmoredCavalry · Feb 23, 2009

Seems pretty fun so far. Pretty power hungry though. I have it maxed out and it just barely stays above 30 fps on the naval battles,when zoomed in to ships. Zoomed out it runs pretty well.

The naval warfare so far, I have done twice and each time I just click my ships on one opposing ship at a time, and each time I have won. So not sure if there is some good strategy to be developed. I'm sure there is. I did notice that having one of your ships fire, while behind a friendly ship is not good (should have known this from all the other total wars. :laugh:

).

I'm not sure how I feel about the whole gunpowder battles. Seems pretty cool, but It will take some getting used to.

Overall seems like a pretty fun game, and I'm sure that the campaign map will be great. :rockout:

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Empire: Total War Demo Available Now Exclusively on Steam

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