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Hi. I think I reached my install limit and need more keys for Theatre of War. I get this error message when reactivating my license for TOW. unable to get or install a license retrieval of license failed with error code= 11 there are no licenses currently available for this license key you have installed all of the licenses for this product to which you are entitled if you need additional licenses, you will need to contact the publisher or vendor store you purchased this product from, or you will need to purchase another copy? Thanks.

I got it working. Started in administrator mode in the start menu and it ran fine. I thought I had tried this before but this time it worked. Nice demo. I take it the random battle generator is not operational in this demo?

I own and play CMSF and it plays fine on my current system but not this demo.

I waited around five minutes and still nothing but a black screen. I didn't touch any keys or move the mouse during this time. I think you may be right though, about the video codec not running properly. However, all my video card drivers are up to date with the most recent driver release for Nvidia. The only thing I wasn't doing that was mentioned here was running the demo in administrator mode. I will try that and let you know.

Yes, but I cant see anything but a black screen when I start the game. I dont see the menu or anything it's just black. Core Duo 2.66 ghz 4 G of RAM Nividia 275 GF 896 MB Windows 7 Does this demo run on Windows 7 32 Bit OK? I read the min specs and it states it does?

I downloaded and installed the demo from the Gamershell site but when I start it all I get is a black screen. I noticed in the readme that you can set the resolution once in the game through options and it also listed about four different resolutions but I have a wide screen monitor and my resolution wasn't listed which is 1650x1080. Any help will be appreciated...

Relating to my above message it seems I can't use the new Centauro version of the balance mod to play against the computer in LAN? Nor can I use the new Italian, German, UK, USA units or any of the balance mod maps. When I start a game against one or more computer players the game ends at the very beginning of the match with a victory condition? This occurs in all three multiplayer modes - King of the Hill, Attack/Defend, Domination. Anyone know why?

I have installed the latest version of the Balance Mod for my Centauro addon but I have a problem. When I start a Lan game me against computer players (1v1, 1v2, etc.) in Domination or King of the Hill modes and select one of the new Balance Mod multiplayer maps that came with the mod the game pre-maturely ends with a victory when I start a match? Is this Mod for just player against player or can I use it to play solo against the computer? Also, can I use the Italian units against the computer or just the default German, British and American units to play on the new Balance Mod multiplayer maps?

Bought it today... love it. I like the maps although i've only seen two they are much more open and flater than the original stock maps. Maybe its historical as in the area. Anyway, I like the italian missions but haven't tried the american campaign yet. Speak my opinion after a few more missions down.

How many missions total for the centauro campaign including the single missions and the american campaign?

So whens the demo coming if at all? Dont look to promising and may pass until TOW 2 Kursk 43'....

And this was the major problem with TOW 1 originally.

K, where do I download the Kursk demo from? Ah, found the link back some...

Hum, doesn't work. I edited the header xml file to version 1.3.0 and it still doesn't appear in the saves list. In fact all the new post-patch saves are missing now as well. Thanks for trying though.

I finished the German campaign and then installed the latest 1.3.0 patch and my save games are not in the menu but still in the profile folder? I checked the 1.3.0 patch readme and it says nothing about old save games not working with this patch version. Can someone here confirm either way?

Do high graphical settings such as full shadows and HR Bloom effect loading time of the missions? Its just that I wait for a long time before the missions load and the original TOW loads extremely fast but its also patched well.......

Does anyone have long loading times when playing the missions? Any suggestions?

I cant get my Theater of War coupon license code to go through for Theater of War 2 pre-oder. The discount does not go through as the total price at check out for the TOW 2 pre-order remains the same. Any sugestions would be helpful?

Yes, I agree with you there Pak40 but the issue then would be major slow downs not total lockups? I have 2 gigs of RAM but my proccessor speed is only a P4 2.6 ghz. I see slow downs in games that has numerous units or effects on the screen at once but never any freezes so that leads me to believe that there is something else causing the lockups and freezes? If people with Dual Core proccessors etc. are having them then clearly it's not the proccessor speed that is at fault here.

Hey Madmatt, Do these settings you just mention help with freezes and lockups in the game? I have a Nvidia 7600 and I'm getting freezes where the game stops responding and I have to Cntrl, Alt out to the desktop to close the game in the task manager. Others are having the exact same problem also.

You guys having any freezes or lockups besides the slow downs in the game? If you are post on the same titled post because we need more people complaining about performance issues with TOW.

Your right except for the proccesor speed. A minimum of 2.6 ghz is stiff considering top rated RTS games such as Supreme Commander, C&C, etc. have lower minimum speeds listed on thier game spec's.. I really don't mean to complain but there is no reason why this should be happening and if I had the problem before in other games then I would say it's my hardware but that's simply not the case here with my machine nor any of the other people having the same problem. I really hope BF can sort this out though, I'm not really mad at them (more at 1c than anything) although I think since they had so much time with it they should have tested out on diverse configurations to see how it ran. Maybe they did but it looks to me they would have caught the problem before they released it out to us pore souls? Isn't that the point of tweaking the game as BF suggested to us?

It's apparant now that there is major performance issues with TOW, got love those rusk'es who designed the engine, they always seem to have unresonable specifications for their games making it hard for the "lack there of" to play their game's because of lack of scaleable performance and pore optimization on today's variety of patforms. Heck, even there own people who played this long before we did admitted to having performance problems. I don't know the answer either. I've tried difference settings, turning off the music and EAX, even running on the lowest detail settings even though when I auto-detect it sets most of the settings to high and still the same freezes and lockups. Even crazier I have almost no slow downs at all. I did notice that in the Dunkirk mission in the German campaign it seems to freeze up at exactly at the same point in the mission before I cap the hill to crush the remaining Allied resitance. Very frustrating and even more now because I'm beginning to like this game and get the hang of it.

Any news on a fix for freezes yet? To Motomouse: Have you had any freezes since your last post? Just wondering..... and how do you set the Nvidia driver settings such as the ones you listed? I have a control panel for my ghx card (7600 GF) that has tempature, AGP, Frames per second settings, ect. but I don't see these options there you mentioned?

Update: I unclicked shadows, music, and EAX but I left use single core option off since it still froze up on me with it on and I only have one core anyway. It still locks up after playing a varied length amount of time. It depends though, it seems to run great for about the first 15-30 minutes or so and then right when your winning and wrapping up a mission it freezes up. I have been saving frequently but this is bad that and I have never had this problem in any game until now. It needs fixed right away BF. Make your notes!