BloodyBucket Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Might be nice for Hubert if we consolidated all the Tech issues in one thread. If you are having any trouble with the demo you could post your problem and your system specs here. So far no problems on my splindly little 350 Mhz Aptiva with a Prophet Kyro graphics card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Cater Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Great idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daft Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Well, not a biggie really, but I have some problems with the mouse in the meny systems. Sometimes it takes awfully long for the game to "register" my clicks. If I click on an option it can sometimes take as long as 30 seconds before the game registers it and performs the action. Within the game itself everything is fine, the problem only occurs in the meny system, and I've only experienced it with SC. Sys specs: PIII 700, 265mb RAM, GF2 64mb, Win98 SE ~Henric Edwards [ May 21, 2002, 02:46 AM: Message edited by: daft ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maurfal Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 I can't play the demo. When I click the sc.exe it appaers a black screeen (with music) but anything else... Pentium III 450, 256 ram, XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient One Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Originally posted by daft: Well, not a biggie really, but I have some problems with the mouse in the meny systems. Sometimes it takes awfully long for the game to "register" my clicks. If I click on an option it can sometimes take as long as 30 seconds before the game registers it and performs the action. Within the game itself everything is fine, the problem only occurs in the meny system, and I've only experienced it with SC. Sys specs: PIII 700, 265mb RAM, GF2 64mb, Win98 SE ~Henric EdwardsI have the same problem, I think it has something to do with the sound. One time the game crashed, but the music kept playing. When I went back into the game, the clicks then registered fine but the sound option in the options menu was greyed out. :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Kruger Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Okay, first off, the unzipping... this is the install process, right? Nothing furhter needs to be done? Because the game did not show up in my menu system at all, I had to go find sc.exe in my folders and click it. Anyway, when I clicked it I can get to the start screen alright, but when I click "New game" not too much happens lol. Anyway, I did not have time to try it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der_Waggs Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 P4 2.0 processer, Windows XP, Geforce2 mx, creative audigy 5.1, and 512 DDR ram. Ok so I'm a hardware freak . Anyhow when I open the game everything runs fine fast and smooth except the graphics. I'm getting blurry double images and wavey screeen effect :eek: . This has only happened to me once before and that was with Civ3 however thier latest patch cleared the problem :cool: . I hope this can be patched before the game comes out. I'm really drolling to sink my teeth into your fine gem [ May 21, 2002, 09:08 AM: Message edited by: Der_Waggs ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pzgndr Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 I tried looking at the large map display and only got garbage, but the country flags showed up fine. That's on a PII 333 with WinME. I also noticed delays with mouse clicks for actions, not bad at first but seemed to get worse as time went on. No other problems loading and running the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Downloaded at home and work. No problems running it on either system so far. My friend downloaded but he couldn't get it to run in a nonstandard directory. He reinstalled in the default dir and it worked. He also said when he quit that all his desktop icons were messed up because he runs his desktop in a different resolution than the game. Will there be resolution choices in the final version, or are there now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Udell Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 I too had the problem with my desktop icons being moved about; I run in 1152x800(something like that), and it appears the game changes the desktop resolution to 1024x768 before executing; it does change it back to what I had set before, but the icons were shifted in the first mode. It also reset the refresh rate on my system (a GeForce3-based card) from "optimal" to "default" (which seemed to be very low), but I only noticed this on exit. Otherwise, no problems for me at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der_Waggs Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Ok I switched to windows 98\Me comapabilty mode now the graphics are great Seems perhaps the game is not fully XP compatable "praises microsoft fot compatability mode settings :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 The game ran fine, several turns, on my XP rig at home last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Cater Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Originally posted by maurfal: I can't play the demo. When I click the sc.exe it appaers a black screeen (with music) but anything else... Pentium III 450, 256 ram, XPAs a workaround for now please do the following: - change your system setting to 1024x768 - set your refresh rate (Hz) to the highest setting at this resolution - launch the game This seems to have fixed it for others and should help. Hubert P.S. for anyone else that has encountered this problem, please send me a bug report to support@furysoftware.com with your system specs and the original resolution settings and refresh rate before any changes were made. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Cater Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Originally posted by Bill Macon: I tried looking at the large map display and only got garbage, but the country flags showed up fine. That's on a PII 333 with WinME. I also noticed delays with mouse clicks for actions, not bad at first but seemed to get worse as time went on. No other problems loading and running the game.I had the same problem once. When I was developing on win98 it ran fine, then when I switched to win2000 the large map appeared as garbage as well. I loaded the latest driver for my video card and the problem seems to have disapeared. As a workaround for now slowing your grahpics card down will have it appear properly, but it does get really slow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der_Waggs Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 well I always run 1024 X 768 100 refresh rate. anyhow thge game works great in win98/me compatability mode and still seems fast Not sure why the same settings won't work in XP mode and I have the latest drivers. "shrugs" well it running and man is this game great I havn't had this much fun since I bought my first AH game. Any future plans on a pacific based game too :cool: Suggestion: I think it would be nice to be able to stack a air,naval and land unit on the same hex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkmek Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 I'm running XP Pro at 1024 x 768 and I played thru the entire demo. Glad it ended when it did because the RED HORDE was marching in on me. No problems here. Athlon 700 256 RAM I have an old GeForce card, latest NVIDIA drivers. Onboard audio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agua Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Posting here as well as the "Demo DL" thread: I upped my refresh rate to 70Hz (from 60Hz) and it works fine. The resolution is set at 1024 x 768 with 32 bit color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Kruger Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 How the heck do you find and change your refresh rate?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agua Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Well, on Windows XP it is contol panel>display> hit the settings tab, then the advanced button, then the monitor tab, and there is a little pull-down menu in the middle with the refresh rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Kruger Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Originally posted by Agua: Well, on Windows XP it is contol panel>display> hit the settings tab, then the advanced button, then the monitor tab, and there is a little pull-down menu in the middle with the refresh rates.Oh, I am using Win 98 SE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Kruger Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Originally posted by Herr Kruger: Okay, first off, the unzipping... this is the install process, right? Nothing furhter needs to be done? Because the game did not show up in my menu system at all, I had to go find sc.exe in my folders and click it. Anyway, when I clicked it I can get to the start screen alright, but when I click "New game" not too much happens lol. Anyway, I did not have time to try it again.Has anyone encountered my problem? I unzip the files, clickity click on sc.exe the game starts up, and then I try to begin a new game and it hangs up on me... I have to alt-cntrl-del the game away and then my system gets hung up... I am on Win 98 SE, PIII 450 MHz, 192 MB RAM.... 32 MB ATI Rage Fury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agua Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Kruger - It should be pretty close to the same set of steps for 98SE. Go to Control pane, then "display", then click around the tabs until you find the one which sets the resolution and color depth (it will have choices in a drop down menu like "256 colors", "16-bit" color, "32-bit" color. The game has to be run on at least 16-bit color. The resolution needs to be 1064 x 768. Look around and see if there is some sort of button on that screen for "Advanced" or "adapter". That should bring you to another box with (possibly) additional tabs on it. Just screw around in there and see if there is one for "monitor" (maybe not), and there should be something in there that deals with the refresh rate. I know that is vague as hell but somewhere in that array of stuff in "control panel" > "display"> is something that will allow you to set the refresh rate. There maybe some sort of control in there that says something about "optimize refresh rate". Fool around there and set it to something greater than 60 HZ. The problem you're having is the same one I had. Alternative, just delete the whole mess and DL the new demo which has been modified to avoid the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyBucket Posted May 22, 2002 Author Share Posted May 22, 2002 I have noticed the "buttons" in the selection screen seem to take a long time to react, too. I thought it was something to do with my wimpy system but now that I look at it, it does seem to "react" when there is a break in the sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Kruger Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Okay, cool... I'll attack the problem when I gots the time... thanks, friendly board people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesar Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 I have had a similar problem with the screen going black and just music. The problem is I cannot get out of this. Even after a reboot I get the windows 2000 start up screen and then black. Even the cursor does not show. I can start it in Safe mode but how do I reset my resolution and refresh rate from safe mode. I have a Win2k pentium 3 ~500MHz, GeForce3 Ti 200 graphics card. Does anyone know where in the registry the refresh rate and resolution are set? This is rather urgent as my PC is unusable now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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