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Przepraszam
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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 17:03 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I just ordered for 35$ shipped...sweet deal tbh..better then $50 in stores plus tax cant wait to get it

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JBeckman
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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 17:12 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Still crashes with that archive? strange. Anyway here's a slightly larger archive containing most files aside from the packed archives and the modified sound pack file due to it's size. http://www.sendspace.com/file/jd5chd Just extract to the game directory and to be certain that it works it might be a good idea to delete those three folders in the /Data folder though I guess everything gets replaced anyway. Last edited by JBeckman on Sat, 7th Mar 2009 20:14; edited 1 time in total

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 17:53 Post subject: *****	Quick Quote Quote

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JBeckman
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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:00 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Damn strange, tested it multiple times myself both with original EXE and Razors cracked EXE and the only issue I had is that sometimes Razors nocd fix doesn't exit properly unless you CTRL-Alt-Del the process (Which unfortunately resets settings.) but aside from that no issues, done both tutorials and I'm about halfway trough the learning campaign "Road to independence". Aside from the files I provided in this second archive there's only a bunch of pack files left and those should work just fine from Razors release of the game if it installed correctly. anim.pack battlepresets.pack battleterrain.pack groupformations.pack local_en.pack main.pack models.pack movies.pack seasurfaces.pack sound_non_wavefile_data.pack sounds.pack sounds_animation_triggers.pack sounds_campaign.pack sounds_music.pack sounds_other.pack sounds_placeholder.pack sounds_sfx.pack (That file that differs from retail version once updated trough Steam.) subtitles.pack supertexture.pack terrain_templates.pack testdata.pack ui.pack ui_movies.pack voices.pack Might I perhaps ask which language you're running the game in as these are meant for the English localization and thus this file - "patch_en.pack" - might be the issue. (The boot.pak and these two patch archives don't exist by default for some reason and this particular file handles the English localization.) Sorry for going a bit off-topic with what probably seems like technical gibberish like this but I'm interested in resolving this problem once and for all.

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csebal

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:01 Post subject:

Praetori wrote:

Ridiculous. Great Britain gets all sorts of special infantry units, plus their infantry is much better than average too. You can tell CA is from England, they're overpowered as shit. Historically accurate, their infantry wasn't anything special compared to other European powers.

sure they were, they wore red... hard to find a color thats impossible to hide in when you are in the nature. Smile

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:09 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

JB why don't you just upload the entire 15GB folder and be done with it? My IMDb Ratings \| Fix NFOHump Cookies \| Hide Users / Threads \| Embedded Content (Videos/GIFs/Twitter/Reddit) \| The Derps Collection Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

JBeckman
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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:21 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I actually feel like it just to be fully certain that the problem isn't caused by my little "patch" but it wouldn't really be a good move unless you happen to have access to a quality fiber connection like 10/10 or better yet 100/100 (Offered to several apartments in most cities actually but it's shared between all residents and while it's cheaper than a ADSL 2+ subscription like the current top end 30/2 one it costs a lot to place those cables so there's practically no chance for smaller towns and such to ever access it, unfortunately.) Sorry for the somewhat useless banter above and together with that it would be close to impossible to distribute such a large archive outside Usenet and Torrent sources. (And few people would be able to download it compared to these HTTP mirrors which might not always give good speeds but work pretty well and are usually reliable although some are pretty ad-infested and have tons of little countdown timers and checks.) Anyway hopefully the language differences are the problem here, might be possible to fix in that case. Going back to the actual game I like it more and more, had some issues with Rome and Medieval 2 but they also weren't bad games though I never played the first MtW and Shogun. Runs great as well though initial loading times could be better and having the settings reset when something crashes (Which is pretty rare but still happened once.) is a bit annoying albeit easily corrected. Patch will be released next week by the way, posted about it previously but worth mentioning, some smaller fixes to for example trade routes and some optimizations are among the noted changes. EDIT: I probably use too many smilies and such but it's kinda hard to "show" expressions without them.

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:28 Post subject: *****	Quick Quote Quote

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Marinou

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:32 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

bahhh... i keep getting crashes after the real-time battles, just before the summary shows. at the first rti chapters it was ok now it's always, in the grand campaign as well.

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Kamikaze666

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:34 Post subject:

Marinou wrote:

bahhh... i keep getting crashes after the real-time battles, just before the summary shows. at the first rti chapters it was ok now it's always, in the grand campaign as well.

same, how can they release this piece of shit Evil or Very Mad

can I see your specs? maybe we have something simular?

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Frolsa84

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:41 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Anyone found a way to edit the number of turns per year yet?

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Marinou

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:48 Post subject:

Kamikaze666 wrote:

Marinou wrote:

bahhh... i keep getting crashes after the real-time battles, just before the summary shows. at the first rti chapters it was ok now it's always, in the grand campaign as well.

same, how can they release this piece of shit Evil or Very Mad

can I see your specs? maybe we have something simular?

Q6600, 8800GTS 320MB, 2GB Ram...

Also using Jbeckmans files (thx a lot btw) which probably means that it's the games fault (also seen similar posts on other forums but don't know if they are using retail/scene version.)

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:55 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Could be the game then if other people with the retail version also get random crashes, stability improvements is one of the changes in next weeks patch as well. Seems likely to be the problem actually since using my archive (Either one actually.) with the updated sound file and Razors EXE file would be the same as the retail and updated edition aside from the actual EXE itself. (As it's been modified to remove the Steam dependency.) Sorry that I couldn't offer much help, will try to be up-to-date with patches once their released and hopefully that solves the problem once and for all.

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 20:02 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

How can they release a game like this ? Optimisation = 0 ! ITs lagging like hell in that fucking global map . [spoiler][quote="SteamDRM"]i've bought mohw :derp: / FPS of the year! [/quote] [quote="SteamDRM"][quote="b0se"]BLACK OPS GOTY[/quote] No.[/quote][/spoiler]

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 20:09 Post subject:

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How can they release a game like this ? Optimisation = 0 ! ITs lagging like hell in that fucking global map .

Eh? What's your setup and what settings are you running it on?

Game has been pretty smooth and bug free for me.

Except for the stupid AI and siege battles.

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Frolsa84

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 20:18 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Siege battles are a joke... I actually managed to kite Indians with my cavalry while my cannons pounded on them (I had like 300 Indians RUNNING - therefore tiring) after my cavalry (on VH)... Also, the AI sometimes just sits there and does absolutely nothing (usually happens when they're behind cover -had two units shoot them in the flank/back). Last edited by Frolsa84 on Fri, 6th Mar 2009 20:19; edited 1 time in total

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Kamikaze666

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 20:19 Post subject:

Marinou wrote:

Kamikaze666 wrote:

Marinou wrote:

bahhh... i keep getting crashes after the real-time battles, just before the summary shows. at the first rti chapters it was ok now it's always, in the grand campaign as well.

same, how can they release this piece of shit Evil or Very Mad

can I see your specs? maybe we have something simular?

Im using the retail version.

my specs:

c2d e4300 @ 2800 mhz, 8800GTS 320MB, 2GB Ram...

seems like we have something in common m8 Laughing

what vidcard driver you using? Im using 178.24.

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 20:33 Post subject:

Kamikaze666 wrote:

Marinou wrote:

Kamikaze666 wrote:

same, how can they release this piece of shit Evil or Very Mad

can I see your specs? maybe we have something simular?

Im using the retail version.

my specs:

c2d e4300 @ 2800 mhz, 8800GTS 320MB, 2GB Ram...

seems like we have something in common m8 Laughing

what vidcard driver you using? Im using 178.24.

I have almost the same system:

c2d e6750 @2660, 8800gts 320mb, 2 GB ram (xp sp3 and 182.06)

Got the game legal and it plays fine on 1280x1024 with everything on high and af on 4.
Vsync, ssoa and aa are off.

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Areius

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 20:53 Post subject: *****	Quick Quote Quote

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darthmalak

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 21:11 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

beckman, 1 question i have to extract the files from test.rar to the directory and reemplace right? And the same with the last file u uploaded? because the game when i click in continue campaing: just freeze up on the LOAD SCREEN Last edited by darthmalak on Fri, 6th Mar 2009 21:24; edited 4 times in total

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 21:11 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Retail JUST WORKS! (not one single crash so far). This is one hell of a game if you are in to history and strategic RTS etc. I give this game a 9.9, no regrets buying this...EVER!

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 21:18 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

indeed that game works - haven't any major problem ( except few crash - but its rare and can happen on 2 years olfd windows isntallation game is really good - hope to see napoleon times expansion 95/100 from me -5 for sometimes stupid AI http://rapidshare.com/users/QJJCS5 - Empire Total War Patches

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 21:32 Post subject: *****	Quick Quote Quote

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 21:53 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

ok so.. the Razor rls is not working? cause i got it and when i start the game it gives that "IT OCURRED AN ERROR" or something like that

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 21:56 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Same old, same old. A bunch of people (wouldn't surprise me if they used VISTA) complaining about game optimization when it's them and their shitty computer setups with 10 crappy processes-hogging cpu/ram/disk-access (eg. Norton Utilities, some slow Firewall, MSN, etc. etc.). I'm having zero issues with lag, white-screen, maps, etc. - game hasn't CTD'd once. And since the sound-fix things are working fine. (Yeah, no MP - but I'm not so dumb to think it would work with a pirate copy anyhow). I also think fisk should be unbanned.

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Marinou

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 21:57 Post subject:

Kamikaze666 wrote:

Marinou wrote:

Kamikaze666 wrote:

same, how can they release this piece of shit Evil or Very Mad

can I see your specs? maybe we have something simular?

Im using the retail version.

my specs:

c2d e4300 @ 2800 mhz, 8800GTS 320MB, 2GB Ram...

seems like we have something in common m8 Laughing

what vidcard driver you using? Im using 178.24.

182.06

I started a small campaign with the united provinces just to take a glimpse of the game and i decided for the lulz to attack the neighbouring spanish region and suddenly half of europe got into war. I really hate the fact that when you attack someone suddenly all of his allies are also against you (if they are really really close allies ok, but in a casual alliance it shouldn't). Hated it as well when in medieval 2 two of your allies went into war with each other and you where forced to break your alliance with one of them.

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Frolsa84

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 21:57 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

It works perfectly here... I must have played for 50 turns with 2 different factions, not a SINGLE crash except RtI campaign (I fixed that thanks to some members here, but that campaign is full of fail). Edit: So far, most alliances feel like casual to me... I had an alliance with Poland (playing as Russia) and their damn protectorate attacks me! I've not made a single hostile move against them, I've not even placed a rake in their region. I only had a mid-seized army in Riga... Last edited by Frolsa84 on Fri, 6th Mar 2009 22:05; edited 2 times in total

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thyttel

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 22:01 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Same here, not a single crash, but I bought it on steam so not using the cracked release. It's either the cracked release or your computer setups thats fucking it up. Using latest 182.08 WHQL from nvidias site And game runs smooth Last edited by thyttel on Fri, 6th Mar 2009 22:02; edited 1 time in total

Marinou

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 22:02 Post subject:

dominae wrote:

Same old, same old. A bunch of people (wouldn't surprise me if they used VISTA) complaining about game optimization when it's them and their shitty computer setups with 10 crappy processes-hogging cpu/ram/disk-access (eg. Norton Utilities, some slow Firewall, MSN, etc. etc.).

I'm having zero issues with lag, white-screen, maps, etc. - game hasn't CTD'd once. And since the sound-fix things are working fine. (Yeah, no MP - but I'm not so dumb to think it would work with a pirate copy anyhow).

I heard vista gives you AIDS...

On a more serious note, if the game crashes because of the VISTA os then it's CA's fault for failing to properly program their game to work on the latest OS that was released two years ago.

p.s since when is msn a recource intensive application?

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thyttel

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Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 22:06 Post subject:

Marinou wrote:

dominae wrote:

You might think its cause your using a cracked release your having problems since Ive yet to meet a single person with retail who has crashes.

Just because you read people on the official forums complaining about crashes doesn't mean they are using retail.
You would be amaized how many dumb people there is going to official forums asking for support using a cracked release.
Then telling people its the the games fault and devs suck not realizing it might be cause its a cracked version

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