There's a button in the options menu that allows the game to use more of your system resources. Have you tried fiddling with that to see if it makes any difference ?
I think basic processing power may be more important than RAM in a situation like this.
My guess is that you've never played Pride of Nations. The turn proccessing in a big TEAW scenario is long, but not so bad once you know what to expect. Leaving the room is a good strategy, but mindless idiot that I am I usually just sit there and stare at the screen. With PON that only used to work...
I just ran the Steam version of TEAW 1916 scenario for about four turns without crashing. (The reason I mentioned that it was the Steam version is that the Steam version should have slightly fewer system resources available to it). So the good news is that I seem to be able to run 1916 without crash...
HI, just bought RUS Gold. It's the first AGEOD game I've bought, so a lot of things are kind of new. Oh, and I'd say it's not so much a steep learning curve as a near-vertical one. Rant over. It looks terrific, I love the graphics, the music and everything, and I'm looking forward to many hours of ...
Thanks for posting that. I almost posted it yesterday but wasn't sure where to bring it up. The non-Gold version of RUS is installed in my old computer so I haven't checked to see if that file is damaged as well. But it doesn't really matter since that particular piece of music is anachronistic and ...
On second thought it would probably look better without the article, especially if it occurs several times in a row.
The only alternative I can think of to the excellant "wind blows on the tundra" is perhaps "wind blows on the steppe" or "wind blows across the steppe".
"Wind blows on the tundra" is rather nice and appropriate in all seasons. Putting an explanation for what it really means directly into the game is counter-immersive. Although it's nice to see explanations of game functions, explaining something like that won't make it clearer and but will detract a...
I'm trying to get a better handle on how this game works by trying to re-enact the opening moves of WW I. So far I'm pleased with what I've seen. The French AI seems to be abandoning Plan XVII a little earlier than they actually did, but that doesn't bother me very much (and if it did, all I would h...
While I don't believe that everything that happened from 1812 on was a more or less direct consequence of the failure of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, I do happen to believe that after Leipzig everything Napoleon did was merely an attempt to postpone the inevitable. Leipzig guaranteed the loss of G...
I believe with 'Strategic Command WW1' smaller scale of units some scenarios other than GC are ok to play in that game. Previously bought Breakthrough expansion just to look at Russian civil war scenario , it is fine to play but not have quality nor comprehensive as RUS Gold. The thing about the St...
To get a sense of what kind of scenarios should be included in the next DLC you would do well to look at Fury Software's Strategic Command WW I The Great War and Strategic Command WW I Breakthrough. The key things that you want to throw a spotlight on with more detailed smaller scenarios are the bat...
Is there any progress in patching the Steam version of the game to the same level as the non-Steam version? For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, the non-Steam version of ROP can be patched to 1.11, but the Steam version has been stuck at 1.10 for an astonishingly long t...
I own my copies Pride of Nations through Gamersgate. I would really prefer to have them on Steam because Steam has much more bandwidth than Gamersgate (translation: Steam downloads tend to be fairly quick, Gamersgate downloads are sometimes glacially slow). I have discussed this issue with Customer ...
I haven't looked at this particular game in a while, but I'm pretty sure that the delay is an optional setting. I think you can choose between disabled, no delay, short delay, long delay, and, perhaps, medium.
It's great news that BOR is now available on Steam. Hopefully this means that something will be done about Parthian Wars and Hannibal in the near future. The last two sentences of the previous post are misleading. If you have the Steam version of AJE but not BOR can still play BOR (and Hannibal, and...
Take what I say with a grain of salt since I've never played the game, but I believe the first turn of the scenario is for picking your mobilization plan. Your troops should show up next turn.
I own non-Steam versions of all three AJE games and the add-ons. All three games are currently installed on my computer. Last night I decided to try to set up as much as I could on Steam because it is a very convenient Storage medium, and a good back-up in case something gets lost. Matrix games seem...
I just bought Hannibal and fired it up. Then I remembered why I don't play these games anymore. It was particularly depressing as I've recently played Hegemony Gold and Hegemony Rome. They operate at a much greater level of geographical detail, and I would describe the maps in those games as 99% acc...
Steam users are so dependent from it, that they never blame it (Stockholm syndrom). It is Steam which is not professional: Steam devs don't even know how to download an already released patch and integer it in their beloved DRM... From everything I've seen, God help you if you have serious problems...
In the past some people resisted Steam because patches came very late if at all. Over time this has changed, to the point that Paradox now only uses the Steam version for some of their games, and as a result patching is automatic and painless. The only question that ever presents itself is whether t...
Thanks to all for the illuminating replies. What I'm getting from all of this is that TEAW plays like an Ageod-engine game, whereas World War I Centennial Edition and World War I Gold do not. There were things in the WW I Gold/World War I Centenial Edition that I never cared for. I didn't like not b...
The map appears to be very similar to the one used in World War I Gold and World War I Centennial Edition, to the point of including some of the geographical distortions that came from the original (the one before Gold) weird map orientation. Are there differences of substance in the way the game wo...
One could do worse than spending a little time leafing through Osprey books. It's amazing how many of your preconceptions will come crashing down in the face of a little research.
I'm in the throws of migrating from a somewhat antediluvian Windows XP machine to a more modern computer that runs on Windows 7 Professional. Instead of moving all of my files en masse I'm moving them over one group at a time to avoid having anything on my new computer that I am unfamiliar with. I'v...
I would have thought that since the game hasn't been released yet it would be possible to make an addition to the code so that you can show accurate naval flags under the ships. You would probably need to go with a square flag rather than a roundel, since neither the British nor the German naval fla...
I noticed that this game has gone on sale at Gamersgate for $16. I also noticed that Matrix is listing WW I as discontinued. Does that mean that the game has been sold to a different pulbisher (Plug in Digital) and that support for this game has ended ? Here's the text of the blurb at Gamersgate: qu...