MAGTF Planner
08-02-2008, 10:37
Hi all.
First I have to say I adore EB and apreciate all the effort and time that went into it, and I look forward to EB2, even if it takes years.
I used to play EB (from 0.7 onward) on a decently upgraded computer with XP. It worked fine, aside from some lag from the larger battles and a long load time, which I attributed to my slightly outdated hardware and the monster that is EB. When I finally had enough and upgraded this winter, I bought my new computer (a high-end quad core duo, with equally high-end video and sound cards, and Vista). Because it was new, I took a break form EB to try out Medieval 2. Which itself runs very well, but the vanilla game feels irritatingly dull, and atrociously ahistoric after playing EB. My own modding attempts at balancing it out being less than satisfactory, I shelved it and installed EB 1.1.
As is, EB is beautiful and plays great, if a little slowly (due to the rather intense cumlative build times, hefty unit upkeep costs, and weak starting economies). After tweaking some files so it plays a little faster (build times, and initial economic buildings), I started it back up and attempted to bring up the console to check if the AI took advantage of the changes and found I couldn't, it wouldn't work. I restored the files and still - no romeshell. After uninstallling and reinstalling I realized that it wasn't my install. I checked the FAQs and found a comment on how, with Vista, an infared receiver and some wireless keyboards/mice interfere with the console. So I followed the advice given and attempted to disable any and everything meeting those descriptions in the device manager, and I believe I succeded there. Unfortunately, romeshell still refuses to come up and I don't know why or what to do.
I've been lurking on these forums for years now, and I have been able to find all the info I needed to tailor the game to my liking by looking up what others have done and written in these forums (mostly tweaks to the export desc files - the greatest extent of my tech savvy), but I can't seem to find a workable solution here. Could someone please help me out.
:help:
Gratias vobis ago.
First I have to say I adore EB and apreciate all the effort and time that went into it, and I look forward to EB2, even if it takes years.
I used to play EB (from 0.7 onward) on a decently upgraded computer with XP. It worked fine, aside from some lag from the larger battles and a long load time, which I attributed to my slightly outdated hardware and the monster that is EB. When I finally had enough and upgraded this winter, I bought my new computer (a high-end quad core duo, with equally high-end video and sound cards, and Vista). Because it was new, I took a break form EB to try out Medieval 2. Which itself runs very well, but the vanilla game feels irritatingly dull, and atrociously ahistoric after playing EB. My own modding attempts at balancing it out being less than satisfactory, I shelved it and installed EB 1.1.
As is, EB is beautiful and plays great, if a little slowly (due to the rather intense cumlative build times, hefty unit upkeep costs, and weak starting economies). After tweaking some files so it plays a little faster (build times, and initial economic buildings), I started it back up and attempted to bring up the console to check if the AI took advantage of the changes and found I couldn't, it wouldn't work. I restored the files and still - no romeshell. After uninstallling and reinstalling I realized that it wasn't my install. I checked the FAQs and found a comment on how, with Vista, an infared receiver and some wireless keyboards/mice interfere with the console. So I followed the advice given and attempted to disable any and everything meeting those descriptions in the device manager, and I believe I succeded there. Unfortunately, romeshell still refuses to come up and I don't know why or what to do.
I've been lurking on these forums for years now, and I have been able to find all the info I needed to tailor the game to my liking by looking up what others have done and written in these forums (mostly tweaks to the export desc files - the greatest extent of my tech savvy), but I can't seem to find a workable solution here. Could someone please help me out.
:help:
Gratias vobis ago.