A few bugs/problems

At the risk of sounding negative, I would like to air a few problems I am experiencing with the game in the hope someone can help me. Please don't look upon this thread as criticism, but rather an attempt to find out what I'm doing wrong.

1 - Is there anywhere in the game that displays the current year? I've been working it out by adding the number of turns/2 to 1080 AD. Is it staring me straight in the face or what? It seems a bit of an strange thing to omit.

2 - I've played nearly 40 turns and no other faction has attacked me yet. Playing as the English and have secured all the available rebel provinces, yet Scotland and France are happy to move their troops along my border without actually crossing it. In MTW1 you were lucky to not get attacked from your allies after a few turns, let alone your enemies.

3 - Graphics : all the graphics seem fine on my mid-range laptop (1.8GB(M) processor, 1GB RAM, 128MB video card), but I am getting strange flashing areas on the battle map. They look like little bits of farmland that flash repeatedly all over the place and are really distracting. I've tried a few different video tweaks to no avail so far. Please can someone tell me that this is a known problem that can be fixed really easily...

4 - Merchants : are they worth the cost? They are expensive and don't seem to provide that much income.

5 - Diplomats : in RTW a diplomat could perform multiple actions in a turn. Has this now been reduced to a single mission per turn?

6 - Rebels : I've had no rebels appear in all my lands after nearly 40 turns of play (medium/medium setting). This also seems to be less than you would have seen in RTW.

7 - Anyone else finding the enemy AI on the battle map to be awful? Maybe I'm spoilt because I played RTW : total realism, which had fairly decent AI tactics.

I'd appreciate any help from the gang out there.

3) Try installing an older/newer driver. Olso, if you have your GPU overclocked, it might be just that.

Thanks x-dANGEr, I'll try and get the latest drivers for the video card.
What is GPU and how would one over/under-clock it? I actually work in IT, but this is out of my field.

Another point I would like to raise is the matter of a patch. Several coleagues of mine have informed me that there is already a patch out, though none of them have downloaded it. I can't see one anywhere. Is this just a vicious rumour?

Cheers,
Parmenion

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What is GPU and how would one over/under-clock it? I actually work in IT, but this is out of my field.

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Graphics Processing Unit ~;)

If you don't know how to overclock it, then there is nothing to worry about in that area I guess.

A patch is supposed to come out very very soon(this week/next week perhaps) so it's not a rumour.

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Originally Posted by Parmenion

I've played nearly 40 turns and no other faction has attacked me yet. Playing as the English and have secured all the available rebel provinces, yet Scotland and France are happy to move their troops along my border without actually crossing it. In MTW1 you were lucky to not get attacked from your allies after a few turns, let alone your enemies.

6 - Rebels : I've had no rebels appear in all my lands after nearly 40 turns of play (medium/medium setting). This also seems to be less than you would have seen in RTW.

7 - Anyone else finding the enemy AI on the battle map to be awful? Maybe I'm spoilt because I played RTW : total realism, which had fairly decent AI tactics.

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I don't have the game yet, but I'd suggest that before you start to denigrate the AI for lack of aggression/lousy tactics, perhaps you should try playing on VH/VH? After all, that is what difficulty settings are for.

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Originally Posted by Parmenion

6 - Rebels : I've had no rebels appear in all my lands after nearly 40 turns of play (medium/medium setting). This also seems to be less than you would have seen in RTW.

7 - Anyone else finding the enemy AI on the battle map to be awful? Maybe I'm spoilt because I played RTW : total realism, which had fairly decent AI tactics.

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I've played a couple of dozen turns on VH/VH as England and like screwtype says, I can recommend that setting. Contrary to what I feared it does not seem to give the AI godly stats or make it psycho and out to get you. Some impressions are here:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=71819

I'm getting rebels popping up with the almost RTW style frequency - my king is using my second army to squash them. And unlike RTW they have decent armies - including armored swordsmen that I cannot get.

I have no complaints about the battle AI. It's probably not stellar, but I tend to fight in a fairly straight forward, historical, non-gamey way and so does the AI. It's fine so far.

"2 - I've played nearly 40 turns and no other faction has attacked me yet. Playing as the English and have secured all the available rebel provinces, yet Scotland and France are happy to move their troops along my border without actually crossing it. In MTW1 you were lucky to not get attacked from your allies after a few turns, let alone your enemies."

Are you playing on easy? I'm playing english and only on medium/medium, within my first 40 turns Scots attacked York, France attacked Rennes and Denmark attacked Bruges.

1. Yes on the faction overview sceen

I used to get the flashing areas on the campaign map problem...and after installing the newest drivers for the GPU (a GEFORCE 7600GS) and reinstalling direct x that problem hasnt re-occured yet...however, I get problems with the battlemap graphics (it seems mostly during day, rather than night battles) its a very similar flashing areas/lines problem...as well as there being areas on units (and buildings) that are completely see-through.
Any ideas? no tweaks to graphics settings seem to change it ( but night battles work?!) what NVIDIA drivers are other people running?

otherwise the system is a Pentium 4 2.5 gHz, 512 Meg ram, 11 Gig free hard disk space for the game. Could a lack of RAM cause this?

Isn't a bit strange that when one of the merchants/diplomats etc get to the end of their move distance they say "I'll continue tomorrow sire." Don't you mean "in two years" fella?

And on a funny note, The last straw was when the Scots said "Back off before I start taking a likeing to your wives and daughters." Edinburgh burned very well. MUWHAHAHA!

Noticed a bug, anyone hit it? Any time a spy/marriage video plays the game crashes. I know my system isnt the best but there are times when it loads them up fine, it's something like every 1 in 5 videos cause a total crash.

Regarding the increasing number of bugs (and the fact that the demo suddenly CTD'd on me yesterday) I'm glad that I ain't got the bucks to buy an external HD+the game at the moment... I hope it will all be patched when I'm not that broke anymore ;)

PS: Sry for spamming

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Originally Posted by Parmenion

Thanks x-dANGEr, I'll try and get the latest drivers for the video card.
What is GPU and how would one over/under-clock it? I actually work in IT, but this is out of my field.

Another point I would like to raise is the matter of a patch. Several coleagues of mine have informed me that there is already a patch out, though none of them have downloaded it. I can't see one anywhere. Is this just a vicious rumour?

Cheers,
Parmenion

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If u want to overclock your GPU, there are a few tools available on the net. The one i've been using for a while is Systool, it's very good and can handle ATI or NVIDIA cards and other peripherics.

Here is a link: http://www.techpowerup.com/systool/

They provide a good documentation as well about overclocking and its issues.