Ok,I finally figured out how to download EB 1.0...

**Spartan198** · 03-20-2008, 11:32

...and nothing happened upon startup. I just sat there,staring at the EB title screen,for over an hour.

I didn't get any kind of failed installation warning,or anything else telling me if I did anything wrong.

**Maximus Aurelius** · 03-20-2008, 12:19

The startup is supposed to take longer than vanilla. It should start after a few minutes.

Did you really wait for an hour? Because if you really did, something must be wrong with the installation or you have a very old computer.

**Hax** · 03-20-2008, 21:50

Yeah, the average waiting time is about 6 minutes.

**Spartan198** · 03-20-2008, 23:09

Thanks for the response,guys.

My computer's an Inspiron 1501,so it's fairly new as far as I know.

I'll uninstall and reinstall it,then come back and let you know what happens.

**Spartan198** · 03-21-2008, 07:15

Well,I did as I said in the above post,and the game did actually begin this time,though it took about 15 or 20 minutes to do so.

I played a couple of custom battles without incident.
I went on and started a Koinon Hellenon campaign,but only played a few turns because movement on the map is choppy and changing turns takes about 2 - 2.5 minutes each.
Then went back to custom battle and played a battle against Baktria without incident.
Started a second one after that against the Sweboz,I think,and went to get a soda while it loaded. When I got back a minute later,it had CTDed.

At least I seem to have installed it right.

**overweightninja** · 03-21-2008, 12:56

A quick google reveals the specs for the 1501 to be:

# AMD Sempron 3500+ (1.8GHz/512Kb)
# 512MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz (1 DIMM)
# ATI Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory (Integrated graphics)

If this is correct, 512mb is not a lot on its own today anyway, but do you have any idea if your graphics chip has its own memory? If not, it could mean up to 256mb of your system ram is then being taken by the graphics chip.
Running EB with 256mb of ram = painful

Cheers