Demo Discussion Thread

[Monk]

I think they're surely much more likely to be gridlocked for the first couple of hours than when you clock off work?

Right now the official Sega site is practically buckling under pressure, I'm guessing from hits since they announced the demo is gonna be out in like... 12 minutes now...

I am actually dizzy with excitement

I have to agree. While Steam is usually pretty good (really good) about having high download speeds, I can only imagine how many people are just sitting, waiting, with their finger on the proverbial button.

10 (+/- 5 min) to go. God help steam if they aren't right on time, just think of all the "OH GOD ITS NOT THERE" posts that will happen.

[Wausser]

the demo is allready in the list, but I can't seem to download it

[ToeAndno]

Because it's not available yet

[Monk]

Because it's not available yet

Yup. The link is up but it doesn't lead to anything, they are still in the process of setting up the actual download page.

Patience all!

[Wausser]

I'm going nuts right now

[ToeAndno]

I'm downloading now....yeaaaaaah

[Rhyfelwyr]

Wait... I need 2GB RAM to play this on Vista???

EDIT: How come mind wont install yet, you click 'Install Demo' right?

[Monk]

Wait... I need 2GB RAM to play this on Vista???

EDIT: How come mind wont install yet, you click 'Install Demo' right?

Try restarting steam.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Try restarting steam.

I only have 1GB RAM though with Vista... should I be worried? My graphics card etc are all good, its just my PC came with 2GB but one of them caused a crash

EDIT: Got up to 900 KB/s there, 5% complete!

[Greyblades]

One minute to go according to my pc.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

I am downloading with 500 KB per second !!

[Wausser]

my computer says it's time, but no not yet




patience .....

[ToeAndno]

It's up now, we're already downloading it

[Monsieur Alphonse]

I have now 4%. It is huge!!

Click on install to download it.

[pyradyn]

I believe steam is lagging :P who would have thunk it

[Tomisama]

Ok, it's a long download, and it's slow to come up once you get it. That is all the same for everybody

But what do you think about the game?

[peacemaker]

finally. got the demo going and wow. Many of you seem disappointed at how easy this demo is, I found it very challenging. I guess I'm not that great of a gamer but it offered me challenges on many levels. The naval battles blew me away, then again I'm really new to gaming. I really will not have much time to play this too much, and I got beaten both times at the demo

[TheArsenal]

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.67GHz
RAM 4GB
Vista 32 bit
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

Graphic settings: Ultra for everything. All additional boxes checked.
Load time land battle: 70 seconds
Load time sea battle: 50 seconds

I'm very pleased. Both the land and sea battles ran smoothly without graphic or audio glitches. And, the sea battle in particular, looks amazing at the very highest settings. My first try at the land battle resulted in having my ass handed to me. As much my inexperience with moving armies of that size as anything the AI did. My second try at it was far more successful, and not through any advance tactics. I simply circled the units that were lined up on left behind the American forces and timed a frontal assault with the remaining troops at the same time. The Americans were trapped and died accordingly, but I lost a good number of men. A Close Victory.

The sea battle also went better the second time when I got a better gasp on moving the ships. I broke their formation and basically circled single ships around the strays firing until they sank. But not without loss to a couple of mine own. Another Close Victory.

Have to say, well, well done. I am seriously looking forward to see the full game in action.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I found the naval battle challenging, due to my lack of knowledge about any kind of naval tactics. Can anyone recommend a good tactic to use?

[Ibrahim]

I have obtained and played the download of the demo of Empire total war. now where do I criticize it?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

now where do I criticize it?

Here.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I'll go and play EB until someone posts their first impressions about E:TW!

My clock says: 2 minutes to go!