Demo Discussion Thread

**miniwally** · 02-21-2009, 14:07

how do you find out your internet connection sped for steam?

**Monk** · 02-21-2009, 14:16

This is actually kinda depressing. My AMD turion x2- dual core 2.1 ghz laptop can run empire swimmingly. Load times are around 45 seconds -1 min. And no i'm not joking.

My poor desktop started having confidence issues when it saw how high i had the graphics up on my lappy. Looks like I was right, the ETW demo is not at all optimized to run on a single-core system. If you have one and meet the requirements, but wonder why you're having such long load times this is likely the case.

**miniwally** · 02-21-2009, 14:20

how do you install demo i press install now but nothing happens

**Monk** · 02-21-2009, 14:23

Originally Posted by miniwally

how do you install demo i press install now but nothing happens

Try restarting your steam client, as in completely closing it down and then reopening, not just logging off.

**Polemists** · 02-21-2009, 14:26

This is actually kinda depressing. My AMD turion x2- dual core 2.1 ghz laptop can run empire swimmingly. Load times are around 45 seconds -1 min. And no i'm not joking

This is actually good news as I have a dual core labtop and was worried it may only run on desktops. Huzzah :)

**Captain Trek** · 02-21-2009, 14:29

Frankly, I'm not sure why everyone's having so much trouble with the naval battle... The first time I played it, I throughly trounced the French fleet, forcing three or four of their ships to surrender and sinking the rest, losing none of my own ships (though the admiral's first rate and the second rate took substantial damage)... I guess it may partly have been to do with the fact that I was taking a "

chain shot, just sink the bastards!" approach, using nothing but standard cannon fire...

**Monk** · 02-21-2009, 14:34

I'm actually loving the naval battle. It's crazy amounts of fun and somehow much more satisfying than the Land battle.

This is actually good news as I have a dual core labtop and was worried it may only run on desktops. Huzzah :)

I'm not sure what it was really. At first my lappy was having horrible load times too, and I almost gave up, but once I tinkered a bit and lowered a few things it ran it can now run it even better than my desktop can. Using much higher settings!

Optimization is a problem that can be fixed, which is the good news. Just look at The Witcher, a game who's loads were longer than this demo's were. Those problems are a thing of the past and it's actually a largely better game because of it. Here's hoping the final product has had a bit more optimization, or if not let's hope CA introduces some fixes in the future.

**miniwally** · 02-21-2009, 14:40

how lonjg do you have to wait until you can play it mine said updating for 5 minutes and no progress up a progres bar if there is one

**Polemists** · 02-21-2009, 14:42

Well that's why I think it's good the demo is out now because they still have ten days to try and tweak it, and even if that is far to short of a time (aka the copies already sent out to distributors) they can hopefully get a patch up with some quick fixes shortly :)

Hopefully CA is scouring these threads so they know what to fix when the game goes live :)