Sat here with "Download starting...." taunting me. I have got my new PC set up, desk tidied etc and just want to play the game now but seems I will have to wait some more, blimey what a overly complicated release.
Sat here with "Download starting...." taunting me. I have got my new PC set up, desk tidied etc and just want to play the game now but seems I will have to wait some more, blimey what a overly complicated release.
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"Romanes Eunt Domus"
- Brian of Nazareth
"We always have been, we are, and I hope we always shall be, detested in France."
- Arthur Wellesly
Well, I installed the game, went to run it, and a steam bar flashes up saying 'preparing to load' or something along those lines. Then it disappears, and I get a message saying an error caused ETW to stop working.
EDIT: Gah just had to restart my PC!
Last edited by Rhyfelwyr; 03-04-2009 at 18:12.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
Yargh! After installing, an update was automatically downloaded. Now another one is going to be installed, but it's been on "download starting" for half an hour. Could this be because of busy servers, or is there something wrong?
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Hey guys I have found a fix to my "stuck at 0% update" issue. Turns out steam doesn't like being put on a portable hard drive. I moved it to the regular hard drive and voila its working like a dream.
Last edited by Greyblades; 03-04-2009 at 18:24.
I'm at 1% and the approximate time until I can play is 14 hours. Is it really going to take that long? I just want to play the game that I spent $55 to enjoy. This seems like alot of uneeded waiting and sloppy engineering of the whole process.
Not really sure where to post this... Feel free to direct me...
but I've installed the game, but it wont load the campaigns... it gets to halfway and then jitters around and doesn't move.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, UNITE! - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
... I just cannot understand why my computer keeps trying t0 stop me from playing... every fugging time I try to log in to the steaming pile of smeg that I have to call steam it says :"could not connect to steam network"... just after I had gotten the damn thing to update and restarted my pc this came up and I cannot play the damn game.
Last edited by Greyblades; 03-04-2009 at 19:25.
greyblades, just start steam in offline mode.
If that had worked I wouldnt have posted the problem in the first place... It may surprise you but I do not consider this site as the first place to go if i have a problem.
I bought the boxed version, but Steam says it needs to "update" it. Is this just another way of saying installation, or is Steam trying to pull a fast one on me?
Hi guys,
I just picked up a hardcopy (US version) today, and I'm trying to install it now. But hell if I can find my product activation code -- sounds like some people have one of the back of their manuals, but all I have is an add for Space Siege and some other games. There were no other documents in my jewel case, other than the tech tree map. Am I missing where the code is? If it's right in front of my eyes, please let me know.
Thanks.
"The Levelution is begun,
So I'll go home and get my gun,
And shoot the Duke of Wellington."
-London Street Song, circa 1829
"The people are not apt . . . to volunteer a rebellion for the theatrical eclat of the thing."
-Hazlitt
Seriously, how long did it take you all to d/l the update to play? And what update is it that we are fored to download before playing, is it what actually activates it?
wow, what a let down. I took the day off today planning to rush over to best buy and purchase it, install and play it. I had it all planned out, the kids are gone today, the wife is at work...it was supposed to be perfect. Instead I've wasted my day off and haven't even got to so much as click play. Oh well, I've waited many months for this to come out, I guess I can wait another day.
HINT: Don't pause it, whatever you do! It sends the update back to the beginning!
CURSE YOU STEAM
CURSE YOU
Lmao been there, done that I was at 11% but thanks to my temper I'm now back at 3%.
Hi Guys -- Just an update on my CD key woes. I just returned it to Gamestop, and traded it in for a copy that did, in fact, have a CD-key; in my new copy, it's pasted onto the inside back cover of the jewelcase. My new copy also has a flyer advertising an alienware/empire:total war pc, which my previous copy didn't have.
So, long story short, one of two options: either this is a case of petty Gamestop fraud, where they stripped the CD key for their own pleasure (certainly possible), or not all US versions have all the pieces in the box they're supposed to have. Hope it's the former!
"The Levelution is begun,
So I'll go home and get my gun,
And shoot the Duke of Wellington."
-London Street Song, circa 1829
"The people are not apt . . . to volunteer a rebellion for the theatrical eclat of the thing."
-Hazlitt
I got my copy of Empire: Total War Special Forces Edition today and can't even get it installed. When it asks me to insert disk 2 I do but everything just freezes. If I put the disk in without starting the installation my PC also freezes then. I have the exact same problem with Medieval 2 Kingdoms but these are the only games I have this problem with. My PC is in perfect working order and more than capable of running this game.
UPDATE: Borrowed disk 2 from a friend of mine who also got it today and it does the same thing to. My friend also had the same problem and eventually got it to work but it just isn't happening for me. Not happy.
Last edited by Quickening; 03-04-2009 at 23:51.
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There was a post-release patch released.
It isn't a conspiracy guys....
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
- Proud Horseman of the Presence
gah. I was installing it, I think it was around 10ish percent, then it just said "download starting". Then, I figured it was nothing, I tried to launch ETW and then the "update" restarted
Just some information for those who have installed the box version of the game.
Once it installs steam will download the patch
mine sat on download starting and 0% for a couple of hours
then it magically said 100% and actually did download the patch which only took 10mins
then the game started
in that two hours I had done due dillegence and open ports on my router, checked that my firewall/norton wasnt interferring (actually I turned it off - Viruses bah!! you can trust the internets)
It appears to me that either my timezone was awaiting its turn to be allowed to launch the game and then when they opened the port it all happened pretty quick, alternately it had been downloading in the background all that time but giving me bogus 0% messages. I favour the first suggestion.
Also if you bought special forces, dont use the key on the special forces flyer to activate the game use the key on the back of the game manual.
There was a wait but it was worth it
Ok I seem to have shot myself in the foot by putting the activation code from the manual and not the sf flyer
when/how do I activate the special forces component
do I need to re-activate the game with the SF code?
do I need to start again? reinstall etc this time using the sf code rather than the vanilla one??
Ok, you install the game, then under the My Games tab, click Activate a Steam product or whatever it is. go through that and put the SF code in, it will download like 10kb, and then done.
Steam validated game but it is really catching and running slow. ARRGGHH!
Lower settings?
Steam can't possibly be making your game slow..
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
- Proud Horseman of the Presence
i just installed ETW and everything was going fine untill i clicked on the shortcut, which is when a white screen apered for afue seconds and then an error message came up that sed empire total war has encountered a problem and needs to close.
Reboot your computer and try again.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
- Proud Horseman of the Presence
i restarted the computer but its still not working.
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