Hi ive got a couple of graphical problems with empire and im not sure if its my hardware not being up to scratch or a bug that's the problem so I thought I would ask for some advice.

1st like in the demo I cant set anything higher than medium other than unit size and some of the check boxes are disabled too. Now I know my computer cant run things maxed out but I had the Volumetric Effects (fog) working fine in the demo and I cant use them now. Also the water on land maps dose not show its just a black mass which is another thing that worked in the demo but not now.

So is this a hardware problem that I had or is it something I can fix with out an upgrade?

My system is:
Intel Core 2 6600@ 2.40GHz
2GB Memory
GeForce 8600 GTS, Version 182.06
Win Vista 32 bit


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Thanks in advance