Disabling Intro Video

**seireikhaan** · 03-08-2009, 19:04

Could anyone help me with this? The game lags horribly for a couple minutes while the intro movie is "warming up"(

). Rather annoying, particularly because I don't seem to be having any other real issues.

**A Very Super Market** · 03-08-2009, 19:12

It lags for me as well, but pressing ESC skips it just fine.

**vonsch** · 03-08-2009, 19:12

I'm trying to figure out that too.

And where they heck the save games are stored! I tried a search and came up with nothing. My first thought was they were being saved on Steam... but I have access to them in offline mode so that would contraindicate (and it would be pretty silly too!)

The folder must have a name without "save" in it. Funny, finding the files for the earlier titles was always a no brainer.

**quadalpha** · 03-08-2009, 19:20

The game is loading while the intro is "warming up". Unlike previous titles, which just played and movie and loaded after.

Saves are in your user/my documents folder.

**vonsch** · 03-08-2009, 19:22

Maybe YOURS saves are! All I see are my Oblivion saves. Very odd. I know the saves exist, I can see them in game!

I'm running XP, btw.

**quadalpha** · 03-08-2009, 19:23

Are you using XP or Vista? Mine are in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Empire\save_games

**vonsch** · 03-08-2009, 19:39

I just looked up the old "-nm" switch to turn off movie. Doesn't seem to work in ETW.

And that path to saves definitely doesn't exist on my system.

**IlDuce** · 03-08-2009, 19:43

Try turning on hidden folders in folder properties. I think AppData is hidden so you won't see it normally.

**vonsch** · 03-08-2009, 19:53

I bet that's it: hidden folders. Old system died, this one is new; probably never turned them back visible on this one.

Yep. That was it.

**Gaiseric** · 03-09-2009, 04:46

I've got a lot of lag too. When I fight a battle, I sometimes have to wait a whole minute before I even get to the loading screen. It gets very annoying over the course of a campaign, when I am fighting many battles, or when I need to wait to reload a save and then wait to refight a battle. Lol, I think I might pick up a magazine or another hobby while I wait.

I wonder if there are any settings that I could tune down to reduce lag?

I would like to see animated splash screens for CAs' next release. Then I will at least have somthing to watch.