Patch today

[vitch]

Well, I for one, am very happy to report much improved reliability post patch.

I was getting 'freeze to reboot' crashes hourly but have just gone four hours without a stutter.

And I am also encouraged that the multitude of pirate copies will not have the patch and will still be suffering!

[Beskar]

New Patch - New Bug

When you move a ship out of the trade spot fleet, the entire fleet becomes "void" and invalid.

[Tsavong]

no ive seen that trade spot bug befor i had to sell a bunsh of trade ships as they were stuck there not doing anything.

[Subotan]

Personally I want a patch for Royal Mail so they finally deliver my game...

Just ring up Mandy and ask him to stop the privatisation process (OH SNAP)

All the people complaining that everything hasn't been fixed in a week is slightly annoying though. It's hardly like you could do it better.

[Beskar]

no ive seen that trade spot bug befor i had to sell a bunsh of trade ships as they were stuck there not doing anything.

That's a different bug. In this one, you have no control of those ships, they just basically exist as numbers on navy outgoings. You can't even sell/move/whatever the ships.

[Tsavong]

ah befor if i took 1 ship from a fleet in the trade spot i could not move the fleet left or put them back on the trade spot but i could sell them just nothing elce

[Beskar]

All the people complaining that everything hasn't been fixed in a week is slightly annoying though. It's hardly like you could do it better.

I wish in got a week to fix any mistakes I made in my line of work and I doubt they can do better than me in that.

Argument is rather defunct.

[Sir Beane]

That's a different bug. In this one, you have no control of those ships, they just basically exist as numbers on navy outgoings. You can't even sell/move/whatever the ships.

Frankly that is pretty impressive. They took an annoying bug and managed to make it even worse. Hats off CA .

[Beskar]

Reminds me when I played Spore when that came out. That had a serious bug in it which made it crash, it was totally random and there was no auto_save feature. It really did hurt.

Yeah, just look at that British fleet, going "LOL@U" and stealing my trade spot. Damn, gits.

[Susanna]

A warning for everyone having a (localised) german version of the game. Todays patch breaks the game so that any land or sea battle results in a crash to desktop after loading.

Happend to me and judging from various german speaking ETW forums it occurs to all/almost all german language players.

No idea if other language versions are affected as well.

Susanna/Calapine

[Sir Beane]

A warning for everyone having a (localised) german version of the game. Todays patch breaks the game so that any land or sea battle results in a crash to desktop after loading.

Happend to me and judging from various german speaking ETW forums it occurs to all/almost all german language players.

No idea if other language versions are affected as well.

Susanna/Calapine

That really must suck for Germans. But I guess it disproves the theory that Germany gets all the best Total War stuff (you have to have been around on these forums for a while to get this). That will teach them to steal all the previews!

Still though, CA need to fix this quickly.

[ArtillerySmoke]

Frankly that is pretty impressive. They took an annoying bug and managed to make it even worse. Hats off CA .

Yeah this needs a hotfix.

[ArtillerySmoke]

I think I downloaded the update ...

In my list of Steam games (Empire's my only one), after I restarted the Steam client, it showed a status bar going up to 100%. I also have the update news for March 10th if I look in my properties tab (Empire properties).

Sound like I'm good to go?

[Sir Beane]

I think I downloaded the update ...

In my list of Steam games (Empire's my only one), after I restarted the Steam client, it showed a status bar going up to 100%. I also have the update news for March 10th if I look in my properties tab (Empire properties).

Sound like I'm good to go?

Probably. I don't think Steam would let you start the game otherwise .

[ArtillerySmoke]

Probably. I don't think Steam would let you start the game otherwise .

YOU again? How much is the org paying you per month?

Yeah I think I got it...I love the patch process (so easy) except for the fact that I'm so used to having to go to a mirror site, etc. that it seems TOO easy. That's why I'm wondering "Is that it?". It took like 5 seconds when I restarted Steam.

For the record - A Steam client update was just released this hour. So anyone who starts Steam - expect to have to restart it after it installs the update. (This is separate from the ETW update today).

[Negative]

I was in the middle of the RtI campaign and now it crashes (white screen) every time I try to take my next turn. The update broke my game! :( I guess I'll try starting a new campaign and see what happens.

[Shadow_Wolf33]

Yeah I've now started experiencing more crashes than before since getting the patch. My game has crashed repeatedly (on command) just by clicking on a navy parked outside of Gibraltar

[Callahan9119]

Yeah, and dont use SLI, still a memory leak...

[Lestat1748]

@Susanna:

I´ve had the german-version-patch-bug and Haudegen from this forum experienced it, too. A possible workaround in these days (until the problem is hotfixed) is to uninstall the game and install the english version. This is working for Haudegen so far. Today evening I will test this myself.

Don´t know but I think CA has not even tried to test the other language patch versions.

Hope that helps in some way.

[Lord of the Isles]

Some Steam/Patch questions:

Any way to find out what your current version number of the game is?
One poster has said Steam doesn't use version numbers. If true, ... no, surely it can't be true. How on earth are we supposed to know if a patch has been applied or not? How can we sensibly discuss what (possibly different) versions we all have without language to do that? How can modders control what version their mods are being applied to? How can we downgrade (or decide not to upgrade) if it turns out that a patch makes things worse? Speaking of that last one:

Has the patch (of 10 or 11 March) made things worse?

Is it save game compatible?
Sorry to repeat a question others have asked

Can I roll back (downgrade) to an earlier version on Steam?
I'm beginning to think that the Steam philosophy is to allow no control to users at all, so I'm guessing the answer will be no. But if so, that really stinks.

My first plan to get round this if the answer is no was to make a complete copy of the Steam folder in C:\Program Files, then connect to get the patch and try it out. If it is worse, go offline (and stay offline) and swap the new & original Steam folders. But I wouldn't bet against Steam using some other mechanisms to control what I have or what it thinks I have, and it wouldn't surprise me if this plan just led to a messed up installation.


<rant mode on>
Why, after large parts of the history of Microsoft has provided proof that it has the opposite effect to the one intended, do software companies deliberately take away information and functionality from users, on the basis that they know better than we do what we want.
<rant mode off>

[Ginger Yellow]

I now have the same bug as TiberiusBeskar. Never had any trade problems before as the British.

[pevergreen]

They have stated because that its steam, they will keep everything save game compatible. So unless they go all out with major changes, save games will work.

As for version numbers. Steam does make them obsolete. You argue on behalf of modders...well, too bad? It will work fine.

[Husar]

Luckily I didn't buy the german version and ordered from the UK, also luckily that means I will apparently only get my game once it's fully patched because it still isn't here. Oh wait, i mentioned that before didn't I? Obviously it's driving me nuts!

[Grombeard]

german version... can't play battles... hate CA...

[Haudegen]

german version... can't play battles... hate CA...

I feel your pain

But cool down. Uninstall ETW and install again. But select English language then.

[Grombeard]

I feel your pain

But cool down. Uninstall ETW and install again. But select English language then.

I'm gonna wait if they fix it today, since reinstalling takes over an hour for me and soon after my wife and my kid will come back home and i will not be able to play until the evening or sometime tommorow anyhow. But if CA doesn't have a quick fix and if future patches will have the same kind of problems i will switch to english then...

It's still annoying because yesterday i finished the RTI campaign and wanted to go back to my prussians today, who just set foot in india last time i played them...

[hoom]

The Cover system is different now.
Units in Cover only crouch 2 deep at the wall, either spread out full unit wide or with any spares standing some distance back.

I'd say that shows they are doing a bunch of fine tuning as well as the other bigger things.

Alt + Tab works now :)
I still can't convince paint to display anything but white after a print screen -> paste into paint :-/

[Argent Usher]

I still can't convince paint to display anything but white after a print screen -> paste into paint :-/

Strange because it's working for me.

[Hengist]

Hi!

German Player here and same ctd-Problem after patch.

@Haudegen and Lestat1748:

Thanks for the info about reainstalling in english!

[Maleficus]

Alt + Tab works now :)

What does Alt + Tab do?