Patch today

[Shadow_Wolf33]

CA Staff and Admin

Hi guys,

We will be rolling out the first of a series of updates later today with a variety of fixes for Empire: Total War, including:

* Fixed Alt-Tab issue which prevents players from switching away from a full screen window
* Fixed text rendering for certain resolutions
* Fixed localized font overrun issues.
* Fixed a variety of crash and memory leak issues
* Fixed a variety of multiplayer client lock
* Fixed trade nodes for those nations with resource in home region which caused unprofitable trade theatre routes eg: Sweden and Marathas.

There is a constant support program in process which is using your feedback as well as our own testing. We are currently working on the next update which will be available early next week.

Thanks,

Mark O'Connell

Looks like Steam is going to have its upside, better patch support.

[Beskar]

That's good.

[Fisherking]

A patch a week! Wow…

[RZST]

Looks like Steam is going to have its upside, better patch support.

its not really steam.....m2 on steam didnt have a patch for weeks after the patch officially came out......

[Gaiseric]

I am impressed with the patch speed. Good Work!!!

[TB666]

its not really steam.....m2 on steam didnt have a patch for weeks after the patch officially came out......

M2 wasn't a steam game however, ETW is.

[Sir Beane]

Wow, a patch a week. Go CA! (Of course they could have tried to makre sure we didn't have problems in the first place ).

[Beskar]

One of the biggest issues developers have, is that so many machines have so many different specifications which produce so many problems.

If PC's were all carbon copies of each other, like game consoles or Mac's, they would have a far easier time.

[RZST]

One of the biggest issues developers have, is that so many machines have so many different specifications which produce so many problems.

If PC's were all carbon copies of each other, like game consoles or Mac's, they would have a far easier time.

\...........no.

[AussieGiant]

Well this is exellent news.

And great to see the Steam functionality providing an excellent add on.

[JAG]

Doesn't fix, real gameplay issues which are ruining the game and should have been sorted before release.

[Sir Beane]

Doesn't fix, real gameplay issues which are ruining the game and should have been sorted before release.

I'm sure they will be fixed eventually. But bigger issues generally take more time to fix.

[markaoliver]

One of the biggest issues developers have, is that so many machines have so many different specifications which produce so many problems.

If PC's were all carbon copies of each other, like game consoles or Mac's, they would have a far easier time.

Differences in graphics cards do not stop troops from getting on a boat. Hopefully they are going to stop the save game corruption though with this patch.

For all you Steam haters though, this is a great benefit of Steam ... regular patching.

[Beskar]

Differences in graphics cards do not stop troops from getting on a boat.

I never had that problem, however, it does stop conflicts, crashes, memory leaks and other things.

Only problem I have had is broken land bridge between mainland Europe and Denmark if you don't own the territory.

[Shadow_Wolf33]

Differences in graphics cards do not stop troops from getting on a boat. Hopefully they are going to stop the save game corruption though with this patch.

For all you Steam haters though, this is a great benefit of Steam ... regular patching.

Have you been trying to load the troops at a port?

Can't just load up anywhere anymore, need a proper dock etc.

and as far as the land bridge not working, would the other side be so friendly about receiving an invading army? I know I sure wouldn't be!

[Wausser]

Would

* Fixed a variety of crash and memory leak issues

this fix my problem on having an error with video memory while loading battles?

[Beskar]

Have you been trying to load the troops at a port?

Can't just load up anywhere anymore, need a proper dock etc.

and as far as the land bridge not working, would the other side be so friendly about receiving an invading army? I know I sure wouldn't be!

You can load them up basically anywhere, and drop them off basically anywhere too. To load, you have to put the ship right at the shore and when your troops are next to it, order them on.

Land bridge is an in game mechanic to cross an area of Ocean without need of a boat. It works on the Swedish side, but the other side is bugged.

[Beskar]

Would



this fix my problem on having an error with video memory while loading battles?

It should do, yes.

[Wausser]

Great, I keep getting that error in the bigger, more epic battles, curently in the battle of London(UP vs UK)

[AussieGiant]

I'd say we will see a good level of performance increase as CA get to grips with issues that arise from mass usage.

At least I hope so.

[Beskar]

I am hoping it fixes my Poland-Lith game. One of the other factions keeps doing something that crashes the game, and it's very annoying due to me being so close to getting every province under my control achievement.

[TB666]

Would



this fix my problem on having an error with video memory while loading battles?

Do you have Vista ??

[Monk]

Wow, not only do we get a patch this week, but next week too? Great stuff.

[RZST]

You can load them up basically anywhere, and drop them off basically anywhere too. To load, you have to put the ship right at the shore and when your troops are next to it, order them on.

the problem with that is once your land army moves to land it removes all move points.

whereas if you use the "disembark" option from the enemy port your land army retains its move points when you loaded them in your own port.....capish?

[gollum]

Indeed, this is really good and appreciated. Its also politically good since the community can see when , how and how much the developers work on problems and bugs.

Good one.

[Wausser]

Do you have Vista ??

Yes Ultimate 32 Bit

[Beskar]

the problem with that is once your land army moves to land it removes all move points.

whereas if you use the "disembark" option from the enemy port your land army retains its move points when you loaded them in your own port.....capish?

That I have noticed. However, the poster was saying he couldn't load troops on a boot, not have no movement points when his army has disembarked.

[TB666]

Yes Ultimate 32 Bit

Then you can already fix that.
Get the program CFF Explorer and run it.
Open Empire.exe, click on "file header", Click where it says "click here"(hehe) and check the "app can handle >2gb address space" and then save.
I did this and haven't had this problem since.
Infact haven't had a CTD since I did this.
It pretty much allows ETW to use more then 2gb which Vista puts on games.

[Monk]

Then you can already fix that.
Get the program CFF Explorer and run it.
Open Empire.exe, click on "file header", Click where it says "click here"(hehe) and check the "app can handle >2gb address space" and then save.
I did this and haven't had this problem since.
Infact haven't had a CTD since I did this.
It pretty much allows ETW to use more then 2gb which Vista puts on games.

You are the man!

[TB666]

You are the man!

Can't promise it will work for everyone but it worked great for me.