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**AussieGiant** · 07-01-2009, 21:39

Does anyone know if a hotfix requires a new game to get the changes in?

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 07-01-2009, 22:23

Originally Posted by AussieGiant

Does anyone know if a hotfix requires a new game to get the changes in?

Yes. No. The update was downloaded while playing the game. I noticed that my game was updated and that the fix worked because the stakes were visible during a battle.

**AussieGiant** · 07-02-2009, 10:13

Originally Posted by Monsieur Alphonse

Yes. No. The update was downloaded while playing the game. I noticed that my game was updated and that the fix worked because the stakes were visible during a battle.

So that's a "no", it doesn't require a new game to take affect?

**FactionHeir** · 07-02-2009, 10:21

Doesn't seem to

**al Roumi** · 07-02-2009, 10:27

1st July:

Hi guys,

A hotfix will be released later this evening for Empire: Total War that fixes the following:
Land Battles - Fixed exit crash which could occur when grouping/ungrouping Grand Campaign - Settlement battle - Fixed instances of invisible deployable defenses Thanks,

Mark O'Connell
(aka SenseiTW)

http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/srepl...ly-Update.html

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 07-02-2009, 10:32

Originally Posted by AussieGiant

So that's a "no", it doesn't require a new game to take affect?

Indeed. You don't have to start a new game.

**AussieGiant** · 07-02-2009, 10:49

Excellent!!

**Wausser** · 07-02-2009, 11:15

My problem wasn't solved by the hotfix

**Fisherking** · 07-02-2009, 19:57

Well here is today’s new update. It explains a bit...

2nd July:

Dear all,

Todays update concerns the 'fast forward' problem that several people have reported. Hopefully this information will give you some background as to whats occuring and why.

With the introduction of multi-threading in battles the game logic and the display of the game now updated simultaneously. This has had an effect on the time speed up. Previously on 4x speed the game logic would do 4 logic updates before the display would render a single frame, meaning movement of the camera and animation became jerky.

With multi-threading this logic speed up occurs whilst the display is still rendering, the advantage of this is that the camera moves smoothly, so you can survey the battlefield whilst the game is running faster, the downside is that the logic must sync with the display every update, meaning that your display frame rate effects the amount of speed-up and that running with 4x speed-up with multi-threading on may result in a battle lasting longer than with multi-threading turned off, even though your frame rate may be (significantly) higher.

You're still in fast forward, but it's tied to a different maximum meaning in some cases this may appear or actually be slightly slower.

Hope this sheds some light on the issue.

Kind regards,
Kieran