TW Community

[General Malaise]

Found my STW discs. Doubt the game would work on W7 64 bit tho'. Pitty.

Shogun1 works fine on my i7-820QM, ATI HD5870, Windows7 64-bit laptop. Not sure what problems all these people who say STW1 won't work on new computers are having. Sure runs better now for me on that then it did on the machine I had when I first got it.

[Tera]

STW1 does not work with nVIDIA GeForce8xxx generation cards, which also includes Geforce9 and Geforce260/280 (they all are the same chip, just higher clocks). Only way it works is on Software Mode. That's the problem :(

[Barkhorn1x]

Shogun1 works fine on my i7-820QM, ATI HD5870, Windows7 64-bit laptop. Not sure what problems all these people who say STW1 won't work on new computers are having. Sure runs better now for me on that then it did on the machine I had when I first got it.

Wont' even start for me.

[General Malaise]

Does a black and/or flickering screen pop-up? If so, you might want to try a program called D3DWindower: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/603613-d3dwindower/ . When I've had problems like that with some games using program that to force the game into a smaller window/resolution and having the program emulate some older directx things worked. Click the plus+ button to find the .exe then the folder to change the settings and click on all of the directx ones and the computer icon to run it. Might help.

[Barkhorn1x]

Does a black and/or flickering screen pop-up? If so, you might want to try a program called D3DWindower: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/603613-d3dwindower/ . When I've had problems like that with some games using program that to force the game into a smaller window/resolution and having the program emulate some older directx things worked. Click the plus+ button to find the .exe then the folder to change the settings and click on all of the directx ones and the computer icon to run it. Might help.

Thanks but the darn thing will not even initialize/run - no matter what compatibility mode I use. Ahh well...I have my memories.

[Rob]

Shame that the online community has shrunk since STW. Some of us might come out of retirement for STW2 though :)

[Catiline]

Old faces!

I'm tempted to fire it up on the clock work PC at home next week. The online play's completely dead now I suppose.

[Togakure]

Old faces!

I'm tempted to fire it up on the clock work PC at home next week. The online play's completely dead now I suppose.

S1TW fakeserver software is still around to my knowledge, and is not very complex to install and set up. The problem we had over and over was that players' router settings interfered with hosting games--most could not figure out how to get around it, and interest died when those few who could host weren't available as often as people wanted to play.

Playing S1TW online is not impossible. Last I heard, 7Bear7 had the last up-and-running S1TW fakeserver. BearBottom was hosting and maintaining it.

[edyzmedieval]

Shame that the online community has shrunk since STW. Some of us might come out of retirement for STW2 though :)

I hope so too. Compared to you guys, me coming in 2005, I'm a newbie.

[Forward Observer]

Shogun1 works fine on my i7-820QM, ATI HD5870, Windows7 64-bit laptop. Not sure what problems all these people who say STW1 won't work on new computers are having. Sure runs better now for me on that then it did on the machine I had when I first got it.

When I got my new rig last year I kept my old WinXP single core AGP based PC just to run older games. Since NVidia stopped making AGP based cards around the G6800, Shogun and Med 1 run just as they should. I'm playing though a Shimazu campaign currently. It's still fun if you can get past the god awful looking ancient sprite units.

Cheers

[mic1402]

i went from total war heaven to twc and since it's down im here. before now i had looked around here and lurked a bit. But wow, i am surprised how much this place has shrunk. it seems what happened at total war heaven happened here but to a lesser extent. over at twh there was alot of excitement about etw but not long after it was released it became a ghost town then ntw came out, no one was interested anymore. twc kept up interest from all the ranters over there. and the mods.

hopefully stw2 can bring people back to the fourms.

[jodmeister]

Hahahahaha....I see my old mate sp00n is still here.

I cannot believe this....SHOGUN2....I cannot wait.

I joined this forum 9yrs ago because of Shogun...the original and still the best.

I have played some of the others, infact just loaded up Rome again today.

So as soon as 2 comes along I'll be back around.

I fondly remember LUNCHBOX and his regular hosting of games.

Magyar, purpleblade, ToasInu and some others.

Good to be back.

JOD.

[Sp00n]

Hahahahaha....I see my old mate sp00n is still here.

I cannot believe this....SHOGUN2....I cannot wait.

I joined this forum 9yrs ago because of Shogun...the original and still the best.

I have played some of the others, infact just loaded up Rome again today.

So as soon as 2 comes along I'll be back around.

I fondly remember LUNCHBOX and his regular hosting of games.

Magyar, purpleblade, ToasInu and some others.

Good to be back.

JOD.

Jod great to see you here :) hope your well, should I now confess after 9 years that Purpleblade was my alt :P I'd almost forgotten that name lol

[jodmeister]

Hehehehehehe...yes it was you...purpleblade to sp00n......we had some great MP battles.

JOD.