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    Lover of Toight Vahjoinas Member Bootsiuv's Avatar
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    EB is easily one of the most stable mods I've ever played....I've only had one ctd on 1.0. and that was immediately following the Pahlav intro video ().

    You should realize that EB does require a certain level of computer to play....an hour is a long time. Mine installed in about 10-15 mins IIRC.

    Try getting more ram, but I guarantee you that thousands play this mod everyday, and it is quite stable. Therefore, you should check on your end for the problem, perhaps that will lead you in the right direction.

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    Have you guys ever compiled a minimum system requirements? I'm just curious, because I was wondering what the min sys req's were.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bootsiuv
    EB is easily one of the most stable mods I've ever played....I've only had one ctd on 1.0. and that was immediately following the Pahlav intro video ().

    You should realize that EB does require a certain level of computer to play....an hour is a long time. Mine installed in about 10-15 mins IIRC.

    Try getting more ram, but I guarantee you that thousands play this mod everyday, and it is quite stable. Therefore, you should check on your end for the problem, perhaps that will lead you in the right direction.

    @Bovi

    Have you guys ever compiled a minimum system requirements? I'm just curious, because I was wondering what the min sys req's were.

    CPU T2400 1.83GHZ
    1GB of Ram
    256mb Video Card Geforce Go7900

    The part that ticks me off is when file is being extracted from the archive just prior to installation.
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    And therefore you made a fresh, clean 1.5 RTW and used 7-zip instead to install, since that is faster. Or? I can't help you as long as you don't say what you've done. Not that you appear to want help though, just thought I'd try a last time to come through to you.

    Bootsiuv, no, we haven't compiled minimum system requirements. Many who have less than 1GB ram have problems, but then comes along this other guy who says he's running it just fine on 256MB. Anyway, the minimum requirements are subjective. Do you find it acceptable to wait 5 seconds between turns? 30? 2 minutes? 30? An hour? Do you have to be able to give orders and see them executed immediately, or is it okay to press Ctrl-T and wait for 4 seconds to see if the game got the order to slow down again (I did this, a long time ago)?
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    Sounds like the checking integrity thing?

    Could be a corrupt download. Bovi would know much more about this than me though.

    Have you tried redownloading the mod, perhaps from a different mirror?

    There are also repair files someone made available IIRC.

    Sorry I don't have better answers.

    BTW, your comp can definitely play EB, with some frills like clouds and campaign shadows turned on, no less!!
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    To those who say EB is a "stable" mod, I can gladly point other mods that are 100% lighter and far more stable. EB is much more like an over-bloated and delicate Leviathan that makes many computers lag terribly and crash due to the excessive use of system resources. Yep, it's great, but definetely not the best in stability terms so far.

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    We prefer the term "comfortably fed".

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    How can you say EB isn't stable, I have NEVER once had a CTD, EVER.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Basileos ton Ellenon
    To those who say EB is a "stable" mod, I can gladly point other mods that are 100% lighter and far more stable. EB is much more like an over-bloated and delicate Leviathan that makes many computers lag terribly and crash due to the excessive use of system resources. Yep, it's great, but definetely not the best in stability terms so far.
    This is an interesting statement. Have you encountered this personally? If so, what system specifications/operating system?

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    I'm throwing it in the air...



    I had several CTDs, on vanilla, BI and EB, bitched, and my bro-in-law chided me for buying an ati card. He told me to update my driver. I did, It stable now. End of story.
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    My personal experience is that NVidia drivers are way, way more unstable than ATI's. I had to run on drivers from a year and a half back for any sort of compatibility on my crappy old card (which was definitely not an old card at the time). Upgraded to ATI, took the latest driver => instant stability.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blacksnail
    This is an interesting statement. Have you encountered this personally? If so, what system specifications/operating system?
    EB is relatively stable if you can feed the enourmous creature it really is with lots of system resources: memory, processor speed, video card, etc... I've got a lot of lagging and CTD's because it reached a point where my computer just couldn't get enough resources from anywhere. Apart from that, relatively few systems here have enough resources to run EB without lag, especially the last 1.0 version.

    BTW, I have 1GB of RAM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Basileos ton Ellenon
    EB is relatively stable if you can feed the enourmous creature it really is with lots of system resources: memory, processor speed, video card, etc... I've got a lot of lagging and CTD's because it reached a point where my computer just couldn't get enough resources from anywhere. Apart from that, relatively few systems here have enough resources to run EB without lag, especially the last 1.0 version.

    BTW, I have 1GB of RAM.
    See, that's strange, because I have 756 MB of ram with a 2.7 gig processor, and I've gotten forty years into a campaign without any problems

    Now I understand why Bovi and the rest of the team didn't compile a min sys req's....who the hell knows?
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