Beginner's Questions

**overweightninja** · 12-19-2007, 02:42

You know...sounds obvious to most of us but I see it so much in other games, you have checked your video options haven't you? Higher resolutions/settings will obviously hurt your framerates....

**Javolenus** · 12-19-2007, 08:45

Hi Ninja,

Thanks for this. Yes, you are right - I checked and the video setting is on high, so I can change that in order to improve the way the game runs. Hopefully I'll upgrade PC next year and then all will be good. Thanks for replies.

**V.T. Marvin** · 12-19-2007, 10:07

Ad taking screenshots - if you have Anti-aliasing turned on in the Graphic settings, the screenshot saved in the tga folder would be only a black screen. I do not know the Howie´s thingy, but FRAPS worked for me very well with Anti-aliasing enabled (it captures video sequences too!) and it is for free. See http://www.fraps.com/download.php

**Mouzafphaerre** · 12-19-2007, 11:01

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Fog of War can be turned on/off also in the preferences file (EB\Preferences\Preferences.txt) by switching between the parametres TRUE and FALSE.

And I certainly don't consider turning it off to be a cheat. To the contrary, it's IMHO a C&C/Starcraft sort of function, which is totally out of place in a Total War game. Medieval's plain map was a much better feature; EU3's map is OK too, but not FOW.
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**Javolenus** · 12-19-2007, 13:17

Hi Mouzafphaerre,

Good tip - many thanks for that. BTW, what's EU3?

**Lysander13** · 12-19-2007, 15:06

Originally Posted by Javolenus Priscus

Good tip - many thanks for that. BTW, what's EU3?

EU3 = Europa Universalis III
It's a computer game as well. A very good one....or at least i like it anyway.

**Long lost Caesar** · 12-19-2007, 17:14

looks like most questions have been answered in full already, so i cant give any advice. but one thing id like to know is does anyone have a link to XGM, as im interested to see its website/forum. and btw priscus, welcome to the forum!