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[Plusi]

Great game, been playing solid since it came out. A few things I've noted (in order of seriousness to me)...

1. Video playback is laggy, and the sound is very choppy, and keeps stuttering like a broken turnstyle record.
2. The game seems to run fine for a few seconds, then very laggy for no apparent reason.
3. The game freezes for about 5 seconds upon selecting ports (then again upon selecting the "Navy" tab) on the campaign map. Nothing else on the map seems to make it lag as much.
4. A couple of my ships were trading, but then the trade stopped, and I couldn't move my ships, and had to disband them.
5. I took Gibraltar from Spain, and EVERY 2 or 3 turns, they keep sending a request for it back. I can just decline it, but it's stopped me from being able to do other things between turns, as I keep having to babysit the Spanish requests. I have had the same result from a couple of other nations, like when I captured Mysore, the Marathan's now keep asking for it, and once, even Poland-Lithuania asked for it?! Why won't they take the hint?
6. I don't know if this is a bug, or bad AI, but I've entered a war on the side of an ally, and never actually fought a battle. The ally has since declared peace, but whenever I offer peace, it's always declined.

[Grapeshot]

No crashes so far, just these little inconveniences:

• Unit stuck under hill on deployment on ambush and unable to move to target location.
• Trade port trade route failing to activate (as Sweden)
• Trading fleet stuck in trade port and trade route failing to activate (as United Provinces)
• Moving gentleman to captured university gives the same alternatives as for hostile universities
• Army stuck on the campaign map after defeating ambush - but they got stuck on the Leeward Islands and I guess there's worse places to get stuck

Annoying but about as could be expected. Good thing they delayed the release because at least it's still playable. That said, I cut my Swedish campaign short at 35 turns. I'll give it another go after the patch - I need my trade working.

[Bornslippy]

I've been playing just the one campaign game for several days now - enjoying myself in spite of the game crashing every other turn - CTDs mainly.

It's not well debugged on state of the art hardware, and there are innumerable lags and slow downs.

64Bit vista
I7
P6 Asus motherboard
12GB RAM

GTX 295 Nvidia card

Not HP.

[Beskar]

OK - now I understand that one. No big deal in any case. And, yea the Med is spammed with ships.

I've been playing just the one campaign game for several days now - enjoying myself in spite of the game crashing every other turn - CTDs mainly.

It's not well debugged on state of the art hardware, and there are innumerable lags and slow downs.

64Bit vista
I7
P6 Asus motherboard
12GB RAM

GTX 295 Nvidia card

Not HP.

You sure you got your drivers up to date, etc? If it's crashing every turn, it might be just your computer being the problem, not the game.

[Barkhorn1x]

You sure you got your drivers up to date, etc? If it's crashing every turn, it might be just your computer being the problem, not the game.

So...let's talk drivers. Mine are pretty old as I never want to fix what isn't broken. What Nvidia drivers are the best for ETW? Anyone know. I am going to upgrade my GPU this month anyway so i will have to update.

Side issue; Could a CTD such as consolidating multiple units be caused by a driver issue? Seems a bit non-GPU intensive to me.

[SwordsMaster]

More bugs:

Playing as Spain, at war with Savoy and besieging Paris which Savoy managed to remove from the grip of France: The garrison sallies, I autocalc (win), and when the turn gets to Genoa (my allies, we had just defeated a Savoyard army protecting Turin together) the games CTDs. Can produce savegame if anyone's interested...

[Lord of the Isles]

So...let's talk drivers. Mine are pretty old as I never want to fix what isn't broken. What Nvidia drivers are the best for ETW? Anyone know. I am going to upgrade my GPU this month anyway so i will have to update.

Side issue; Could a CTD such as consolidating multiple units be caused by a driver issue? Seems a bit non-GPU intensive to me.

Note that a new set of Nvidia drivers were released on March 03, just before the game. CA have announced that these drivers cause problems with the game, and should not be used. They are 182.08 (from memory). The ones they used in testing most and that they suggest we use are 182.06
(also known as 7.15.0011.8206). I have got slightly older ones after someone in another forum recommended them as being recent-but-known-to-be-stable for other games at least: 181.22).

So don't use the newest drivers!

I agree with your side-issue observation: the points at which the CTDs are mostly happening seem unlikely to be graphics driver related. But I'm no graphics guru (an apprentice guruette at most).

[Barkhorn1x]

Thanks for the info. I am going to d/l those 181.22 drivers and save them for the new card.

[MikeV]

So don't use the newest drivers!

Keep the old drivers, get crappy performance. Update the drivers, get crashes.
Lovely.

[MikeV]

I've been playing just the one campaign game for several days now - enjoying myself in spite of the game crashing every other turn - CTDs mainly.

Every other turn? Masochist. I thought the repeated reloading to work around the pathfinding bugs was tedious enough ... but, you've got me beat!

[Beskar]

6. I don't know if this is a bug, or bad AI, but I've entered a war on the side of an ally, and never actually fought a battle. The ally has since declared peace, but whenever I offer peace, it's always declined.

You got to pay for peace or offer them something for it.