CA requests for next patch:

[Veresov]

I must be in a minority as I am not happy about Empire. The game is not SLI friendly and crashes constantly. The guy at Sega customer service suggested that I removed a card from my rig to play the game!

Why wasn't this revealed to me as a buyer PRIOR to purchasing the product? THis is the last product I will ever buy from CA.

[vladiator]

I just want them to get rid of CTD first. Other bugs may only make a great game good, whilst CTD can make it unplayable...

Yesterday I spent 50 mins in a battle and was seconds away from victory when I got CTDed. That annoyed me..

[Wandarah]

I must be in a minority as I am not happy about Empire. The game is not SLI friendly and crashes constantly. The guy at Sega customer service suggested that I removed a card from my rig to play the game!

Why wasn't this revealed to me as a buyer PRIOR to purchasing the product? THis is the last product I will ever buy from CA.

Erm it was.

The specifications didn't list SLI compatiable. So it wasnt. Surely the mistake is on your side here.

[Lord Ovaat]

I wouldn't think SLI compatibility with a new application would be an issue. I've had horrid problems with SLI and ETW, some of which have been reduced by disabling SLI. That said, all of my hardware IS SLI compatible, and I've yet to play a game that's given me a problem. In fact, I'm still playing MTW2 with no problems at all with SLI activated. I don't remember MTW2 not being advertised as compatible with SLI. This is a software issue that doesn't appear to be present in CA's earlier games. I only hope they correct it.

Has anyone had a problem with ATI's Crossfire, or is this specific only to Nvidia's multi-card setup? That would be funny if SLI is the only one, after all, Nvidia's add is in the load screens. "The way it's meant to be played", lol.

[Marquis of Roland]

Well after a few irrecoverable GB campaigns because of CTD, there are a few things that has crashed my campaign everytime:

1. Hurons. Whether they declare war on you, or you on them, or you conquering their last regional capital, one of these will eventually happen and crash your game (as GB, since Hurons always declare war on GB). Bypassed this by not taking their last region.

2. Navy bugs. Lots of them. CTD can happen when you click on a military port (all other ports don't seem to crash your game), whether or not it has ships in it, troops, or nothing at all. clicking on your fleets also crashes your game. Apparently this happens randomly, so everytime I click on a fleet, its like playing Russian roulette, you never know if thats the next one that will crash your game. The bugged fleets cannot become "unbugged". It will stay bugged for the rest of the campaign, so it is essentially lost, but you still pay upkeep. I have at least 3 fleets of 10-12 ships of the line that is like this, thank god money is not an issue for GB.

3. Merging units. I usually never do this myself, but other people were saying it crashes the game so I tried it once and it did. Never tried it again.

Other than those, the game experiences jst random crashes every couple turns or so. It doesn't happen much, and you can usually continue from your last savepoint past where it crashed, but its sorta affected how I play the game, since I'm afraid the game can crash at any moment, I play a lot more cautiously than I normally do, and I tend to avoid clicking on ships as much as possible (which, playing as GB, is TOTALLY wrong)