smashed my copy of E:TW with a two pound beater

[Marquis of Roland]

It's mightily frustrating. You are the only other person I have heard who has this problem. Why does it play on custom but not campaign???? I have been told that there may be several probs-
1) Not enough RAM, this seems feasible, although I have 2 1/2 Gig.
2) Wrong graphics card. I can't see how this can be the case-why would it play custom if the graphics card is not up to it???
Let me know if you work it out, I'd be your friend forever. It's a total game breaker for me. I have gone back to Kingdoms and M2TW.

Yea definitely will let you know. Right now I have a 2.67ghz dual core with 4gigs of ram and using geforce 8800gts with driver version 182.50. When I run custom battle, I am fighting with 2 full stacks and the FPS is good. I don't get it either, if its the hardware custom battle should have the same problems, right?

I updated the my driver about 5 min. before the patch started to download so I don't know how much of this is the new driver, but it happened before pre-patch without the new driver as well, only now I just get "Empire has stopped working (Appcrash)" instead of "Empire has run out of video memory".

So far I tried making the Nvidia settings higher for ETW but I don't think that worked. I am going to try the other solve that involves changing your empire.exe file later, haven't done it so far because doing those kind of things scare me

Edit:
vista 32-bit OS. wonder if upgrading to 64-bit will help solve issue.