Empires Demo Out.

[Adrien C]

http://www.totalwar.com/empire/demo/

Dloading.

Two historical battles plus one naval battle.

 

[kineaesth]

http://www.halflife2.net/2009/02/20/empire-total-war-demo-now-exclusively-on-steam/

 

[StardogChampion]

Do you have to save it to where Steam's installed?

 

[Raziaar]

Ooooh, a demo, cool.

Is this game only coming out on steam or will they have official retail too?

 

[Eejit]

Retail too, but uses Steamworks.

 

[Raziaar]

Argh I'm getting some graphical anomalies. My screen is divided into four, I can see the GUI, but I'm getting large polygons of pure color going from the outsides of the screens to the center, and its running incredibly slow.

What the **** gives.

EDIT: How is it even possible to run this ****ing game. Beyond my graphics glitches, loading the game takes like 5 ****ing minutes, and then to load an actual game within the game it takes another 5-10 minutes.

I made the game go into window mode and after 10 minutes it still hasn't responded to redraw itself.

And I had fun doing so.

 

[Mutley]

The graphics has bugs.

The animations and textures at about mid distance are really really low quality and are sometimes nothing like what they are supposed to be. For example in the Tutorial, the Spanish hats were bright yellow but once I zoomed in they turned brown.

It's weird.

 

[Raziaar]

This game has the most atrocious loading times I have ever seen. Ugh.

Loaded the game... took forever. Go into game, changed my graphics settings and resolution and applied them... took forever. Got back to where I could click to accept them, and then I left the graphics page to be greeted with another loading page... took forever. Loaded a game... took forever. Graphics were bugging out all over my screen(probably an issue with my video card drivers as I have also had them with darkfall) and so I quit the game... took forever. So eventually I ctrl-alt-deleted to actually close the game... took one second.

 

[StardogChampion]

This game has the most atrocious loading times I have ever seen. Ugh.

Loaded the game... took forever. Go into game, changed my graphics settings and resolution and applied them... took forever. Got back to where I could click to accept them, and then I left the graphics page to be greeted with another loading page... took forever. Loaded a game... took forever.

I thought that was just me...

Took ages at the initial credits screen. I could move my cursor fine though. Then eventually the intro videos loaded which I skipped with Esc. Changed my graphics settings and got a black screen with the cursor again...

Then I CTRL-ALT-DEL'd and here I am. No way I'm bothering with this until they fix it.

 

[Shakermaker]

I also had long load times, but graphically it ran quite well. Really like the naval warfare, although it gets more confusing with more ships. The new land warfare mechanics take some getting used to as well. Too bad they dumbed the UI down.

 

[Sledgehammer]

It seemed to not even work for me, or at least I wasn't patient enough. I guess I'll just play my old Medieval: Total War: Gold Edition.

 

[bam23]

my load times were really short for some reason. about the same time it takes me to connect to a server in tf2. all the destructible objects were blue though.

 

[Ennui]

Mine was running smoothly with no glitches or graphical bugs and I've enjoyed the hell out of the demo so far. The sea battle was a lot of fun, pretty micro-intensive. Broadsiding bitches = excellent.

 

[Kyorisu]

CA's QA is horrible for this title.

1. Corrupted menu graphics.
2. Load times all over the place.
3. Crashes.

I couldn't actually start a battle but if I could there would be more points as evident by everyone else's problems. I quickly removed the demo from my system. What a waste of time.

 

[Adrien C]

Still some old bugs like in previous games. When I give the order to fire, it wont freaking fire.

 

[Narcolepsy]

This game temporarily killed my graphics card. Flickering artifacts all over the screen as soon as the loading bar on a map got to 100% - then the bar would bounce back to 80%, then back to 100%, all while my screen gets more and more garbled. A restart, and everything (even other games) appeared to be fine. And it is a reproducible behavior. I just have a bad feeling about this...

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I also had long load times, but graphically it ran quite well. Really like the naval warfare, although it gets more confusing with more ships. The new land warfare mechanics take some getting used to as well.

I had a bug which happened contantly where I selected a particular unit group, and instead of marching where I tell them too, they marched in the other direction.

Other than that, it was a nice game. I had high settings with SSAO disabled, though had AAx2 and Anistropy Trilenear (Anything higher would cripple the game.

The naval combat felt like a mixture of Sid Meiers Pirates and Pirates of the Burning Sea funnily enough, which means I'll probably have lots of fun with that.

I had a narrow victory at the land battles, but had a sweeping victory at sea.

 

[Krynn72]

Wait, there was two historic land battles? I only saw one, and the shitty tutorial one.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Thumbs down from me so far. On medium, the graphics are pretty awful (though the house destruction animations are impressive), and the sound is attrocious. As it has been said, the load times are huge too.

I need to try more scenarios first, but the tutorial was incredibly boring.

 

[B_MAN]

Still some old bugs like in previous games. When I give the order to fire, it wont freaking fire.

ya this happened to me too
and also, some artillery units froze up and wouldn't move for the entire battle
i love the total war series but i don't think i'll be getting this right away

 

[CR0M]

l0lz must be yor pc it wurx grate on mine so get new grapics card noobz or moar memorys or turn all yor grapics setting to zer0 then it will be playabull like I get 38milleeon fps maxed evryfing on my Atari 2600 you shuld defrag m8 that will halp and instal latest drives or bye a faster cpu or PC and stop wining ahahaha noob


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