the_Monk

[quote] Now I feel bad, these forums are only meant for internal admiration and here I come and complain. I hope I didn't scar you for life Monk, more than your lobotomy already did that is... [/quote] [b]Quellist[/b] These forums are FULL of helpful posts by the DEVS and [u]many[/u] helpful volunteers (incl. myself) who've invested many hours here. ...of course when one of us chooses to blow off a little steam in a post here and th

boom......headshot!

[quote]I don't understand why i can't connect to Sins of a solar empire on line....about yesterday....on monday it's allright...i have a frenche versus v1.05 what can i do? thx for your help [/quote] You need to get Impulse ( www.impulsedriven.com/impulse_setup_full.exe ) install Impulse, register your copy with stardock, and then update your game to version 1.1

[quote who="Hanrow" reply="20" id="1946982"] 99% of peeps who know how to keep their Win instalation clean and tight wont have any problem with Impulse... You know, that's what everybody told me when I was trying to get Mass Effect to run. "Oh, since everybody else isn't having problems, you must be an idiot." It's a great way to make friends, you know. JGH [/quote]

It's really simple people..... Either we have some sort of invasive DRM built into the game [b]or[/b] we have a digital distribution system configured such as Impulse that is able to verify your registration before patching. Since when has it become unreasonable in the eyes of the public that a company [u]be allowed[/u] to protect it's IP in SOME WAY? Up to and including patch 1.05 SINS was being gleefully used at lan-parties etc., shared between hous

1. What is the patch-level of your OS? Are you keeping up-to-date? 2. Drivers.....are they all up-to-date? 3. What Direct X version are you running? 4. What is your system hardware? (specs....video, cpu, ram, etc.) ..oh and the title of your thread is tacky and unecessary! There are quite a few of us helping on these forums and being "yelled-at" just seems somewhat insulting; besides which th

.....very informational OP...wtf..... [e digicons];P[/e] Since you gave me so much information to work with....... 1. Since you seem to be having "installation" issues, please try having all firewall/security/antimalware software disabled while performing the installation. 2. Please make sure you have up-to-date (and working) installations of IE7 and .NET. Both are [u]required[/u] for Impulse to work correctly.

[b]cdrudin[/b], Here are links to the x86 and x64 versions of the Visual C redistributable: x86 version of Visual C++ redistributable x64 version of Visual C++ redistributable ...mi

absolutely.....

I believe this has been answered by the DEVS on these forums before, and if I'm not mistaken there will be no resolution support below 1024x768. Try using "windowed" mode, or making changes to the user.setting file. I believe another user made some changes in the user.setting file which allowed him/her to use a netbook, but it did make the UI in-game somewhat screwy! the Monk

1. Visit www.impulsedriven.com and download/install IMPULSE (stardock's new digital distribution system which you will require to update the game anyway) 2. Register your game with stardock. (Click the "key" icon (registrations) once you're in impulse to register your game with Impulse (if it isn't showing up already) 3. Download the full game. done.

Sounds like a corrupted video driver? Have you tried un-installing the drivers, then going into your control panel "device manager" actually un-installing the video card, re-booting and re-installing the driver? thanks, the Monk

Do you know what kind of powersuppy is in your system and how powerful it is? I'm still thinking the "complete system shutdown / power-off" is a problem relating to the powersupply rather than software etc...

I own 3 Acer Inspire ONE's (all with the 120GB HD and XP Home). I use mine almost on a daily basis (it fits so nicely into my briefcase......no more carrying a briefcase [u]and[/u] a notebook bag..hehe) and the 2 ONE's my kids are using are seeing a lot of use ranging from wireless internet access (browsing, chatting, etc.) to gaming (my oldest plays games like starcraft etc. on his ONE....I'll have to get him to try SINS on it! ;-p) I chose the Acer ONE's after c

are each any every one of your device drivers up-to-date? how about the OS itself?

Well if [b]itunes visualizer[/b] causes the same thing to happen it's quite obviously not a SINS-problem... having said that.....what exactly are your computer system specs? Hard to point the finger when I don't know what I'm pointing at....eh? hehe Without anything else to go on (at the moment) I'd say that it sounds like a power supply issue (power supply going bad, or not supplying enough power when video is intensively used). Give me more

[quote]The game crashes 15 secs after i start it, doesn't matter what i do.[/quote] [b]Finnek,[/b] It would be helpful for the community to know what exactly you've done when you say "[b]doesn't matter what i do[/b]". I mean, up-dating [u]all[/u] drivers and running the latest OS patches is significantly different than spinning your chair around 3 times and counting to 10 before restarting the game! [e digicons];P[/e] ....just

Are you running the game in "windowed-mode"? Sounds like something running in the background is causing SINS to "lose focus"?

1. Please make sure all of the drivers for the hardware in your system are [b]up-to-date[/b]! 2. Visit www.impulsedriven.com and download/install IMPULSE (stardock's digital distribution system) through which you can update your game to the latest version. that should do it.

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[quote who="Vulcanus5000" reply="2" id="1922796"]ok, i know how to forward ports but the only problem is i don't know what server ip address i have, but nvm i am downloaden the beta atm and my friend is also donwloading it so we can play online, is it definite that we won't have to do anything else then just host a new game? [/quote] As I tried explaining in my (detailed btw...) post above, the step-by-step I wrote helps you along quite nicely [i]if[/i] one has

[b]Using game version 1.0 - 1.05 (the latest non-beta version):[/b] You will need to learn how to forward ports through any NAT-ing network device (routers, cable/dsl modems functioning as routers, etc.) Please visit this sticky and find the link to my guide "Networking and SINS" (right at the bottom of the original post). Check the date on the file to make sure it's the correct guide (Feb 14th/08) In that guide I take you thr

ok......seriously... 1. The game does work "out-of-the-box". All of the updates since release have been for many reasons, some of which were obviously bug-fixes (how is this different from any other piece of software intended to be used on thousands of possible hardware/software configurations?) As far as the "hosting" goes. The box doesn't say that every joe out there will be able to host. Epic multiplayer does not depend on

[quote] [quote] when i go to iron clad in the main menu and i go to create an account it asks for the cd key, i put the serial number in but it says that i have an invalid cd key[/quote] I have a similar problem. I've entered my username, password (2x) and my cd key (with dashes), but the "ACCEPT" button is grey and won't read my click. I.e. it won't let me submit my data and I can't even begin to log in. Please Hel

You can't. It's been posted several times in these forums, the way to do this is to ARCHIVE your 1.05 installation.......then upgrade to the beta. That way you can simply go back to the 1.05 archive if you wish. Of course one could also "copy" the 1.05 installation to another folder, and then update the original installation to the latest BETA. Either way works.