The hard drive read/write thing is an important factor yes, my rigs has the following hardware: 2.13ghz core 2 duo 2 gigs 800 DDR2 ram 2x 7200 320GB hd's in RAID 0 7900 GTX vid card It runs crysis on medium settings acceptably, so really, sins should be a breeze, but it isnt. Stardock are new to real time 3d, I don't blame them for some growing pains.
Yeah unfortunately you will be dealing with the (at least) 10% drop in performance in vista over XP on the same hardware. So make sure you have a pretty fast rig if you want to play reasonably high settings at 1680x1050 or higher res. This game is a bit of a pig for what its doing visually, supreme commander runs almost as fast and it has a LOT more going on visually most of the time (and I still wouldnt consider SC to be an efficient game). The devs have promised improvements, but its proba
[quote]Thats not at all what the original post said. 'Hamlets' (wtf, this is a space game not a fantasy farming sim) What he's describing isn't a space game at the start, read the post again.[/quote] I guess so. Its tough to properly identify those off the wall thoughts in the middle of a space based 4x forum thread. And because I really want to continue debating this hot topic, why don't you reply with another sound logical argument.
[quote]Your copy of Sins lets you start in prehistory, build cities on your planets, and develop into a space faring empire? Neat, I must have gotten a bum copy.[/quote] Thats not at all what the original post said. 'Hamlets' (wtf, this is a space game not a fantasy farming sim) are basically your population levels, level 1 being the colony, level 3 and 4 being cities and metropolis. I know you don't really see this visually, but come on, a little imagination people? Plus that woul
[quote]I wish there could be a deep and complex RTS or TBS(I prefer RTS) where the smallest maps would be like one galaxy. Every player picks from several races and would start out on their own planet and be able to explore the planet, mine its resources, build small villages (hamlets) that with money and population will grow slowly into metropolis, and that you can do research to eventually be able to build space stations to go off into space and explore. From there you can continue teching up
[quote]What 4X elements do you see Sins having that RoN lacked, out of curiosity, other than perhaps scale? I honestly can't think of any, whereas I can think of several traditional 4X components RoN had (wonders, non-combat victory conditions) that Sins lacks.[/quote] I would argue that 'wonders' in sins are the end game super weapons, they provide a way of breaking an enemies civilization in several cases. I don't think theres a defined role for wonders in most games though, some m
Yeah with the next patch this should be a non-issue. Embargo will be a lot less painful even if the rusher gets in there with no resistance on a small map. It will likely stall him just as much as it does the person he is doing it to.
[quote]My minidumps happen during single player games, and I'm frustrated, I get 5-10 minutes into the game and it dumps, and I cant locate the minidump file[/quote] Your minidump files should be located exactly where the FAQ indicates they are. I would suggest copy pasting the path to your windows explorer address bar. XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp\Sins Dump Vista: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\Sins Dump You of cou
[quote]Kthet; buy the ****ing game than, pirate.[/quote] Not quite sure what he said to make you think he hasn't purchased the game... people with the full game are also getting this error. In fact, because this game has no protection, I would assume the error would be almost exactly the same for everyone, pirated copy or not.
It is a great shame that the multiplayer crash is affecting so many people and that it found its way into the game. Hopefully the lesson learned is to make the whining 'pro's' wait a little longer for their balance fixes and beta test a little more than a week next time (seeing as anyone who can actually validate any balance issue makes up about .1% of the player base). Obviously this cant be done for 1.04 or 1.03b or 1.1 (whatever the next patch is) because this crash is creating a
Nevermind, the information is in the FAQ - * My game has crashed and told me it saved a "minidump" file. What do I do? Please open Windows Explorer to the location below and see if your dump file is there. XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp\Sins Dump Vista: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\Sins Dump If there is a minidump file present, please zip it up along with a copy of a dxdiag from your PC an
I'm having the same issue, I have the dmp, but don't know how or where to submit it.
