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Run in DX 9.0c mode and there are fewer "issues." Look in your steam/steamapps/common/sid meir's civilization v/direct x folder and run DxSetup.exe. No more issues for me in DX 9.0c mode after this. Most of the other tech issues arise because computer does not meet or exceed Minimum Recommended Specs. Those are the minimum specs or you will have tech issues. Then too, Steam is gorfing. Nothing 2K or Firaxis can do about that. Civ V does warm the CPU and the GP

1. You can run Steam in offline mode. I run Civ III Complete in offline mode with Steam. Just turn it on or off. No problem. My Civ 4 is a DVD boxed version. 2. Just looked at Steam client with Task Manager, and it is taking up 12K and the CPU reading at idle is 00. 3. I think there will be probably two DLCs at most before the first Expansion. Mods from Civfanatics or whatever can be loaded as usual. 4. After reading the Manual, the devil forced me to pre-order. Can't

This is either a PR thing and it will all come back new and improved. Or something legal or financial blindsided them. Or they ate a bad batch of 'schrooms! For sure something is very fishy here. If it was legal or financial, I would expect them to at least say "circumstances beyond our control." This news hit me like a thunderclap. It is really scary.

1. This manual is the most impressive I have ever seen. Being version 1.0 implies it will get updated from time to time. Add to that the Civilopedia in game and all the other in game info goodness. Sigh. I recanted on waiting for the demo. Mine is now downloaded and ready to go. 2. Apologies if someone already mentioned it. But there is a <a title="September 17 Gamespot Live Stream" href="http://www.gamespot.com/shows/now-playing/?event=now_playing_civilization_v20100917&tag=topsl

[quote]I'm more concernted about who good the game itself is. The getting started wiki isn't exactly organized in a way that gives you any kind of overview of the game.[/quote] FadedC the first missions of the campaign are very tutorial. Maybe the whole campaign is tutorial. Continuous game is more of a sandbox builder that you set up like you like. There is a game speed control and a pause command. Like Sins or Sim City, get in and dink around. As to whether it is a good game

Thanks for the headsup Gravedancer. Played the Demo when it first came out then decided to wait until they fixed some of the issues. And then just forgot all about it. Now gathering info; this is a darn good deal! There is now an Anno 1404 Wiki which should help a lot learning and playing the game. Only snake in the garden I see at the moment is the DRM which remains TAGES with 3 activat

http://lordbrazen.blogspot.com/ page down here and learn a lot about DOSBOX. I think Impulse comes with DOSBOX and with it already configured for you. I know the same deal at www.gog.com does. The forum at gog will provide you with help should you need any. On Vista, it just worked. No problems. Start with a shortcut on the desktop as per usual and begin playing.

MoO 2 at patch 1.40, all ready to go! Running in DosBox? Didn't say. Just posted today! Psilons and Meklars and Elerions, Oh My! And the Mrrshans ... ah, they're so cute! The 13 races in MOO 2 are so memorable. They really do have personality, play very differently, and have overall a kind of indefinable "cool" about them that makes the antiquity of this game fade away as you are charmed and immersed in a depth of strategy, diplomacy, and even battle tactics that is fa

1. JosefVStalin has got up over 1200 videos. Doing SC 2 right now, but commented videos on a wide variety of strategy games are available. He is an excellent and informative commentator. Has a commentary on Rise of Nations in there somewhere. 2. HDStarcraft and HuskyStarcraft are both excellent commentators on SC2 match play. These guys really know SC2 and can hold your interest even if you don't like SC2! They are cult leaders!

Streaming Video Part 1 Streaming Video Part 2 Impressive to watch live, especially the game crash which will not be in the release version! Promise! Using a "brute of a machine" but specs nobody could seem to remember for some reason. hmmm ... Exploring the landscape was visually much m

I've always thought of WoW as Kermit the Frog meets J.R.R. Tolkien with a generous dose of H.P. Lovecraft thrown in for good measure. Guild Wars has characters that look much more realistic in a world that looks like an oil painting come to life. Torchlight has its own style, which to me must be transparent because I never gave it much thought. Elemental has its own style because that is what Stardock wanted to do. I do not think there is any pandering to a mar

In case nobody else has posted it, go here and see really excellent video play through summary of Civ 5. The text follows the video, so do either. Dang. I got sort of choked up near the end. Just my two cents. This will be a great game. No doubt of this. Whether it is so on release is another question. I am going to download the FREE DEMO on the

Star Ruler looks interesting. Will keep up with it. But at the moment the 21st is the day of interest and my heart belongs to Daddy! Albeit if Daddy's Demo doesn't like my computer or I don't like the Demo my fickle heart may go quickly to this hot gal, Vicky 2! Big patch out in September 1.2 supposed to cure her of drunkenness and erratic flirtations with psychosis.

"The award-winning series will be available for digital distribution services soon!" This is very good news indeed! http://aow2.heavengames.com/ is the fansite. Where dwells Unofficial Patch 1.4 and many other goodies besides! "TS told me they are putting the AoW series online (on Steam), putting an end to the game not being easily available anymore."

Well King, just my contrarian opinion, but Role Play is where you find it. So there are games classified as RPG and those that become RPG in your own imagination when you become really identified with a character and what is going on with the character. That's nothing that developers can guarantee will happen, nor anyone else. World of WarCraft was my first really intense experience with this. Now, I don't mean WoW played as part of a deranged pack of imbeciles, but rather WoW played

Xiara, I've got both. I recommend Sins! For a horde (sic) of reasons. First get Impulse from www.impulsedriven.com where the full Trinity Edition is now 39.95. You can download the Sins demo with Impulse too. Sins has the more active community and is a rollicking good game! And with an active modding community too. Play it as it comes at first, but there are a lot of ways to jazz it up. GC 2 is very good also, a lot more strategic dep

You bet ANet knows all about that $2B and it's worth the investment to qualify for a big chunk of it. Did you know that it’s impossible to look straight at Guild Wars 2? It’s true. And I’ll tell you why. The sheen of money on this game is blinding. The UI, the main menu, the character design and the world itself- it’s all completely beautiful and smooth as silk. Which is partially down to ArenaNet’s spectacular art team, but

I've played Guild Wars since the first chapter, Prophecies, came out in April 2005. There is no monthly fee. It is free to play online. The game of course costs money. Think they have sold about 6 million copies in all. When GW 2 ANet is going to own a chunk of that $2 billion. There is a company store. In over five years, fully leveling 7 of the nine classes and completing all three chapters and the expansion Eye of the North with all 7, I have spent a grand total of $27 in the compa

Playing the demo of Victoria 2 did not turn out well. I got through one tutorial and then the demo crashed. So, I'm not going to debug a demo, no not today thank you. Tried to delete demo via Control Panel. Appeared to work, but did not. Reboot, tried to delete Demo using the supplied utility. This did not work either. Sigh. Plan B. Remove all files manually. Run CCleaner. Use Registry tool. Search through registry with RegEdit to make sure. Reboot. Check the usual ratholes where prog

Just realized V2 existed! Nothing much to add to your posts except that patch 1.2 is in progress. I did download the demo, but it is after midnight here. Play it tomorrow.

http://www.fileplanet.com/fileblog/archives/2010/08/entry_3741.shtml brief review of five major Torchlight mods that work with the current version. Look better, whole bunch new classes, etc but this just scratches the surface. There are a very lot of excellent mods. I have one that just came out, turns the Cat into a Tiger including sound effects. Not just a skin, the Tiger is the hit man you always wanted, but

Yes, Nesrie, they did a very good job with the graphics, the lighting, and the textures. You are right that the game itself was lacking. After the demise of Flagship Studios, they founded Runic Studios and got the game out in one year! It is a very good game considering they did all that in one year. Their financing comes from Perfect World of Beijing, People's Republic of China. Interesting, eh what? Perfect World is also a MMO that lives in the shadow of WoW. It is the Chinese versi

I am a veteran WoW player. Started playing I think a week after it went live. Still play a bit now and then. Love WoW, I will not knock WoW, love that game. I played some EVE too, about five months way back there. Good game, even worse time suck than WoW, though. Now GW is not really a MMO even though it sort of feels like one. I have 7 classes full up over there, all three chapters and Eye of the North. GW has been very successful, enough so that GW2 is coming with some absol

Runic Studios has announced Torchlight 2 to be released Spring 2011. Torchlight 1 might be considered a modern remake of Diablo 1 on steroids. Torchlight 2 will be more like Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction on steroids! While Torchlight was purely a dungeon crawl, TL2 will have an overworld and greatly enhanced quests. Existing features will be enhanced and reworked with many new features as well. New game engine. And, yes, new classes. Reviews of Torchlight have been good both from profe

"Civ games typically attract people that don't have high end gaming rigs." Bonscott, that seemed a strange idea, but since Civ series includes Civ 3 still readily available and cheap it might be true! Civfanatics still shows a moderate amount of activity with Civ 3, including mods, $5 these days for Civ 3 complete. $5 is a lot less than $49.99. Sure, Civ 5 is a lot more game. My rig wildly exceeds minimum specs. But still ... were I to want to get back into Civ, is Civ 5 really going