The EU3 Thread

[El_Cid]

gaming on a laptop should be a last resort - unless you got a spare £2000 to make sure you get one that can run modern games.

[Nikolai]

My laptop, which I bought last autumn, and cost me 9.000 NOK (~1.400 USD, with Norwegian prices, quite an average price), can play Oblivion, so gaming on a laptop is no problem. Most computers sold today are latops anyway, so that is no surprise really. And really, with an AMD Turion 64 X2 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM, nVidia GeForce GO 7200 256 MB machine, most current games should work.

[Will9]

I changed the setings and got it work.

[Will9]

It was working fine last night, but now once I skip the intro video or when it is over, I get a message saying that it failed to creat a graphics device. It may be because I have more than one graphics/screen card. And that I could try to write adapter=1 in the settings.txt file. I then opened the file and wrote "adapter=1" on the bottom of the page. It still won't work.

[Jonny]

I want this game now. But 0 out of 3 stores near me have it.

[Nubclear]

http://www.gamersgate.com/

[Ramo]

I preordered the CE a month and a half ago, and it still hasn't arrived (it was supposed to get here five days ago). I'm tempted to go ahead and download a pirated copy...

[Nikolai]

Send a mail to Paradox.

[ravagon]

Originally posted by Nikolai
ravagon: Buying on the Net is not more dangerous than using your card in the mall.

Except for the fact that you have a great deal many more legal recources if anything happens with a local retailer.
I'm paranoid I know but that doesn't mean that they aren't out to get me.

I preordered the CE a month and a half ago, and it still hasn't arrived (it was supposed to get here five days ago). I'm tempted to go ahead and download a pirated copy...

Ouch.
Only problem though is that you'd lose most of the bonus bits'n'pieces that come with the CE. Not good as a final solution.

[Nikolai]

The main bonuses with the CE won't get lost though. Like the ability to get the special attention of the devs in the continuing development(like voicing your opinion and getting to beta test the patches).

[Jonny]

I bought the CE at Target yesterday.

I've started my first game as Genoa.

[Standup]

What's in the Collector's Edition? It seems to be about 10-15 pounds more than the standard box on my usual shopping sites but no details listed.

[Nikolai]

It's €10 more, and you get an extra CD with the music of the game, a map poster, a strategy guide in addition to the manual, an own forum where you get the special ear of the devs, and you can among other things get a say in the future developing of the game and test the beta patches between the official patches if you want.

[CerberusIV]

Well, my copy turned up today (ordered online from Paradox).

Installed fine, registered at Paradoxplaza and updated to 1.1.

Then I tried the tutorials.

When they say a FX 5200 will run the game but the performance is poor they mean poor. The lag is almost unplayable (even though my card is the AGP8X, 256MB RAM version). So I've just had to order a new card - a FX 6200 for 75 euro. That is supposed to be rather better for EU3.

[El_Cid]

That is never nice! I spent over £600 on a whole new system to play Oblivion....only to find out i really didn't like the game, so i hope that last part doesnt come to pass or you will feel even worse!