Europa Universalis III in Production

[conmcb25]

Any news on the requirements to run the game??

[Nikolai]

From europauniversalis3.com:

System requirements: Microsoft Windows XP/2000 1.9 Ghz Intel Pentium or similar AMD 512mb RAM Direct X 9.0c compatible video card with at least 128mb & support for pixelshader 2.0.

[conmcb25]

hmmm, thats not to bad at all, I think my oldest machine would JUST run that.

AMD 1.8 overclocked to 2.2 (I think)

[Nikolai]

I'm sure my laptop will make it too. 1 GB RAM and A Turion64 X2 1.6(or 1.7) GHZ processor. It's brand new for one and isn't the "real" GHz higher since it's a dual processor?

[Nubclear]

It boggles my mind as to why EU2 will require Pixelshader 2.0, given that the graphics are so awful.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
It boggles my mind as to why EU2 will require Pixelshader 2.0, given that the graphics are so awful.

Afaik EU2 doesn't have this requirement

[Nikolai]

It does. But Tassie, have you seen the latest screens, political as geographic? They're looking great now. And still there are going to be some minor tweaks, but the map is mostly done.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by BeBro


Afaik EU2 doesn't have this requirement

The German states must be invaded, lest these typo-Nazis take over the world

Anyway, no, I haven't. Go ahead and post one if its so good

[Nikolai]

I suspect you won't like them, but I think they look good enough.

Anyway, here's two from wednesday's dev diary:

This is a screen showing colonization:


Here's the a screen showing trade areas. The lines show where your country are denied trading rights:

[conmcb25]

What so terrible looking about that? I actually kind of like them

I may have to get this one in january. I played the heck out of EU II

[Nikolai]

I agree with you that is looks good. But Tassie here has made it his mission to be negative to it.

[Kataphraktoi]

Those are not that great IMHO. Another reason not to go 3d-it dosnt look pretty if you dont make a huge effort.

Have you seen oblivion? latest tomb raider? Latest unreal tournament?? Age of Empires 3? Even older stuff like warcraft 3 has better looks than that. Those screenies look like civ4 level of graphics.

Its just a marketing gimmick for most games, because you cant sell it to publishers if it isnt the ''ooh 3d!'' Even if it does look better than EU2, granted. But i suspect behind the decent graphics is only a decent game, similar to civ4, because the effort going to graphics has to come out of the budget for other stuff.


The screenies are not bad, but you cant use them as a big pro point for the game, because they are not THAT good.

[Nikolai]

And then again the graphics is not the point of the game, as it is in games like Oblivion and UT. The thing is, the old engine was more then 6 years old, and clearly lacking. Paradox had to make a new engine anyway, so why not make it 3D? It's not like 3D=bad, like someone is saying.

[Kassiopeia]

Why make it 3D if you can't make it look decent? Especially since the graphics aren't a point And the only reason to update the engine should be for gameplay reasons.

[Nikolai]

...which also was the case. Among with other reasons.