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Slow here as well... maybe the monster respawn and grouping functions are taking up too much resources / polling constantly? It somewhat makes sense since those activities are always on. By the way.. when I could not, reasonblity, play a medium map I moved to small and it runs smoother.. but still so-so. System is a little dated, but should be more than adequate considering I threw frame rates down to 1/4 on the slider.. and lowered a bunch of things including down to 16

[quote who="HarveyBernstein" reply="4" id="2677207"]I would like to see an explanation as to why you apparently can't talk to some NPC's (the dialogue balloon is crossed out). [/quote] I noticed this function as well. It seems if you do not have enough money to buy their services you cannot talk to them. I am indifferent on the solution, but it took some getting used to.

Still supppper slow on my gateway nx860xl laptop (c2d 7400, nv7900gs, 2gb, 320gb 7.5k, w7 and/or vista HD(0805 at least)). It is strange since it worked pretty well when I first started playing.. maybe an xml change / tweak? It seems like the nvidia 7900 cards are still an issue as well so maybe it is related.

Thanks guys! Downloaded fine - can't wait to get a new game started!! :)

Kryo, It seems like the file was dxgkrnl.sys --> nvlddmkm.sys and considering the issues with my 7900gs video card (in the current build) this may be a subset of a known issue. Thank you for responding though!

Same issue here.. I built 1 temple first and came back to see that the temple was still listed in my choices. I then tried creating another and noticed that it was not gone from my building choices (like normal). So, I tried building and building and building and it allowed me to until I was out of resources.

It churns on my two systems as well, but I believe Frogboy mentioned that the beta has all debug settings maxed so that they can gather data. These settings will be turned off, or severely lowered, in the final release and the impact should not be as great. I noticed that on my laptop (core-2-duo T7200 - 2GB Ram, NV 7900GS 256 - 320gb 7200rpm) the game suddently slowed to a halt today similar to your computer. So, I am wondering if the new xml settings we are downloa

I just wanted to post to add to the number of users saying that you are doing a great job Frogboy! As others have already mentioned we really appreciate the effort (and love) you, and your team, are putting into the project. Nice piece of code.. I still hate pointers even though they are a necessary evil..

I am curious of this as well. Maybe we are choosing some settings that is putting them into a dormant mode? I have only played 2 games, to try out both fractions, a nd in both games I am seeing no AI challenges. No city attacks, no city building, a nd no NPC's roaming the map after the first 50-100 turns. I even added 2 more AI to the default choices of a Large map on the 2 nd game (not finished yet).</span

I finally went ahead and put the game in window mode (unchecked the FullScreen check box..) and I have not had ONE crash since. I was crashing the game every few turns if I did anything except for end the turn. Even then, it would sometimes crash at the research screen. I am pretty shocked that it made such a difference, but for others that are tired of reloading or having to manually kill the Elemental.exe (after the crash) you may want to try the suggestions to run

I agree that it should not work that way, but I was hoping that windowed mode would help you play in the mean time. It you do a quick google it looks like several applications battle lid closing if they utilize directx - including VLC. I did not see any real solutions, just that it appears to be happening to multiple users hanging monitors off of laptops. I'm guessing that you are cloning your desktop? You may want to make your external monitor the 2nd m

I see this all the time when I alt-tab to the desktop and come back. Others have suggested playing in window mode to temp overcome this defect/bug. Even though your computer is set to do nothing it is probably still turning off your monitor? This cases a Direct X mode change (pretty sure?).

I was fighting a troll that was much more powerful than me, so I figured let me save the same and try my luck with my Soverign. The fought the NPC and I died after nearly killing him first. I loaded the game up and retried the attack. The 2nd attempt I lost not a single HP and he was dead! I reloaded the game several times and the behavior was consistent (sometimes no damage sometimes death, but nothing inbetween). I have the saved game backed up

I get plenty of CTD's as well.. and this has lead me to what feels like 100's of restarts. I usually get CTD right after fighting a battle or zooming. However, with the load issue. I am always able to get the game loaded. I just need to do CTRL-ALT-DELETE --> task manager --> kill Elemental.exe. Then start it back up, listen to the cool Zelda (nintendo ver from 86) / Ultima III (commadore) music intro knockoff and then hit the load again.

Frogboy.. are you sure that the issue is related to multicore threading? If I use WinLauncherXP 2.0.5 Beta or another tool to start Elemental with only a single CPU Affinity it still crashes? Or, is the multicore pthreads (or equiv) still kicking off before checking if it is executing on a multicore system? I have tried waiting 10-15 seconds and even that does not always work with or without affinity tweaks.

Same crash here except that there is more memory allocated. Seems to happen after you explore the map since It did not happen early on when I started experimenting with Elemental. DebugMessage: Not all memory has been freed from memory system AStar. DebugMessage: 28080 bytes of memory still allocated.

So far this has only happened once, but I often quit and re-load my game (anal even in testing...) and on one occasion the quit to menu (to exit the game) caused a blue screen of death dump. Elemental dump file, dxdiag, and Dr.Watson dump file can be found in the link below: https://www.dropbox.com/link/17.3IDrrPNKl0?k=8f206944da2039a328d6b66ae020518a

+1 on that. I would also like to add that the enter key or spacebar should be utilized for many of the pop-up boxes that you must now manually mouse over and click on. This may already been discussed and if so I apologize for the duplication!

I wanted to mention, in case it was not reported already, that making those settings does allow the user to play, but the environment is severely artifacted. You see lines across the word, polygons and random shapes (grey), etc. Thank you again for a great game - looks like it is really coming along!

[quote who="Nuemcy" reply="3" id="2669109"]Have a 7950 with latest drivers, character cards and map where borked when I first got in ( map was pure white and character cards where indecipherable ), turned off advanced lighting and anti-aliasing and am good now. [/quote] Nuemcy - Thanks ! That worked!

Thank you for the update Frogboy. Are you finding that the newer drivers are fixing the problem (before I try it) or should I just jump onto my desktop with the ati 4790?

It may very well have to do with my older NVIDIA video drivers, but when I click on the different Sovereigns the boxes are blank or in some case they have a mis colored cape silhouet. Pastebin would not accept your default error log? I needed to cut it into two.. http://pastebin.com/Jta0DWkw http://pastebin.com/SFzgaz13 After creating the 2nd entry it appears to dislike

Impulse load test time.... lets hope they have the perfmons running! :grin:

Ferang, Thank you for offering that suggestion, but that was the first thing I tried after trying to figure out why I could not download it. I guess I will try emailing SD to see if they have any suggestions. I just wanted to query the community first. If Beta 2B is coming out in a week or so that is not too bad, but if Beta 3 is several weeks out then I would have to imagine there is some type of solution. Thank you again guys.

Hi there, I apologize if this is the wrong place or if I had a bad search string. I saw that beta1 was only sent out to folks that pre -ordered before beta1 was released, but I saw no reference to beta2. I just purchased the pre -order and I was expecting to recei ve a serial # in the email or see that the game was added to my impulse account. I waited a little bit, but it still has not shown so I suspect that I may not receive i