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Just finished a fresh install, actually. No change. Fried my custom sovs and custom races entirely too (in addition to not using them), and that affected no change either. One random thing I did notice is that it looks like the intro cinematic doesn't seem to be loading for me either (had it turned off, but I tried frying my preferences file to see if that helped, and the recreated default turned it back on). Don't know if that's related at all, and hitting escape ju

Once I hit play, the game will go to the screen that pops up while the map loads where it gives you the name of the world and some type of hint. And then it will just sit there. As I said, there isn't any type of crash, and the menu music keeps playing fine, but it just never goes from the tip/loading screen to the actual map.

http://pastebin.ca/1932167 (I will note that I saw some references to custom sovereign and custom race in there, but the same behavior happens when using Relias and Altair as the sov and race)

At first I was overjoyed by the 1.07 patch, since the performance jumped drastically for me. However, now I can no longer actually play the game. (I have the hotfix after 1.07 installed as well) After installing the 1.07 patch, everything loaded up fine, and I played for an hour or two with absolutely no issues. I just tried to load up my save game, though, and Elemental doesn't do anything. The menus work fine, the sovereign and race creators work

I'm still waiting on my LE box as well. Called Stardock yesterday though and they told me it had shipped, so hope its here soon.

[quote who="chaedwards" reply="32" id="2734876"]Bizarrely, what worked for me, and now means the game loads every time, is that I changed 'GfxThrottleFrameRate=1' to 'GfxThrottleFrameRate=0' This was after I noticed that my debug.err was telling me that my refresh rate was 0Hz. Hope it works for others as well[/quote] Tried this, successfully started elemental 3 times in a row back to

I also got (playing as a custom sov for the kingdom side) a book of restoration (I think that's what it was called) through the magic research tree. Around the same time I got enchantment and summoning.

[quote who="Telaeus" reply="26" id="2731136"]Ok, I don't know how many this would apply to, but I was having a similar problem. Try and load, black screen with the menu words, but nothing would happen past that. No music for me. About 153k memory usage, no CPU usage. I updated drivers, messed with permissions, changed the preferences, etc. I finally solved it on my end - I had the folder and subfolders set to "hidden" (due to being

So far, I've had 100% success rate on running elemental if its the first thing I run after doing a reboot. (still messing up later on, though) Hoping the day0 patch fixes this entirely, but if not hopefully the reboot trick still works, and helps others as well.

I'm having a similar issue to this. What I did find out is that repeatedly running elemental will eventually get it to start. And once it does start it works perfectly fine - if the splash screen with the dragon shows, the game will run for several hrs with no issues, and haven't gotten any crashes. Deleting the folder seemed to work once for me, but as with songriever deleting it a second time and trying again went back to the b

You can with the egalitarian race trait. I know Kingdom of Tarth has it, probably one of the empire factions has it. Haven't seen any particular way to specify, but if you go into the unit designer, you can have it just generate random troop images until one comes up female, and then add the equipment you want on as normal.

Ran into a very annoying bug with beta2. I uninstalled the last beta1 version (which worked fine), and installed beta2 from scratch. It seems to run fine, gameplay wise, but much of the in-game text has disappeared. Pretty much anything that's a menu item (both the main game screen, and all of the option pages) are totally blank. I can see the buttons, selection boxes, etc. but there's just nothing in them. When setting up a game, similarly, the

Similar problem for me. Meant to build in just 1 4x tile, demolished when I accidently went into a second, and the city size seemed permanently set to just one tile.

I know the AI isn't implemented much at this point, but I had a very strange thing happen last night. I was visiting the various goodie huts, and one of them said something about finding a map to another city. That part worked fine, and the red city to the south of my starting city showed up on the map. I just kept wandering around and exploring for a while, when the red soverign suddenly shows up and builds a city halfway across the world from his capital - in the same ge

Agreed, would be very helpful

I ran into a similar situation (using the .23 beta), though don't have a screenshot unfortunately. I told my soverign to move northwest, along a partially discovered mountain range. However, he turned around and went south along the range and then turned up once he passed the bottom, due to some undiscovered mountain spaces between his starting point and where I instructed him to go.

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="82" id="2384532"]There's a 0.23 patch available now. It might help some folks with crashes after the title screen, but it didn't help me. Deleting the FamilyTree files in the Screens folders does still get me going, more or less.[/quote] Same here. Things seem to work somewhat better in game once it actually boots up, but it continues to crash for me unless the family tree file is taken out before launch.

Thanks GW Swicord. And its good to know that the same file is causing problems for at least two of us. Playing around with it, with that file gone I can move the soverign around, build cities and have them build buildings, and actually managed to get my soverign in a fight with another one. Can't seem to access the research, unit building or kingdom management screens though (at least, going off what Thrawn2787 does in his gameplay demo here

OK, found a new hiccup with this error. I deleted the contents of the screens folder, as suggested here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/364302, and found out the following: 1) If I tell impulse to redownload the contents, there is no change (the game still crashes after ~5 seconds on the splash screen). However, if I leave the folder empty, and run Elemental from a desktop shortcut, I can successfully get to the intro video. Of course, another pr

Having the same problem, and just updated video drivers last night. DebugMessage: Version 0.22 last updated on: Thu Sep 17 11:59:54 2009 DebugMessage: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 9/18/2009, 11:22:27 DirectX Version: DirectX 10 Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.090302-1506) Languages: English (Regional Setting: English) S