Wow! Changing the mouse cursor helped! Not much, but at least FPS is staying at around 10 now, instead of 3-5, meaning it's playable. Still not using any GPU though, but I'm pretty impressed that my crappy CPU can handle it this well all alone now :P Imagine how well it'll run when it's fixed :)
I'm hoping for lots more spells in the future, and am pretty certain that we'll get them :) Guys at Stardock already promised to add some if I remember correctly, and yes, should be fairly simple to mod some in also (with effects and everything!)
Yes, tactical battles work fine for me too. This really low FPS when viewing 3D objects on the map is really the only problem of this kind that I've encountered, and it's a constant in every game all the time for me. It's just not using the GPU :(
Looks very interesting :) I like the concept of having several good and evil factions more than just Paladine vs. Takhisis I think. Never played War of the Lance, but the idea behind it sounds very cool.
I found one called Morrigan's book, or was it Moriahs? But didn't see any new spells available for research. Spell level 7 at the time, I guess they are some huge powerful high-level spells! You can also get books like summoning, mastery, combat etc. via magic research.
Here's a save of mine where it gets really bad for me in terms of FPS: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6015557/105.EleSav Tons of cities and late game (just before I won actually :D Cloth map to the rescue!)
Also agreed. I've only had the poor performance with 3D-objects annoyance, no crashes at all after 10+ hours played. Yeah the game isn't 100% finished, but so what? I'm expecting to be playing Elemental for years to come, what's couple of days, weeks, or even months? Turn based fantasy strategy games are about as rare a breed as possible when it comes to PC games, I'm just glad someone is still making them! :)
[quote who="Praetoriani" reply="134" id="2730284"]But Neil, how does that explain the problems for us with two or three cores (and for whom changing affinity settings does not help)? Fact is, it appears the GPU is not doing much if anything at all.[/quote] I too am wondering this :(
I built harbors easily in the previous versions, but in this latest 1.05 I can't seem to do it even in cities that are near perfectly acceptable looking beach :(
I was in the beta. Reinstalled the game when the "gold" version was released, but since then I've just updated it.
Here's my list if it helps: System Idle Process 0 Console 0 28 kt SYSTEM 4 Console
Well I've got Core 2 Duo 6400. Setting Elemental to use single core has no effect for me.
Yeah, exactly the same performance for me on both 1920x1020 and 1024x768 resolutions. 5-10 fps :( No idea what could be causing this, is there anything I can post here to help, like the debug file?
I tested it, and the same result here: Elemental isn't using my GPU, so my poor CPU keeps having too much to do :( I've also got Intel CPU and Ati Radeon HD 5770 with the newest (10.7) drivers (on WinXP 32bit). Very strange, maybe it's the drivers indeed? But strange that the problems happen to Nvidia users also... Not using the GPU explains why changing graphic settings has no effect, right?
No difference here either with the new patch :(
Nevermind, found it [e digicons]XD[/e] (the sword and shield next to the portrait, duh)
The button under character portrait is gone and I can't find where it is accessible now :P
Well I found the problem, I think. There was this option "Use localized data" checked in options. I unchecked it, restarted and spells are like they should be. But I could swear I haven't checked that option myself, so it must have been on by default. Weird. Edit: And yes, I was playing a new game with new just-made sovereign.
This is weird, I've updated to 1.05, it clearly says so in Impulse, and yet I've still got the spell "Ice Bolt" and can select the summoning spell book in sovereign creation [e digicons]:omg:[/e] The UI for example does have the new 1.05 stuff. My spells somehow didn't get updated along with the other stuff? Should I reinstall the game maybe?
[quote who="owl208" reply="32" id="2727933"]I just wanted to say Thanks to all the stardock peeps for their hard work. I never expected any patches so quickly, but one even before the release day and then one on release day is simply awesome. You guys really deserve some time off....[/quote] Hear hear! :)
That would explain a lot at least... But can't believe it could be true.
Cloth map looks like a board game with figurines or something :) It looks like that no matter how far you've zoomed if the game is set to use only it.
Here's another player eagerly waiting for multiplayer :) Good thing I didn't know about the plans for not including tactical battles in multiplayer, I'm sorry but for me it sounds like madness [e digicons]8C[/e] No matter though, if they're going to be added in the future. I've been playing AoW: SM multiplayer with friends for six years now, still do sometimes, and we are hoping Elemental will be a worthy replacement for it one day. Games taking long isn't an issue for us really,
Yeah, that sounds familiar :( 10 fps is the max for me with towns on screen, a big city will drag it to around 3-4. But like I said, I'm hopeful and the cloth map isn't bad ! They'll work on it I'm sure. :)
Map editor works great though :D So it's definitely the 3D stuff like cities for me (and many others I guess...) I think I'll be honing my map making skills now...