Won't you get pull-down judder with 30 fps on a 60 Hz screen? Here's a handy comparison between 15, 30 and 60 fps: http://bit.ly/6LwoKv It's pretty easy to tell the difference between 30 and 60 fps.
In the worst case scenario: If you're Australian, cannot play the game because of technical issues, and Stardock refuses to refund the game, read up on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission website. ACCC provides a guide to the statutory rights of consumers in regards to refunds here: http://bit.ly/b5mChk Here are a couple of quotes: Statutory rights apply to all consumer purchases. These righ
I'll second I Intrude. If the upcoming patch won't fix the performance issues, which make the game unplayable for me, I don't think I can trust Stardock to ever do it. This isn't immature. I can't play the game. Stardock says the next patch will fix it. If it doesn't I still won't be able to play the game. I'll ask for a refund. I hope that the patch will fix the problem. If I get a refund and Stardock fixes the issues some time down the track, I will
Underking, I don't think you can even update the game without buying the original. I'm pretty sure it's safe to say there are no pirates in this thread. Arr. PS. No change in performance after updating to 1.06.
Apologies for threadomancy. Please bear with me. Elemental multiplayer is intended to be simultaneous, right? Why not take advantage of it. Implement a branch of Tech called "Intelligence" or "Surveillance" or "Spy Network" or something. The higher you've developed the tech the later you will get to act in a turn. So, for example, a player who hasn't researched this Tech at all will go first during a turn, then lock in his moves. A player who has researched this tree w
@db0 Same here. F5. F5. F5. F5.
Nice work!
Any luck? Highly doubtful, since a lot of the people with frame rate issues have an NVIDIA video card.
Majority of GPUs sold nowadays are ATI (source: http://bit.ly/9EZy58). That, and people with NVIDIA suffer from the same issues with performance. /feeding the troll
Forwarded the RPS article to Game Journalists Are Incompetent . . . (you know the rest).
Yep, get the same issue as Lord KiRon. In order to target a square, I often have to bring the cursor below the actual square.
I didn't install the game until 1.00 came out.
Cloth map + grid works alright in the meantime. Lightning fast. Should tide you over until this is sorted.
Could it be an ATI-only issue? Radeon HD 4800 here, same problem. Very choppy frame rate when I look at a city, otherwise bearable. Switching to single core affinity didn't help. [EDIT] Apologies, I've noticed that people with a Geforce GPU have also posted about the same problem.
That's a ridiculous argument. Random House was paid for professional writing.
Yeah, okay, the sandbox is much more fun.
What SAJ said. Remember Stardock's Bill of Rights? One of the points reads: Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state. Physical copies are already being sold in stores. Stardock is still working on the day 0 patch.
I hope so. The campaign is tiny and uninspired. I doubt the extra day will make a difference in that sense. Will have to try the sandbox after day 0, due to rampant CTDs.
@Dariune /agree Despite my gripes, I think the music is great. And it's a very pretty game. Very choppy performance at the moment though.
The writing isn't bad, but it's hardly memorable. Some of the names and cliches will make you die inside a little though. If the campaign was really designed as a tutorial, isn't it pretty light on instructions? I must have missed something, but I didn't realise I could build farms and mines over the resources around my towns for a long while. I didn't even notice the resource bar at the top of the screen at first. s: It's partially a resolution thing, I guess.
I'll second the OP -- on the merit of 1.0, the campaign is just cheesy and not very fun. Just updated to 1.01. Once more into the breach.
It's all good. I left Impulse to download the game overnight, successfully.
Thanks! I'll keep trying.
Looks like Impulse Anywhere is the go. I downloaded the installer, but when I try to download any of the data archives, I get a file not found error. Tried refreshing and accepting the terms and conditions again, same deal. Download manager fails to find it too. [EDIT] Here is the error when I click on any of the data files in IA: File not found when looking for elemental 1.00.010
/sadface I guess I'll mooch off uni internet tomorrow.