It's partly because you have to state specs that are not too low or people will think you game is outdated. F.e. new Paradox game Victoria 2 has higher minimum specs than Hearts of Iron 3 which came in 2009 but runs fine on PC where I can't play HoI. And my PC is below minimum specs of Victoria 2.
But... You won't be sued if you release Ultima IV remake for free, won't you?
Pantasd, I hope we get reptile continent to the south in an expansion.
Well, I thought that Windows Installer (which is used in GalCiv 2 AFAIK) is paranoic and wouldn't allow any custom unpacker or indexing program. But it turns out I'm wrong: you can add custom DLLs to installer to do any evil things you want. And you can use advanced packers like 7Z (which I'd strongly recommend for digital distribution). Anyway, the game would have indexing module if caching would be enabled so there's no point to include it in installation as well as index added in i
awuffleablehedgie, you can't do it whule installation because of mods. And installation couldn't effectively use advanced systems with several CPU etc.
Hmmm. That's a good view. On the downside you get MUCH longer loading time for first time and any time you get a big mod. But that's understandable and any user will tolerate big sign "First time I load longer to load faster later!". Oh yeah, and HDD space.
3. Try Victoria 2, it comes out this friday but you can get demo right now.
StevenAus, you see, I'm programmer and there's word "endineer" in my diploma so I've suddenly felt that all my career and years of study filled with wiring, assembling and processor codes were lies and all this knowledge and skills are meaningless. Still I hope I would be able to run game fine on my GeForce 7300. Or at least run. Some betatesters claimed it could be played on GeForce 5xxx series and some developer said it should run on netbooks...
Explain yourselves please.
Hmmm. Sorry, I had PC with 6800 for some time and then notebook with 7300 - and the notebook was slightly better. I guess it's because it's Asus notebook - they usually make some tuning to GPU.
7300 is better than 6800. Not much better, but still.
Harpo99999, so you can't get decent FPS rate even on low graphics? What about tactical battles? I suddenly want to check demo before buying game.
Why is text "The soldiers..." has cool antialiasing and logistic description hasn't?
Is it a safe guess that you need a good CPU (Core 2 Duo f.e.) and not-so-good GPU (GeForce 7xxx should work on low)?
Imagine I want to buy this game. It's not that simple to use webmoney where I live so I plan to go and buy good old DVD. But I could get only the Russian version and I fear that I miss most patches, mods and downlodable content. And couldn't share maps and mods myself. I couldn't find info on the matter so tell me please: would I be able to use english version, download patches, content, use multiplayer etc if I buy Russian version of the game? Is Russian serial (o