kryo

Sounds like something is broken in windows itself on your machine, in that case.

If you're able to download the game, the simplest thing to do is to just install Impulse, register your key, and download the entire latest version of the game. If downloading ~2GB is not possible for you though, please contact [email protected] and they can look into the disc install issue.

The campaign includes some tutorial messages that should help. [quote] 2a. Find him again 2b. Add new soldiers to his army (and how do I even find those soldiers... I think they're in that town) 2c. Buy him new stuff at the store. At the beginning of the game there was some store thingie, but now I can't find it anymore, and so a bunch of my troops are running around punching stuff. And dying a lot.[/quote] Click on th

If there was a dump zip created in [b]C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic[/b] ([b]C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic[/b] on Windows XP), please post that too.

Does it make any difference if you change your number settings to US/North America in the windows regional settings?

If this is not caused by alt-tabbing, does it make any difference if you set windows to use US number settings (comma for thousands and period for decimals)?

Yes, we'll be removing the ability to stack the same item shortly.

When this happened, was your side's morale very low or zero?

The incorrect large value issue is resolved internally for the next update. Thanks for your report.

Saves shouldn't be needed for this sort of issue, no.

If there was a dump zip created in [b]C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic[/b] ([b]C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic[/b] on Windows XP), please post that too.

[quote]Second time, spontaneous reboot.[/quote] A spontaneous reboot often means your computer is tossing a Blue Screen of Death but is set to not display it. BSODs are generally caused by hardware or driver problems, and the error message it shows can help pin down exactly what the issue is. To have your computer display BSODs instead of rebooting immediately, go to Control Panel->System Properties->Advanced Tab->Startup and Recovery Settings and uncheck 'automati

[quote]The difference can be explained with the economy treaties. Thats the amount of cash I am missing.[/quote] That should be fixed for the next update now. Thanks for your report.

The Town Hall, as its tooltip says, increases influence (ZOC), not prestige. From your save for example, I built one in one of your other towns. A couple of turns after completion, the ZOC bulged out an extra tile on the side of the city that the hall was built on. Embassies generate diplomatic capital (check the resource tray at top). Diplomatic capital increases the value of your trades.

Please open your debug.err file in notepad, and link the contents into a post here via [link="http://pastebin.ca"]pastebin[/link]. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem. The file can be found in [b]My Documents\My Games\Elemental[/b] Be sure to copy the debug [b]immediately after the error occurs[/b]; if you start the game again, the debug log will be erased and recreated for the new session.

[quote]Hah, you must have a macro ready to go Kryo, I know I've seen you post those exact words many times already.[/quote] Yes, I make rather extensive use of the Clippings addon for Firefox :)

Do you have the same issue installing the 2005 SP1 redist straight from Microsoft?

Moved to support. If you're seeing OOMs that quickly, we definitely want to see your debug.err file.

[quote]I don't think there's a comprehensive known issues list on the forums[/quote] As noted previously, things are moving too fast right now for it to be practical to maintain a public list (we have an internal one that gets pretty much everything from the support forum fed into it), and most users ignore stickies anyway. But we'll be posting journals regularly as we go to keep everyone apprised on our status.

[quote]I suspect that they purchased the game (disc) and update via impulse to the 'latest', which then causes blank screen as it skipped the previous two updates (yes, I know patches are supposed to be accumulative, but if this is proving to solve the problem then surely something is wrong with the single update).[/quote] Because there is no skipping. Impulse simply checks all your files against the server copy and replaces any that are different in one shot. So you'll have the exact

[quote]I should have been one of the first people to receive it.[/quote] Shipments go out from a fulfillment center near Cincinnati, IIRC.

[quote]trying to say that the game has the dev team's attention for the next year and that they're not moving to another game after 2 patches[/quote] Pretty much.

Please open your debug.err file in notepad, and link the contents into a post here via [link="http://pastebin.ca"]pastebin[/link]. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem. The file can be found in [b]My Documents\My Games\Elemental[/b] Be sure to copy the debug [b]immediately after the error occurs[/b]; if you start the game again, the debug log will be erased and recreated for the new session.

[quote]Shame on you, Stardock![/quote] Impulse patches the game directly and is the only legitimate way to obtain the updates... so if you're having some issue from "patching in the wrong order", then that tells me you've got a "special" version of the game. In which case we're not the ones who should be ashamed. If you're going to steal from us, at least have the decency to not waste our time when we've got paying customers to help.

[quote]Why did Stardock allow the option to charge me for overnight shipping ($10) when the game wasn't being shipped for like a week after it was going to be launched? I want my shipping charge refunded. [/quote] Where did you see that it was overnight? All domestic shipping is USPS Priority Mail. There are no other options.