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Orders have been handed over to the shippers and the boxes will start shipping in batches tomorrow. They'll be going out USPS Priority.

You're running year-old video drivers-- try the latest from nVidia.

You can heal by passing time in cities (faster) or just in your territory in general (slower). There are also consumables that heroes can use.

Check the tactical battle threshold in the options.

[quote]I'm from belgium and i cant find a place to buy a boxed copy of elemental? arent you bringing it out in belgium or is it just digital which i would hate because on princible i want a nice little box that says "elemental war of magic" gleaming on my shelf (seriously i wont buy if i dont get a boxed copy) can anyone enlighten me please [/quote] The game will not be available at retail in Europe, however you can get a box direct it you're willing to pay for shipping.

You can upload images manually to imageshack or similar sites and link them here, or use Jing to upload them automatically when you capture them.

Yeah, he should still have the farmer profession/bonus, but he'll now have a mana bar and spellbook button on the right side of the UI.

Is that the only one that was there? That one is from very early in the beta. If your crash today created one, it'll be named Elemental1_00-2010-08-23--, etc.

Are you sure there's no debug.err? If it's getting far enough to try initializing the screen, there will be one in My Documents\My Games\Elemental. If there was a dump zip created in C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic, please post that too.

Your video drivers are very old--try updating to the latest ones from nVidia.

There's a setting in the options to clip the cursor to the game's monitor in fullscreen. If you're experiencing slowdowns, 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

[quote]Civ IV has a way to allow you to have random maps AND it works in multiplayer.[/quote] It's worth noting that civ doesn't let you see resources you haven't researched, so right off the start you're mainly just looking for a nice spot with good food and/or shield producing tiles (which are very common since it's just based on terrain type).

If there was a dump zip created in C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic, please post that too.

If you ordered a box you'll get a box. You had the option of either the download only or the download and a box. If you click My Account above and go to the registrations page, it should say (Download) or (Download+Box) in the list.

Check out the Hiergamenon in-game (? book icon at top right), and make sure you have Janusk's advice enabled and recruit him when he pops up at game start.

Blue dots indicate buildings.

If there was a dump zip created in C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic, please post that too.

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.

Please post the save (there should be an icon for it with a number on it if it's a proper group).

[quote]Quick question, since I've been having this problem as well: My last debug.err is a whopping 118kb, and full of about 50,000 completely different types of errors, like...[/quote] Please post the whole thing on pastebin, the devs would need to determine just where the issue lies.

Yes, you're well above the requirements.

It's an error in the updated-date. It's showing the 17th even for installs last night.

[quote]it says that i also have the version from aug 17th[/quote] It's an error in the updated-date in the game. If Impulse says there are no updates, you're current. So go ahead and post the dumps.

If a dump zip was generated in C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic, please post that too.

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.