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Dear Larienna, a very nice and well written review imho. Right on the spot in most regards. I agree that MoM still beats Elemental in its current state. Can we get MoM with the Elemental graphics engine? ;) Just a few remarks regarding the city buildings. Depending on the surounding of a city it is indeed possible that you do not have the space to build every building. Also, as you pointed out, a percentual bonus to e.g. food does not help if the city has no food-resource tile

yup, also in normal playmode, if Iam within a game and try to load a savegame elemental crashs to desktop. Thus I always have to restart elemental to load a savegame. edit: occurs in 1.01 and 1.05

yup, still black screen with 1.05 and non-elevated mode. I can play fine with elevated mode still. Closing the ATI Tray Tool does not change anything for me however.

run the game as administrator, had the same problem and that fixed it for me (temporarily I hope ;) ) [quote who="Peter Bode" reply="12" id="2727500"]I have exactly the same issue, screen black on starting since the update this morning. Basically: New Launcher starts fine Game starts Game cursor appears (feather/scribe) But black screen Music plays and seems to react to esc but still black [/quote

as I wrote in another thread, if you run Win7 or Vista try to run the game as administrator. worked for me

After patching to 1.01 Elemental only showed a black screen and the ingame cursor. I was reading up on here and playing around with the prefs.ini, but nothing helped. What fixed it for me was to run Elemental.exe with Administrative Rights (Right click -> Run as Admin...). Voila, Elemental start screen and I can continue playing where I stoped yesterday. Hope this helps some of you. p.s. Iam running Vista Business 64 Bit with ATI Radeon 5850 (and installed ATI Catal

Sweet. I like the graphic style. :)