Need some help regarding video/graphics settings

[Flavius Aetius]

Hi,

I've seen that someone has already posted a similar topic to this regarding graphics settings and that it requires 70mb to run the game on startup. The end result seemed to be that they needed a new video card or update as they didnt have enogth mb for it to run wheereas I do. I meet all minimum and reccomended requirements for the game. I've checked this both manually and on a site called http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri so I'm fully aware my pc has no performance issues with the game. I also have a friend witht the same pc, the only difference being he has windows 7 where as i have windows 8.1 and his is a lower spec computer. So i know the only thing wrong is the os. I think thats it anway :P

Problem i get: black screen then message popsup saying you have 63mb and 70mb is required

My specs checked that it can run the game:

CPU
Minimum: Pentium 4 2.0 GHz, Athlon XP 2000+
You Have: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz

CPUClick here for the latest CPU drivers.
CPU Speed
CPU Speed
Minimum: 2 GHz
You Have: 2.4 GHz Performance Rated at: 5.52 GHz

RAM
RAM
Minimum: 512 MB
You Have: 8.1 GB


OS
Minimum: Windows XP / Vista (only)
You Have: Microsoft Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit

Unfortunately your operating system was not available when this product was released, so it is not OFFICIALLY supported. Please review the publisher's website for more information.

Video Card
Minimum: 128 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant, Shader 1.3-enabled video card (NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti+ / ATI Radeon 9500+)
You Have: GeForce GT 640M

Video CardClick here for the latest Video Card drivers.
Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card
Required You Have
Video RAM 64 MB 3.9 GB
3D Yes Yes
Hardware T&L Yes Yes
Pixel Shader version 1.3 5.0
Vertex Shader version 1.1 5.0
DirectX version
Minimum: DirectX 9 or higher (included on disc)
You Have: 11.0

Sound Card
Sound Card
Minimum: Yes
You Have: Intel(R) Display Audio

Sound CardClick here for the latest Sound Card drivers.
Free Disk Space
Free Disk Space
Minimum: 3 GB
You Have: 581.2 GB

DVD-ROM
DVD-ROM
Minimum: 4x or faster DVD-ROM drive
You Have: MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ8C0

any help much apreciated

[DayOfTheSheep]

It works on Win 7 fine. No problems with retail version. I think on here the game is only patch to 1.6 instead of 1.7. I put it on a mates lappy with a GT 330 very weak but it ran. So you gear isn't the problem.
Though they do have a disclaimer on the retail box that it does not work with all laptop chipsets.
Buyer beware type of thing but that's all after the fact. You have the game and it needs to work.

[DayOfTheSheep]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/19930/discussions/0/864972399933307536/

I put my best guess for a solution on this thread.

[Flavius Aetius]

Thanks, I was able to solve my problem accidently, I use a nvidia graphics card but it turns out that the intel was running as default for graphics so i went to nivida control panel and changed that game to run on high performance graphics and now im playing it all the time :)

[DayOfTheSheep]

Nice.

[And My Axe]

Originally posted by Redcoat:

Thanks, I was able to solve my problem accidently, I use a nvidia graphics card but it turns out that the intel was running as default for graphics so i went to nivida control panel and changed that game to run on high performance graphics and now im playing it all the time :)

How were you able to do this? When I disable Intel the problem escalates. It says I need 72 mb and I only have 56mb but when I enable it again the original error pops up. NVIDIA will not detect any of my Steam games except for Skyrim, but yours was able to detect Settlers?

[Flavius Aetius]

I have soemthing called the 'NVIDIA geforce experience' installed which checks my games, the settlers didn't come up so i right clicked on desktop and clicking in nivdia control panel (something like that) clciked browse and manually found the game and switched settings to high performance. Don't touch the intel graphics settings, no need. hope this helps

[And My Axe]

I was able to set my NVIDIA Processor to the main GPU from this menu and now the game works. Just needs a lot of point-and-clicking! Thanks for leading me in the right direction.

[DayOfTheSheep]

Also go in Documents\THE SETTLERS - Rise of an Empire\Config open Options.ini and make sure the refresh rate is set to your monitor.
Mine was set to 75 by default. It seems the game engine doesn't detect monitors correctly.
75hz for 1024x768 and 1280x1024 was most common when this game came out.

I set mine to 60hz and it feels a lot smoother.

[Veli]

Can you help me? I have been looking in the Nividia control panel and i cant find where i add the game!

[DayOfTheSheep]

Originally posted by Sepiks_V2:

Can you help me? I have been looking in the Nividia control panel and i cant find where i add the game!

Manage 3D settings - Program Settings - Add button'

[BALLZmcLONGtom]

Hey it looks like they moved the entire graphics DLL's to the wrong location i fixed this by copying evertything from the SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Settlers 6 Gold\base\bin
to steamapps\common\The Settlers 6 Gold and its fixed the Graphics sliders

[76561198868205544]

Originally posted by BALZmcLONGtom:

Hey it looks like they moved the entire graphics DLL's to the wrong location i fixed this by copying evertything from the SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Settlers 6 Gold\base\bin
to steamapps\common\The Settlers 6 Gold and its fixed the Graphics sliders

Hey! Thank you for sharing this.

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