The game is broken.

[dmcb5023]

I have uninstalled it. let me know when they actually fix the game to work well on high end modern computers.

[dmcb5023]

yes i am salty on this.

[A Fat, Angry Serval]

Works on my Threadripper/RTX 2070 rig, albeit with no performance benefits over older computers - in fact, it kinda runs worse.

Keep in mind this game is well over a decade old. It was designed to run on Windows XP (NT 5.1), we're on Windows 10 (NT 10) now. A lot of the instruction sets are depreciated and only maintained for legacy software purposes. The fact that this game has even been maintained in any way for THIS long is unusual.

[Harding Grim]

Did you try setting up your launch parameters on steam?

[Jonaray]

Also, modern HD mods and custom campaigns make this really viable. I have it installed on a macbook pro, i5-9400 and a ryzen rig (3400G). This game actually runs really well on all hardware I have tried! I even prefer it to some AOE and WC titles. Old but good, even if it launches with super low settings (which you can fix by making a change in the launch parameters of the game in steam btw) you can just access the settings via the main menu and change the quality manually as suits! GLHF!

[dmcb5023]

My problems are these. First way too much lag that often causes the game to crash. I have also seen the game changing files of ship and hard-points all on its own. ( no i do not have a virus or malware, I use kaspersky cloud based full security). Also a ship that worked just fine in one battle often crashes the game in the next battle. This list of errors and bugs is not exhaustive. I've had way too many problems with this game to list here. My computer is a beast. I have a graphics card with 48 gigs of ram on it. I have a 24 core processor and 88 gigs of system ram chips.

[dmcb5023]

They really should give us all a refund and let us keep the game. Or else fix it and make it run well on high end systems. I see people playing the high end mods on YT with hardly any issues.. I wonder how they do it. Or do did they get a fix because they are illiberality adventuring the game online. ( could be they only show us the recorded ones with little issues to hide the fact that they too see the problems too.)

[dmcb5023]

Its not hard to fix the 64-bit issue. It just involves changing a line of code in the exe file. I do not recommend steam users do this, it could get your steam account banned, and you might also get sued. You don't really own any game you buy on here, steam uses DRM. They can take away your ability to play a game you bought. I am going to buy the game on GoG. they are DRM free. ( meaning i can hack the code as i see fit.)

[Cool_Name]

The new update is almost entirely the reason why things are so broken and bad

[Venson]

Originally posted by dmcb5023:

Its not hard to fix the 64-bit issue. It just involves changing a line of code in the exe file. I do not recommend steam users do this, it could get your steam account banned, and you might also get sued. You don't really own any game you buy on here, steam uses DRM. They can take away your ability to play a game you bought. I am going to buy the game on GoG. they are DRM free. ( meaning i can hack the code as i see fit.)

(As a senior software dev who understands what pain in the ass it is to change the architecture of a old c++ program): Which single line do you mean?

[dmcb5023]

I got the base game running really well on my computer. FOC will not start tho. I wish i could tell you all how i did it. but It involved a bat file and a custom DLL file i made.

[dmcb5023]

They need to make another patch for the game. because of the FOC issues.

[dmcb5023]

Petroglyph says they cannot make a full patch to make the game run well on modern systems because they do not have access to the original hard copy (Cd/dvd) source code files.

[Venson]

Originally posted by 76561198001685454:

Petroglyph says they cannot make a full patch to make the game run well on modern systems because they do not have access to the original hard copy (Cd/dvd) source code files.

Could you state the source from where you got that info?

[Venson]

Originally posted by dmcb5023:

I got the base game running really well on my computer. FOC will not start tho. I wish i could tell you all how i did it. but It involved a bat file and a custom DLL file i made.

OK that maybe fixed a bug of some sorts but never changes the architecture of the program to x64. That involves recompiling the whole solution in the new architecture so that the linker can properly link the correct x64 libs.

[mikelsalo555]

does anyone can run this game mods? because they crash my game