Empire Total War, can you run it?

[Coolness]

Well, My parents were able to get it for me, at $499 and they decided to get it. I am grateful for this machine, and you did help.
I installed ETW, and I must say, the graphics are appalling.
Could recommend a Graphics card, to where....as you said I have Immense graphics?

Cheers.

Well the ATI Radeon 4870 is awesome. If you want to stick with NVidia, Nvidia GeForce GTX285 is awesome

 

[kingslynn93]

Ok, thank you.
I hope Best Buy does some deals.
I'm stripped for money, thanks to Christmas.

You've been a real help. Thank you. If I have anymore questions I will ask you.

 

[Coolness]

Ok, thank you.
I hope Best Buy does some deals.
I'm stripped for money, thanks to Christmas.

You've been a real help. Thank you. If I have anymore questions I will ask you.

No problems! See ya

 

[M17x]

Running Empire Total War + Steam on my M17x and haven't had any problem whatsoever.

 

[Lofty]

Hello,

I am having problems with Empire Total War, the game keeps freezing in diffrent places. It some times comes back and other times I have to restart.

I just need some advice and I have read other post but I am not sure what to do please help.

PC specs

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz

4.00 GB of RAM

Nvidia GeForce 250 GTS 1GB

 

[Frostmourne]

Hello,

I am having problems with Empire Total War, the game keeps freezing in diffrent places. It some times comes back and other times I have to restart.

I just need some advice and I have read other post but I am not sure what to do please help.

PC specs

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz

4.00 GB of RAM

Nvidia GeForce 250 GTS 1GB

Install the newest drivers - use the guide in my sig. Make sure the game is patched too and you have installed the DirectX redist.

 

[Lofty]

Thanks for the advice, I did what you said to do and nothing much has really changed much, I am still getting the problem when my games freezes and so on, so I dont know what else to do really, so if you have got any other ideas I would gladly try them out.

Thanks

 

[Coolness]

Thanks for the advice, I did what you said to do and nothing much has really changed much, I am still getting the problem when my games freezes and so on, so I dont know what else to do really, so if you have got any other ideas I would gladly try them out.

Thanks

Have you tried re-installing? Sometimes the setup does not work correctly and this happens.

 

[Lofty]

I have re-installed a few time but i keep get the same problem it freezes so i dont know what to do,

thanks anyway

 

[Frostmourne]

Can you fill in your hardware specs?

 

[Lofty]

Here are my specs some missing but that's what i could get.

OS-Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU-Intel Core Duo 2 CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz 2.93GHZ
Motherboard-Asus P5KPL-AM Intel G31 Chipset LGA775 FSB1066(OC)/667/800 D (Not sure about this)
Memory- RAM 4.00GB
Graphics Card-NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1GB 16X PCI Express]
Sound Card-HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDI
Hard Drives-320GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD
Monitor- LG M227WD 22 inch LCD TV 1080p

 

[Frostmourne]

That is fine - update your driver including the chipset. Try running in compatibility mode and as admin - try Vista SP1 first and then XP SP2. Update DirectX too.

 

[dis0wned1]

I have found an alternate solution for those of you having trouble with windows 7, install virtual machine which runs the actual windows xp in a window, its from microsoft and you should be problem free.

 

[Coolness]

I have found an alternate solution for those of you having trouble with windows 7, install virtual machine which runs the actual windows xp in a window, its from microsoft and you should be problem free.

Oh you have found this solution? Talking about the XP mode? Its been advertised everywhere online... Hardly anything new, and hardly problem-free since it doesnt work with all processors.

 

[dis0wned1]

I did work this out myself i just thought to try it and im not talking about compatibility mode im using a program called virtual machine

 

[Coolness]

I did work this out myself i just thought to try it and im not talking about compatibility mode im using a program called virtual machine

If you buy Win 7 pro -> you'll get to download This and, this is not a compatibilty mode. If youre not talking about this, I appologize.

 

[Lofty]

Well I can try that, What i have just noticed is that my gaming graphics have been rated a 2.0 and they were 6. something on the rating system thing, i think this could have some effect but i am not very sure, can any one suggest or help me raise the number on my graphics because i have not got a clue.

cheers.

 

[Frostmourne]

Well I can try that, What i have just noticed is that my gaming graphics have been rated a 2.0 and they were 6. something on the rating system thing, i think this could have some effect but i am not very sure, can any one suggest or help me raise the number on my graphics because i have not got a clue.

cheers.

Install the latest drivers with the guide in my sig and then rerun the WEI.

 

[dis0wned1]

I did work this out myself i just thought to try it and im not talking about compatibility mode im using a program called virtual machine

If you buy Win 7 pro -> you'll get to download This and, this is not a compatibilty mode. If youre not talking about this, I appologize.

That could be the same thing, i was given it on a disk when i queried MS and they sent it to me and i don't want to waste downloads checking if it is.

 

[Coolness]

I did work this out myself i just thought to try it and im not talking about compatibility mode im using a program called virtual machine

If you buy Win 7 pro -> you'll get to download This and, this is not a compatibilty mode. If youre not talking about this, I appologize.

That could be the same thing, i was given it on a disk when i queried MS and they sent it to me and i don't want to waste downloads checking if it is.

It probably is the same then. Use it? Also, since when was youre score reduced by 4?
It could be thats you've been swiched to intergrated/secound graphics card. Go to ctrl panel -> system and security -> system -> WEI -> view detailed info. Is the graphics card model correct?