<t> Try to install the newest graphic card drivers (either from graphic card or laptop producer) and latest DirectX. You can also try to run game with administrator priviliges. Many users are successfully using laptops to play ToW, it's compatible with wide range of hardware, we can assume it's ...

<r> Fog of War setting is placed in Preferences screen.<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>And even worse, when I select tutorial, with German set to "human", the list showing the unit types has nothing but zeroes. When I click ok to start the tutorial, I see a nice map of Poland, with absolutely nothing ...

<r> You can insert event description directly into XML file where event is placed, just replace description ID between <description> and </description> (description ID is for example "<description>ZID_12001_desc</description>" - you can change it to "<description><B><s>[b]</s>Eagles<e>[/b]</e></B ...

Try to disable McAfee antivirus when playing ToW, but it's just a suggestion - sometimes antivirus software causes problems with games.

As far as I remember it is about 25x25 km.

<r> These patches would make other games/programs stop working under wine, they're rather low-level hacks to make ToW work. OTOH MacOS X version of ToW will not break anything (so if somebody uses wine under OS X to run other programs there is no need to modify it, modded wine will exist only for ...

Available version of Wine for Mac OS X is not able to run ToW - we had to apply several significant modifications to it's (wine) source code, so it is, if not impossible, extremely difficult to run ToW using wine on MacOS X.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: LarryP<br/>
I am excited you addressed this issue. [&o] I'm testing it now and will be back within 30 minutes...<br/>
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Laptop only.<br/>
AI setting on high.<br/>
It does run cooler, no doubt. It took 20 minutes for the fan to go to high ...

<r> 1. AI thread priority? It specifies how important are AI calculations in terms of rationing processor's time - if you set AI thread priority to low, AI turns will last slightly longer, and similarly, when AI thread priority is set to very high, AI turns will pass faster.<br/>
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3. Check in ...

Try to decrease AI thread priority in game preferences, no guarantee it will help but it's possible[;)]

AFAIR it can be done by modifying others.png in used skin directory (data/gfx/[MapSkin]Classic or data/gfx/[MapSkin]Normal)