Guide for Newcomers/Questions

[max2]

Hello Folks,

I'm a TOAW: CoW player and my resistance has been weakened enough that I want to now purchase TOAW 3. Before that I happens, I have the following questions:

1)Patches: Patch v3.2.29.27 describes itself as a "comprehensive update". Does this mean I need to install only this patch and all other previous patch fixes will be included?

2)Check this out: http://bit.ly/aElZSh Are these improved graphics now available for TOAW 3? If so, how do I get that?

3) What is BioEd? What does it do and how do I install it?

4)I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit; are there any major issues I should know about when running TOAW 3 on this system and if so, are there fixes for them?

My apologies if this information is already posted elsewhere on the forum but I could not find it. Guidance is greatly appreciated.

Max

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3) What is BioEd? What does it do and how do I install it?

BioEd allows you to edit many things that cannot be edited within TOAW itself. If you are into changing and creating, you will need this.

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/yves.lr/Bioed/Bioed.htm

[ralphtricky]

ORIGINAL: max2
Hello Folks,

I'm a TOAW: CoW player and my resistance has been weakened enough that I want to now purchase TOAW 3. Before that I happens, I have the following questions:

1)Patches: Patch v3.2.29.27 describes itself as a "comprehensive update". Does this mean I need to install only this patch and all other previous patch fixes will be included?

2)Check this out: http://bit.ly/aElZSh Are these improved graphics now available for TOAW 3? If so, how do I get that?

3) What is BioEd? What does it do and how do I install it?

4)I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit; are there any major issues I should know about when running TOAW 3 on this system and if so, are there fixes for them?

My apologies if this information is already posted elsewhere on the forum but I could not find it. Guidance is greatly appreciated.

Max

The Beta 3.4 patch is available now from the member's area. There's a thread on the main forum about how to access it. The current plan is to make a few minor changes and release the public patch sometime next week. Some of the resources for that are out of my control, so I can't promise that, and the issues so far are pretty minor and documented at the top of the support forum. None of them are major problems so far <knock on wood>. I'll know more after this weekend, I'm sure.

The new graphics are optional and included in the patch.

I'm developing on Windows 7 64. Pre patch there are a couple of issues. The beta patch cleans up most of them, and the public patch cleans up the rest of the problems that I know of.

[max2]

Excellent! Thanks for the help ...sounds to me that I can purchase the game, install the beta patch and play without much trouble at all.