AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix

[jynx11]

Dammit[:D]  I am reading the forums on these two games and its killing me.  I have the same issues as others with buy buy buy play play buy buy buy[:@] I am gonna end up breaking down and purchasing one of these titles.[:'(]

[Gray_Lensman]

ORIGINAL: jynx11

Dammit[:D]  I am reading the forums on these two games and its killing me.  I have the same issues as others with buy buy buy play play buy buy buy[:@] I am gonna end up breaking down and purchasing one of these titles.[:'(]

If you can spare the change get both. If not decide your preference as above re:detailed battles or not. Myself, I like the detailed battles in FoF, but AGEod's product is a fine product and a different way to play. Also AGEod AACW is somewhat scripted where FoF is not. This can be both advantageous, but limiting, depending on how much freedom you really want in your gaming.

[Pocus]

Hello everybody,

The Matrix edition is the 1.05 one.

The Demo will be updated to 1.05 today.

[berto]

Twice I've tried running the new demo unsuccessfully. It gets as far as the main menu, I select the new game option, select the tutorial, then... the disk spins and spins and... after ten minutes still nothing happens...

Task Manager reports the game using 0-2% of the CPU. On my first try, Task Manager reported 0% CPU use, despite the game hanging on the tutorial startup and the disk spinning and spinning and spinning...

Last night, I successfully started the 1.02 demo and played with it for 10-15 minutes.

Sigh, maybe I should uninstall the latest 1.05 demo, reinstall the 1.02 demo, and try that again...

Nah, maybe some other time. Too much time wasted already this weekend administering around game quirks. (Nothing personal, nothing unique to AACW in this. Almost all of my games require work-arounds and hand holding of one sort or another.)

I think I'll play some EU3 instead.

[Pocus]

strange, are you using Windows XP or Vista? I can take a look at your DxDiag file also.

The thing about the game being iddle in memory (low CPU usage) can be a problem with its access denied by a security program, like a Norton AV thingy or the UAC system of Vista.

[berto]

I do run Norton AV (on Windows XP). I'll try killing that and restarting the demo. Maybe I can report back later today if that works or not.

[bilbow]

ORIGINAL: berto

Twice I've tried running the new demo unsuccessfully. It gets as far as the main menu, I select the new game option, select the tutorial, then... the disk spins and spins and... after ten minutes still nothing happens...

Task Manager reports the game using 0-2% of the CPU. On my first try, Task Manager reported 0% CPU use, despite the game hanging on the tutorial startup and the disk spinning and spinning and spinning...

Last night, I successfully started the 1.02 demo and played with it for 10-15 minutes.

Sigh, maybe I should uninstall the latest 1.05 demo, reinstall the 1.02 demo, and try that again...

Nah, maybe some other time. Too much time wasted already this weekend administering around game quirks. (Nothing personal, nothing unique to AACW in this. Almost all of my games require work-arounds and hand holding of one sort or another.)

I think I'll play some EU3 instead.

I had a similar experience. After I clicked the scenario, nothing happened. Then I clicked the image of Lincoln. I guess the game wants tp know what side I wanted altough that was the only choice. Worked fine after that. Nothing obvious about the need to click that though. Needs to be obvious for newbies trying to figure out the game.

[berto]

Yup, that's it. One has to click on the picture of Honest Abe. There's no clear indication one needs to do that. Maybe add an on-screen prompt, else highlight this in the demo instructions or README?

[Pocus]

oh ok! We will do that but I'm already uploading the revised demo.

[oi_you_nutter]

ref the Ageod version and the Matrix version of AACW (aka ACW Blue and Gray) and the installation of patches

will the two releases use the same or different patches to update the game ?

(i guess seperate patches, but it does not hurt to ask)

[Pocus]

Same.