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RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:13 pm
by 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.[:'(]
RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:23 am
by 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.
RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:53 am
by Pocus
Hello everybody,
The Matrix edition is the 1.05 one.
The Demo will be updated to 1.05 today.
RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:48 pm
by 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.
RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:36 am
by 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.
RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:22 pm
by 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.
RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:08 pm
by 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.
RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:31 pm
by 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?
RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:33 am
by Pocus
oh ok! We will do that but I'm already uploading the revised demo.
RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:23 pm
by 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)
RE: AGEOD’s American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray Heads Into the Matrix
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:47 pm
by Pocus
Same.