Interested how people are (hoping to) play

[Adam Parker]

Interested in 3 things:

1. Are people using the tactical battle feature or just wanting a quick combat result?

2. Are people going basic, intermediate or advanced rules and at what difficulty?

3. Has -anyone- been able to play a full game yet without a screen lock or CTD and what specs have you run if so?

[Airborne82nd]

1.  No large (or any) battles yet.  I will try detailed as I want to learn those mechanics.  I've only taken over provinces by siege.  Big one coming up soon, though.

2. Playing "Basic" at Sergeant level.  Playing as Union.

3.  No CTDs at all.   Dell, P3.4G,  1G RAM.  Geforce 6800 256mb (latest drivers).  I started the Small scenario and am now well into 1863.  I thought I had one screen freeze but I was in a unit menu where I had to choose something (Pick something or cancel).  Once I choose, normal scrolling/play resumed.

When I first reloaded my game yesterday after work, I wasn't able to scroll at all using the mouse.  I had to use the arrow keys or click on overview map.  Not sure how/why, but it eventually (just a min or 2) started working.  I will look to see if this repeats.


edit: 2 more things. I have never loaded an Autosave. I have always saved (save as) to my documents folder and have reloaded that file (I named). Not sure if this is significant.

Also, when I first start a game from a reload, my "Next Turn" button (at first) does not prompt me to go to next turn or cancel. It just starts into a new turn. I go into prefs menu, and it is highlighted. I deselect and select and it starts working. Not a big deal, just strange.

[Marc von Martial]

3. Has -anyone- been able to play a full game yet without a screen lock or CTD and what specs have you run if so?

What makes you think everybody has problems with CTDs or lockups?

[Titanwarrior89]

1. Using both tactical and fast resolve.

2. Intermediate

3. No ctd at all running great except for scroll some times(p4 2.2gz 1gig ram and a geforce 6800 256 with latest drives. Last but not least a 9300 Dell laptop.[:)]

[usecase]

Well, I've started around a dozen games so far, and everyone has ended with a solid, reproduceable CTD during siege resolution. No scrolling issues.

To answer the OP's question, I play advanced/sargeant as Union - only variant is that I disabled CSA emancipation, as the AI kept declaring it early (Feb/Mar 1862), and crippling itself.

I've mostly done quick combat, as I suck at the detailed level...

[Jonathan Palfrey]

ORIGINAL: usecase

I disabled CSA emancipation, as the AI kept declaring it early (Feb/Mar 1862), and crippling itself.

I think I'll always disable CSA emancipation. I don't think there was any chance of it happening in reality until after Gettysburg, and very little chance even then.

[rogeur]

I'm playing advanced/1st lt/instant combat and CSA.
Tried detailed combat,to long for me.
Besides , there is so much to do, you never get bored heheh
No lock-ups btw.

[Grotius]

I'm playing advanced, mostly quick combat, but I have fought one detailed battle, and I'll fight more if there's a big, juicy, reasonably-matched fight.

No crashes at all. Just the occasional scrolling freeze, but in the last two instances, the problem rectified itself after I right-clicked and hit space bar a bit. In my case, the scrolling problem seems to be related to unit selection.

In my one and only game, my current one, the south did emancipate in early 1862 -- but I'm not sure it's crippled itself. NC and Texas left the war effort, but the south got a huge diplomatic boost, and its WAY ahead of me on tech. It gets loads of cash and tech every turn from the Europeans. I'm putting 90 gold/turn into diplomacy to try to stem the tide. I do think I'll try a game with emancipation off for the CSA, but I'm enjoying it for this first go.

[Curious]

I've had several lockups. But they were when I was playing computer vs. computer just to see what this thing looks like when it's running. However, it hasn't locked up for the last couple of days (for some reason). So maybe more people are having problems than are telling about them in this forum. They're probably like me and hoping that things will just eventually work themselves out (which they seem to have done -- at least for the time being).

CB

[Hard Sarge]

Current game is CSA, 2nd lt, advance, always Detail combat

I am getting to the middle of 63

I have only ran one seige

no lock up or crashes

my games/tests normally end by 63, as something new was coming out to get a restart

Dell 3.4, with 3 Gigs of DDR Ram

[Adam Parker]

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck
What makes you think everybody has problems with CTDs or lockups?

It's just that I haven't seen such a huge response to support forum issues with one of your games for such a long time, so to me it seems that the vast majority of people are having problems - and being one of them that makes me feel better.

I haven't had problems like this, since your game about Austerlitz which for me was such a complete disaster, I returned it to the shop I bought it from.

Every other game I've bought, from you and other publishers before and since (bar 1 EA Sports title) has worked fine for me until now. I've even got W@W2 working like silk on my 512Mb Ram.

I also wanted to see how advanced my fellow gamers feel with this game early on and what PC systems are coping?

I've decided that I want Hard Sarge's [;)]

[TheHellPatrol]

Played as CSA, had no idea what is was doing or how to do it. Having not read the manual and apparently no recollection of COG i gave up[>:].
Today i will read the manual front to back, without the Gin[;)], and try a basic game as CSA. I will ONLY play with all tactical battles as those are the greatest enjoyment i get from the series. COG's tactical battles were a blast once i learned when to charge etc...
The maps/effects are gorgeous...the best of anything i've seen prior, although COG's were fine as well.
Playing on my Uber-Laptop:
Dell XPS M1710 Duo Processor
17" Ultrasharp Truelife Wide-screen WUXGA
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

This system plays Neverwinter Nights 2 at all full settings at a blazing speed so i don't anticipate any slowdowns with FOF[8D].
FOF is not a pick-up and play title...i will need to do my homework.
IMHO (fyi) i think the cover art is fine[:)].

[Hard Sarge]

ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck
What makes you think everybody has problems with CTDs or lockups?

It's just that I haven't seen such a huge response to support forum issues with one of your games for such a long time, so to me it seems that the vast majority of people are having problems - and being one of them that makes me feel better.

I haven't had problems like this, since your game about Austerlitz which for me was such a complete disaster, I returned it to the shop I bought it from.

Every other game I've bought, from you and other publishers before and since (bar 1 EA Sports title) has worked fine for me until now. I've even got W@W2 working like silk on my 512Mb Ram.

I also wanted to see how advanced my fellow gamers feel with this game early on and what PC systems are coping?

I've decided that I want Hard Sarge's [;)]

mine is set up for Flight sims, I am a flight sim nut

(which I am going nuts, been watch history channel all morning and they got back to back Dogfight shows on, I really got the itch to hitch up my 109F-4 and go to town, but the show on the Tigers was good, so may jump into a pig instead)

[Marc von Martial]

ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck
What makes you think everybody has problems with CTDs or lockups?

It's just that I haven't seen such a huge response to support forum issues with one of your games for such a long time, so to me it seems that the vast majority of people are having problems - and being one of them that makes me feel better.

I haven't had problems like this, since your game about Austerlitz which for me was such a complete disaster, I returned it to the shop I bought it from.

Every other game I've bought, from you and other publishers before and since (bar 1 EA Sports title) has worked fine for me until now. I've even got W@W2 working like silk on my 512Mb Ram.

I also wanted to see how advanced my fellow gamers feel with this game early on and what PC systems are coping?

I've decided that I want Hard Sarge's [;)]

Really, I honestly have to ask you, what kind of posts do you expect to be posted in "support subforums"? I guess only negative posts or not?

It is the nature of support forums that people post about crap that happens to them.

Most CTD stuff, as always, can be tracked down to old drivers. Without giving sales numbers the percentage of people having bought the game compared to people posting about issues like CTDs is less then 1%. And honestly, that is something WestCiv can be damn proud of.

[Airborne82nd]

Just had my first lockup, which actually took me out of the program.  Still playing the Basic game (which I now know I cannot play Detailed combat) as Union.  I am finishing up in 1864 and was beseiging Richmond.  Seige was complete and game crashed on me.  I've had many seiges--this was the first game breaker. 
 
Basically this scenario (a learning one) is over anyways.  I am going to try the advanced game next. 

[Sheytan]

dell e510

no problems at all for me.

amazingly the AI also gives you a interesting fight of it. detailed battles are sweet, however 2 things are key here, supply/disposition :} fail here and you will start routing once you hit the red zone lol. very intersting concept to simulate the "terror" of battle. units have a very finite lifespan in this zone, plan well to prevail or watch your toy soldiers run in panic [:@]

[Jonathan Palfrey]

Although I bought and installed the game as soon as it came out, I don't expect I'll have time to play it until Christmas, or maybe January.

Far too much work at the moment. And I work from home, so I can't get away from it.

You guys with spare time will be way ahead of me by the time I get started...

[Reiryc]

ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

Interested in 3 things:

1. Are people using the tactical battle feature or just wanting a quick combat result?

Mostly tactical, but if the results are going to be obvious, I go with quick.

2. Are people going basic, intermediate or advanced rules and at what difficulty?

Advanced rules always, usually play with liuetenant difficulty.

3. Has -anyone- been able to play a full game yet without a screen lock or CTD and what specs have you run if so?

Not yet...

[Mush]

CSA and USA
Started with Basic, Now Playing Advanced
Quick battles
Suffering through both scroll lock-ups (has happened twice) and Siege CTD (have not succeeded it getting past spring 63 without having to start over)
 

[soeren01]

1. Using both tactical and fast resolve.

2. Advanced.

3. No ctd at all.