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[quote who="eviator" reply="19" id="3547036"] For enterprise networks, it might not be so simple. In reality patches sometimes break things. Unmanaged patching creates headaches for those tasked with ensuring availability of corporate network resources. So companies may opt to create artificial patch cycles so patches can be managed. [/quote] So much THIS. "Hey nobody can log onto the timecard website today." "Was Java updated last night?" "Looks l

[quote who="psychoak" reply="1" id="3545407"] Warlords: Battlecry [/quote] Stardock taking over the franchise and making a Battlecry 4 would make me weep tears of happiness. Or even a fixed, widescreen capable version of Battlecry 3.

[quote who="Parla" reply="5" id="3544522"] Wonderful! Thanks to STEAM I didn't even get Beta 6, 720 MB of 2,200 after three days. Now I start all over with measly 32.8 MB of 2,600. I like GalCiv, but with STEAM it's a pain in the ass! Oh, yes. I've a connection with 55.000 kBit/sec, not a 300-baud-accoustik coppler. Did I mention that I dearly love STEAM? [/quote] I would contact your ISP then and find out why your

That survey is useless without breaking down what they consider small/medium/large/phablet. My M8 is 5.0" which is about all the larger I personally want, but I'd hardly call it a phablet. 5.5" eh, pushing it. 6", yeah, I'd call a phablet. But in my small sample (my IT office of about 90 people), I know of two people with a phone that's 6.0" (Lumia 1520's). Their numbers indicate a market of 20%. That also ignores that just because

First off let me wish you best of luck, however platformers aren't my cup of tea so I'm afraid I'll have to pass. But in regards to the feedback you requested here's my take based upon the Kickstarter page and YouTube video. Kickstarter Page: I'll pretty much second what Scott said on that. I know that's easier said than done for a non-native speaker, especially considering how bad a lot of native speakers spell. :) If you'd

[quote who="psychoak" reply="8" id="3541293"] Steam gets to do lots of refunds for games that have a minimum system requirement listed as purely what the game will load with. Companies that do releases anywhere even close to this tend to not do another. They get tarred and feathered by the customers as they're introduced to their future bankruptcy in the form of 1 star reviews where the most telling complaint isn't about the game itself, but that the rating system doe

[quote who="Jafo" reply="3" id="3538312"] Minimum means lowest capable of 'running' a proggy or game without crash [CTD]. It will be far less than stellar in quality/effect/frame rate....but it will load and run. Recommended means that by which the user/player might actually enjoy doing so. It's not rocket surgery.....[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] LOL, that's w

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="17" id="3538287"] I have to disagree eith dome people civ 4 & expansions had a greatai. I like the Iidea of multiple minds working on this. How did you get them. Are you borrowing them . Are they here to stay. I still afaptive ai is the way to go. Even with a afaptive ai it is still good to start out with the best tactics possible. They don't just learn from you but they also learn from each other. I think the ai should prepare for you to do

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="1" id="3538288"] I think minimum is what a developer deems is needed to run the game adiquate...Now whatis generally possible Is to turn down options to run game with less than system requirements. If this happens this should never be for review, because you are running the game differently than what it was designed for. [/quote] See, in my mind that first sentence sounds to me like you're talking about "recommended" sys

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="195" id="3536659"] Ultimately I think my main issue, however, is not covered above. Playing AoW3 felt like playing any other fantasy 4x game. It's polished, the components are all there, but it's just not pushing the envelope. The first DLC helped with that in a way (new victory condition) and now the second DLC will add further complexity by another victory condition and race relations. Playing Endless Legend, on the other hand, was very much a bre

If Stardock doesn't object, it could be done. I've already converted a couple of Sins format models from the Armada 3 mod (many of which I believe were conversions as well from older Star Trek games) and had them 3D printed for table gaming purposes. The big restriction there though, is you don't get any textures, so it would need the hand of a good painter. But the model itself is solid. Blurry picture, but should give the general idea: <img src="h

Some of you have probably seen me respond to threads about this recently and some of you probably think I'm just some angry old guy or troll. But, I'm genuinely curious what peoples thoughts are on this. I've been a PC gamer for over 20 years now. I've been building my own PC's since my teens. I make my living as a IT Admin now. When I see a program (game or otherwise) list X specs as the Minimum System Requirements, I take that to mean the

[quote who="SwordOfJustice1" reply="24" id="3536531"] If 4GB RAM is minimum, as a customer I expect that I can at least play smoothly on a small map if not medium. I can play other strategy games like Civ BE and Endless Legend without issue on my machine. I sincerely hope the developers do improve the game so I can play it with some kind of reasonable settings on a 4GB RAM machine. I bought the game in good faith. [/quote] This may just be me, but

[quote quoting="post"] Have I purchassed a game to name a star in and I will not even get to do that anymore just because I do not read the forum all day long? [/quote] "All day long"? I got more than one email about naming my star and it was on the front of the site for months. It's not like there was a narrow time window on this nor was the information hidden somewhere.

While I am all for helping people try to improve the game performance, there's a lot of bad/useless advice being given here. And a lot of people that don't seem to be reading the details in the original post. Before I start addressing that, OP, I will say that if you are seeing noticeably poorer performance than you did with a previous build, I would make sure the devs are aware of that. I also have to point out for the record that your computer is sitting at the MIN

[quote who="RedDwarf999" reply="67" id="3533365"] backs out of the conversation slowly... [e digicons]*_*[/e] [e digicons]:borg:[/e] [/quote] For the record, you've said that 3 times now. :p

[quote who="Azazell83" reply="11" id="3534627"] How many have temperatures your CPU in the game? My CPU have 80-91 (mostly 90 degrees celsius).[/quote] As you were told in your other thread, you need to do maintenance on your computer. Overheating is not the games fault.

[quote who="ApoapsisGaming" reply="3" id="3528745"] Ps i Also can run many games such as warthunder at decent graphics with a smooth fps and i also run minecraft With shaders and get pleasant fps! [/quote] Both of which have lower system requirements. You are well below the recommended system requirements for the game. In addition it's a beta and probably still needs optimization. What resolution are you running the game at?

As someone who was initially (meaning years and years ago) against Steam, I have to ask how long people are going to try to avoid it and what they have against it. I have no complaints about the Stardock store, but Steam is simply easier and faster.

[quote who="elvenrunelord" reply="4" id="3527927"] Since SC 3 went belly up, I've been waiting on a good replacement [/quote] I've been waiting since SC2 sucked balls.

Clean your fans out and consider getting a laptop cooler. GalCiv is a very CPU intensive game. Fallen Enchantress is not.

DETAILS! I NEED DETAILS!

Strategy games are a general rule are usually pretty demanding on the CPU and unfortunately the AMD APU's are less than stellar CPU's. That said, it's still beta and there's still optimization to be done so hopefully you will see improvement.

I could sell you some servers to fix that problem. :p My main PC has been neglected a bit as I've gone crazy on my home lab. 48 Cores, 208Gb of RAM, 22TB of Storage. THAT heats up the room. LOL. Gaming PC is a 3770k, 16Gb RAM, R9 290. It gets the job done.

It was a pretty tough call for me. I like them both.