Star Wars: Empire at War

Anyone planning on getting it this week? I think it looks SWEET! I love RTS too...favorite genre on PC.

 

I've got the demo, it's great - love the battlefield view! Graphics rock.

I always loved the Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, huge fan. I still play them quite often. EAW is going to be great.

 

I was all excited about this one until I played the demo. The battle level graphics are nice but the gameplay interface is horrid. I'm very much turned off by poor interface design and that killed my interest in this one.

 

I saw a description saying from the creators of Command and Conquer so I immediately pre-ordered with next day shipping. It will be here today! Now I'm wondering if my work PC can run it when I'm on the train or will I have to carry around my Inspiron.

 

I tired the demo on my Machine - last about 5 - 10 minutes then POW -CRASH power off . Did this twice - not much else running Norton AV , Zonelaram , Wireless

I am using latest OMEGA drivers any ideas ?

thx........dy

 

Hm, I didn't have that problem. I have an X700 and the Catalyst Mobility 6.2 drivers. Nothing running in the background.

I would try the stock ATI Mobility Catalyst 6.2's, see if they improve your situation.

 

Tried that - did the Unistalll via control Panel / Reboot - did not use Driver Clean - Same issue

Appears to work Play Star Wars Empire at War Demo in Safe Mode

I have another Game Hoyle Casino 3D that does the same thing (although forms there suggest laptops will always have issues and not supported)

To me since both games are 3D gotta be some kind of conflict. I always use th BT mouse to play - that might be an issue ?

On a side note cannot seem to get Catalyst Control Center to come in advance Mode. Beginner mode comes up fine.

Should I try DriverClean think it will make much of a difference ?

 

Answered my own question - Star Wars plays ok now after Driver Cleaner removed everything that started with ATI (there were quite a few)

The Hoyle Game Still crahses and burns (different issue I guess) and I still cannot display advanced mode in Catalyst Control Center. (don't need to just want too hahah)

1 out of 3 (the one I was after ) ain't too bad - I had a few version of ATI and Omega the Driver Cleaner helped

 

I have a x700 128MB, 2GB RAM and a Pentium M 2 Ghz. I cannot find any system requirements on Amazon. Should this be OK on my system? The graphics look pretty intense.

 

Other more experienced gammers can offer more tweaks and opinions / suggestions - my specs are almost identical to yours except you have twice the ram (which a good thing) .

Once I fixed my driver issues - the demo played flawlessly (I left everythng at the default settings which were likely 'middle of the road' as opposed to full everthing.)

 

I think your system is fine. Technically that game, I don't think requires much.

Minimum Requirements:
P1GHz
256MB RAM
32MB 3D accelerator
8xCD-ROM
2.5GB free disk space
- gamefaqs

 

Thanks guys. I can't load the demo and try it but wanted to make sure I can play it before I spent fifty bucks.

 

My Inspiron runs the game at full res with no issues. I'm trying my latitude now.

 

Runs fine on my latitude on medium settings. No high-end GPUs needed for this game. I don't have an integrated GPU to test on but if that is the type of GPU you bought for your laptop you probably don't care about playing games on it.

 

The Demo has been great. Gonna take the real game for a spin later... Can't figure out the land speeder bomb things though. Do I drive into a pack of enemy infantry, hit the bomb button, and run like Hell?

 

Pretty much. Yea the ground games are not as fun as the space ones.