redberg Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Has anyone with a GTX or any Geforce 8 series for that matter, been able to run Emperor. I can't. it locks up before loading the game. I've tried the NVIDIA forums and found no info, so trying it out here. Any help would be appreciated.btwIntel Core 2 Duo E6660 @ 2.66 GHZAsus P5N32 BoardGeforce 8800 GTXWindows XP SP24 gigs of ram 667 (ya i know XP 32bit cant use 4 gigs...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veK Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 I don't have the 8800 gtx yet but the drivers may be an issue.Have you tried the nocd patch yet? still the same problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redberg Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 What no-cd Patch? i just use try using the updated patch. 1.09. or try to.I know its a Driver issue, but NVIDIA isn't exactly going to care to fix an issue in a game that is old and is barely sold in stores anymore. Was wondering if there was a work around or reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ypsylon Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 You need newest nVidia drivers for graphics card and 1.09 patch of course. I had same problem. Just dusted off my copy of Emperor, installed, and BANG! Stuck in 2 sec after running the game. Then I started to looking for a possible solution to my problem, and found it on a nVidia forum. New drivers allow Emperor to start with no problems. Fix apply to all 8800 series cards (I don't know about 8600 thou). I myself owning 8800 GTS EVGA 640 MB.I running now Emperor nearly without problems (driver version for XP/2000 - 158.19). Nearly because max resolutions is set @ 1024*768 and I cannot increase it, but old 5950XT on AGP with old MB was able to show 1280*1024 without problems. But well, better 1024*768 than nothing!I hope it helps.My specs btw:Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz2 GB RAM (2*1 Geil 800MHz)XP Pro SP2EVGA 8800 GTS 640 MBSB X-FiEVGA 860i motherboard (AR version) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veK Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 I hope I won't have a problem when I switch to a 8800gtx soon.limited resolution is not quite a fix of the problem for me... I play on 1600x1200 since years, unfortunately the game is too old to support widescreen resolutions like 1920x1200 but 1600 looks fine too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eid Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 try disabling the games compressed textures by adding -c to the command line of the games shortcuteg: C:Program FilesWestwoodEmperorEmperor.exe -c the limited resolution could be a monitor driver thingy problem.. that is, maybe its installed a 'plug and play/default monitor' the only other thing i would try before igniting nvidias forums is tune your video acceleration level down 1 by 1 till it works..but dont set the lowest level :)you should be able to find these settings in DXDIAG thats just a workaround and i dont recommend using it if you dont have any problems as it WILL slow your system! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redberg Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share Posted May 3, 2007 I have the newest drivers. Still no dice. Ill try lowering the res, can only play windowed so its probably the res.Its a poorly programmed game because the rotate works so fast that one move makes it spin all the way around. poorly done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 That is flexible, in that it can be changed in one of the text files, I believe. I will ask someone to let me know if that is true and then post here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redberg Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 the -c worked like a charm. Also the rotate isn't so blinding fast thats its useless anymore. Game looks the same. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Unfortunately I couldnt find out thow to slow the rotate down any...which is a shame.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veK Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 yes it really is :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybopache Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Ok heres what I did !!I reinstalled the game,and whoalla, it runs like a hot knife through butter ::)for now.hehecybo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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