Bunch O' Stuff

[Gobalopper]

I may finally know why Emperor isn't working for me, check out a post by Dan from Westwood below:

I'm guessing, however, that you are having a problem with you SBLive! card that isn't solved by the Via drivers.

Unfortunately, that problem is a sticky one, because it appears to relate to DirectX 8, rather then to Emperor directly, so in addition to Westwood, Microsoft and Creative Labs are all involved. - LINK

Not sure how long it will be before there is a fix but it is nice to know they are working on it.

Tirinal has sent in a new MOD called Emperor Modification File that is his attempt at balancing the game. You can find more information on all the changes, there are a lot, in the readme file that comes along with the Rules.txt file. As usual place this in the datamodel directory, you can find the download in the Emperor files section.

Speaking of mods there is a new version of the Dune Ini Editor available. qless has added in options to edit all of the Houses but you can still change only the cost/buildtime options. He has also launched a website for the program where you can get the latest version.

Shaolin Master sent in some new fanart, in the form of a new wallpaper, that you can check out. It comes in both 800x600 and 1024x768.

That is about it for now, I am working on a Dune 2000 strategy guide that Dreys sent in, should hopefully have that ready sometime this weekend.