Oh ya..most important patch.....it did't mention the AI ground troop will take SHip to attk your from Sea like taking ship to India.

I only see England inside full of tons of Ground Troop walk walk round and round but all dunno take Ship...WTF !!!!

Some people will still have their game crash. That's just the nature of how total war games are. Look at Medieval 2 Total War...there are still people posting crashes...after 2 years...I know there is one crash bug still in M2TW(Kingdoms solves it).

The point is that...they try their best to rectify the major issues...and will continue to do so...but to expect them to patch every single bug is also not realistic...The fix list looks promising...and its a start...

PS : Not everyone are having crashes because of the same reason...tracking down the offending code and 'fixing it' is a long and arduous process.

NOTE : I have found that there may be a conflict with xfire. In all 50 hours of playing Empire I've had two crashes from the multiplayer lobby(not when loading anything...without warning from the menu) when I've had xfire on. Something probably you guys want to keep a note off. I've had no crashes without xfire running.

This post has been edited by frags: Mar 25 2009, 04:22 PM

Yar, I do not really expect them to iron all the bugs coming on all the possible machines (some random CTDs are pretty reccurent in the TW games as you said)

But some of the crashes that people are having are pretty "common", like the CTDs during some AI factions turn (Huron, Inuit, Pirates mostly) or when selecting fleets (which I never had myself) so these should have some coding issue that can be pinpointed by CA. I think that it is these issues that CA is trying to fix in the incoming patch. I do hope they manage to nail them down or at least most of them, that would make the game much more enjoyable for me.

After that I can wait more for Ai fixes or naval invasions, these are also quite big issues but at least meanwhile I can play the game without fearing loosing my campain each time I click on the "End Turn" button.

Do hope they announce the patch date soon and that the full patch list will have more surprises, but I do not keep my hope super high to avoid more disapointment.

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Added on March 26, 2009, 11:37 amBump, Patch is live!

Hi guys,

The next Empire: Total War update is now live. It will download automatically next time to connect to Steam online. If it doesn't download automatically, make sure you have automatic updates enabled in your games list for Empire: Total War.

Here is a complete list of fixes:
- Load time detection on trade routes to fix pathfinding crash in campaign
- Some General Sound balancing improvements
- Fixed UI Chat hang when spectator leaves unranked match with 3+ players
- Various Campaign Crash Fixes
- Some Save/Load fixes
- Boarding fix where cannon crew board order was not being deleted properly causing crash
- Fix to kill characters instantly to stop crashes in campaign on agent/general deaths.
- Save games limited to 1000
- Fix to animation glitch causing repetitive sounds when battle is launched.
- Multiplayer - can now find friends across regions

You can read more details on our forthcoming update cycle here.

Thanks,

Mark O'Connell
(aka SenseiTW)

Nothing much more from what they said, I hope it will fix my issues

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Mar 26 2009, 11:37 AM

I already update the ptach...NOW the entire game going into Crazy Mode...GOD DAMMNIT MORE SERIOUS.....

NOw all land and naval battle the sound become crazy and bullet and cannon fires all delay 2 sec only can heard....WTF!!!!

My land Unit 3 Row with 120ppl with the technologi fire in order mean 1st row fire then will bow let 2nd row ppl fire then bow and let 3rd row ppl fire.......but now after this patch i can heard 6 times fireshot...WTF is that? Like u screaming in cave got rebound back sound WTF

Yar, after lurking in the forums more seem lots of people are now reporting new sounds issues.

Which sound card are you using? Seems many people using Xifi are getting the issues

Yeap looks like an issue with Xfi...try changing the sound to windows default for now(in game sound option)...I'll see if I can get more info about it

Alright, I finally received my new PC last night.

I'll report my experience with this new PC once I install the game and play with it for awhile.

Hopefully, I won't encounter the sound problems like my old PC (equipped with X-Fi). I am currently using Asus Xonar DX2, it's a lot better than X-Fi in my opinion.

i using my intel Rig for playing this game..it got X-FI creative sound card..sound seting i used windows deafult and steareo also got problem..haiz

This post has been edited by RegentCid: Mar 26 2009, 05:57 PM

So from CA's announced patch planning next patch will be a bigger gameplay only patch focusing on AI and balancing.
It is supposed to come in "few weeks" (so would not count on it soon.... )

Maybe they will have a small hotfix to fix some of the issues the new patch raised but other than that I think we are struck with this version of ETW for a while now. I do hope they will have fixed my CTDs.

Apparently if you load saves that were faulty before, it might still bug. You need to start new campain to make sure you have the fixes in it.

I am praying hard...

After more testing...i can concur that even on my machine the sound is definetely something wrong with it...firing muskets sound like machinegun sometimes(it doesn't sound normal)...naval battles when zoomed out can't hear cannons firing at times...

same as me...the patch say fix sound problem...LOL...CA is not fix problem is give more problem on sound....haiz before patch all no sound problem...now entire game sound is so worst..i now playing Empire with speaker off...LOl taht why i say my Line Soldier 120 ppl firing 3 timeswith bullet but got 6 times firing sound.....so geng

This post has been edited by RegentCid: Mar 26 2009, 08:05 PM

f***... and i just updated my game a few hours ago.

Aoshi_88 LOL..if you got Creative X-Fi sound card then welcome to join us...got machine gun sound in 18th centuary....best 18th centuary gun sound created by CA

Its a small problem...no issues...they will probably hotfix it since they know what they changed...but on the good side...they fixed the water rendering on land battles(some people had that)...I feel the engine seems to perform a bit better at places...

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Added on March 26, 2009, 8:29 pmI dont use Xfi...Sound is not normal for me too..its not as bad as for some people that are reporting no sound at all...

This post has been edited by frags: Mar 26 2009, 08:29 PM

I can personally play without sound for a while if they fixed my grand campains getting corrupted. Most probably they will hotfix it soon yar

I am having problems re-installing Empire Total War in my new computer.

It takes forever for the part where it says "Creating local game cache file...."

Any help?

Make sure you are on a good IP...It does take a while...reports have it that a better internet connection helps at this stage of installation...i personally have no idea...i'll try to dig around in steam support on this

Woot I played tonight for like 3 hours continuing my France Grand Campain. Before the patch it was doing a CTD during AI turn, now no more!

It does seems CA fixed at least some of the crashes I was facing.
I also feel the Grand Campain map is smoother than before.

Now I am happy, managed to play tonight without any crash or issue and with faster AI turns than before also. Good stuff!

Thanks, I left it on the whole night installing and now its finally done.

I think I am probably the person who spend the least time on it compared to the rest in the thread.

So far I have only spend like 0.2 hours in the game hahaha......

Okay so CA has hotfixed the sound issue as expected...I got a surprise this morning when i booted up Steam...Empire was missing... Ok so deleting clientregistry.blob always does the trick...

so tonight multiplayer see you all in the chat room