Empire min specs.

[Mr.Jack]

do mine match these?
min specs
2.4Ghz single core processor
256MB Gfx card (DX9 compaitble)
1GB RAM (For XP, 2GB if using Vista)
my specs:
intel pentium D 2.8Ghz
radeon x600 256mb hypermemory
2 GB of ram

[Manoflooks]

I dont know what that graphics card is, but the others are just right.

[Pent uP Rage]

do mine match these?
min specs
2.4Ghz single core processor
256MB Gfx card (DX9 compaitble)
1GB RAM (For XP, 2GB if using Vista)
my specs:
intel pentium D 2.8Ghz
radeon x600 256mb hypermemory
2 GB of ram

uhhh...I think you answered your own question....

Don't expect to run all the bells and whistles...but ya, yours covers the minumum.

[Mr.Jack]

Thanks but the demo don't work me, i load up a battle or tutorial about half way through the loading bar the music starts playing then the loading bar starts going fowards and backwards about 10 cm and stays like that but i can still hear cannons and guns do i need to update anything? i turned offf automatic updates ages ago maybe thats it

[Pent uP Rage]

Thanks but the demo don't work me, i load up a battle or tutorial about half way through the loading bar the music starts playing then the loading bar starts going fowards and backwards about 10 cm and stays like that but i can still hear cannons and guns do i need to update anything? i turned offf automatic updates ages ago maybe thats it

Can you at least see the menus and such?
If so, turn everything down to its' lowest settings and see if it will run better.

And don't worry, loading times are pretty atrocious for everyone...even with high end gaming PC's.

[Wheelchair]

And don't worry, loading times are pretty atrocious for everyone...even with high end gaming PC's.

I'm buying 2 velicoraptors and raiding them, those loading times won't stand a chance

[Hunter Makoy]

I think those loading times on the demo will be a no matter what you have in your rig. Must be some kind of data bug or something. Hopefully this will not be a problem in the final game.

[atraps]

I'm buying 2 velicoraptors and raiding them, those loading times won't stand a chance

Actually the weird thing is, during all that loading time the game is barely accessing the hard drive. When loading a battle my HDD light lights up only once in a while compared to loading a battle in M2TW in which the light is on almost continuously. Now this is just what I noticed, and the HDD light isn't terribly accurate. I'm gonna run some benchmarks with Process Explorer and see what results I get.

[Hunter Makoy]

maybe its because its not pulling data as it should be. Like a lot of the loading time is because its actually doing nothing.

[Strelok]

A VelociRaptor will noticeably improve the time to load compared to a regular 7,200RPM, however if you really want to piss your pants, you would want a good reliable SSD.

[atraps]

A VelociRaptor will noticeably improve the time to load compared to a regular 7,200RPM, however if you really want to piss your pants, you would want a good reliable SSD.

It will not (well not with the ETW demo anyways). Check this out.

Everything left of the red line is the loading of the naval battle. The 33 MB read you see right at the end was during the battle. The biggest I/O during loading was a 176 KB/sec write. The reads were around 7 KB/sec during entire loading time. The highest I saw the reads jump to was 33 KB/sec.

[Strelok]

Well the second you alt+tab ETW is already suspended to use little I/O reads. Not 100% accurate but good info.

The game must have a bad algorithm for loading, obviously the game doesnt cache into RAM on launch, so obviously it's doing nothing sometimes.

[atraps]

Well the second you alt+tab ETW is already suspended to use little I/O reads. Not 100% accurate but good info.

The game was running in windowed mode.

[Hunter Makoy]

yeah i have serious doubts that the HDD will have a major impact on the load time. Just about everyone is having insane load times. We can only hope its a bug with the demo and not the game itself. It takes me a real long time to load a battle, but the battle itself runs flawlessly.