Daimyo Kenshin said:

just played a 106 turn game after conquering all of India, N. Africa. I have a saved game at this turn, and tried everything. once end turn is hit, it cycles the AI countries and freezes everytime on Sweden and i have to hard reboot.

Noticed a lot of bad performance (lag from game, and if steam is running in background with game off, lots of internet lag) with this piling crap called steam. if i knew this would be on it. i would not have bought the game.

Also this Empire seems to be a big rip off of another game called Europa Universalis. Did Creative buy this company out?

anyway, any ideas on my freezing?

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system info is
AMD Dual Core 4800+
2GB ram
10k HD
Nvidia 8600 GT

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Brusilov said:

Are you serious that you did not know that the game required steam? Surely, that was clearly stated.

You need to pay attention and read things rather than just assume something.

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Daimyo Kenshin said:

it does not say anything on my box that says it needs steam!

and no i didnt blame the crashes on steam. but i personally believe it is probably part of the problem.

i avoid everything with steam had many bad problems long ago with HL2. annoying steam pop ups, running in background. long loads, advertisements. and yes it is a pos.

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Ketchup said:

Yes it does say that on your box.

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Daimyo Kenshin said:

it does not say anything on my box that says it needs steam!

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Brusilov said:

But only if you read it.....

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