ah yes, I've heard of that game. I'll give it a look.

EU III great game, defenatly!

I have to admit, I installed the new version last night then forgot to play it!

Reading the error message, it sounds like the graphic for the splashscreen may be missing, Zeleni - but i'm no dev so it may be something else. I'll see if I get this error message when i'm home and if so whether the splash screen image is missing or not.

The splash screen can't be missing--it's compiled into the game. It's one of the few things that can't be changed. I did that because the title screen can be changed for mods, and even if someone changes the game entirely, I still want people do know it's my game .

I've seen that error before, but not for a while. I don't remember exactly what caused it. Try running it a few more times, maybe you'll get lucky.

Also, it makes for better testing if you hit F12 to reveal the whole galaxy.

I have tried but same bug occuring. ( reinstalling framework 3.0 didn t help at all)

Hmm, ok, I'll look into it. What version of Windows are you running, and is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

Win XP SP2 32Bit... and old demo was running smoothly

hi mstrobel
is there a new version of the game?i have spot on the first post but its the old version.

It was an overwrite. I've never had problems with doing it that way before...

Oh well, i'll redownload it tonight.

The game saves some personalized settings in isolated storage, which a new version *might* try to read if you overwrite an old version. This could be a problem if the format of the settings has changed.

OK, Matress, try .

wtf, that shouldn't happen... I'm about ready to give up and burn this project .

Anyway, you should be able to fix it by changing all of the galaxy options before you start a game. Once you successfully start a game that way, you shouldn't have the problem again.

Did you change the planet and star density as well, Matress? That should have done it .

OK, try applying on top of the version you downloaded yesterday. This patch contains only the updated EXE and DLL files, so you'll need to copy them to the exiting folder (overwriting the files that are already there).

That fixed it!

The densities were coming up blank - I haven't been able to select them. After installing your most recent update though, they were selectable. I guess there was a corrupt file or something somewhere.

*Edit - I've given Supremacy a test now, and I have to say it's working very well. The zoom is a little jittery at the lowest zoom levels, but certainly not so much that it's a problem.

My computer has a Pentium 4 540 processor @ 3.21Ghz, 1Gb RAM and a Radeon 9250 Graphics card. On a huge irregular map with dense stars and dense planets, the game took 42 seconds to load, and each turn was about 5 seconds. The bulk of the 5 second processing time was (As usual) the part where the game tries to "download the updated game state".

On a tiny cluster map with sparse stars and sparse planets, the game took 13 seconds to load and turns took about 4 seconds to load. Supremacy is fast, colourful, pretty, and fun. It's definitely the BOTF2 we've been waiting for.

Now all we need is Diplomacy and tactical combat...

CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE:
I may not be able to compete with the Birth of the Empires development pace, but I can at least offer MOAR EYECANDY@#! (just kidding--respects to SirP and company). In this update, I have added animated stars to the galaxy map. However, because this feature might have a significant performance impact on slower systems, it has been disabled by default. You can turn it on via the Options screen in the Main Menu. NOTE: If the star animations are choppy on your system, try disabling high quality image scaling from the Options screen.

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actually this ain't even slowin my good old athlon 2500+ down I like the effect..