Kr0z Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 it is a demo, not a full version so bugs are still there. 586494133[/snapback] Maybe if Microsoft had given this game to beta testers to play with first, it would have not been so dissapointing. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Runs great on my GeForce 2 Mx 400 64MB RAM with EVERTHING that can go on max on max. I love the effects of the connon balls on the houses/buildings. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I wrote a short review here: http://istartedsomething.blogspot.com/2005...3-demo-out.html Here's a snippet However, the most unimpressive part of the game is its menu system. When I was first introduced to the game, without a tutorial that is, I was basically frustrated by not knowing what is going on. All the graphical commands and buttons are so vague that I would have not guessed the functions of half of them without looking at the tooltip. I admit it will be familiarised in the long run, but I've seen other games do a much better job of providing an easier to understand menu system. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk11vengeance Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 has anyone came up with a fix for the bluescreen at startup yet? mines like this: once i click the accept for the lisence agreement it starts to load where it says AOE III and then the screen just turns blue, no stop error or nothing. i checked the log file but its empty. to those wondering where this is its in my documents/my games im running latest ati/nforce2/soundblaster x-fi drivers/everything else. my cpu isnt 64 bit so i dont think this is a 64 bit only problem. the only thing i was running when i tried to start it was MS antispyware, maybe that has something to do with it, did anyone else have this running at the time of crashing? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrix XII Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 damn its blue screening :( (no debug output)amd64 3000+ 512mb ram x800 bravo 256mb no other games blue screen 586492701[/snapback] same thing happening to me. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qarth Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Age of Mythologies is where it's at. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dray_04 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 WoW! I was highly anticipating this game... but reading through 3 pages of "Im-downloading-it-at-300kb/s" and 4 pages of "man-it-sucks"... has really put me off Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smit Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 For those asking the minimum specs: 1.4Ghz CPU 256MB RAM 64MB HW T&L Graphics Card (Which is a Geforce 2 or above isn't it?) I'll try it on my girlfriends PC a bit later (has the exact specs of above) and see if it works that low. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_witko Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 (edited) OH MY GOODNESS... what a friggin dissappointment. i was waiting for this for AGES (npi). and now it comes out and its just busted my coconuts. i think the gameplay SUCKS. the graphics were also so-o hyped up and selective screenshots given, but it sucks... maybe its just my 6600GT, but i bet NOT. (EDIT) I AM USING LARGE TEXT TO GET YOUR ATTENTION: THIS GAME SUCKS... COMPARABLE TO AOM Edited September 8, 2005 by a_witko Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr0z Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I agree also! I want my 400MB of bandwidth back Mr Microsoft. If it were April 1st I'd laugh. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TranceSphere Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 After it resets my computer, i get this in the log file: PreGame 5641: nvCPL is unavailable. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
_tux_ Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 (havnt read all the pages but...) to fix blue screens on ati cards. go to the 3d tab in display properties and TURN OFF CUSTOM SETTINGS. set d3d (i set opengl as well) to balanced, no more blue screens :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrix XII Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 good tip man (Y) although I deleted it already and I'm not downloading it again haha Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I find it all almost unplayable becasue of the poor scrolling. In command and conquer games including generals you could scroll by holding down the right mouse button and moving it but I can't find any option in this demo to do that. The only way to scroll is put the mouse to the edge of the screen and I just can't control it. It hesitates for a moments when I put my mouse there and then goes really fast and I just cant move the view to where I want it to be. Put in a command and conquer style scroll and i'll be able to play it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586494854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munashii Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I don't know about you guys, but I'm really enjoying the demo. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
King RasBert Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Unfortunately you are not able to save the game during play, which made me unsitall it instantly. I'm pretty dissapointed about that. I don't know why they have omitted a savegame feature in the demo; maby you will get to much of the game if you were able to save, which make me think that the game is NOT very big. I was looking forward to this game, but now with that omission, i will most likely not be buying it unfortunately. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
_tux_ Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 i quite like the demo, managing a big army is clumsy though (im probably doing it wrong) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495257 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibby Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 graphics for me are not that bad but the scrolling really peed the hell out of me. Makes it much harder to control. Will have to have another go later Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowlan Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I have to agree with many who have posted here. Unit control is not easy, instead of being individual units they could have been grouped together or something. The first thing that struck me was the huge GUI, I got used to it after some time but it really could have been a lot smaller. On the other hand as people have pointed out, building destruction was cool, as were the sound effects and graphics - but these are only superficial things in my opinion. Unfortunately the demo did not make me think positively of this game. :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 ok i get like no textures even in game... how nice :| Ati 9800pro 5.8cats *tried with 5.4 as well* Pentuim 4 2.8ghz 768mb DDR ram Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Crane Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I'm shocked how my crappy mx400 32mb played this fine and a lot of you guys with high end cards can't even get it to run :D The irony :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I'm shocked how my crappy mx400 32mb played this fine and a lot of you guys with high end cards can't even get it to run :D The irony :D 586495784[/snapback] just goes to show new isnt always good :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495827 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I'm shocked how my crappy mx400 32mb played this fine and a lot of you guys with high end cards can't even get it to run :D The irony :D 586495784[/snapback] Very sad :cry: But instead of getting mad I'll just laugh at the fact that I paid $500 for the latest, greatest video card that doesn't work :pinch: :laugh: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahmi_r Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 i played it and it wasnt bad at all. good job! but 1 thing is that whenever i played the texas map, my computer will crash :angry: :angry: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn4k36 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 i got a kick out this demo version when i loaded it up. it said my graphics "64mb intel extreme graphics" card wasn't support, but when i clicked on run anyways. it loaded up fine and everything. the game even played pretty good. So i can't really wait for the final version of it to come out because i think it'll be alot better then what it is now. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/369163-age-of-empires-3-demo-is-out/page/5/#findComment-586495839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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