Rome II

[JudgeDredd]

Well - bugger me!!

I've been toying with getting a new graphics card (GTX 660) to give me a wee boost with a view to upgrading my PC totally next October. So the guy at work lent me his Radeon 6950 to try...I took mine out (GTX460) and put his in...and the PC won't boot. So I put mine back in - and no boot!!!

So I can't play THE DAMN GAME! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

I guess I'll just have to bring that new PC forward! DAMN IT!

[Gusington]

Smells like a regular big release date around here!

[MengJiao]

Wouldn't that be thousands of Rutilii?  :-X
It was a rather funny scene! On the one hand he wasn't doing anything to relieve his boat of the blocking by the enemy, but if the AI tried to board one of the other boats to engage in mele, but instead made all the soldiers jump into the water I can see where this will prove enraging for a lot of battles to come. :)

strangely and even more seriously, Mr. Rutilius the Poet only has one surviving work -- a nostalgic travelogue of a journey down from Gaul along the no-longer pagan coast of Italy.

But hmmm...boarding in FOTS required an order to the ship, probably a melee order to the melee troops on a ship in Rome II doesn't get them to do the right thing.  The real Romans had to work out mechanisms on their ships to get that all to work.  Perhaps his Corvus was fouled.  Perhaps he had disregarded the sacred chickens during the pre-battle aurguries.

We can only imagine the furor if Mister Rutilius had read the reviews of the game in which his ilustrious ancestor Rutilius appears to have been captured by the Samnites.  Shamefrool Dispray!  Who has not kept the wax images of past ancestors polished?  Who got the direction of his nostalgic jouneys backward?  For surely as a former Perfect of Rome he was traveling (back in time as it were) back to his estates in Gaul, was he not?  Did not the average pagan excell in rhetorical questions?  I ask you?

Well, let me answer myself then: I understand the impulse to denounce CA for allegedly spending 4 million on maketing and making some odd cinematic representations that don't resemble the game, but I say, just as well.   The game is no more and no less than your basic improved Total War and I'm glad it is about Rome and all the moreso since there are rumors the next Total War will be something like Fantasy Universe Total War -- How will the unwise wish then that they had polished up their ancestors more properly!  Fantasy is no substitute for proper pagan piety!

[Yskonyn]

On a slightly different note;

Do you guys know of any good book about the era?
I have the four 'Caesar' books by Conn Iggulden, which are loosly based on fact, but for the rest a fictional story about the life of Caesar, his close ones and Rome. Pretty great read I must add!

Readable books about the history, but particularly about weaponry, factions, tactics and battles would be appreciated. Or otherwise perhaps an online source with dependable information?

[besilarius]

Pen and Sword has a series, Roman Conquests.  These are generally very good.
In particular, one of the authors is a Philip Matyzsak.  He is very good at explaining what happened and why it happened.

[PanzersEast]

On a slightly different note;

Do you guys know of any good book about the era?
I have the four 'Caesar' books by Conn Iggulden, which are loosly based on fact, but for the rest a fictional story about the life of Caesar, his close ones and Rome. Pretty great read I must add!

Readable books about the history, but particularly about weaponry, factions, tactics and battles would be appreciated. Or otherwise perhaps an online source with dependable information?

A couple I enjoyed...

In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire by Adrian Goldsworthy

Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins

The Making of the Roman Army: From Republic to Empire by Lawrence Keppie

PE

[undercovergeek]

Well - bugger me!!

I've been toying with getting a new graphics card (GTX 660) to give me a wee boost with a view to upgrading my PC totally next October. So the guy at work lent me his Radeon 6950 to try...I took mine out (GTX460) and put his in...and the PC won't boot. So I put mine back in - and no boot!!!

So I can't play THE DAMN GAME! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

I guess I'll just have to bring that new PC forward! DAMN IT!

dont you get all the luck? have you pressed it into the mounts properly?

[Tuna]

Well - bugger me!!

I've been toying with getting a new graphics card (GTX 660) to give me a wee boost with a view to upgrading my PC totally next October. So the guy at work lent me his Radeon 6950 to try...I took mine out (GTX460) and put his in...and the PC won't boot. So I put mine back in - and no boot!!!

So I can't play THE DAMN GAME! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

I guess I'll just have to bring that new PC forward! DAMN IT!

dont you get all the luck? have you pressed it into the mounts properly?

Go at your slot with some compressed air.. sometimes a lil dust in the wrong places can prevent your machine from booting.. I've had it happen to me twice with memory upgrades!

[Bison]

Well - bugger me!!

I've been toying with getting a new graphics card (GTX 660) to give me a wee boost with a view to upgrading my PC totally next October. So the guy at work lent me his Radeon 6950 to try...I took mine out (GTX460) and put his in...and the PC won't boot. So I put mine back in - and no boot!!!

So I can't play THE DAMN GAME! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

I guess I'll just have to bring that new PC forward! DAMN IT!

dont you get all the luck? have you pressed it into the mounts properly?

Go at your slot with some compressed air.. sometimes a lil dust in the wrong places can prevent your machine from booting.. I've had it happen to me twice with memory upgrades!

Are your drivers still installed?  Sometimes installing a new driver will remove the old drivers in the process.

[ross_ntu]

Well - bugger me!!

I've been toying with getting a new graphics card (GTX 660) to give me a wee boost with a view to upgrading my PC totally next October. So the guy at work lent me his Radeon 6950 to try...I took mine out (GTX460) and put his in...and the PC won't boot. So I put mine back in - and no boot!!!

So I can't play THE DAMN GAME! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

I guess I'll just have to bring that new PC forward! DAMN IT!

Does it get to the BIOS screen?  Did you delete the drivers from your GTX460?  Hacve you tried safe mode?

[JudgeDredd]

I'll check for dust. Card has been in and out though. Don't get anything displayed on screen and didn't mess with drivers

[Tuna]

I'll check for dust. Card has been in and out though. Don't get anything displayed on screen and didn't mess with drivers

If you're not seeing the BIOS then it's definitely nothing to do with drivers.

Believe me the two times it happened to me (on a brand new Motherboard on a build, and a memory upgrade for my kids PC), I cleaned and cleaned again.. and then all of a sudden it worked...

Almost RMA'd the motherboard, and that PC has been running great for 2 or 3 years now (that's my gaming pc)..

On my kids.. I was gonna RMA the memory, then I found that different slots is worked..so that's how I figured one of the slots had something in it.. and went nuts on it with the air.. and then viola that worked as well..

Power could be an issue too, but usually if a video card isn't getting proper power, it gives you a loud squeal.

[Yskonyn]

Yeah JD, it's either in a wrong slot or not correctly stowed, or otherwise it sounds frighteningly close to damage due to static electricity.
I hope you are able to salvage it.

Thanks PanzersEast and besilarius I will check those out!

[JudgeDredd]

Well - I won't hijack this anymore - it was slightly relevant because I had been waiting all day at work to get home and play this damn game!

I'll take it into work tomorrow and start some investigation...I'm not too fussed if it's screwed...I'll just have to buy my new PC early...I've got £1000 to spend

I think I shorted it tbh. I was an idiot and didn't switch the power off at source and as I was fitting the card, the PC started...so I think something on the card touched something and bam. I reckon I've blown the PCI-E slot

[Tuna]

Hopefully you didn't hurt your friend's card, then you'll have to replace that..

Sad news.. especially on a day when you're excited to check out this new game!