Age of Empires 3 Demo is OUT!

[raskren]

I can't run this at all.

Just a blue screen with no error messages and I have to power off the machine. Nothing is written to the application log. :(

Asus V6v Centrino laptop

512 MB ram

Ati X600

[Sn4k36]

I can't run this at all.

Just a blue screen with no error messages and I have to power off the machine. Nothing is written to the application log.  :(

Asus V6v Centrino laptop

512 MB ram

Ati X600

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it should run.. I'm running the game on a 1.7ghz intel celeron with 256mbs of ram and a intel extreme graphics card.

[raskren]

it should run.. I'm running the game on a 1.7ghz intel celeron with 256mbs of ram and a intel extreme graphics card.

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I know the hardware is capable so there's obviously some application bug or incompatability at work here...

[Captain_Wang]

For some reason I think I prefer AOE2.

[crossbonez]

downloading!!

thanks for the news!!

[crossbonez]

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

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lets see if my mx420 64MB can run it or not haha :p

[Mystical112]

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.

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i think they might have just taken it out of the demo and are not planning that for the final...

[Robbobloke]

For those that are looking to rotate the view.. hold shift + mouse wheel up and down.

[crossbonez]

SOME SCREENSHOTS WITH MY CRAPPY OLD PC (AMD DURON 1200 + NVIDIA GF4 MX420 64MB)

Running the installer..

The First Run

OOps!!! I MUST PLAY IT ANYWAY!!! NO ONE CAN STOP ME!!!

:)

Selecting Difficulty Level

UI Options -- i changed everything to low quality :p

Graphics options.. again

Create Your Home City

Select a Civilization -- You can choose to be SPANISH or BRITISH

Some more options

Loading...

OH YES!!! I can play it

:bounce:

Edited September 8, 2005 by crossbonez

[theyarecomingforyou]

For those that are looking to rotate the view.. hold shift + mouse wheel up and down.

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Or Ctrl + Arrow Keys.

Some of the gameplay features are really great... I've seen enemy units run behind rocks and broken wood to use it as shelter, popping up to fire. The gamplay is great, it's just that the user experience is awful, thanks to awful scrolling, an awful interface and not being able to view enough of the battlefield/landscape to be able to manage things properly. The music, however, is just amazing. :yes:

[bush]

man... this game looks like a toddler designed it! C'mon. I was looking forward to this, and thought that it would at least have a decent interface, but the food/gold all those icons look like they are blown up 2 pixel crayon drawings, and the images and huge bar at the bottom look ridiculous and low quality...

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after trying to play it for about two minutes i have to agree :)

[Leo Natan]

For those that are looking to rotate the view.. hold shift + mouse wheel up and down.

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:rolleyes: Couldn't they map it to the wheel press-and-hold button?!

[saerdna]

http://www.fz.se/filarkiv/download.php?fil...3/aoe3trial.exe

downloaded it with 1.2mbyte/s from there :D

[AionXn_]

The weird thing is...I can't save in single player...how come I dont see the option for it? And when you zoom in and move around, it moves so fast =\

[Rigby]

The weird thing is...I can't save in single player...how come I dont see the option for it?

Someone was speculating that it may just be disabled in the demo. I hope so anyway, it would be really bad if they won't let you save even in the retail release (though I'm not so sure now I want to buy it anyway. Not right off for sure, I'll wait until the price comes down. From what I've seen so far this is more like a budget title anyway. :(

[thagame]

using ie on cable modem, its bouncing between 700 and 800k

[jamend]

For those who think that their Geforce MX's work well with AOE3:

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[Titan Crane]

"Working" and "utilising ALL options" are not quite the same thing. As far as i'm aware, there are graphical functions within the game that simply weren't even around when the cards were made (therefore the card simply doesn't even recognise the command....or it's not even sent.) What i said was it ran ok, even with all the (available) options turned on full. no one claimed that it worked perfectly on said cards. :p

[+Mystic MVC]

Guys I'm having a werid problem so maybe somebody can help me figure it out. I downloaded the game moved it to my D driver which is larger than my C drive (only 4 gigs :s), and when I try to install the game I go to custom then select D driver instead of C drive. It proceeds to tell me that there is not enough space on my driver but 27 gigs are avalible. What could we going on?

Edit: My computer meets requirements and I have a 128megabyte graphics card.

Edited September 9, 2005 by mystic-shadow

[Shibby]

Just played it for a few hours.

It's ok i guess. Just hope that it alot more fine tuned when it gets fully released.

-Scrolling is to dam anoying

-Graphics are OK but not WOW

- Troops are ok But maybe give them a differnt colour high light ring so i now who the hell is what

I say it's ok but still needs work for the final release, Would i buy it? maybe once it get released and confirmed it's better then yes.

I Spent about 3 hours doing the first level of the demo, seemed good but got anoying and slow at times because when i wanted to do upgrades i had no money and it came in slow.

To be honest i think it's a game that doesn't need uber graphics but the gameplay is ok i guess but as everyone said just hope it improves.

Think i go and play abit more

[b0m8er]

I like the game,

played it on max details @ 1920x1200.

Had to make user.cfg to run it , but after I created this file went fine from there.

But screenhots look better than game itself. Hopefully MS will improve it, before releasing final verison.

[Titan Crane]

Guys I'm having a werid problem so maybe somebody can help me figure it out. I downloaded the game moved it to my D driver which is larger than my C drive (only 4 gigs :s), and when I try to install the game I go to custom then select D driver instead of C drive. It proceeds to tell me that there is not enough space on my driver but 27 gigs are avalible. What could we going on?

Edit: My computer meets requirements and I have a 128megabyte graphics card.

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I have no idea what your problem could be. Try creating a folder on that drive and installing it in that (as a potential workaround.) I done custom install too and put it on my second drive fine, so i doubt it's a prob with the installer. Hope you get it fixed, when unexplainable things like that happen to me i want to tear my hair out :( :p

[Raraku]

Can't believe all the bitchy, whiny, ****y and moany girls in this thread. Frick, after reading this thread I damn near expected to contract cancer simply from downloading the bloody thing.

For starters, this demo came out much sooner than any of us expected. It is also exactly that, A DEMO!! Not only is this a demo, but its a demo that ran much better than I for one was expecting this game to run, and it would seem that is the case on all of our computers, even those with shoddy GF2 budget cards. I can run this game on full settings all the way up and I was simply not expecting to be able to come close to that (specs are in my sig).

As for the game itself, the graphics are better than any other RTS out there bar none. The sound is great, the music is great, and the gameplay is fun if you give it a chance and quit crying about the interface (which I'm sure will be fixed/scalable in future releases) for a second to actually play the damn game. It plays a lot like earlier AOE's, yes, but is that such a bad thing? The games were amazing for their time and are still among the best RTS' out there. AOE3 boasts many gameplay improvements, a sweet physics engine, the aforementioned great quality sound/graphics, a new era and 8 new civilizations.

I can't believe all the bitching in this thread, it's like you guys didn't even give it a chance. I agree it can be improved in some ways, and the player models could have been a little better, but give it a frikken brake, crybabies.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I think some of you guys in this thread are judging a game from it's demo. Wait for the full release with all the improvements and fixes. I agree with Raraku. I'm sick and tired of reading 4 pages of whining. It's just a demo, remember that. The demo ran on my system pretty well with everything set to high except AA, I did that manually. It's good and I like it.

[Alpha2004]

I think some of you guys in this thread are judging a game from it's demo. Wait for the full release with all the improvements and fixes. I agree with Raraku. I'm sick and tired of reading 4 pages of whining. It's just a demo, remember that. The demo ran on my system pretty well with everything set to high except AA, I did that manually. It's good and I like it.

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Yah I think the demo rocks.

Except putting AA on high does nothing, and the units have some pathfinding issues/ai issues etc...