Posted on: June 17, 2021
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Verified ownerGames: 338 Reviews: 28
Finally Space Empires 5!
To begin with, yes this does work on Win10. You have to adjust the settings for SE5 though. You start the game it will pop up a menu. Instead of hitting play go to settings. Change the video adapter, the default option will have symbols and stuff. Choose the option below that should have the name of your GPU on it. That will run the game in a window. Choose a resolution if you want. Save that, start the game, and it will run without the massive mouse lag. Some people may need to change a few more settings but this was all I needed to get it working. Yes it is windowed instead of fullscreen but it works! SE4 and SE5 are still the best 4x games on the market today. Everything else has too much fluff or makes major mistakes like focusing on heroes or inventing extra micromanagement. The design of these games allowed for easy modification with modular races and shipsets, techs etc. The gameplay has no chintzy mechanics, everything is straightforward yet the complexity is still there to keep you in your seat for hours. Ship building is fantastic considering when it was made. There are consequences to making the wrong choices, like focusing on politics or terraforming techs instead of better weapons and defense when in a hot war with a close neighbor. You can defend yourself with minefields effectively unless the AI starts putting minesweepers on every ship. Or go with grand fleet unless it gets spread thin from too many wars. Or lots of defense platforms on every planet unless the enemy has more resources and overwhelms your turtle strategy. There is always a counter. SE5 lets you research a tech as much as you want instead of just a few levels like SE4. In SE5 can have super-refined railguns that can compete with higher-tech lasers etc. but research cost goes up in time. SE4 some techs get overshadowed, SE5 progressive teching prevents some of that. I do think GOG or whoever is cashing the royalty checks from sales should fix the full-screen mouse lag
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