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Eador seriesGetting Eador: Genesis to run on a Win 7 Desktop PC.(22 posts)(22 posts)
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Posted April 15, 2013
I have a i7 X 980 @ 3.33 GHz, 12 GB of RAM, an nVidia GTX 570 with the latest 314.22 drivers, running Win 7 Pro. I purchased Genesis from GOG and I have attempted to get it to run on my box, but it will not. When the opening screen loads, the mouse gets 'sticky' and the sound stutters.

In perusing the forums, I see that some here are able to get the game to run without any tweaks. I was hoping to see if those who are using desktops are in fact using a PC similar to mine, or if the ones who are running it with no problems are using AMD processors/Raedon video cards.

I can run games like CIv 5, Borderlands 2, X-COM, Fallen Enchantress, etc with no problem, while other programs are open (even Firefox with YouTube videos on pause with its notorious memory leak) at 1920x1080 with 8X anti-aliasing, Anisotropic filtering at 16x, etc. In fact, I use the nVidia Geforce Experience app and all the games that I have that are listed in that app are maxxed out for visual effects, so I do not think it is a matter of my having enough 'horsepower' to run the game.

I know of the trick to throttle the CPU by manually creating a profile bringing the speed of the CPU down by 50%. I am hoping to leave that as the last resort. I have already contacted customer support and despite their helpfulness, they were unable to help me get the program running.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Post edited April 16, 2013 by flagyl
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Posted April 15, 2013
If you have steam running, exit it completely (logout and quit).

There's a conflict between Genesis dll and Steam.
Posted April 15, 2013
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rahal: If you have steam running, exit it completely (logout and quit).

There's a conflict between Genesis dll and Steam.
Thanks rahal. I have tried that in the past and while it did stop the stuttering, the game still crashed.
Posted April 15, 2013
Ah wish I could be more help. My system is very similar to yours and I've never had a crash.

What worked for me was quitting steam + using only the edited cfg file from the launcher linked on this forum.

If you can't find it:

***MAIN SETTINGS***
Sound (0 - off/1 - on): 1
Windowed (0 - off/1 - on): 1
Run background (0 - off/1 - on): 1
Refresh delay (default 40): 15
Poll mouse delay (default 25): 5
Keyboard delay (default 500): 250
Keyboard repeat (default 500): 250
Sound buffer (default 20000): 20000
Color depth (16/24/32, default 32): 32
Sleep time (default 50): 5
Antiblink Delay (default 1): 0
YuPlay (0 - off/1 - on): 0
Intro (0 - off/1 - on): 0
Wallpaper (0 - off/1 - on): 1

***GAMEPLAY PARAMS***
Static loot (0 - off/1 - on): 0
Static event (0 - off/1 - on): 0
Resource price modifier (default 5): 5
Max percentage profit (default 500): 500
Mercenary change time (default 7): 7
Event possibility (default 30): 30
Max battle duration (default 40): 40

***ADDITIONAL SETTINGS***
Max illustration (default 107): 107
Max path (default 20): 20
Lake ships (0 - off/1 - on, default 0): 0
Post edited April 15, 2013 by rahal
Posted April 16, 2013
I suggest to enable Lake ships - AI have this enabled by default. This setting lets you build shipyard near small water tiles (1-3 hexes).
Posted April 16, 2013
I have an Intel i7 X 920 @ 2.67GHz , 16GB RAM and an nVidia GTX 260 card with the latest drivers running Win 7 Pro and I've not had a single problem with running the game from day 1, so I'm pretty sure it's not related to Intel/AMD/nVidia. Strange that a system that close to yours have so different results, which makes me suspect installed software differences.

My processor is a bit slower as is my Gfx card but it's identical families every one of them. You don't have some vendorware like I know eg. Asus like to ship with their graphics cards installed? Because that caused me endless problems with a lot of games before I uninstalled them long ago.
Post edited April 16, 2013 by Kazper
Posted April 16, 2013
If you have Windows 7 Professional you can run Windows XP as a virtual machine directly; here's the link www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3702

I use an XP virtual machine for most older games (especially GOG ones) as XP is noticably more stable in performance
Posted April 16, 2013
Thanks guys.

@rahal-Thanks. I will try your config later....hopefully it will help.

Thanks for the additional info Gremlion.

@Kazper-Thanks. I am kinda neurotic about keeping my PC free from bloatware (even though I do have some running). I use CCleaner everyday, as well as Glary Utilities. I use MSE and MalwareBytes as my antivirus software everyday as well. It could be a software conflict causing this. If it is, I would think it is a puzzle that would be too complex for me to solve. :).

@AverageBear-Thanks. Your suggestion was given to me by GOG support (I actually tried it before they suggested it) and unfortunately it did not work.
Posted April 16, 2013
I use slightly modified launcher settings. Also process set to high priority. And not only steam conflicts with eador. For example when i have opera running in the background there is significant sound stuttering. There may be other programs, which screw this game.
Posted April 16, 2013
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flagyl: I have a i7 X 980 @ 3.33 GHz, 12 GB of RAM, an nVidia GTX 570 with the latest 314.22 drivers, running Win 7 Pro. I purchased Genesis from GOG and I have attempted to get it to run on my box, but it will not. When the opening screen loads, the mouse gets 'sticky' and the sound stutters.

In perusing the forums, I see that some here are able to get the game to run without any tweaks. I was hoping to see if those who are using desktops are in fact using a PC similar to mine, or if the ones who are running it with no problems are using AMD processors/Raedon video cards.

I can run games like CIv 5, Borderlands 2, X-COM, Fallen Enchantress, etc with no problem, while other programs are open (even Firefox with YouTube videos on pause with it's notorious memory leak) at 1920x1080 with 8X anti-aliasing, Anisotropic filtering at 16x, etc. In fact, I use the nVidia Geforce Experience app and all the games that I have that are listed in that app are maxxed out for visual effects, so I do not think it is a matter of my having enough 'horsepower' to run the game.

I know of the trick to throttle the CPU by manually creating a profile bringing the speed of the CPU down by 50%. I am hoping to leave that as the last resort. I have already contacted customer support and despite their helpfulness, they were unable to help me get the program running.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Throttle the CPU. Takes about 2 seconds and works 100%.

I created shortcuts to two power profiles (one balanced, one limiting CPU to 50%) and put them on my desktop. Double click the Eador one before playing, then double click the normal one after. Stupid easy.
Posted April 16, 2013
How do you create shortcuts for powerprofiles? Im lazy so I just let my 2500k run on 70% for the past half year for Eador, didnt notice any difference outside of the game anyway.

Flagyl you could also set the graphics to 16bit in the eador.cfg, I did that,too, its made the game flawless.
Post edited April 16, 2013 by jamotide
Posted April 17, 2013
Hearing the news the MotBW probably won't be running smoothly on 4/19, I went ahead and tried the throttling solution. While inelegant, it did work (I tried a test where I started the game at 50% CPU speed and then once the game was running, went back to 100% speed-it began to pop and the mouse lagged).

I'm jealous of those of you who can run it without changing your system :).


In edit-thanks again everyone.
Post edited April 17, 2013 by flagyl
Posted April 18, 2013
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flagyl: I'm jealous of those of you who can run it without changing your system :).
And they are jealous of you because you have a faster CPU! :D
Posted April 18, 2013
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flagyl: I'm jealous of those of you who can run it without changing your system :).
Yet thankfully it is a very easy solution around the problem. Since I haven't owned a desktop since before 2000 I'm not sure how much this differs, but on my laptop that power option is a mere two clicks away through the task bar icon - I created a simple alternative power plan just for this game.
Posted April 18, 2013
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jamotide: How do you create shortcuts for powerprofiles? Im lazy so I just let my 2500k run on 70% for the past half year for Eador, didnt notice any difference outside of the game anyway.

Flagyl you could also set the graphics to 16bit in the eador.cfg, I did that,too, its made the game flawless.
@jamotide...I followed the advice of Das24680, as seen here-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbWVOi8udzM&feature=share&list=PLGB6RkFB7ZmN2C5trwaPgdVMzh5JjgIfh
Post edited April 18, 2013 by flagyl
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