Tides of War

I just bought the game today after waiting a long time to find it released in the US. I installed it and finally after three reboots got it to load. I played a couple training missions and then quit to do some other stuff. Tried to restart the game and got nothing but a black screen with sound. I have to reboot to get the game to load only to find the menus don't match up to the background image and I can't start missions because the "Accept Mission" button doesn't highlight. I've set the game resolution to 800x600, even editting it manually in one of the .ini files, and nothing seems to help. It's kind of hit or miss. And no offense to the dev team, but that just says shoddy programming to me.

Here's a pic of what I'm talking about;



My system specs are;

P4 2.2Ghz

Abit BD7-II mobo (non-RAID)

1.25GB PC2100 RAM

ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 (128MB version)

SB Audigy Platinum

WinXP Pro ServicePack1

DX9.0b

Latest ATI Catalyst drivers

Latest SB Audigy drivers

I had no problems running the demos and and really enjoyed playing them. But if I have to reboot constantly to try to play the game, and still have problems with video resolution, it'll be another in a long line of games that gets uninstalled and stuck on a shelf.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to get the game to run properly and consistently, or is there a patch on the way that will correct this problem?

Hi,

very funny picture LOL.

Try uninstall/reinstall Enigma.

make sure you copy ther folder: "c:\program files\..\Enigma\" to another location in order to save you current stats.

send your dxdiag report to support@warfleet.net - be sure to run all of the dxdiag tests.

In addition, that looks like a feature of your video card, some type of stretching perhaps? The buttons at the corners are moved to the far extremes yet the text is bunched in the middle. At the same time the background image is proper size and alignment. There is a good chance that you have enabled a feature either in your operating system, in your video card or some combination as that is not a default behaviour for a video card and appears to be an on-purpose effect.

As I thought, uninstall/reinstall did nothing for this problem. Didn't hurt to try though.

You never mentioned if you installed the US retail patch to fix the restart problem.

http://enigma.tidesofwar.net/index.php?showtopic=422