Universe at War not Compatible with Vista

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I recently downloaded Universe at War: Earths Assault from Steam and since it completed downloading I've had nothing but fail from this game.
At first it didn't even want to install and all I got was error messages, I worked around that thanks to some searching around.
Once installed I got to enjoy a nice looking into but once I hit the start screen my mouse wouldn't go past the center of the screen...ironically the update button was on the other side of the screen -__- I just tried again to boot the game up but now all I get is sound and now picture.
I have been spending some time searching around to find a solution but I can't find anything, the only thing I could find is people saying it wont work with Dx10. Seriously WTF! why have a game available on Steam that wont work on current systems with out a patch or at least a bloody warning.

Complaints aside has anyone got this game to work on Vista?

12/05/2009

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Dead_Again

Hmm that really sucks, lucky it was so cheap. No joke, why would the game be on steam??

Well as I said earlier, the demo works fine no problems on my vista laptop. Know that doesn't really help because it's only a demo.

I kinda feel bad because I said it was worth trying at that price, sorry dude.

12/05/2009

Haifisch

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Guyver

Not your fault dude

I'm not bleeding about the price it's the frustration of not being able to play it that bothers me the most. I was looking forward to getting into this game.

12/05/2009

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Dead_Again

Hmm, well if it does not work out there are quite a few decent RTS titles selling pretty darn cheap on 'Impulse'. You have probably heard of it, very similar to steam but has some great titles Steam does not seam to have. A few popular and cheap ones selling there are 'Sins of a solar Empire' and 'Supreme Commander'. Two great games I own but are pretty big and complex. If your the least bit interested you should try the demo's.

out of curiousity, what do you like in terms of settings of games, Future, Modern, Fantasy, etc? If you a fan of all types there are a ton of other quality titles.

12/05/2009

Haifisch

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BJ2

I think you would be able to get a refund if you email steam. I know this isn't what you want, and you want to play the game, but if it ends up being a case of it just wont work you should be able to get your dosh back

12/05/2009

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Skarteh

Several games I've purchased won't even work on Vista without being patched. And I'm not talking small games; Command and Conquer 3 was one of them. I think Crysis was the same from memory... some devs/publishers are really ****ing slack...

13/05/2009

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A2ra3l

That is very strange, I just looked on a few of the vista forums I use and noone has had any trouble with universe at war,
I use viusta ready games www.vistareadygames.com to check if the games I want work on vista before I get them and it has been confirmed working on there.
Do you have 32 or 64 bit? this could be the difference maker, there are a few games that run on one and not the other. I'll do a bit more looking into it for you

Az

*edit* can you get to the video options outside of the game? like does it have a video setup or a config file that you can edit, apparently if you change the game to directx 9 in the video options that fixes all of the problems and there is a patch due out soon that fixes dx10. But the only problems I have seen so far with dx10 is that it slows the game down, not that it locks up the menu

*edit 2* have you tried this patch boards2.sega.com/
it is for the steam and direct 2 drive versions and fixes the majority of problems

hopefully that will help

13/05/2009

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MyFragian

My brother runs universe at war on vista home premium 32bit with no problems. its the retail version though, but you wouldn't think that would matter. hopefully someone will find a fix for ya

13/05/2009

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adrian331

Skarteh said: Several games I've purchased won't even work on Vista without being patched. And I'm not talking small games; Command and Conquer 3 was one of them. I think Crysis was the same from memory... some devs/publishers are really ****ing slack...

that's weird cause me and my mate both have windows vista 64Bit and installed C&C3 so many times it not funny and had no problems with it what so ever and same with crysis

13/05/2009

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Skarteh

adrian331 said:
Skarteh said: Several games I've purchased won't even work on Vista without being patched. And I'm not talking small games; Command and Conquer 3 was one of them. I think Crysis was the same from memory... some devs/publishers are really ****ing slack...

that's weird cause me and my mate both have windows vista 64Bit and installed C&C3 so many times it not funny and had no problems with it what so ever and same with crysis

Without any patches though? As in straight outta the box install? It might have changed since some updates but yeah..

13/05/2009

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Guyver

I am running 32bit Vista Home Prem, could it be because I have a crossfire set up?

13/05/2009

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Doyl

Have you tried with crossfire disable?
worth a shot (its not like you will notice a performance difference from 2x 4870's to only 1 on such an *old* game)

13/05/2009

Perth - pew pew