Last Updated on Monday, 29 December 2014 10:52 Written by DarkKnightH20 Tuesday, 15 March 2011 08:32The awesome PC strategy game Total War: Shogun II is finally out! It is available on Steam so I recommend getting it now or even purchasing it at a store. At the very least try out the demo! Anyway, here are some Total War: Shogun 2 game fixes for those who need a guide to help them troubleshoot any issues in there way!.Update. Shogun 2 is currently on sale for $39.99 at Amazon! You can find Shogun 2 on sale here. How to Install Shogun 2: Total War from CD / DVDIf you want to install the game from the disc rather than having Steam download it for you, then perform the below steps.

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Not that those on a Macintosh (Mac) operating system will not be able to do this.1) Load and Log in to Steam2) Click on Library and then right click on the game - Delete Local Content3) Insert the CD into your disc drive4) Exit Steam, then go to Start - Run — and type:“C:Program FilesSteamSteam.exe” -install E:This will launch Steam from the specified location and install from your E drive. Make sure to alter this to correspond to your settings of your Steam is located elsewhere or your CD/DVD drive is located elsewhere.5) Hit OK, login, and have fun installing!Sponsored:Install Locks / Freezes, Decrypting Files or Verifying Game Cache StuckUnfortunately, it appears many people are having this issue. Particularly when verifying the game cache it may halt at 74%.

You can try the following steps to remedy it:— Patiently waiting, as it may eventually finish (it commonly takes a long time for this game specifically)If after waiting a while (really, give it some time) it still doesn’t install or the percentage is still stuck, then try:— Close, then re-open Steam— Restart the process— Delete the game and all traces of it, then reinstall— Installing from the disc instead (if you have a copy). Enabling Anti-Aliasing (AA) & VSYNC For Total War: Shogun II – NVIDIA Graphics Card Method 1AThis game does not come with an anti aliasing option. Enabling Anti-Aliasing (AA) & VSYNC For Total War: Shogun II – NVIDIA Graphics Card Method 1BIf the menus are different for you, then you may have a different NVIDIA Control Panel. Try the following instead:1) Load the NVIDIA Control Panel2) Under “3D Settings” choose “Manage 3D settings” in the menu, then under the Program Settings tab select the game from the drop down menu if it is present, otherwise click “Add” and navigate to the game’s EXEHere you can mess with sampling, triple buffering, vertical sync, gamma correction, texture quality, GPU acceleration, and antialiasing. Simply override instead of using the global settings.

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The Black Ships was the name given to Western vessels arriving in Japan in the 16th and 19th centuries. In 1543 Portuguese initiated the first contacts, establishing a trade route linking Goa to Nagasaki. The large carracks engaged in this trade had the hull painted black with pitch, and the term came to represent all western vessels. In 1639, after suppressing a rebellion blamed on the Christian influence, the ruling Tokugawa shogunate retreated into an isolationist policy, the Sakoku. First time as shimazu the ship showed up repeatedly and a bunch of local clans attacked them until one of them got snagged. Then i swooped in and took out the now-depleted ship from some clan. But replaying the game not a single ship has shown up anywhere and it's 1563 wheras i snagged the boat last time around 1560. Blackthorne is also torn between his growing affection for Mariko (who is married to a powerful, abusive, and dangerous samurai, Buntaro), his increasing loyalty to Toranaga, and his desire to return to the open seas aboard his ship Erasmus to capture the 'Black Ship' –.

Hit “Apply” when done. Getting Limited Edition / Pre-Order ExtrasIf you have the limited edition or preordered the game, then you might be wondering how to redeem the extras / gifts that come with it. It features things like units and armor. You’ll find the code in your game box. Simply load Steam and enter it there.

General Fixes: Lag / Black Screen / Crash to Desktop / C2D CTDThis is a pretty broad title, I know. A lot of the fixes for this are the same though. It would be redundant to keep them separated. This also includes fixes for launch failure / failed to open, which isn’t uncommon.— Try running Total War: Shogun 2 in Windows XP compatibility mode through right clicking the exe - properties - compatibility and selecting it there.— Patch the game when you can— Restart the computer— Revalidate your game cache to make sure it isn’t corrupted— Update your drivers (i.e. Video card drivers) to the latest version. This generally not only provides you with an increase in frames per second (FPS) to help with stuttering or lagging, but can provide game fixes for things like weird textures, artifacts on the screen, pixilation, game crashes, and more. If you know any other game fixes for Total War: Shogun 2, then please share them!

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shogun 2 troubleshooting. shogun 2 patch. total war shogun 2 crash. shogun 2 no sound. Mike Friday, 18 March 2011 at 9:46 AMI subscribe to “no markers” problem. Don’t know if they are present only at first load of the game or it is because of some settings, but markers are quite helpful, often I don’t even know which unit is currently selected, among several of the same type.A possible workaround for loading saves crash is to move all your units on the map prior to saving. Not necessary to spend all their movement points, just to move them to the adjacent terrain is enough, or get the garrison out of the castle and then move them back.

I checked it at season 17 and it worked.Another workaround I found is to name saves by numbers, no letters, but I didn’t check it, so I don’t know if it works. BilboBaggins Friday, 25 March 2011 at 6:03 PM“– Patch the game when you can”Well.

It’s on Steam so patching is completely out of our hands. Like advice to “defrag”, you are sending people on a wild goose chase to suggest patching (force of habit though I’m sure).FWIW, I could not force AA with RivaTuner or NVidia Control panel, the “Avatar” faces looked the same and I could see no difference in jaggyness on the tops of buildings at the main game menu screen.I bought a new 5770 Hawk since my GTX 260 won’t support DX 10.1 shader and AA.

I’ll not buy NVidia for my home game rig EVER again for this reason, if I can at all help it. So, using ATI Tray Tools I.AM.

able to get AA working, however it introduces all sorts of “layering” (marker as others have described) issues where certain layers of the map don’t appear (those covering region boundaries, unit path arrows, and even the ocean’s in the game, you know.BUGS., NOT performance issues).So, when Creative Assembly says they are optimizing “performance” and will release a patch “within” 4 weeks (you wait, it will be.at. 4 weeks, the whole “within” is just more leading us along I fear), what they mean is there are bugs, not performance issues.

Why did SEGA release prematurely? Releasing a buggy game is like going to a check into cash, you only do it if you’re broke or stupid, but generally these things go together (a fool and his money are soon parted).SEGA and CA you have to understand that respect earns respect.

BS earns you ire. Also remember, you can fool some people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.Baggins out. Friday, 25 March 2011 at 7:03 PMHi Baggins.You’ll be hardpressed to find any modern PC game that doesn’t have bugs / problems. A game will work flawlessly with one PC configuration, yet be ridden when errors on the next. It seems to be common practice now a days. Even console versions have issues like this now since each console is becoming more and more similar to PC’s.

It makes you wonder sometimes about how much testing is truly done before a game is released.Anyway, good luck & nice comment. BilboBaggins Saturday, 26 March 2011 at 2:14 PMDarkKnight, I know what you mean. I don’t usually buy games right at release but I really got excited after seeing some video demonstrations on gamespot for Shogun 2. The game really is quite fun and totally different from any other total war I’ve played (never played original Shogun, started with Rome)I agree completely about the amount of testing. I think it’s like many other products on the market, they keep taking shortcuts that reduce cost but increase other burdens on the consumer and the environment (higher percent of failed products, quality of products dubious).So I’m just waiting for the patch to play the game again, it looks good enough on the turn based map screen, but in battles the flags, spears, arrows, tree’s, building edges, all look pretty bad without AA (jaggies galore with 152 spears, all skinny little lines that are moving with no AA). However, I have not seen a battle with AA on except in the pre-alpha footage, which looks far better than what I can get and was HD web video resolution (480p I believe).I have a decent rig. Numbers on right are win7 ratings.

Card is MSI R5770 Hawk to be more precise.Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X3 710 Processor 6.6Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 7.3Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series 7.4Gaming graphics 2559 MB Total available graphics memory 7.4Primary hard disk 48GB Free (149GB Total) 5.9Windows 7“A game will work flawlessly with one PC configuration, yet be ridden when errors on the next”I think the DX API is “supposed” (key word) to make the underlying hardware transparent to the developers. Very new and very old hardware aside.“You’ll be hardpressed to find any modern PC game that doesn’t have bugs / problems.”Hm.

Well for console I’ve had great success running games I own without issue, to name a few: Batman Arkham Asylum, Red Dead Redemption, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2.For PC, I didn’t have issue with Dragon Age 1 or Origins, Borderlands, Mass Effect 2. I just remembered that Empire Total War did have at least 1 bug, combining fleets with a ship on a trade icon rendering it immovable and wouldn’t generate trade. That was about it though and there was an easy workaround to just remove ships from the trade icon before combining fleets. The AI obviously would not utilize this trick and would have problems.Still, a quick google shows there were bugs that I didn’t encounter in most of those games. I understand that game architecture is extremely advanced and that I can’t fully appreciate the difficulty in coding a flawless product as I’m not a professional game developer.Anyway thanks for your comments DK.

Anonymous Wednesday, 30 November 2011 at 12:14 AMIts Ridiculous. When a game starts to install a c 2005 package, you know it’s old crappy coding. Dx11 have been out for c# for a while, when people ask about multicore remember that parallel programming for multicore have never been developed or adressed. As a professional web developer i can’t undestand how gamins companies can release things that run so crappy. In any similar webdevelopmentscenario the whole department would get fired, if they released code that throws so many bugs. I think the whole issue is that many engines etc rely on old c, because it took DirectX ages to jump into c#.

Who uses c on a windows platform these days? Gaming industry and out of sync audio/studio companies that reuses old old instead of using the latest tools and languages. It’s the same with Cubase/steinberg – you often still see c coded so badly that it missed garbage collection – meaning that your application crashes because any unuse Memory has to be cleaned manually (in code) by the programmer. I suspect the many issues to be similar in gaming platforms and 3d engines.

This kind of selling crap attitude is symptomatic to where the western civilisation is going these days: down the drain. I personally would like to kick som gamedevelopers in the nuts for wasting my precious sparetime. John Wednesday, 04 July 2012 at 5:13 AMI install the shogun 2, my system is awesome, I installed all side software that the game needed, but still when I choose the compaign it stop in loading screen.I update all drivers, even my graphic card support DX11 but still it stop in loading screenI use skidrow cracks but I dont think the crash happen because of it.During my research to solving problem, I discover the shogun 2 has many problemsI loved Rome but this new game with too many problems is a real mess.I really disappointed 🙁.

I've played every single Total War game to date. And I can tell you what they all have in common.

Prakarya kelas 7 semester 2. Its been 11 years, starting I've played every single Total War game to date. And I can tell you what they all have in common. Its been 11 years, starting with Shogun and after spending another wasted 50 on Shogun 2, I hope it ends on the sequel to this classic series. Total War has dozens of wonderful and amazing design features. It will always be a fun game. Its idiosyncratic habits.

Its campaign is both a fantastic time sink and a great source of entertainment. I'm not a fan of multiplayer in these games so I'll leave that to another reviewer. I've extolled how adequate I think the game is so far now for my actual review and opinion. It can (and after 1-2 years will) crawl under the porch to die, unremembered and unloved. I Just PLAYED this game! They called it Napo. Wait Empire:TW!

The units are different (Not so different considering my avid fandom to Medieval II:TW and Rome:TW. The strategies are still the same. The buildings logical conclusions are still the same. The only new feature compared to its predessesors is the addition of food management, a crucial resource that limits the amount of castle and market upgrades you can ultimately have. One new thing. Archer vs Melee vs Cav vs Archer with two differerent melee types to counter each other. The same unit stat points- new textures and more of a load for my video card.

And a poorer preforming product. I can get the same unit set and the same buildings in Medieval 2, except ultra fast battle speed works as fast as intended. A definite downgrade is the replayability of the Grand campaign. Before you had very unique races and an extremely large map.

Now its devolved into Clan A gets better bows, Clan E gets better seige and don't ever pick clan F because they're specialty, ship upgrades, is worthless once a super powered European Galleon appears and you capture it, literally winning every naval engagement without any upgrades. Look, I appreciate the game looks even better than it did before (although I'd expect such a low incremental upgrade to visuals from an expansion pack, not a year or two of work). This though, this is got to stop. The AI is still rotten at making decisions, trade alliances and vassals are still bugged and the final stretch is, as with Empire, autoattack win next turn autoattack. Maybe I'm just hung up on that one time in Medieval 2 when the Mongols invaded and attacked me at Damascus. I had a 2000 strong army in a fortress against 8000 bloodthirsty Asians. I remember being so proud of myself, turning away their massively larger army after an amazing battle, filled with both tactics and strategy.

And I remember the very next turn, with my brave remaining 400 soldiers that just defeated a full stack of Mongols. Another 8000 stepped up and laid siege. This is what Empire and Shogun 2 lack.

There are no game changing occurences and aside from the appearance of the Black Ship the whole thing could take place in 1200 or 2100, no historical events actually occur. Yes the graphics are pretty. Yeah its still TW. But you've played it before. Pick it up for $30 if you must but please, for my revenge against Creative Assemblys latest uncreative venture- don't pick this game.