Well, I had this game on a CD back in the day and now I am playing it again on steam. And what a good game this still is to play. Unfortunately some AI nations are completely broken (Spain for example) but playing against a very hard Russia AI works pretty well for most games. I wonder if there were tournaments for this game back in the day and if anyone knows some youtube videos of this. Maybe we should try to get a tournament going? I am having a very good time with the skirmishes against the AI :)...

So, i'm not guaranted this method but, you can try set off your videocard driver (Nvidia or AMD) in your Task Manager, then set on this driver again and restart your PC, try to start any battle (skirmish, campaing, battles) this might be work without static freeze on first frame. Leave here for me your respond how it's work....

Ai will now use guards squads in battle for europe Ai canons will no longer ride in opponents squads instead the will shot on nearest enemy. Cheaper Barracks and town centers for nation whose costed lots of gold cheaper egyptians stables palace cost 500 gold instead of 1200 All nations can build mills All guards units are now better then regular ones and can gain experience Hight price of Egyptians guards units decreashed British voltigeour cost 4 iron 1 gold (2 gold is to much compared to others which don...

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so i file in the directory called "video" Rename that file to video1 and i do dxwnd program change engine.exe -properties -compatibility -run compatibility and blah blah blah can help some?