Empires Mod Forum

Empires Mod surprisingly works very well. I tested with CodeWeavers 6.2.0 and it worked fine... when it worked. The only issue I experienced was that the game would frequently crash for no apparent reason. Sometimes I could play for hours. Other times, it would crash once a minute or so. It seemed to depend on the server I was on. It also often crashed when changing maps on a server. These crashes do reduce usability considerably, but if fixed would definitely allow Empires Mod to achieve gold-medal status in my mind.

Update: I just played again with 7.1.1 and it seems to be running even better than before. I did get a little lag when a lot of stuff was going on, but the frequency of the crashes was way down. I got one crash in about two hours of play (when I tried to enter a full tank), so that's much improved. The game is certainly playable now and I therefore upgrade it to silver-medal status!

I seem to be having a lot of problems (it crashes every 5 mins or so) with the map emp_streetsoffire. I would recommend avoiding this one. Most other maps play well with few crashes for long periods of time.

I've talked to the mod team and these errors occur in wine/crossover as well as windows. It's a problem when they compile the mod.

Ah, thanks for the update. Hrmm... so this begs the question... since these are windows bugs, does that mean the mod is actually performing at gold status?

I'll consider it gold when it matches the performance in windows XP but to each his own.