davidgcox

thanks guys. i will try again to enable the steam overlay, which i think i have done but will check again. reb blunt, i have a mac. not sure that has worked for me in the past for the frozen screen issue. tried with no success.

regarding artillery and line of sight and being able to fire at an enemy target, i would like to see each battery when unlimbered be either red or green in color at the base. green means you can fire, red means you are blocked and can't fire. i have also noticed that when i click on an artillery unit it sometimes shows 100% reload, yet the unit has already fired. shouldn't that be reduced to 0% reload upon firing? for playability reasons, i'm comfortable with each battery being a specific type of tube, i.e., napoleon, parrot, etc.

regarding the importance of cemetery hill, it has been said "it's the only position."

hey there. been playing multiplayer a lot and really enjoying it (however, sometimes i get a frozen screen and have to quit the game. sorry guys if that's happened to you). anyway, how do i access steam while playing multiplayer? i have had some opponents send me a message during the game (like "a valiant defeat" from a yankee who beat me) but i can't seem to find out how to do that myself. i play in windowed mode because of the screen freezes. any advice on what to do? thanks.

i'm still having freezes. even after completing the instructions above. i have a mac desktop, os 10.6.8, nvidia ge force 8800 gs graphics card. resolution capable of 1920 x 1200 but i'm only using 1024 x 640 as suggested. very frustrating. please fix it. thanks.

i bought this game with a mac os 10.6.8. i was not aware the minimum requirements were mac os 10.7. is this true, a minimum of 10.7? if so then i would like a refund since i only have 10.6.8. i was under the impression 10.6.8 would work. advice?

nick, i went to nvidia to update my drivers and when i entered my graphics card info the reply was "nothing found." i then reduced my resolution. same thing happened. frozen screen, hard shutdown/reboot. i have no idea what "auto detect your gpu" means. how do i set that?

found out i have an nvidia geforce 8800 gs. apparently no drivers are available for that card. tried to play the game. again, frozen screen after about 5 or 10 minutes. a long hang. had to hard restart/shutdown. any suggestions guys? i've got mac os 10.6.8. have deleted all of my steam and ugg files, reinstalled everything, several times. still a hanging screen. ????

thanks guys. how do i update my drivers? can you tell i'm a novice when it comes to computers. but i'm a pretty good general.

just tried to play it today on my mac desktop. os 10.6.8. played custom game as union, determined level, scenario was i think it's called july 2 morning drive the confederates from the field. after about 5 minutes screen froze. no animation. waited to see what would happen and then saw the map. map flickered between several screens. saw the map plus elevations. then saw the map plus elevations with dead bodies. then saw the above with unit identifiers but no movement at all. no graphics no animation. very frustrating. had to force shut down.

i've also had problems since installation of the patch. at times, i could not "continue" a game. many time i've had frozen screens or black screens. i'v rebooted many times and one times after a reboot a ghost main menu screen still appeared, so next time i rebooted i unplugged the power supply to my mac desktop. then after the reboot all worked fine. after the many black screens and frozen screens i completely uninstalled the patch, steam and ugg. reinstalled everything. same thing happened with no "continue" option. so then i chose "fight new battle" option and things worked. for 90 minutes that is. then more frozen screens and black screens. i went to bed it was so frustrating. this game has so much potential. i hope the bugs get worked out.

sam watkins, i did what you suggested. it finally worked. however, still having frozen screens, black screen issues. one time after i had to hard restart the main menu screen remained as a ghost after restarting. so next time i restarted i unplugged the power supply to my mac. then after another restart the game appeared. but then i could only use the "fight new battle" option, i could not use the "continue" option. it's getting very frustrating because this could be such a great game.

sterner, i did what you suggested. the game worked for about 90 minutes then i got another frozen screen. had to hard restart. this time when i restarted the game the ghost main menu screen still appeared after restarting. so i had to hard restart again. waited a few minutes. unplugged the power supply to my desktop. replugged it. rebooted. then the game worked. again, for about 90 minutes. then another frozen screen after 90 minutes of play. i got frustrated and went to sleep.

getting frustrated. uninstalled all of my steam/ultimate general files. deleted them all then reinstalled steam. then reinstalled ugg. main menu came up. graphics of falling leaves worked, music worked. clicked on "continue" and then nothing happened. leaves continued to fall, music continued to play, but nothing else worked. screen sort of froze. had to hard restart. what's the deal?

funny you should say that sterner. i tried to save a game and rename it "autosave."

btw, are your instructions for mac or pc? didn't work on mac.

shut down my mac. let it sit for awhile. rebooted. brought up the game. got to the main menu. all options were available. background music was playing. leaves were falling the tree. clicked on "continue" then the screen froze. had to restart. is it too late to ask for a refund? very frustrating. since this seems to be such a great game.

a nice touch would be to add to each unit's inherent intelligence that they always halt facing the sound of the guns. too many times while playing the union i am forced to withdraw so i withdraw units to a specific point and when they get there they stand still! they don't about face and then front. or face the fire. they stand with their backs to the fire. other than moving in column there doesn't seem to be any way to correct this.

i think i finally figured out how to get my units to move from line to column. if i order a unit to make a wide sweeping movement before coming to a specific point, they seem to move in line once they are in a position to clear all obstacles. not exactly sure, but it seems to coincide with their "field of fire" black sweeping thing that moves in front of them before the unit itself begins to move. once in line it's more efficient to move. so maybe some form of indication on the unit's page (the one with the stars and morale and condition etc) showing whether they are in line or column?

and btw, don't ever try to save a game and rename it "autosave." bad things happen.

great game, when it works properly (though i do have a few general suggestions about playability and realism). i have os 10.6.8 mac desk top. 3.06 GHz intel core 2 duo 2 gb 800 mhz ddr sdram standard mac mouse (no right click). i tried to save a game and name it "autosave." the game crashed. black screen. had to hard restart. tried to play the game a second time. got to the main menu. chose continue (now it seems to be an option). started the game. then it crashed yet this time my computer was still working because my itunes were continuing to play. mouse cursor moved, left and right arrows moved the cursor, but nothing else. so, had to hard restart a second time. haven't tried the game since. help.

i did. still the same thing three or four times. then all of a sudden the game plays. did the same thing i always did. start the game, choose play, hit the main menu screen, choose fight new battle (because "continue" still was not an option), then the game played. graphics and all. go figure.

how do you play one full campaign? keep selecting "continue battle?"

i love this game, except for its programming and bugging tendencies. should this "feedback" be in the "support" or "troubleshooting" or "bug" (which has apparently been eliminated as a category) categories? in any event, here are my comments: i installed the new patch today, 2/24/15. after installing, several issues came up. first, i could not continue any previously saved games. when i hit continue all that came up on the screen was the map. fields, farms, orchards, roads, etc. no data. no units. no anything else. second, after trying two times to continue a game i initiated a new game. after playing the new game for about 5 minutes the entire screen went black, then i had to hard restart. third, after trying a second time to start a new game, i played that game for about 5 minutes and same thing, black screen, no response, hard restart. this game has so much potential if all the bugs can be worked out. until they are, it's very frustrating and perhaps not worth playing.

is it a bug when a brigade breaks in its morale and ends up flying like geese off the entire map, into oblivion, never to be seen from again, even though a corp commander stays next to it the whole time trying to rally it? this has to be a bug. to have an entire brigade flee off the entire map can't be what a programer coded into the game. in real life, brigades never fled entirely out of the theatre of operations. if it's a bug fix it please. if it's not a bug then correct the code please. it really takes away from this game seeing a brigade flying off the map running like a wild flock of geese.