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Posted on Monday, January 22 @ 20:15:58 Eastern by Duke_Ferris

I've written thousands of video game reviews in my lifetime. I've written about the graphics, the controls, the plots, the music, the characters and the bugs, but this might be the first time I have ever praised a game for stability.

When I got into work this Monday morning and sat down, nursing a well deserved hangover (that's what I get for drinking all night with a friend who's 6'4" and probably outweighs me by 80 pounds), and I noticed that Medieval II: Total War was still minimized on my taskbar. I realized it had been running there for about three weeks, and every few days I had occasionally alt-tabbed my way to it for a quick battle. I clicked the button, and sure enough, it came right back up where I had left it, running perfectly.

Running for three weeks would have been impressive enough, but this is on my work computer which never gets shut down because of the server monitors I run. I am a multitasker. It is well noted. Currently I am running MS Word (5 open documents), Gaim, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Internet Explorer (4 windows), Firefox (9 windows), Thunderbird, and Adobe Acrobat.

All that, and I can still alt-tab right in and out of a game that's been running solidly for three weeks. Creative Assembly, in these days of buggy releases that get eventually fixed by patches (or not) even on our consoles, I take my hat off to you. I also replace it with a helm, because I'm off for another quick battle.

Comments

Kremlyn
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jan 22nd, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Haven't stopped playing since it came out. Beautiful piece of work it is.

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mzolkoski76
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jan 22nd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
the game may be stable, but it's pretty hard to play drunk.

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mattimeo48
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Jan 22nd, 2007 at 11:20 pm
^ Haha, that's a brilliant observation.

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JCD
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: Jan 23rd, 2007 at 6:51 am
You must have some electricity bill....

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NickKmet
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Jan 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 pm
i love the game.....and you're right, it has got to be the easiest game to minimize and return to without the game totally frakking up.

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Matiesz
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: Jan 25th, 2007 at 6:36 am
And they say miracles don't happen. I assume you use XP right? XP running three weeks without crashing?

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Lakerol
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Jan 25th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
I agree with JCD. You must have hampsters on tredmills in your basement. Or interns on crack.

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mooseodeath
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Jan 26th, 2007 at 5:45 am
what did you do to your OS Matiesz, if you don't expect it to run for three weeks? i've got a graphics tablet, two monitors, multifunction printer/scanner, camera and an x360 hanging off of this pc. it runs fine day in day out, i normally don't turn it off because it is the media server. it runs fine, i normally have 3d world studio, photoshop CS, GIMP, firefox2, ....to cut a long list short 67 processes running. that's normal here

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