Petroglyph Games Community News

EaW FoC on W8 ?

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:33:40 +0000

Hi again,

I posted on the forum a month and a half ago, and tried to get to reach Lucasarts support before and after, and I'm still lost with the same issue.

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Hi there,

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I'm running on Windows 8, I recently changed my computer. I have the Empire at War Gold Pack, patched, except for the RAM patch used for Vista and 7.
The games have been working perfectly with the previous fixes. On Win8, the games are usually installed without a problem, but can't run. The loading screen (the one with the big logo, you know) appears, but then the game stops, without an error message, and I'm back to the desktop.
I tried compatibility modes, but it won't make a difference.

Thanks for your attention, see you soon.

Note : The " Msinfo32.txt " file still is a little bit too heavy to be attached. Tell me if you need it anyway.

Thanks.

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The audio in Petroglyph's games - an AMA with Frank Klepacki on May 22

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:19:46 +0000

Frank Klepacki is an audio director, sound designer, and an award-winning composer, who has worked in the video game & television industry for over two decades, including game titles such as Dune II, Blade Runner, the Command & Conquer series, Star Wars: Empire At War, and television shows such as Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Inside MMA.

He is currently the Audio Director at Petroglyph, overseeing the creation and implementation of music, sound effects, and voice-over on all projects, including the newly announced Battle for Graxia game:

http://signup.battleforgraxia.com

You can also grab the entire Battle for Graxia soundtrack created by Frank on Steam in the DLC bundles!

http://store.steampo...d.com/app/90530

The AmA is set for this coming Wednesday, May 22! More information posted here soon.

Feel free to discuss any initial questions you have! Most of the discussion will be over at the Battle for Graxia forums.

Editing Saves

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:27:40 +0000

Okay, this game was released seven years ago. Is there ANY way Petroglyph will release some sort of save game editing tool. I have gotten bored with vanilla and all the mods out there, I just want to mess around in the game at this point. There are NO trainers or tables or cheats for the final version and it's kinda annoying. Please I gave up. This is the last place I can turn to.

Battle for Graxia Founder's Edition exclusives

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:11:16 +0000

Hi Petronauts! Just wanted to let you know that we've added some pretty cool new things in Battle for Graxia since its launch a couple of weeks ago.

This includes a new Founder's Edition bundle in the game store. It includes an exclusive Founder's badge, pre-order access to the new Immortal Murderhoof (which begins this Tuesday!), and more.

If you haven't played in awhile, now is the time!

http://signup.battleforgraxia.com

Multiplayer issues.

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:12:33 +0000

I can't seem to make a online account . It keeps saying my password and email a dress do not match. Can anyone help?

Hero Ship Names

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:15:55 +0000

I know how to change names for the ships in their respective rosters, for example I dumped ISD Allecto cause I didn't like the name and I bumped ISD Rage to second on the list because it's Avenger squadron's ship. Now I'm looking trying to see if it's possible to change the names for the ships of heroes. I tried to change the Accuser and the Admonitor but my attempt at just changing every line that listed either name resulted in Piett and Thrawn being AWOL in Galactic Conquest. I wanted to change the names of the Accuser, Admonitor and Executor but with my previoulsy mentioned method, I can't. Anyone know how to do this?

Battle for Graxia launched on Steam

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:47:02 +0000

I know many of you are big Steam fans and have been following the Battle for Graxia launch news, so I wanted to emphasize that the game has launched on Steam with exclusive bundles that include the audio track by Frank Klepacki!

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=battle+for+graxia

Hello

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:24:50 +0000

Greetings everyone who is reading this... Seeing the Introductions thread has its own section now I figured I'd put up a "Love me" thread for everyone to- well... LOVE ME! And I know I've been around the forums already for a while now, but it's okay I'm clean

Hello fellow BfG members,

I go by the alias theWarmaster and more often XeroNecross. Usually if you see either they're gonna be me... Well okay no on the Steam Community there seems to be more than one of us, however when ever I use the name 'theWarmaster' you'll see the picture of Horus, the Warmaster from Warhammer 40,000 as my profile picture. It's a pretty unique picture so not a lot of people will have it.

So anyways heres a few things about me that I think are my more interesting, fun, community friendly qualities. I have some more info on my profile page here. So I'll start off with a short piece about my age, my real name, and my "profession"...

My name Pasquale Vincenzio Placchetti. I am literally the only person in the world with that name so you could find me on Facebook EASILY... and when you look my name up on Google you'll find my alias theWarmaster and XeroNecross on such places as deviantART and FanFiction and yes those will be the real me.

My age is 23 years as of September 6th I was born 1989 the year of the Snake... in fact I'm an Earth Snake. More info can be found on my profile page. And as for my profession...

I'm in the United States Military. I've been serving for about 5 years now going on 6 in August next year and that will also be the point I'll be going into the Inactive Reserves. I'm currently in the Reserves which didn't work out as well as I hoped it would, but I enjoy it none the less. I have been deployed to Iraq once and I very much liked that and have been trying to go to Afghanistan since I got back in 2010, but so far no luck... However if I'm lucky my unit will be deploying again in the next couple years and maybe if I'm lucky I can get on that and extend my contract just enough to be part of that.

I'm going to throw this out there... because it's the truth... I. Am. A. Funny. Person. I'm very out going and comical and I enjoy having a laugh with friends and I love making new friends. So with that I hope to make all sorts of new friends here in the RoI: BfG community

Oh and I almost forgot... I'm a tea enthusiast! I LOVE TEA! I love drinking it and brewing it. I primarily like green teas and roobios teas. I'm not a know-it-all master of teas, but I know enough to get by. I'm still figuring out how to brew it just right to get the best flavor out of it every single time... It's a tough process and I've ruined a lot of good and expensive teas... Loose leaf tea isn't super expensive or anything, but buying them in large quantities of the good stuff from good name brands such as Adagio or Teavana.

I have several likes that encompass a lot of things such as CATS... I LOVE CATS. I've loved cats since before I even knew what a cat was! Thats a odd story, but short story... When I was young like 2 or 3 my mother used to buy for me stuffed animals known as "Pound Purries"... Which apparently wikipedia doesn't know what Pound Purries are... WTF TO THAT!! Pound Puppies have their own line which still exists today and they even had their own TV show in 2010 :/ Thats a WTF moment right there people :0

Okay so beyond my love for cats I'm a very flirty guy. Like... OMG! It's like seriously that bad :0 I'm so very feminine and I have no problem admitting that, but to disprove the thought waves that are creeping into your minds already when I say I'm feminine... I. Am. Not. Gay. My ex-girlfriend in High School used to call me gay so much EVERYONE started believing it! OHMYGAWD! It was annoying I've actually had a fiancée when I was 18 she broke up with me... Had another girl friend after than and after her I stopped dating for 4-5 years... I'll give a hint of who she was... We--and that includes my family--called her Scary Mary... My oldest brother who was in the Army during the beginning of the Iraq war was scared by her... And thats saying something cause he saw some scary stuff over there.

I also wanna put out there I'm a great cook. Not a chief. Just a good cook. I like to cook. I like to eat. Which explains my little muffin top :0 But that also is because I have troubles loosing weight no matter how much how often or how hard I work out. I mean thanks to the army I've lost a good amount of weight... Hey wait... Drr I'm supposed to be talking about my love for cooking in this paragraph :0

I'm more than half Italian... from my dad's side he's a pure Italian while my mother is... well shes a lot of other things that are not Italian :/

Being my father's first born kid--I got 2 older brothers who are my mom's kids before she met my dad... well pregnant with the second when they got married... Yeah so anywhhhoo he made sure I knew how to cook and cook good I do. Better than my 2nd older bother and my little brother anyways... Yeah 3 bothers no sisters. mom decided haver the 4th boy she gave up trying for girls.

So yeah I have a HUGE cook book collection and several cooking wares I buy yearly to keep them up and newish and such. Got giant muffin tins... They my fav to make cupcakes in I'm the one around the house that usually cooks for the family, but once I finally can afford my own place... They're all gonna starve with out me :0

So along the lines of stating my feminineness I will openly say--and I'm sure people would have figured this out in no time seeing my gamer-clan tag in my signature--I'm a Follower of Slaanesh; yes Slaanesh as in the Chaos God from Warhammer 40,000. Now some may wonder WHO is Slaanesh? Well... I wont spout that here I don't know if they'll approve of such things, BUT I have linked to the Lexicanium about Slaanesh and I'm going to link to our Facebook page and Steam page. The Followers of Slaanesh is a gamer-clan I run and we're still new and building members and a clan site... Very new. But the concept is if you read the Lexicanium page about Slaanesh basically we're a community of people that believe in the ideals and concept that Slaanesh represents. We're associate with one another because we all understand what Slaanesh is and its easier to socialize with people about Slaanesh with having to explain every 3 sentences who Slaanesh is and what is the Followers of Slaanesh.

Lets see... I like music... Pretty much I listen to anything except classical... I grew up with Classical and I'm tired of it... which is probably why I listen to everything else... Some of my favorite artists are: Weird Al Yankovic, Lady Gaga, Skrillex, EpicLloyd, Nice Peter, Owl City, Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson, Insane Clown Posse, Taylor Swift, Sum 81, Dragon Force, Daft Punk, and Blueman Group. There's of course more, but I don't remember most of them but thats what iTunes is for.

I'm CREATIVE!!!!! Of course if you see some of my posts you could figure that out on your own...

Gods of Graxia Immortal suggestion thread (Battle for Graxia related material)
Colossus, Guardian of Graxia; Mirmack, Arcane WulvenLord; Yojass, the Dread Wyvern; Bennu, the Fabled Phoenix; Crocodile, the Devourer; Lingling, Sanctuary Priest; Sylvobyte, Carrion Kraken; Gamma, the Neon Knight; RAGE resource concept

Custom backgrounds and mugshot thread (a variety of images)
Custom backgrounds/mugshots

I wanna note since I put those links above to my other posts already. I am a "writer" and I put that in quotations on purpose. I'm not a novelist I tried that and I've still yet to finish writing that out yet. I'm a story creator more so a character creator. I've done role play games with friends who had sad story lines... I say sad because it was getting no where until I got in on that and then it actually moved on from its stagnant story that literally didn't get anywhere... I excel in character creations its something I'm actually good at and creating stories and backgrounds for characters and general story lines. I've been doing it for years since I was 7 and I must say even my stories when I was a kid were pretty good... Even though I can no longer read my hand writing from back then.

Saying hand writing I should mention I prefer pencil and paper writing especially for the beginning of a story it feels better even though I get cramps in my hands faster.

I don't write novels anymore or that is try I mean because I came across writers block a lot and I could never continue my story... I mean it's all in my head, but my largest problem was and still is writing it out putting it in the words that fit best and sounds better that will make people want to read my stories... So like in the old days of ancient times... I'm a story tell by word of mouth better than written modern times. Odd really. We've progressed so much and yet I fall back to the ancient traditions of history by passing down stories by the voice it carries versus a form where it could essentially live forever on. As I always say... To each their own.

Theres always more to talk about, but I don't want to seem vein from talking about myself so much... Although theres so much to talk about You can always ask me if theres anything you want to know I'm an open book. My motto is "To Each Their Own" and if theres something you don't want to hear don't ask because I'm an honest person and if you ask something I warn you now... I will answer whether or not you'll like what you're hearing is none of my concern... Just be careful what you ask.

So I finish up with a thank you for reading about me and I hope you all enjoyed my little write up on myself

**I should note this is all pre-written on for my profile on the "Battle for Graxia" forums and since none of the information has really changed since I posted it then except a few minior detials I just copied and pasted it from there to here... Theres no point in re-writing it all**

Guess who's developing future Star Wars games??

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:15:47 +0000

http://kotaku.com/ea-snags-exclusive-deal-to-make-star-wars-games-493178983

A piece of me just died inside.

New Land/Space Units Request

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:12:22 +0000

Hi. I'm here to make a suggestion. Can anyone make one of new space units for Forces of Corruption?

Requested:

- Kohr-Ah Marauder from Star Control

BTW, I have ever played Star Control games, the Kohr-Ah Marauder can fires with spinning blades and unleash a F.R.I.E.D. (Fiery Ring of Inevitable and Eternal Destruction). Anyone can make Kohr-Ah Marauder has 9 hardpoints: 1 main spinning blade launcher (unless mod/add it), 2 secondary spinning blade launchers (unless mod/add it), 2 laser cannons, 2 torpedo launchers, 1 shield generator, and 1 engine. It has 2 abilities are Maximum Firepower and MC30's Cluster Bombs (instead of F.R.I.E.D.). Kohr-Ah Marauder's size is same big as Keldabe Battleship.

Yes anyone can make this ship for Forces of Corruption. I like this ship available to build for Zann Consortium.

FoC Version Mismatch Solution & Background

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:06:12 +0000

Hey guys.

I finally decided to take matters into my own hands and picked up the Steam version in an attempt to get to the bottom of the Steam + disc version mismatch issue.

As it turns out, the issue was fairly simple to resolve. As a result, I've developed a small application that WILL sync your game with those disc users who have the latest LucasArts August 2011 update (the version that LucasArts/Petroglyph expects you to be using as well as being the most popular).

You can grab it here.

Cheers,
KH

Aladdin - The Music Video

Sun, 05 May 2013 05:41:00 +0000

SIC ILL - Aladdin - The Music Video

"Can't contact game codes server" on startup

Fri, 03 May 2013 13:14:42 +0000

Hello,
I have the steam version of EaW gold. I have Win7 with 4 giga of RAM. I try to start the game, but the pop-up in title just stop everything. What can i do please!
I noted it's a double pop-up, as i have to click on "ok" button two times to close the pop-up.
Thank you.

A new Empire at War game?

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:59:14 +0000

G'day all

I was wondering if this is still a pipe dream? I imagine that when the new movies are released we might have a chance but was wondering if anything has been mentioned so far.

Oh and I seem to be having trouble playing Foc on my computer. It runs empire at war just fine but when I try to start the expansion it does not play.

And anybody have trouble playing this on windows 8?

Regards

TT

Who wants to play Universe at War/Tiberium Wars with me?

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:55:42 +0000

Topic is cleary enough

Mods do not work !

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:23:09 +0000

Hello !

I downloaded a lot of Mods for EaW and FoC, but most of them do not work. Working mods are only those, who came with an installer from the SMG (Steiner Modding Group). The rest are sadly not working, it doesn´t matter if it´s Stargate, Babylon 5 or Star Trek.

My system is Windows 7 or Windows 8, both on 64 bit machines. I found that some more people have problems with that, but it seems that also some people get the mods working on 64bit, aren´t they ?

"D:\Star Wars EaW - FoC\swfoc.exe" MODPATH=Mods\babylon 5 at War Version 2.0\B5MOD2.0

is what I did for Babylon 5. Can anyone see a mistake ?

Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi, you´re my only hope !!!

Nox 2?

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:26:12 +0000

I once heard that some westwood guys came over here, and that it would never hurt to ask about the possibility of a Nox 2?

Kick-starters work, and i cannot help but think there must be people willing to donate to Nox 2 (especially on places like Reddit).

Nox was one of the best games of its age, great controls, cool premise, awesome multiplayer, it even looked good, it had it all. A Nox 2 would be amazing.

Anyone else think so?

Current Status of Petro?

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:36:31 +0000

Are you guys okay? Did you get a publisher for Victory? What does the future hold for the great men and women at Petro?

I said I would be back...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:04:08 +0000

Wow guys, it's been a while since I was here. Place has definitely changed a bit, dig the new look and colour scheme. Can't believe it's nearly been 7 years since I was chatting away with the leaders of the EaW modding scene and guys like Sageking-PG about where to take this brand new community.

Keep up the good work guys, glad to see this place is still active after all this time!

Rest in Peace LucasArts

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:37:34 +0000

http://imgur.com/a/0fIIt#gJEUAA7