[SERVER STATUS (current)]

Looks like the server is down.

 

[Out of curiosity, What are you doing to kill the time during this down time?]

I typically play just a little bit here and there, sometimes running trade routes while I'm working (advantage of working from home on a PC I built). Guess I'll just focus on work better for now. =P

[Game Randomly Minimizes]

The problem occurs outside the game, as well, often when previewing a window from the taskbar, but not only. I notice it when I'm move the mouse pointer and then it stops, only to suddenly move to where it should be once the mouse stopped. And it's only on that one single machine, I haven't encountered the issue on any of the dozens of machines I've installed Windows 7 on (almost all have been 64-bit pro), or on the other machine I had running E&B. But for all it's worth, the issue no longer matters as I have a different machine now and I'm mostly done transferring data. The new machine doesn't experience this problem. I think it is probably some piece of bloatware from the manufacturer that wasn't removed or was removed but had some remnant left over. It's getting wiped clean tomorrow. There were a few other games that were affected by this, but they didn't minimize, they only froze up for a couple seconds. Whatever it was also screwed with audio as music would get momentarily severely distorted during these instances when I'd be listening to tunes in WMP or Winamp.

[Game Randomly Minimizes]

I ultimately determined that the cause had to do with something running on the computer. I still don't know what it is, but it causes the whole system to "pause" for a moment. Since I'm moving everything to a different machine anyway, it stopped being a concern. Just wish I knew what it was. The funny thing is that whatever it is stopped causing E&B to minimize the last couple months.

[CONFIG Not Recognizing All Video Devices]

I just decided to let it be. It seems to be just fine so long as I don't use full 1080p resolution. And the BIOS on this thing sucks. Hardly any settings in it whatsoever.

[CONFIG Not Recognizing All Video Devices]

I recently acquired a new laptop that has both Intel Integrated HD graphics and nVidia GT 640M graphics (that wonderful hybrid video technology). However, when I launch CONFIG after installation, it only sees the Intel graphics, not the nVidia. Does anyone know a way to get CONFIG to recognize the nVidia card?

[Game Randomly Minimizes]

Windows 7, aye. Funny thing is that I have it installed on two Win 7 Pro 64-bit machines, but the problem only occurs on one of them.

[Game Randomly Minimizes]

I've been experiencing an issue where the game will randomly minimize while playing. It doesn't seem to matter if I'm actively performing actions in-game or not. I thought maybe it was my antivirus updating, but these minimization events aren't coinciding with the AV updates. Anyone have any thoughts on this?