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[quote who="mheckler" reply="8" id="1863356"]I hate to start getting annoyed but its been a week since I've gotten any tip on how to fix this mess... I can't get my money back now so could you at least help me get it running?[/quote] If you're willing to try one more thing, would you mind submitting a Debug.err while running at the lowest possible resolution, in fullscreen mode, with multisampling, edge glow, and outlines disabled while running in icon-only mode and then pasting one m

We found out the cause of the bug (and how, surprisingly, it's not so much a bug as one might thing) and a fix should make it into the next patch.

I just want you to know that I love you.

[quote]Patches usually fix minor bugs in games. This game needs a patch just to work properly. That isn't a problem most games have.[/quote] I'm not sure how long you've been a PC gamer but this is certainly not the case. Our patches not only fix minor bugs but also any major bugs that we encounter. Our patches also have a [I]tendency[/I] to introduce enormous amounts of new features. I guess I could see how that's a bad thing; people [I]hate[/I] more mileage out of their money. And

This is an issue that has been discussed here: https://forums.politicalmachine.com/315301 It's fixed in the upcoming patch which should be due out relatively soon.

The reason that the orange cursor is contained within the window is that it is a software cursor; switching to a hardware cursor will eliminate that issue (and it's what I use all the time). The problem with the setting not between remembered between gaming sessions has been fixed and will be working as intended again in a forthcoming patch (due out very soon). In the mean time you can go into your Prefs.ini file (in My Documents\My Games\PolMachine2008) and change the "HardwareMouseCur

The way the game is structured enforces a pretty rigid two-party system for games. For the campaign we had to keep in mind that both campaigns had to be relatively balanced and paced the same way and, second, that we definitely wanted to get some of the (much) older presidents in. But, yeah, the real point is that we couldn't have George Washington assigned to the "I'm not a party kind of guy" party (which, semantically, is still [I]kind of[/I] a party).

[quote]I do not want to wait for a patch. I would like a refund ASAP.[/quote] The game is clearly working, even if not ideally so, and you can get into a game, play a number of turns, and get out of it without so much as a crash; getting a full refund isn't a means of [I]renting[/I] the game. As BoogieBac pointed out: one of the terms of the full refund is that a fair attempt to get the game working should be made. Is a little patience too much to ask for?

[quote]And umn...Go Lions?(I am a Bostonian, but I have a soft spot for the lions.)[/quote] Then you understand our deeply-rooted sense of pain and longing very well.

Yes, and it's absolutely fantastic.

[quote]The multiplayer won't work because I don't know (and can't get) the username and password to except ports from my router.[/quote] Should try admin/password. [quote]What has that got to do with anything?[/quote] It's generally helpful to find out what kind of machines people are having difficulties running the game with. If it's a system that definitely surpasses the requirements we'd like to know what's wrong whether you want and get your refund or not.

[quote]No that's Theodore Roosevelt a republican. FDR was a democrat.[/quote] Yeah. I know who FDR is. FDR was in the old game's campaign ladder but got cut out of 2008's line-up when we changed the size of the campaign. I forgot about that. Or I'm just completely stupid. I'm sure it's one of the two.

[quote]It would be cool if extra candidates were added in an update so that we could still get some of our favorites that didn't make the retail cut.[/quote] I think you'll be pleased in the future.

Would you mind posting your system specifications?

If you're having a white screen that is almost certainly an issue with the graphics card not supporting Shader Model 2.0 which the game absolutely requires. If a card does not support Shader Model 2.0 then it cannot be patched in by any sort of software, it's simply a limitation of the hardware. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-50572.html If that is the computer you're talking about then the graphics card does, in no way, meet the requirements for the game (espec

A white screen is indicative of a video card not supporting Shader Model 2.0 (which is required for the game); this is something that required the hardware to support the feature in order to run it and cannot be patched in by software. The GeForce 4x00 series also has no hardware support for Shader Model 2, so that's most likely your problem.

FDR is in the game; he's one of the unlockable candidates who is unlocked once you beat him in the campaign.

[quote]ok, but what the use of having a windowed format if the curser will not allow me to reach the borders to even just physically move it? -edit-I'm just venting my frustration of the whole setup, i don't want to play any of the other games, i just want that one game, and get it to work. for a ~200 mb game i don't expect the programming or software to be that heavy in it. nothing like Bioshock, or Assassin's Creed.[/quote] Turn on the hardware mouse cursor which is [I]also[/I], coincident

[quote]Well aren't you intelligent[/quote] I made most of that up (based on what little I know about how pirate groups make No-CD patches for games).

[quote]You were not here in the office when we were all pulling overtime for months trying to finish this game, so please DO NOT make assumptions about our jobs and how easy they are.[/quote] Of course he can make assumptions, Charles! They'd just be, you know, [I]incorrect[/I]. [quote]I cannot shrink the window size, the mouse curser will not allow me to minimize, maximize or even close the window. Nor can i even adjust the size of the window. Doesn't all this sort of defeat the pu

[quote]The map editor is not hooked up. So even though you might have seen the graphics pack for the screen, there is no way currently to access it.[/quote] He might be able to reverse engineer it, dive into the asm, hack some of the registers that we used to disable access for the gold release candidate, and then manually re-compile the source to build a new EXE with which he could use the map editor. I'm just saying; it might not be [I]completely[/I] impossible to access. <br

[quote]Please note that the # should be in the range of -10 to 10.[/quote] Actually, [B]Position[/B] should be in the range of [-10,10]. [B]Importance[/B] should never be a negative number; keep it in the range of [0,10]. An issue's Political Score is its importance multiplied by its position, so if you're against an issue you have a negative position and if you're for it then it's a positive number. Furthermore if you're "sort of" against a very important issue you would have a pos

We do have a pretty rad map editor but, as of now, it's not in the most polished and user-friendly state. If we do release it then it will most likely be relatively "unsupported."

[quote]what do speechwriters do?[/quote] They increase your charisma by ten points. Charisma is factored into the bonus applied to speeches and interviews; it's one of your most important stats outside of Money/Fundraising Ability/Stamina. Then the Fashion Consultant and PR Consultant both do the same thing for your comeliness and media bias (respectively). These are both factored into bonus calculations as well. Comeliness is very important for boosting the effectiveness of adverti

The minority and religious appeals give a candidate bonuses but the caliber of bonus and where the bonus is best applied is... Kind of invisible. It does benefit you but it's pretty hard (impossible) to determine exactly how. The data is actually there, there's just no real easy way to visualize it in-game.