I too am a great fan of Empire: Total War, and strangely enough share the exact same opinion on Napoleon!
MP in these can be pretty fun in LAN games with friends though, it's always epic to see an entire line of an armada slowly advancing into hell with your friends.
But on-topic:
I haven't tried the Russian patch(to my knowledge at least), and I don't have any issues with my firewall, although that sounds a little strange(The "buffer overflow" on your end, that is).
Strangely enough, I downloaded MoW from that very exact link you gave me, and I have been primarily playing on that very version. I got this game purchased only a day after(on Steam), despite these problems and they've been persistent regardless of those 2 versions(Standard Steam 1.11.3, and the free client(Victory Day edition) 1.17.5).
The demo to this game didn't get me interested in it one bit, but MP play however got me deeply enthralled. I found playing some games where they'd rush a mobile AA/AC tank to your spawn area and wait around until you spawn a heavier tank, only to have it taken out in the rear by a seemingly non-armor threatening vehicle
On a side note though, I did not know that about those yellow shields, and oddly enough, they are on about all of the game lobbies for me too.
Thanks for your very insightful reply!
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Originally Posted by Korsakov829
If you have a really, really good PC, don't mind those yellow shields.
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I don't know, but I think my rig is more than plentiful to run this game.
8800GT 512MB, Q6600, and 5GB RAM seems to be more than excessive for this game.
Last edit for the night:
I've tried this with the firewall completely disabled as well, this did next to nothing so it seems; so it is NOT related to firewall issues. I'm already pretty well experienced on the issue of firewalls and anti-virus programs interfering with games as well with ports.
I'll try and get some screenshots of the error messages tomorrow.