Lan SERVER ? Really ?

First off, I would like to tell you that I love this game. I find it fantastic and I can't wait to play more of it.
There is, however, that tiny little detail you DEVs seem to have forgotten.

How do I play this comfortably if I don't have either an good internet connection or a beast of war compuer ?
I paid my game 60 Euros, when it was still im Pre-Beta. I love it. It's a great RTS.
But with my 256 Kb/s connection, I just can play it without the bloody game taking hours to launch and the actual action freezing every 5 minutes because my network can't follow.

Then, the Lan Server idea. Who got that idea ? Seriously ? Did you look at the specs needed ?
I would like to play this without having to redo the whole internet installation of my street, or spending 1000 bucks into buying a up to date computer.

You have great vision, DEVs, but you should think about people outside the US and the UK, people like me, who live in France, and you can't play this awesome game because of the internet rate.
So, why not just enable an actual offline play ? Are you afraid of Hackers or something ? Well, erm, they are already torrents online with the game, so that didn't work.

I don't know how you want to do this in the future. But think about all the players, not just the rich ones.
I want to play this game. Me and a lot of other people. I'm a fan. But hey, the way you did it now, is just a waste. I am dissapointed. I would like to play and everytime I look at this pretty icon, I just think : "heh, no, I can't"
So please do something about this. You'll just make everyone even more happy.
A devoted fan.

Mind giving your specs? I run it with HD3000 integrates and a quad core i3 CPU. 4GB of RAM.

Also- are your drivers up to date? A dxdiag.txt would be nice.

Also this is a real offline mode, your computer is just now also rendering the sim, as well as the client.

There is offline play... Check the option menu.

You can play single player (galactic war or AI skirmish) totally *offline* by going into settings and changing the offline mode from 'Auto' to 'On'.

Now if you're getting very long loading time that is a problem with your computer rather than internet I think.

Please can you post a 'dxdiag' so we can check for issues (press the start button, type 'dxdiag' into the search box and press return, then post the results here).

Okay, maybe I wasn't clear enough, and I'm sorry for that. I have enough specs to run the game in online mode.

I have an Ati Radeon HD 5770, 8 gb of ram, and a double 1.5 core, can't remember which brand seeing I'm on my laptot right now, which isn't my playing computer.

What I cannot do, is that I can't play online because my internet connection is too bad ( eg 256 kb/s). And I can't play offline on the local server because I don't have the specs for it. I tried the other day. It worked nice for 10 minutes then I ran out of memory and it just kept freezing over and over again.

8GB should be nice emough. Uber's servers only use 4GB of RAM per game and one CPU core per game.

DxDiag.txt? <:

If your running out of memory then you need to play on a smaller map.

I have a similar machine (8gb ram) which plays offline fine however remember that when playing offline you need ram for server & client so you need to reduce map size a bit. I would suggest building some of your own maps and testing what works- as a start try a single Radius 800 main planet with 2 x R 200 moons orbiting it. That should fit in 8gb ram fine...

If you run into a problem with the game, then this thread should be in the support section.
(I would add that merging the sim server and the client may have no significant impact on the memory used.)

Sorry I can't provide the DX.diag, otherwise I would have done, reason being I am on my laptot right now, and I'm in my Uni town, so not on the computer I am talking abou

Okay, I'll try and to that. I suppose it's a fair sacrifice. Thanks.

Well it ain't a problem really if it comes from my computer specs. I would very much appreciate that the support replace my computer with a more powerful one but I don't believe they do that unless I was mislead...

If you have two computers, you can try having the server on one and the client on the other. A hassle, but if you're short on cpu cores it may allow you to run bigger games.

Okay, here is the dx.diag for my laptop ( the computer I am not talking about). Do you think it's powerful enough to run the server on it and the game on the main pc ?

Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.140502-1507)
Language: French (Regional Setting: French)
System Manufacturer: Packard Bell
System Model: EasyNote TE11HC
BIOS: V2.15
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8008MB RAM
Page File: 2532MB used, 13666MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.02.9200.16384 64bit Unicode

Yes. The sim may slow down at some point if there are a lot of units. The higher processor speed, the better.

Upload the entire txt file please.

You'll need to make sure the Intel HD drivers are up to date but that will definitely run the server or the whole game! Also you mentioned your main machine has a '1.5 dual core'... that would make it *slower* for pa than your laptop (PA is more CPU heavy than graphics)...

There ya go.

Then I might be an idiot and I forgot the specs for my main computer but I know it is definitely better than my laptop. But hey, I can't check that until a week, so...sorry for my goofiness.

Are you sure of that? PA uses barely any CPU for me? It's deeeefinitely RAM heavy, though.

Assuming I'm reading it right your drivers were last updated in the 21st of the 5th (May). Might be a good idea to check for updates.

I'll check it out but normally it's on auto update. But thanks for reminding me they don't update them often though..