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[The Scout]

Does anyone have any idea how it works? I downloaded EU3, but when I hit the play button, it starts then closes. Any idea of how to use it?

[ductape]

gametap has major problems with any modern version of Windows past XP. I quit using it years ago and went with Steam, totally different business model of course, but Gametap burned me hard.

[The Scout]

gametap has major problems with any modern version of Windows past XP. I quit using it years ago and went with Steam, totally different business model of course, but Gametap burned me hard.

I'm using XP... But yeah. It just loads EU3 then it crashes.

[breadbocks]

Bleh. I had GT on my computer for about 3 months, then declared it a huge memory hog that is batshit expensive, and doesn't even have good copies of the games.

[Akura]

Ugh, GameTap. I saw a few ads for it saying "Free games", I checked it out. Only the games aren't free - you have to pay for the service, and the games are only for a limited time, and you have to install their software and run it through it, like a crappier version of Steam.

I think I got as far as "You have to pay" before I decided it was a colossal waste of time.

[The Scout]

Well, someone else is paying for it, so just help me out here. Why does EU3 crash when I try to run it?

[Nirur Torir]

For some reason, Gametap's version of EU3 runs at a default resolution of 1280x960.

To fix it, find your Gametap folder and open the EU3 folder (Mine's c:/Gametap/Games/Europauniversalis3). Open settings.txt and either change y=960 to something reasonable like y=1024, or change the size lines to x=1024 and y=768.

[Cthulhu]

GameTap was awesome when it had a downloadable client with all the games downloadable and playable from there.  They got bought out by some company that migrated it to their browser-based system and it was awful.  For a few weeks it wasn't even usable, and when I finally quit forever a few months later it was still terrible and didn't work half the time.

[ductape]

GameTap was awesome when it had a downloadable client with all the games downloadable and playable from there.  They got bought out by some company that migrated it to their browser-based system and it was awful.  For a few weeks it wasn't even usable, and when I finally quit forever a few months later it was still terrible and didn't work half the time.

this was my experience too. I really liked it back when. Then when it went web, I couldn't get it to work and quit.

[Shadowlord]

Yep, once upon a time it was nice, now I just pretend it's dead.