Sins of a Solar Empire Demo Released

Single-player demo now available at Gamespot

Published on March 21, 2008 By Yarlen In Sins News

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are proud to announce the release of the first Sins of a Solar Empire demo! Available at Gamespot, the single-player only demo offers a taste of the full game for those who haven't yet taken the plunge into galactic warfare.

Features:

Play as the Trader Emergency Coalition (TEC)
Learn the basics through four tutorials
Fight on two small scenario maps against up to two AI players
Conquer a randomly generated medium map against up to three AI players
90 minutes of play time

If you've been waiting to check out Sins of a Solar Empire, head on over to Gamespot for the download today.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/sinsofasolarempire/download_6188180.html

Comments (Page 4)

Cheesenium

on Mar 24, 2008

Nah,90 minutes is not enough for the random generated map.

The game always stops me when something big is happening.

viperbob

on Mar 24, 2008

Kryo, I can't find anywhere on my puter the "VideoIsWindowsedFalse to change. Looking in my whole hard drive. Took the demo down again then went looking.
1/2 screen again. First demo ever that I had a problem with.
Thanks anyway you tried/so did I.
VB

Craig Fraser

on Mar 24, 2008

Hi Viperbob,
Lets try this again.
Do a search for the file name:

1) Start > Search > user.setting

2) Open the file in Notepad.

3) Find the line VideoIsWindowed FALSE and change it to VideoIsWindowed TRUE

Let me know if you have any problems

viperbob

on Mar 24, 2008

Ok Craig i'll give it a chance.
thanks for your help with this.
Ok Craig, did that and i'll download the game again.
Fingers crossed
VB

Craig Fraser

on Mar 24, 2008

You dont need to download the game again. Just run it

Cheesenium

on Mar 25, 2008

Good luck,viperbob.

Hope it works now.

Cheesenium

on Mar 25, 2008

Good luck,viperbob.

Hope it works now.

viperbob

on Mar 25, 2008

Craig, I had earased it so I had to download it again. It worked!!!
thanks for your help and concern. Now to learn the game and do the tutorials.
Once again thanks. How in the world did you know to change that word?
VB

viperbob

on Mar 25, 2008

Cheesenium, i'm up and running. The begining screen is still atad off, but I can bring it up to the center. Craig was a very big help. I got into the tutiorals and that 's where i'll start today.
Looks nice and the music is great.
thanks for your concern. Wonder if I should print out the manual.
VB

Annatar11

on Mar 25, 2008

How in the world did you know to change that word?

Could be because he's one of the game developers

Hollow Man

on Mar 25, 2008

Craig's one of the developers, so he knows what's up.

If you know something about computer monitors, you can probably change the window mode setting back to false, then find the appropriate resolution and refresh rate lines in that file, manually set them, and be off and going (I had to do this to get the exact resolution and refresh rate I wanted to be recognized by Sins).

-HM

kryo

on Mar 25, 2008

How in the world did you know to change that word?

Could be because he's one of the game developers

...Or because I suggested it a few posts above (people have had the same issue with GC2 in the past when using odd refresh rates or certain displays).

Annatar11

on Mar 25, 2008

For all practical purposes you're clumped with the devs

So there!

Craig Fraser

on Mar 25, 2008

Hehe...you're welcome

viperbob

on Mar 25, 2008

Well I dunno who else to say thanks to but if i've failed a name or two, consider it done now. As a 66 year ole puter person, some of the inner workings of a computer game are beyond me. I needed some help, came to the "source" and I'm very grateful.
Now I can enjoy the demo and in time buy the game.
THANKS ALL

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