Running Shogun and Medieval Total War on Modern Videocards

So, evidently, newer NVidia drivers are incompatible with these two games in an important way. The main map works okay, but when you try to click on units in battle you can't select anything. Awesome. The problem isn't Vista, it's NVidia drivers, evidently. Going back to very old drivers can help, but that might hurt performance in other games... for Shogun software mode does work, but looks absolutely awful, isn't fullscreen (there are black borders), and you can't move around the map by pushing the mouse to the edge of the screen, you have to use the keyboard. Ick. Medieval has no software mode, so no help there.

Looking around, there don't seem to be any real fixes for this besides trying different old driver versions. Thanks, Creative Assembly... I wanted to play these games again (the only two Total War games I have, and both great games), but I guess not. :(

...Oh, evidently with ATI there are a lot less problems. But of course I have NVidia.

That's sucks, Another reason why PC gaming is in decline.


I am absolutely unimpressed by Creative assembly,They've gone done hill ever since Sega bought them out.

I like allot of the new stuff in Empire:total war namely diplomacy,Government types,tech research, The game just has not given me the same level of enjoyment as Rome Totalwar, Its largely I think because of the 17th century style of combat, Ive enjoyed naval warfare more so then ground warfare surprisingly.

Medieval only came out in 2002, there's no excuse for this... :(

I guess games that dont require Graphics cards are safer long term purchases?

Does Starcraft and Diablo2 still work for you?

Starcraft works fine, yes. Same for Diablo II and Warcraft III (another 2002 game).