Dawn of War III
Doesn't seem to be much love for the Warhammer franchise around here, or maybe it's just RTS games in general, but looks like we have another disappointment lined up as the Open beta of this game is live at the moment. Game appears to not have an exclusive fullscreen mode at all and trying 3dmigoto on it and setting it to force fullscreen just crashes the game on startup. "Failed to find device". Anyone had a try and had any better luck?
Doesn't seem to be much love for the Warhammer franchise around here, or maybe it's just RTS games in general, but looks like we have another disappointment lined up as the Open beta of this game is live at the moment.

Game appears to not have an exclusive fullscreen mode at all and trying 3dmigoto on it and setting it to force fullscreen just crashes the game on startup. "Failed to find device".

Anyone had a try and had any better luck?

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#1
Posted 04/22/2017 02:49 PM   
It's using the "Essence Engine", probably v3.0 This engine is used in Company of Heroes and WarHammer 40,000 games, but there are no fixes on the blog for any of them. Did you disable any overlays, in case they cause the conflict/crash, if you got an error log from 3Dmigoto, it probably wouldn't hurt to post it. I loved Warhammer Online The Reckoning and would love to see another game like it, but I'm not a fan of RTS. It looks decent though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNnQorDaHrc
It's using the "Essence Engine", probably v3.0

This engine is used in Company of Heroes and WarHammer 40,000 games, but there are no fixes on the blog for any of them.

Did you disable any overlays, in case they cause the conflict/crash, if you got an error log from 3Dmigoto, it probably wouldn't hurt to post it.

I loved Warhammer Online The Reckoning and would love to see another game like it, but I'm not a fan of RTS. It looks decent though

#2
Posted 04/22/2017 04:19 PM   
I liked the first game and loved the second game. After playing around with this, I am not happy at all. They took all the unique element's from DOW2 and the things that actually made it more like a 40k battle in video game form and tried to make it more like a DOW1 Starcraft style of game, and it just feels like a generic RTS that's been done better before. It feels even more dumbed down to me and just makes me want to play DOW2 again. Which I think I might, since it actually works pretty well in 3d, as it is. Weirdly I also think the second game actually looks better. Oh well.
I liked the first game and loved the second game.

After playing around with this, I am not happy at all.

They took all the unique element's from DOW2 and the things that actually made it more like a 40k battle in video game form and tried to make it more like a DOW1 Starcraft style of game, and it just feels like a generic RTS that's been done better before. It feels even more dumbed down to me and just makes me want to play DOW2 again.

Which I think I might, since it actually works pretty well in 3d, as it is. Weirdly I also think the second game actually looks better.

Oh well.

i7-4790K CPU 4.8Ghz stable overclock.
16 GB RAM Corsair
EVGA 1080TI SLI
Samsung SSD 840Pro
ASUS Z97-WS
3D Surround ASUS Rog Swift PG278Q(R), 2x PG278Q (yes it works)
Obutto R3volution.
Windows 10 pro 64x (Windows 7 Dual boot)

#3
Posted 04/22/2017 04:44 PM   
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