PM2004 - The Political Machine 1.02 update available

Published on October 5, 2004 By Nakor In Political Machine

Good evening. The official 1.02 patch is now available for download from Ubisoft (for CD orders) or via Stardock Central if you preordered or have TotalGaming.net from Stardock. If you have previously had Safedisc issues and contacted support@stardock.com for those, please followup on those again now.

This update will go over 1.01 or the 1.0 retail CD release.

https://www.politicalmachine.com/Download_Update.asp

1.02 Update
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Bugs Fixed:

Fixed assorted typos
Fixed bug where # times fundraising in state was not being saved
Fixed bug where Lincoln's money stat was 14
Fixed "client can't kill ads" bug
Fixed Endorsement crash on Win 98
Fixed VP Awareness bug
Fixes for non-alphanumeric characters in custom candidate filenames (changes them to _ internally)
New initialization code to improve compatibility, additional debug info during initialization
State files saved as binaries to fix DirectX/triangles issue

Comments (Page 1)

iangw1969

on Oct 06, 2004

So, are those of us who bought the retail cd out in the cold for patch 1.02 if we don't have total gaming? This patch is not on the downloads here at this sight-just 1.01. If so, I can promise this will be the first and final product I buy from either stardock or ubisoft.

CariElf

on Oct 06, 2004

The patch is available. Did you try this link?

Link

If it doesn't work or you fail to get a response today, please e-mail Email and we will send you an alternate link.

Nakor

on Oct 06, 2004

iangw1969, the full update for the retail CD is up on Ubisoft's pages. Which, unfortunately, seem to be down for maintenance at an inopportune time. Visit https://www.politicalmachine.com/download_update.asp to get sent an email with the link for when they are back up.

Nakor

on Oct 06, 2004

As Ubisoft's webpages are still "undergoing maintenance", I have changed the link emailed out to point to a copy of 1.02 on our servers. Visit https://www.politicalmachine.com/download_update.asp to get sent out the link for the moment.

TOTD

on Oct 07, 2004

Linclon's money stat was 14. . on his stats page, but when I played with him he starts the first campaign with only 500k, and he didn't seem to have a lot of money as a VP. I was looking for help to try and finally beat FDR, and Lincoln surprisingly was no help at all. With this bug fixed, does anyone know how much money he'll have?

I'm also worried about the tinkering with the endorsements. It was kind of a race as to who would get more of them. It now sounds like it might be you take yours and I'll take mine, and there'd be no reward to getting them quickly before your opponant. Anyway, its a fun game so the thought of changing it a bit scares me. If anyone's played it with the new patch, are there any thoughts on whether its more or less fun to play?

Nakor

on Oct 07, 2004

Ubisoft's pages are back up, so the emails going out now will link to their server.

Sam David

on Oct 07, 2004

I find that the new patch makes the game in fact worse to play. If Ubisoft really wanted to make an endorsement easyer to get by someone, they should not have raised the amount of political capital need, but instead should of just lowered the ones that would be easyer for each side to get.

Fillibuster

on Oct 08, 2004

I actually approve of the update.

And lowering the amount of capital for the same-side (for lack of a better term) endorsements would do exactly the same thing as raising the capital required to earn opposition endorsements.

DoorFrame

on Oct 10, 2004

I've had a couple of emails with CariElf (thank you for your time in attempting to fix my problem). I found that when I upgraded to 1.02 my computer was no longer able to display the map within the game. Everything in the game still worked, and I could click on where the map should be and get the correct response, I just couldn't see it. Whatever had last appeared where the map should be remained there after it should have went away. CariElf suggested that the problem was most likely an out of date video driver. The problem is, as far as I know, I have the most up-to-date video driver available. I have an ATI Mobility M4 on my Gateway laptop and downloaded the most version from Gateway. It did not fix the problem.

As suggested, I went to OmegaDrivers.net because I was told they have updated ATI Mobility drivers, but their site clearly states that their drivers are for M6 and above.

Does anybody know of a fix for this bug OR does anybody know where I can get and updated driver for an ATI Mobility M4 on a Gateway 9500 laptop? I would really appreciate any assistance that anyone could offer.

Thanks for the help.

Andrew Cody

on Oct 11, 2004

When I first got the game, I had the problem with the initialization failure. I downloaded the patch and no I can start the game, but at the screens, there are no text on the buttons so I can't see what to do or any other the candidates names and such. It's quite a tease...I'm dying to play this game!!!

CariElf

on Oct 12, 2004

Andrew Cody,

If you have an Intel integrated video card, either the 82815 or the 82810E, this is a known issue. Unfortunately, the drivers for those chipsets were created before DirectX 9 came out, so they don't support all the features of DirectX 9. Intel has informed us that they will not be updating these drivers again. If you have another type of video card and can find updated drivers, that may solve the problem.

mtmdem

on Oct 18, 2004

After I downloaded the updat, the game freezes up when I click on "start" to start a campaign.

CariElf

on Oct 19, 2004

mtmdem,

Please run dxdiag and send the report to me at Link along with the debug.err from the directory where political machine is installed. Please describe the problem in the e-mail as I get a lot of e-mail and if I have to e-mail you to ask what I'm supposed to be helping you with, it'll take longer to solve your problem.

Here are instructions for running dxdiag in case you need them:

1) Click on your windows start button
2) Click on Run
3) type the word dxdiag in the dialog box and click OK.
4) Allow it to check to see if your drivers are digitally signed, let it run its tests
5) Click Save all information and save the file somewhere you'll be able to find it.

--Cari

Farns418

on Nov 20, 2004

I have to say, before the update the game bored me because no matter the level I was playing I was winning in a landslide. Now, it is much more challenging, but I still am disappointed at the election night, needs to be a more exciting feature!

Farns418

on Nov 20, 2004

I forgot to add, where is the third party feature?

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