They sought Europe’s approval, and wanted to be recognized as equals by it. But spiritually we were all inhabitants of France.” Russia’s Westernists identified themselves as “European Russians”. “We went to the office, we wrote letters to our relatives, we dined in restaurants, we conversed with each other and so on. “In Russia we existed only in a factual sense,” recalled the writer Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-89). Russia’s Westernists sought Europe’s approval, and wanted to be recognized as equalsįor the Russian intelligentsia, Europe was not just a place: it was an ideal-a region of the mind that they inhabited through their education, their language and their general attitudes. French was the language of the salon, and French loan-words made their way into the Gallicized literary language of Russian writers such as Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) and Nikolai Karamzin (1766-1826) at this time.
By the early nineteenth century, much of the nobility spoke French better than they spoke Russian. Peter forced his noblemen to shave their “Russian” beards (a mark of devoutness in Orthodox belief), adopt Western dress, build palaces with classical facades, and adopt European customs and habits, including bringing women into society. Everything in the new capital was intended to compel the Russians to adopt a more European way of life. It was a vast, almost utopian, project of cultural engineering to reconstruct the Russian as a European man. Petersburg (his “window on the West”) in 1703, educated Russians looked to Europe as their ideal of progress and enlightenment.
#Cossacks european wars windowed mode drivers
Will try old drivers asap but atm backing up a cd and it's just 1%, it's heavily damaged and only going at 3 kb/sec atm to will take awhile untill I can try new drivers etc.From the reign of Peter the Great and the founding of St. Directdraw tests in dxdiag also looked fine. Will try on my other monitor, perhaps my tft doesn't support the res or something m or it's confused by what is my primary and 2ndary mon, even with one monitor disabled alot of games confuse my 2ndary mon with my primary.Įdit: Hmm on just my other mon it crashes again.Įdit2: also it's bloody hard to find a proper fansite, most are stupid cheat sites, never understood why this game never got to the masses, imo it was way ahead of it's time due to the number of units you could command.ītw if it later appears you will really need to get a new card then don't spend so much on 6800/6600's, a 6200 will be more than enough, hell the game runs on 2mb gfx cards and less.Īnother edit: Hmm running in win2000 compat mode gived me a Direct Draw Init Failed error, perhaps Directdraw doesn't want to work correctly on out sets of drivers?Įdit again: Tried disabling all video acceleration, to no avail. Hmmm a bit of progress, I've disabled my 2nd srceen and back to war doesn't crash, however it doesn't show anything on screen either, while I can hear the menu sounds clearly when i move my mouse ( the game has sounds if you hover over buttons in the main menu), so the menu is loaded, it just doesn't display correctly. Is it really the case that one just have to wait for nVidia to get their thumb out and make the drivers compatible? My specs is in my sig and if there is anyone else here that plays Cossacks and has similar specs and runs XP SP2 on their rig, could you please let me know what you did to make it work, since I can't get it to work on my rig! So, I was wondering if anyone here might have any solutions? I have updated my graphic card to the latest drivers, with no luck. Now that surprised me since I thought that an old game would work fine on a new graphic card?!? The Cossacks 2 works just fine, which don't really helps me since I want to play the 1st on first.
#Cossacks european wars windowed mode driver
I hope that Nvidia will provide a solution or updated videocard driver soon." As far as I know there're also other games affected. "It seems the driver for the Geforce 8 videocards is the source of the problem. I also sent in a support ticket to the company that made the game (CDV) and they replied with this. I tried google it but any answers I found was to no help. The problem I have is that I can't run European Wars, when I try I get an error message saying:ĭmcr.exe has encountered a problem and needs to be close.
I recently bought Cossacks: Emperor's Edition, which contains European Wars, the addon Back To Wars and Cossacks 2: Battle For Europe. Not sure if anyone can help me here (or if this is the right forum to ask in) but thought I would try!