Ubisoft have released the first patch for the PC version of Tom Clancy's EndWar, updating this title to 1.01. Changelog is as follows;

• Fixed performance drop that comes after playing 5-6 matches online.
• Updated Bink library to fix random crashes on Windows XP64
• Resolved issue of game crashing after launch when install directory contains a dot/period in its name.
• Fixed random crashes on Windows XP64, caused by memcpy.
• Added FPS warning information for online games so players can see who has the lowest FPS (connecting to a player with a lower FPS will cause you to have a lower FPS as well).
• 3D render optimization for multithread
• Improved rendering performance by MSAA optimization

 

For a few lucky individuals, the Tom Clancy’s EndWar VIP demo went live recently. Gameplanet was lucky enough to score access to it, so we can now give you a run down on what you can expect from Tom Clancy's new real-time strategy game.

The story is that in 2014 the US and the EU signed the SLAMS (Space-Land-Air-Missile Shield) Treaty, effectively bringing nuclear warfare to an end as missiles could be destroyed before reaching their targets. The Russians were left out of these negotiations and effectively accelerated their own research & development. However when an energy crisis hit in 2015, as oil companies had been overstating the size of their reserves, a push for oil began as countries attempted to secure energy.

The EU morphed into the European Federation, then having the population of the US and far more resources. The US began a push to take control of space, and in 2020 (when almost set to launch a ground breaking space station) there was a terrorist attack. Due to the tension between the US, the EF and Russia they each began blaming each other, and as momentum increased they headed toward a full-scale global war.