This Patch has a less intensive version of smoke that will be less taxing on your computer.
The Simple smoke runs much smoother with larger numbers and on older machines. It only changes the smoke, nothing else.
This is a patch, you must first install Empire Extended v. 1.0.1
To Install:
1. Unzip the folder
2. open the scripts folder
3. select both scripts and copy them
4. in the search bar of your computer type %appdata% then navigate to ...The Creative Assembly/Empire/Scripts
5. paste in the files and hit replace all when prompted
6. open the folder titled data
7. select the file within and copy it.
8. navigate to Empire's data folder (...steamapps/common/empire total war/data)
9. Right click and paste files into the data folder.
10. start up Empire through steam!
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