Well, the fact is that Impulse works quite well for me, so i am quite ok with it. Nevertheless, i am a big fan of Rise of Nations and his Update button in the game menu : you just click on it, it checks if there is any update, download it and install it. Worked well. For me, it is the perfect system and i am not stupid : the reason Stardock didn't put this feature in the game is not a lack of skill : it's just because having to download impulse makes you more likely to buy other poructs from stardock, THQ and the other companies of Impulse. It's a commercial strategy packed in a user-friendly package.

Guys from Stardock are nice but the goal remains make you purchasing their products. For me, it's a fair deal, even if i would have prefered having the choice between downloading my updates the hard way and using impulse.

I recently bought sins also and impulse has worked perfectly. At first I was worried about Impulse because I didn't think it was gonna be as good or stable as STEAM. But I have been very impressed with Impulse and my hats off to Stardock. It is smooth, streamlined, and fast. To be honest all these whiners about having to install IE7/.NET need to get a clue. Even if you don't use IE7 you still need it for security purposes. As for that paranoid dolittle guy, take a valium and chill. No one wants your information so if you want to play, suck it up use Impulse. If you can't get it to work then either your windows install is hosed somewhere or more likely you haven't downloaded everything needed. Impulse does not take a degree in physics to use, you couldn't ask for a more easy to use program. I applaud Stardock and hope they continue to improve the product.

To be fair, Impulse is more than likely *not* the only thing that's going to require you to use .Net.  Same goes for IE7 - there will be some sites that won't work through alternative browsers, components of your OS that can only be updated through an IE browser.  These are just things that as Windows users...we really oughta have on our systems

Don't get me wrong...I don't use IEx.  Firefox is my browser of choice.  But every once in a while I have to go crawling back to IE to make something work, hehe.

Personally I like the idea of Impulse - it's given us legitimate users a distinct advantage over people with the cracked versions.  We get updates hot off the press exclusively through Impulse.  As it should be.

So you have to endure the one off download and install time of a couple of components; once it's done, it's done.

I dont mind impulse at all.  Bought my first game off steam last week (Defense Grid: The Awakening)...checked Impulse to see if I could buy it there, as my experience with Stardock and Sins has been great.  Sadly, they didnt have it, so I used Steam.

After a week or so of Steam, I'm not unhappy that I bought it there, in fact the leaderboard functions for scores (filtered with my friends list) is a reason to buy it from Steam!

That said, Impulse is great, Stardock is great, Frogboy is great.  And I'll continue to spend my money on products related to these 3 entities (and encourage my LAN group to do the same).

Keep up the good work!  (and a huge HEH! @ the cranks! rofl...made for a great read over my coffee this morning!)

RM

Only read page 1. The only people who want to make sure there "privacy" is looked after are those who have something to hide

I can't actually get impulse to not have an error before it even loads, but im sure i will fix it, and i think its a great idea

*Affects

my major concern with this is that i need impulse for this game i need steam for that game i need EA download manager for yet another game........

Hi everyone new user here  say while you talking about Impulse I have a issue with it.

I get  "there were one or more problems during the self-install procedure" every time I install it - on boot up of computer I get error saying impulse cannot be found and Sins on impulse keeps on tellin me it needs updating all the time  - now the .exe says 1.1.6.0 so is the version number in Impulse supposed to reflect that as it says V1.0 - have no idea what the problem is here

Ian

Reinstall the most current Impulse client from here: Impulse Client - Full

SHouldn't be a problem with what drive you use...mine is I: for some reason.

i don't like impulse. my gaming pc has no chance to go online so there is no way to update the game. i only created this account to try out impulse anywhere (http://anywhere.impulsedriven.com) because someone said in the forums it is possible to update the game with it. but when i logged in it said "Only full installations are available through this website ; to download incremental updates please use the Impulse client."


great.

no. so what?

i just said that i have no chance to connect to the internet with my gaming pc.

i bought the game half a year ago at a local store, it's version 1.05 and i think the latest patch is 1.16

EDIT: ah, i got it. i've registered my serial number at impulse and now i can download the full game with impulse anywhere and complete reinstall soase.