Thanks, my hammer is good again. Candles your version works for me, but I'm starting over on another system with fresh installs of everything. I don't have all the older versions and configs hanging around.
Did you guys put that gameconfig.txt into the default Empires setup? I swear I haven't touched anything and it was set correctly already.
Just a heads up if anyone has trouble with this, make sure that you have the correct C: directory. EX: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\empires that is mine. I have 2 C:\Program Files directories.