Deals running 5/27-6/2:

Plentiful Paradox Package - $12.49 (only for 2 days then off sale)
Crusader Kings II - $9.99 (only for 2 days, then moving to $14.99)

Best Paradox game ever made, you MUST GET IT TOMORROW AAAHHHH

If you are not sure about running it there are tricks you can try (also a demo)

Go to Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings II/settings.txt

mapRenderingOptions=
{
draw_terrain=yes
draw_water=no
draw_borders=yes
draw_trees=no
draw_rivers=no
draw_postfx=no
draw_sky=no
draw_bloom=no
draw_tooltips=yes
draw_hires_terrain=no
draw_citysprawl=no
}

There's another thing somewhere that makes the game 2D and disables any sounds from rendering, lowering the CPU load bigtime but I can't find them at the moment

EDIT: Here is the post:

Originally this was just one flat map mod but now I have a couple permutations and one more I made for something else:

I run this on a laptop with Intel integrated graphics (eg no graphics card) always muted so that drove my desire to trim as much of the fat as I could:

The core version is:
FlatMap(Pretty) - just a simple mod that flattens all terrain and water can be rendered without draw_water (as a painted terrain and not animated). It also turns all the 10meg loading screen into 1 pixel whites for faster loading. Terrain is still pretty and recognizable just the map itself is flat.
Download: Flatmap(Pretty).zip

The extended version is:
FlatMap(LowRes) - extended version of the above that removes all terrain overlays and heightmaps as well. Terrain now looks like quite pixelated as what you see is only what came from the complete map overlay. I use realm/demense view almost exclusively so this doesn't bother me but if you use terrain mode it is ugly now.
Download: FlatMap(LowRes).zip
CK2+ NOTE: zeress made a compatible terrain.txt for CK2+ here - no known side effects from the conflict if you don't get it but it retains the CK2+ modified attrition/supply.

An additional side mod that I packed separately:
TrueMute - remove all songs from the playlist and redirects all sound fx to an empty .wav. I play muted on this laptop and not loading those is about a 200-250meg lower memory footprint and probably saves it processing power as well. I didn't separate sound and music - the music part is simply the interface/sound.fx so if you want one or the other but not both that's all you need to know.
Download: TrueMute.zip


All of them together:
FlatMap and TrueMute AKA SuperHyper Version: what I use, all of the above (lowres)
Download: FlatMap and TrueMute.zip

Important!
Any of the map mods should also include tweaking MyDocs\Paradox\CK2\settings.txt

Here are the mods: http://somuchdamage.com/stuff/games/ck2mod/ :)

This game still looks boring as fetchIng poo poo, where is all the sex and blood?

it runs on my computer?

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz
4 GB DDR3 RAM
Intel HD graphics 3000
750 GB slowwwwwwwwwwwwww 5400 RPM sata hd

I need SSD?

SSD vs Laser hard drive?

of course im only making these stupid posts for rigcoins

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?610568-1.06-Information-amp-First-Expansion&p=13886096#post13886096

BUY NOW

of course

ban EJ forever so you never have to pay

$10 on Steam today

I guess I get to have all the fun

*le sigh

yes