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Japanese print from 1854 describing Commodore Matthew Perry's 'Black Ships'.
The Black Ships (in Japanese: é»è¹, kurofune, Edo period term) was the name given to Western vessels arriving in Japan in the 16th and 19th centuries.
In 1543 Portuguese initiated the first contacts, establishing a trade route linking Goa to Nagasaki. The large carracks engaged in this trade had the hull painted black with pitch, and the term came to represent all western vessels. In 1639, after suppressing a rebellion blamed on the Christian influence, the ruling Tokugawa shogunate retreated into an isolationist policy, the Sakoku. During this 'locked state', contact with Japan by Westerners was restricted to Dejima island at Nagasaki.
In 1844, William II of the Netherlands urged Japan to open, but was rejected. On July 8, 1853, the U.S. Navy steamed four warships into the bay at Edo and threatened to attack if Japan did not begin trade with the West. Their arrival marked the reopening of the country to political dialogue after more than two hundred years of self-imposed isolation. Trade with Western nations would not come until the Treaty of Amity and Commerce more than five years later.
In particular, kurofune refers to Mississippi, Plymouth, Saratoga, and Susquehanna of the Perry Expedition for the opening of Japan, 1852â1854, that arrived on July 14, 1853, at Uraga Harbor (part of present-day Yokosuka) in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan under the command of United StatesCommodoreMatthew Perry.[1]Black refers to the black color of the older sailing vessels, and the black smoke from the coal-fired steam engines of the American ships. In this sense, the kurofune became a symbol of the ending of isolation.
Brooklyn Museum â Commodore Matthew Perry's 'Black Ship'
First kurofune ships: nau do trato[edit]
Portuguese black carrack in Nagasaki, in the early 17th century.
In 1543 Portuguese traders arrived in Japan initiating the first contacts with the West. Soon they established a trade route linking their headquarters in Goa, via Malacca to Nagasaki. Large carracks engaged in the flourishing 'Nanban trade', introducing modern inventions from the European traders, such as refined sugar, optics, and firearms; it was the firearms, arquebuses, which became a major innovation of the Sengoku periodâa time of intense internal warfareâwhen the matchlocks were replicated. Later, they engaged in triangular trade, exchanging silver from Japan with silk from China via Macau.[2]
Carracks of 1200 to 1600 tons,[3] named nau do trato ('treaty ship') or nau da China by the Portuguese,[4] engaged in this trade had the hull painted black with pitch, and the term[5] came to apply for all western vessels. The name was inscribed in the Nippo Jisho, the first western Japanese dictionary compiled in 1603.
In 1549 Navarrese missionary Francis Xavier started a Jesuit mission in Japan. Christianity spread, mingled with the new trade, making 300,000 converts among peasants and some daimyÅ (warlords). In 1637 the Shimabara Rebellion blamed on the Christian influence was suppressed. Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionaries faced progressively tighter restrictions, and were confined to the island of Dejima before being expelled in 1639.
The Tokugawa shogunate retreated back into a policy of isolationism identified as Sakoku (éå½, 'locked country'), forbidding contact with most outside countries. Only a limited-scale trade and diplomatic relations with China, Korea, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Netherlands was maintained.[6] The Sakoku policy remained in effect until 1853 with the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry and the 'opening' of Japan.
Gunboat diplomacy[edit]
Commodore Perry's superior military force was the principal factor in negotiating a treaty allowing American trade with Japan, thus effectively ending the Sakoku period of more than 200 years in which trading with Japan had been permitted to the Dutch, Koreans, Chinese, and Ainu exclusively.
The sight of the four ships entering Edo Bay, roaring black smoke into the air and capable of moving under their own power, deeply frightened the Japanese.[7] Perry ignored the requests arriving from the shore that he should move to Nagasakiâthe official port for trade with the outsideâand threatened in turn to take his ships directly to Edo, and burn the city to the ground if he was not allowed to land. It was eventually agreed upon that he should land nearby at Kurihama, whereupon he delivered his letter and left.[8]
The following year, at the Convention of Kanagawa, Perry returned with a fleet of eight of the fearsome Black Ships, to demonstrate the power of the United States navy, and to lend weight to his announcement that he would not leave again, until he had a treaty. In the interim following his previous visit, the Tokugawa shogunate had learned about the staggering destruction of the Chinese fleet by a handful of British warships in 1841 during the First Opium War, and about China's subsequent loss of Hong Kong to British sovereignty.[7] The shogunate realized thatâif they wished for their country to avoid a similar fateâthey would need to make peace with the west.
After a roughly a month of negotiations, the shÅgun's officials presented Perry with the Treaty of Peace and Amity. Perry refused certain conditions of the treaty but agreed to defer their resolution to a later time, and finally establishing formal diplomatic relations between Japan and the United States. The eight ships departed, leaving behind a consul at Shimoda to negotiate a more permanent agreement. The Harris Treaty was signed with the United States on July 29, 1858, and within five years of the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Amity, Japan had moved to sign treaties with other western countries.[8]
The surprise and fear inspired by the first visit of the Black Ships are described in this famous kyÅka (a humorous poem in 31-syllable waka form):
Commodore Perry's fleet for his second visit to Japan in 1854.
This poem is a complex set of puns (in Japanese, kakekotoba or 'pivot words'). Taihei (æ³°å¹³) means 'tranquil'; JÅkisen (ä¸åæ°) is the name of a costly brand of green tea containing large amounts of caffeine; and shihai (åæ¯) means 'four cups', so a literal translation of the poem is:
Awoken from sleep
of a peaceful quiet world by Jokisen tea; with only four cups of it one can't sleep even at night.
There is an alternative translation, based on the pivot words. Taihei can refer to the 'Pacific Ocean' (太平); jÅkisen also means 'steam-powered ships' (è¸æ°è¹); and shihai also means 'four vessels'. The poem, therefore, has a hidden meaning:
Black Sails
The steam-powered ships
break the halcyon slumber of the Pacific; a mere four boats are enough to make us lose sleep at night.
Kurofune ('The Black Ships') is also the title of the first Japanese opera, composed by Kosaku Yamada, 'based on the story of Tojin Okichi, a geisha caught up in the turmoil that swept Japan in the waning years of the Tokugawa shogunate',[9] which premiered in 1940.[10]
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ShÅgun is a 1975 novel by James Clavell. It is the first novel (by internal chronology) of the author's Asian Saga. A major best-seller, by 1990 the book had sold 15 million copies worldwide. Beginning in feudal Japan some months before the critical Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, ShÅgun gives an account of the rise of the daimyÅ 'Toranaga' (based upon the actual Tokugawa Ieyasu). Toranaga's rise to the shogunate is seen through the eyes of the English sailor John Blackthorne, called Anjin ('Pilot') by the Japanese, whose fictional heroics are loosely based on the historical exploits of William Adams.
Plot[edit]
Feudal Japan in 1600 is in a precarious peace. The heir to the Taiko (Regent) is too young to rule, and the most powerful five overlords of the land hold power as a Council of Regents. Portugal, with its vast sea power, and the Catholic Church mainly through the Order of the Jesuits, have gained a foothold in Japan and seek to extend their power. But Japanese society is insular and xenophobic. Guns and Europe's modern military capabilities are still a novelty and despised as a threat to Japan's traditional Samurai warrior culture.
John Blackthorne, an English pilot, serving on the Dutch warship Erasmus, is the first English pilot to reach Japan. England (and Holland) seek to disrupt Portuguese (and Catholic) relations with Japan and establish ties of their own through trade and military alliances.
Erasmus is blown ashore on the Japanese coast at the village of Anjiro during a storm. Blackthorne and the few survivors of his crew are taken captive by local samurai, Kasigi Omi, until his daimyÅ (feudal lord) and uncle, Kasigi Yabu, arrives. Yabu puts Blackthorne and his crew on trial as pirates, using a Jesuit priest to interpret for Blackthorne. Losing the trial, Blackthorne attacks the Jesuit, rips off his crucifix, and stamps it into the dust to show the daimyÅ that the priest is his enemy. The Japanese, who know only the Catholic version of Christianity, are shocked by the gesture. Yabu sentences Blackthorne and his crew to death. However, Omi, who is quickly proving himself as a clever adviser, convinces Yabu to spare them to learn more about European ways.
Omi throws the Erasmus crew into a pit to 'tame' them, and tells them Lord Yabu has ordered that they pick one amongst them (other than Blackthorne) to die, so that the others may live. Blackthorne leads his crew in a futile resistance, but they are easily cowed by Omi. One of them is taken and is boiled alive, to satisfy Lord Yabu, who cruelly enjoys such spectacles.
To save his crew, Blackthorne agrees to submit to Japanese authority. He is placed in a household, with his crew held in the pit as hostages to ensure his submission. On Omi's advice, Yabu also plans to confiscate the guns and money recovered from Erasmus, but word reaches Lord Toranaga, the powerful president of the Council of Regents. Toranaga sends his commander in chief, General Toda 'Iron Fist' Hiro-matsu, to take Erasmus and the crew to gain an advantage against Toranaga's main rival on the council, Ishido.
Blackthorne is given the name Anjin (Japanese for navigator or pilot) because the Japanese can't pronounce his name. Blackthorne insists on being addressed respectfully, as Omi is, and is therefore known as Anjin-san ('Honorable Pilot'). Hiro-matsu confiscates Erasmus and takes Blackthorne and Yabu back to Osaka, where the meeting of the Council is taking place at Osaka castle, which is Ishido's stronghold. They travel by one of Toranaga's galleys, piloted by the Portuguese pilot Rodrigues. Blackthorne and Rodrigues find themselves in a grudging friendship, despite being required to stay at arm's length due to their national and religious enmity. Rodrigues tries to kill Blackthorne during a storm by sending him forward just as a wave breaks over the deck, but is himself swept overboard by the next wave. Blackthorne not only saves Rodrigues but safely navigates the ship to Osaka with all aboard.
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At Osaka, Blackthorne is interviewed by Toranaga through the translation of the Jesuit priest Martin Alvito, who is more sophisticated and higher up in the Jesuit hierarchy, and therefore realizes the dangerous threat that Blackthorne presents. Blackthorne demands that Alvito tell Toranaga that the priest is his enemy. As an English Protestant, Blackthorne tries to turn Toranaga against the (Catholic) Jesuits. He reveals to a surprised Toranaga that the Christian faith is divided and that other European countries intend to sail the Asian waters now that the Spanish Armada (against England) has been defeated. The stunned Alvito is honor-bound to translate as Blackthorne, the sworn enemy of his country and religion tells Toranaga his full story.
The interview ends abruptly when Ishido enters, curious about the barbarian Blackthorne. Toranaga has Blackthorne thrown into prison as a ruse to keep him from Ishido. Blackthorne is then befriended by a Franciscan friar in the prison, who reveals further details about the Jesuit conquests and the Portuguese Black Ship, which each year takes the vast profits from the silk trade between China and Japan back to Europe. He is taught some basic Japanese and a little about their culture. Blackthorne is then taken from prison by Ishido's men, but Toranaga intervenes, capturing Blackthorne from his rival and making Ishido lose face.
In their next interview, Toranaga has the Lady Toda Mariko translate. She is a convert to Christianity, torn between her new faith and her loyalty, as a samurai, to Toranaga. During this second interview with Blackthorne, Toranaga is incredulous when Blackthorne reveals that Portugal has been granted the right to claim Japan as territory by the Pope, and how the Spanish and Portuguese are exploiting the New World in both South America and Asia in the name of spreading Catholicism.
During his stay with Toranaga at Osaka Castle, Blackthorne is attacked (unsuccessfully) by an assassin who is revealed to be a member of the secretive Amida Tong, a group of operatives who train all their lives to be the perfect weapon for one kill. After the assassin is dispatched, Toranaga summons Yabu the next day for questioning, since Hiro-matsu says Yabu would be one who would know how to hire them. Yabu is truthful (but evasive) in his answers, adding more fuel to Toranaga's distrust of him. It is also hinted that the Jesuits may have hired the assassin to kill Blackthorne, to prevent him from revealing any more of what he knows.
The Council of Regents' negotiations goes badly and Toranaga is threatened with forced seppuku by the Council. To escape the verdict, and to paralyze the Council (since five regents are needed for any decisions, and a new appointment seems politically unlikely), Toranaga resigns from the Council. He departs the castle in the guise of his consort in a litter, leaving with a train of travelers. Blackthorne inadvertently spots the exchange and, when Ishido shows up at the gate of the castle and nearly discovers Toranaga, Blackthorne saves Toranaga by creating a diversion. In this way, he gradually gains the trust of Toranaga and enters into his service. Toranaga's party reaches the coast but their ship is blockaded by Ishido's boats. At Blackthorne's suggestion, a nearby Portuguese ship is asked to lend cannon to blast the boats clear but, in return, the Jesuits (seeing the presence of a Protestant pilot in Toranaga's confidence as a grave threat) will only offer aid to Toranaga in exchange for physical custody of Blackthorne. Toranaga agrees and the ship clears the coast. The Portuguese pilot, Rodrigues, repays his debt to Blackthorne by having him thrown overboard to swim back to Toranaga's ship. Toranaga's ship escapes by staying alongside the Portuguese ship as both pass through the gap left between the opposing boats. Toranaga and his party return to his ship, which then goes back to Anjiro.
Blackthorne slowly builds up his Japanese-language skills and gains an understanding of the Japanese people and their culture, eventually learning to respect it deeply. The Japanese, in turn, are torn over Blackthorne's presence (as he is an outsider and a leader of a disgracefully filthy and uncouth rabble), but also a formidable sailor and navigator with extensive knowledge of the world outside Japan. As such, he is both beneath their contempt and incalculably valuable. A turning point is Blackthorne's attempt at seppuku upon finding out that Yabu has threatened the peasants with death if Blackthorne does not learn Japanese within six months. In so doing, he shows his willingness to give up his life in payment for theirs, despite the Christian injunction against suicide. The Japanese prevent this attempt (as Blackthorne is worth more alive), but they also come to respect this 'barbarian' for his knowledge and attempts to assimilate to their culture. When he also rescues Toranaga in an earthquake, he is granted the status of 'samurai' and hatamoto â a high-status vassal similar to a retainer, with the right of direct audience. As they spend more time together, Blackthorne comes to deeply admire both Toranaga and (specifically) Mariko, and they secretly become lovers.
There are many internal conflicts between the 'Eastern' (Japanese) and 'Western' cultures â especially to do with diet, obligations, hierarchies, loyalties, and â more particularly â the essence of 'self'. Blackthorne is also torn between his growing affection for Mariko (who is married to a powerful, abusive, and dangerous samurai, Buntaro), his increasing loyalty to Toranaga, and his desire to return to the open seas aboard his ship Erasmus to capture the 'Black Ship' â the main conduit of silk (and wealth) from China to Japan.
Eventually, he visits the survivors of his original crew in Yedo, and is astonished at how far he has ventured from the standard 'European' way of life (which he now sees to be filthy, vulgar, and ignorant), and he is actually disgusted by them. Blackthorne's plans to attack the 'Black Ship' are also complicated by his respect and friendship for his Portuguese colleague, Rodrigues, who is now to pilot the vessel. He returns to Osaka by sea with his crew and with many samurai (granted to him by Toranaga).
In parallel with this plot, the novel also details the intense power struggle between the various war-lords, Toranaga and Ishido, and also â as a subtext â the political manoeuvring of the Protestant and Catholic powers in the Far East. There is also an internal conflict between Christian daimyÅs (who are motivated in part by a desire to preserve and expand their (new) religion) and the daimyÅs who oppose the Christians, as followers of foreign beliefs and representatives of the 'barbarian' cultural and fiscal influence on their society.
In the novel, Ishido is holding many family members of the other daimyÅs as hostages in Osaka, referring to them as 'guests'. As long as he has these hostages, the other daimyÅs, including Toranaga, do not dare to attack him. Unforeseen by Toranaga, a replacement regent has also been chosen. Ishido hopes to lure or force Toranaga into the castle and, when all the regents are present, obtain from them an order for Toranaga to commit seppuku. To extricate Toranaga from this situation, Mariko goes to what will be her likely death at Osaka Castle â to face down Ishido and to obtain the hostages' release.
At the castle, Mariko (in response to Toranaga's orders) defies Ishido and forces him to either dishonor himself (by admitting to holding the Samurai families as hostages) or to back down and let them leave. When Mariko tries to fulfill Toranaga's orders and to leave the castle, a battle ensues between Ishido's samurai and her escort, until she is forced to return. However, she states that since she cannot disobey an order from her liege lord, Toranaga, she is disgraced and will commit suicide. As she is about to do so, Ishido gives her the papers to leave the castle on the next day. But that night, a group of ninja that Ishido has hired, aided by Yabu, who had previously been Toranaga's vassal, slips into Toranaga's section of the castle to kidnap Mariko. However, she and Blackthorne (who accompanied her, but was not aware of Mariko's plot) and the other ladies of Toranaga's 'court', escape into a locked room. As the ninja prepare to blow the door open with explosives, Mariko stands against the door and declares that this is her act of honourable suicide, and implicates Ishido 'in this shameful act'.
Mariko is killed by the explosion and Blackthorne is injured (temporarily losing his hearing), but Ishido is forced to let Blackthorne and all the other hostages leave the castle, seriously reducing his influence and power over them. Blackthorne then discovers that his ship has been burned, ruining his chances of attacking the Black Ship and gaining riches and also sailing home to England. However, Mariko has left him some money and Toranaga provides him with men to start building a new ship. Toranaga orders Yabu â who he learns had helped the attack in Osaka with the aim of being on the winning side â to commit seppuku for his treachery. Yabu complies, giving his own prized katana (samurai sword), which had been previously given to him by Toranaga, to Blackthorne, saying that no one else deserves the blade.
A recurring motif in the book is Toranaga engaging in falconry. He compares his various birds to his vassals and mulls over his handling of them, flinging them at targets, giving them morsels, and bringing them back to his fist, and then re-hooding them. There are other recurring themes of Eastern values, as opposed to Western values; masculine (patriarchal) values as opposed to human values, etc.
The last chapter involves Toranaga letting his prize peregrine falcon fly free, as he reveals his inner monologue: that he himself had ordered Blackthorne's ship to be burned, as a way to placate the Christian daimyÅs, and to save Blackthorne's life from them, as well as to bring them to his side against Ishido. He then encourages Blackthorne to build another ship, although he will eventually have that one burned as well, as Japan â in that era â can only survive properly without Western influences. It is Blackthorne's karma (destiny) to never leave Japan; and Mariko's karma to die gloriously for her lord, and for Toranaga's own karma (and purpose) to become eventually Shogun â Supreme Military Dictator, with absolute power.
In a brief epilogue after the final Battle of Sekigahara, Ishido is captured alive (disgracefully). In reference to an old prophecy that Ishido would 'die an old man with his feet firmly planted in the earth, the most famous man in the land', Toranaga has him buried up to his neck by the eta villagers, with passers-by being offered the opportunity to saw at the most famous neck in the realm with a bamboo saw. The novel states that 'Ishido lingered three days and died very old'.
Shogun was based on an actual series of events involving a real sailor (William Adams) who reached Japan in 1600 and became involved with the future shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. He achieved high status, though much of the interaction between the various characters in the novel was invented.
Characters[edit]
Many of the characters in the novel are based on their real-life counterparts:
Background[edit]
Clavell stated that reading a sentence in his daughter's textbook that stated that 'in 1600, an Englishman went to Japan and became a samurai' inspired the novel.[1]
The first draft was 2300 pages and Clavell got it down to 1700 with the help of his editor, German Gollob.[2]
Reception[edit]
'I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one', The New York Times's Webster Schott wrote. He added, 'It's almost impossible not to continue to read ShÅgun once having opened it'.[3]
In addition to becoming a best-seller, with more than six million copies of the novel in 14 hardcover and 38 paperback printings by 1980, ShÅgun had great impact on westerners' knowledge of, and interest in, Japanese history and culture. The editor of Learning from ShÅgun: Japanese History and Western Fantasy (1980) estimated that 20 to 50% of all students in American college-level courses about Japan had read the novel. He described the book as 'a virtual encyclopedia of Japanese history and culture; somewhere among those half-million words, one can find a brief description of virtually everything one wanted to know about Japan', and stated that '[i]n sheer quantity, ShÅgun has probably conveyed more information about Japan to more people than all the combined writings of scholars, journalists, and novelists since the Pacific War'.[4] The author of James Clavell: A Critical Companion calls the novel 'one of the most effective depictions of cross-cultural encounters ever written', and 'Clavell's finest effort'.[5]
Clavell said that ShÅgun 'is B.C. and A.D. It made me. I became a brand name, like Heinz Baked Beans'.[6] He reported that the ruler of a Middle Eastern petrostate offered him a full oil tanker for a novel that would do for his country what ShÅgun did for Japan.[7]
Adaptations[edit]
In 1976 Clavell hired Robert Bolt to write a screenplay.[8]
The novel was adapted as a nine-hour television miniseries in 1980, a Broadway musical, and several computer games. The television series starred Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada, and John Rhys-Davies. It was also edited into a two-hour theatrical release, a 5-disc DVD release in 2003, and a 3-disc Blu-ray release in 2014.
There have been three computer games based on the ShÅgun novel. Two text-based adventure games with sparse graphics were produced for the Amiga and PC, and marketed as James Clavell's ShÅgun, by Infocom, and ShÅgun by Mastertronic. A unique graphical adventure game, ShÅgun, was also produced for systems including the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and IBM PC by Lee & Mathias and released by Virgin Entertainment in 1986.
On August 3, 2018, it was announced that FX would be adapting the novel into a miniseries.[9]
Related works[edit]
Clavell was not the first author to novelise the story of Will Adams; several earlier and less successful attempts exist. The first, by William Dalton, was called Will Adams, The First Englishman in Japan: A Romantic Biography (London, 1861). Dalton had never been to Japan and his book reflects romanticised Victorian British notions of the exotic Asian. Richard Blaker's The Needlewatcher (London, 1932) is the least romantic of the novels; Blaker consciously attempted to de-mythologize Adams and write a careful historical work of fiction. James Scherer's Pilot and ShÅgun is less a novel than a series of incidents in Adams life. American Robert Lund wrote Daishi-san (New York, 1960). Finally Christopher Nicole's Lord of the Golden Fan was published just two years before ShÅgun, in 1973. Adams is portrayed as sexually frustrated by the morals of his time and seeks freedom in the East, where he has numerous encounters. The work is considered light pornography.[4]:7â13
References[edit]
External links[edit]
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The following Total War Shogun 2 cheats guide reveals two cheating methods that can be used while playing Shogun 2.
Published by Sega, and rated T for Teen, Shogun 2: Total War is a TBS (turn-based strategy) video game developed exclusively for PC, by The Creative Assembly.
It was released on March 15, 2011 in U.S. Shogun 2: Total War is the eighth episode in the Total War series of video games, following Napoleon: Total War, which was released in 2010.
The video game puts the player in the role of a warlord who must become the supreme ruler of Japan.
The action in Shogun 2: Total War takes place in the 16th century, after the Onin War, when Japan was divided in provinces.
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Each clan has weak and strong points, as well as political views, special troops and strategies.
Shogun 2 Cheats: How to cheat in Total War: Shogun 2 using cheat codes
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Players should know that the Shogun 2 Cheats listed below must be typed while the map screen is opened. Each cheat code has a different effect in the game, allowing players to advance faster in the campaign mode, or to increase the amount of Koku and other minerals.
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The awesome PC strategy game Total War: Shogun II is finally out! It is available on Steam so I recommend getting it now or even purchasing it at a store. At the very least try out the demo! Anyway, here are some Total War: Shogun 2 game fixes for those who need a guide to help them troubleshoot any issues in there way!
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If you want to install the game from the disc rather than having Steam download it for you, then perform the below steps. Not that those on a Macintosh (Mac) operating system will not be able to do this.
1) Load and Log in to Steam
2) Click on Library and then right click on the game -> Delete Local Content 3) Insert the CD into your disc drive 4) Exit Steam, then go to Start -> Run â and type:
âC:Program FilesSteamSteam.exeâ -install E:
This will launch Steam from the specified location and install from your E drive. Make sure to alter this to correspond to your settings of your Steam is located elsewhere or your CD/DVD drive is located elsewhere.
5) Hit OK, login, and have fun installing!
Unfortunately, it appears many people are having this issue. Particularly when verifying the game cache it may halt at 74%. You can try the following steps to remedy it:
â Patiently waiting, as it may eventually finish (it commonly takes a long time for this game specifically)
If after waiting a while (really, give it some time) it still doesnât install or the percentage is still stuck, then try:
â Close, then re-open Steam
â Restart the process â Delete the game and all traces of it, then reinstall â Installing from the disc instead (if you have a copy)
This game does not come with an anti aliasing option. However, many graphics cards are capable of forcing anti-aliasing and VSYNC upon games and applications.
For NVIDIA cards, the common method (this varies depending on your card) is to:
1) Load the NVIDIA Control Panel (can be accessed in system tray generally or Control Panel) 2) Click on âPerformance & Quality Settingsâ, then the âAdd Profileâ button & enter Total War: Shogun 2 3) Click on the âBrowseâ button, select the Shogun Two EXE, then check the checkbox thatâs located next to it in the associated application list 4) Under âApplicationâ be sure to select the entry you just added and uncheck âApplication-controlledâ
Here you can edit your settings, such as VSYNC, Ant aliasing, and Anisotropic Filtering.
If the menus are different for you, then you may have a different NVIDIA Control Panel. Try the following instead:
1) Load the NVIDIA Control Panel
2) Under â3D Settingsâ choose âManage 3D settingsâ in the menu, then under the Program Settings tab select the game from the drop down menu if it is present, otherwise click âAddâ and navigate to the gameâs EXE
Here you can mess with sampling, triple buffering, vertical sync, gamma correction, texture quality, GPU acceleration, and antialiasing. Simply override instead of using the global settings. Hit âApplyâ when done.
Forcing antialiasing on for ATI graphics cards is pretty similar to the procedure done for NVIDIA video cards.
1) Load ATI Catalyst Control Panel and expand the 3D menu
You are now to the tweaking option. You can adjust Anti-Aliasing, Anisotropic filtering, and other things here. Just make sure to click âApplyâ.
If you have the limited edition or preordered the game, then you might be wondering how to redeem the extras / gifts that come with it. It features things like units and armor. Youâll find the code in your game box. Simply load Steam and enter it there. The official directions to do this are as follows:
If you have purchased the Total War: SHOGUN 2 Limited Edition or received an exclusive pre-order code via participating retail outlets, you will need to connect to the internet, redeem your code through Steamworks and easily unlock your units for use in game.
Install SHOGUN two and the Steam client as per instructions included with the game.
Launch the Steam client and select âActivate a product on Steamâ¦â under the âGamesâ menu. Step through the Steam Product activation wizard, entering the product code as prompted. The Limited Edition content will then become available in the game as follow:
1. Exclusive ninja clan â available in single and multiplayer games from the clan selection screen.
2. Extra historical scenario â available in single and multiplayer games via the âHistoric battlesâ menu. 3. Special armour for your avatar â it can be accessed from your avatar screen by clicking on the âCustomize avatarâ icon. 4. Bank account of XP for your avatar â the extra XP will automatically be added to your avatar profile
This is a pretty broad title, I know. A lot of the fixes for this are the same though. It would be redundant to keep them separated. This also includes fixes for launch failure / failed to open, which isnât uncommon.
â Try running Total War: Shogun 2 in Windows XP compatibility mode through right clicking the exe -> properties -> compatibility and selecting it there.
â Patch the game when you can â Restart the computer â Revalidate your game cache to make sure it isnât corrupted â Update your drivers (i.e. video card drivers) to the latest version. This generally not only provides you with an increase in frames per second (FPS) to help with stuttering or lagging, but can provide game fixes for things like weird textures, artifacts on the screen, pixilation, game crashes, and more.
If there is no audio being produced by the game, then try the following game fixes:
â Set compatibility mode to Windows XP (right click the exe -> properties -> compatibility)
â Update your sound / audio drivers
You can also try disabling Hardware Acceleration and reduce Sample Rate Conversion Quality to try to fix it by:
1) Go to Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices (or) Control Panel -> Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices -> Sounds and Audio Devices
2) In the Volume tab, click the âAdvancedâ button under âSpeaker settingsâ, then click the âPerformanceâ tab 3) Move the slider from âFullâ and âBestâ to âNoneâ and âGoodâ. Click âOKâ.
Note that I recommend doing them one at a time rather than both at once on the off chance that you do not need to disable one or the other to fix the problem.
You can also try using DXDIAG:
1) Go to Start -> Run â and type in âdxdiagâ
2) Click the âSoundâ tab and under âDirectX Featuresâ move the slider from âFull Accelerationâ to âno accelerationâ to disable the setting for DirectSound
Unfortunately, as of right now you cannot enable DirectX 11 for this game. A patch will be available soon to provide Direct-X 11 support.
Simply download Steam_api.dll here.
Step 1. Extract the file to c:windows system (32 bit windows users) or to c:windowsSysWOW64 (64bit windows users)
This error isnât usually one you can fix. Thatâs because it means that the server is crowded. The easiest and recommended solution is to just try again later, especially during odd hours. This is common mainly during the initial release of hot games.
Minimum Hardware Requirements
2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor , or AMD equivalent (with SSE2) 1GB RAM (XP), 2GB RAM (Vista / Windows 7) 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card (shader model 3) 1024Ã768 minimum screen resolution 20GB free hard disk space
Recommended Hardware Requirements
2nd Generation Intel® Coreâ¢i5 processor (or greater), or AMD equivalent 2GB RAM (XP), 4GB RAM (Vista / Windows7) AMD Radeon HD 5000 and 6000 series graphics cards or equivalent DirectX 11 compatible graphics card 1280Ã1024 minimum screen resolution 20GB free hard disk space If you know any other game fixes for Total War: Shogun 2, then please share them! This game is too fun to be played with bugs, problems, and errors! Thanks!Incoming search terms:
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