Age of Conan

I don't know what all the doom and gloom is about, I rarely crash and the game plays great for me. If it plays this well come launch time I see no problem. This forum is so full of negative people wanting it to fail. Ever since Vanguard launched people here have gotten downright nasty at times, still angry because of that and taking it out on any game with lots of hype that is close to launch. I wonder if the same kind of thing will happen when WAR comes close to launching.

Originally posted by Hoobley

 

Originally posted by openedge1

 

No...but, you adjust the seats...move the mirrors, maybe put some stuff in the glove box?

 

I call that "tweaking"

I would liken that to adjusting the UI in game and key bindings, just for personal comfort right?

 

 

Going into the game folder and adjusting settings there is like opening the hood and fiddling with the engine.

Originally posted by daadamo

I wonder if the same kind of thing will happen when WAR comes close to launching.

Yes of course it will.

Originally posted by Hoobley

 

Originally posted by openedge1

 

No...but, you adjust the seats...move the mirrors, maybe put some stuff in the glove box?

 

I call that "tweaking"

I would liken that to adjusting the UI in game and key bindings, just for personal comfort right?

 

 

Going into the game folder and adjusting settings there is like opening the hood and fiddling with the engine.

I had to move some sliders is all in the game itself...(and really all I did on two machines is hit Medium and then turned up some stuff and turned on some other stuff I liked)

Where MOST of my tweaking took place was on my computer, as I like to do that to get the most speed..

I have no doubts there are driver issues, certain hardware issues...but, I also know that all the "reports" everyone is sending in (everyone is doing that part...right?) will help in this matter...

Originally posted by Shannia

 Well said.  When you consider the system requirements for the game, it has another block stacked against it to be successful.  They are setting up for 600,000 subscribers at launch.  If half or more are having problems come May 17 that they are having today, then Agu is spot on.  It will have to settle for a 200,000 instead of being 500,000 plus.  The game only gets ONE chance to make a first impression.  That impression will forever make or break this game.

 

The irony is that game you are comparing with, Anarchy online, contradict that statement. It had a bad start, it did make a bad impression. Yet it managed to do well and still be around to this day.It didn´t broke. It all depends how the developer responds.  But I do agree about the system requirement. Vanguard had high requirements at start and that turned away many players.

Originally posted by daadamo

I don't know what all the doom and gloom is about, I rarely crash and the game plays great for me. If it plays this well come launch time I see no problem. This forum is so full of negative people wanting it to fail. Ever since Vanguard launched people here have gotten downright nasty at times, still angry because of that and taking it out on any game with lots of hype that is close to launch. I wonder if the same kind of thing will happen when WAR comes close to launching.

Have you not seen the million posts on this. It might run great for you and i know sme that it does with computers that are considered low end. Where as I have a very good system and it s terrible. No doom and gloom just it s a random crap shoot for this game and wether it will run  well. For me and many others obviously it doesn t run well at all.

Originally posted by Whire01

 

I'm curious what game settings you are having to change in the game folder?  That is something that can really mess up a game fast.  I had to do that with Vanguard early on and it was a pain cuz after every patch I had to redo it.  

 

 

I was talking about games in general as I've already stated, I didn't want to name names, but yeah the Vanguard .ini tweaking was one thing I was referring to.

Going on 7 years im still an anarchy fan to this day, funcom has never let me down...i still don't expect them too.  shiet i still cant wait to play the new update. No one can live up to this sci fi adventure, regardless i expect this game to proove me wrong and until it does....i wont pass judgement.

LOL, comparing it to AO launch? Thats even worse than comparing it to Vanguard.

AoC is running great for me, barely any lag...and I haven't crashed once. The people ingame most of them are running it just fine.

Yeah, there are people saying the game isn't playable or whatever, but its nowhere close to AO launch and for me its way better than Vanguard was

Originally posted by ethion

 

 

I'm actually starting to turn optimistic.  I think that most of the problems they have are rooted in a common core.  Namely the graphics/driver interface.  Once you get through that horrendous issue the game seems to play pretty well.

There are still massive lag issues but these are not server based they are graphic.  And they seem to be the same issue Vanguard has in that it is compiling textures or some such thing.  Basically when you zone into a new instance you will be unable to move for awhile till it has the textures compiled.  Now once that is done you move a bit and it freezed again.  I think what happens is your view distance hits more uncompiled texture data.  I'm gonna do some experimenting but I'm thinking if I expand my view distance to max it might compile a lot more at once.  This means it will take a lot longer till it starts moving properly but it might make it get it all done so I don't have it happening as I move.  Once the textures are compiled the game runs smooth.  I also think it is supposed to write this data out and save it so the next time you reboot it doesn't have to recompile but I think when you quite the game it crashes and looses all that data.  But that is a theory.  Tonight I'll play with it some more and prove my theory.

Your theory is spot on

Check the 1st sticky on this forum for details about the problem and how to improve your perfomance by forcing the system to dump your compiled shaders to your hard drive: De