Originally posted by miagisan

Originally posted by asasenpai

I've tried asking for a beta key from the official site, mmosite and fileplanet didn't give me a key and i think it's just redicules.

1.MMOsite needs you to have more post forum topic in your account.

2. Fileplanet needs you to be a subscribed member to get a beta key .

3. I've been waiting for my key for about 1 year and a half to get my key at the official site and they never gave me one.

i been waiting over a year for the WAR one....but i know its luck of the draw, so i don't cry about it :)

Well i'm not crying about it , it just the fact the Fileplanet and MMOsite has a problem with giving keys out to people.

i got the key the same way most did for the open beta. i used a paying FP account and signed up when they offered them. They were offering them for i think 5 days.

Originally posted by miagisan

i got the key the same way most did for the open beta. i used a paying FP account and signed up when they offered them. They were offering them for i think 5 days.

Well that was quick for you to get the key, But anyway did you registered your key at Funcom.

i been playing since the OB servers launched.

Is it good?

Originally posted by GazMc

I've a mid range machine. Not bad, not amazing. This game runs horribly on the lowest possible settings. Its definately something from the developers side. I've tried every little trick available to boost performance. Nothin changed. Theres some points in the game where i can get up to 30fps for about 20 mins (outside Tortage). I really seen that it can be an enjoyable game at these points. But between freezes and horribly long loading screens theres no way i'm buying this game at launch. I'll give it 2-3 months and see what the feedback is.

And for those of you that are not in Beta, don't fall for any cover up crap some of the devs and fanboys feed you. The game runs horribly on the MAJORITY of peoples machines. Not minority. Just look at these forums. Would a reliable game be getting flamed like this? No. The game isn't being flamed for being a bad game. Most people seem to enjoy the gameplay when they can play. Its all down to performance. Buying a game like this at launch shows companies that they can dish up loads of crap and people will still pay. Doesn't bode well for future projects...

I think your point is good and is what people are missing here.  I have yet to meet anyone who has said it is a bad game.  Yet  most people I have met have issues with performance.  I know I love the game myself and have since I got my first taste of it in the pvp stress test.  That being said the game has performance issues.  Look it is beta will it have buggs sure just like most games do.  However,  people having crashs of freezes every 5-10 minutes is not a minor bug but a major problem.  What is worse is that since open beta had started  not once has anyone actually from funcom  posted anything in the OB forums concerning the issues.  All we have had are ign personal repeating the same workarounds they publish the day OB started.  ( which begs the question how was funcom surprised by performance problems if they had ign publishing workarounds  prior to the actuall start of OB since it was delayed by several hours.

 It does get rather anoying to have people say if you do not like how the game is do not buy it and get lost.  I think the fact that most of us are having or had issues and yet are still tryign to play and are begging them to fix things shows that we like the game and think it is worth the effort we are putting in trying to get it fixed.

it's not for me. And i probably won't buy it. Am not a huge fan of the combat system it has. I am still working on it though to help find bugs and technical issues. But in the end, no, i don't think i will buy it

I have no problems playing on either my low end computer, nor my new high end. I did do some tweaking for better performance. I did follow tips given. On my new computer, the only program on it at this point is Conan. I mention this because I know how bloated computers get in time, and how that can effect your gameplay. From my experiences, plus others I've read, those who can't play Conan can't blame that entirely on Conan developers. Yes, the game does need some improvements to help cover more kinds of computers, but considering how unstandardized computers are today, especially home built, the company can't realistically find solutions for everyone. I know they will continue their tweaking and updates after release, to satisfy more players. I still think they will have a successful launch for players who are patient. The game is worth it.

Originally posted by Stradden

Last week, we spoke to Funcom’s Age of Conan Product Director Jorgen Tharaldsen about the company’s decision to hold an Open Beta through the subscription-based website Fileplanet. Now that the Fileplanet Beta is underway, a number of player concerns have arisen about the game’s performance and potential launch problems. This week, Tharaldsen speaks once more with MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood, Speaking to some of the concerns that have been raised by our readers.

MMORPG.com:

We have heard many complaints about the presence of loading screens in Age of Conan. Can you tell us why they are there? could the game have been made without them?

Funcom:

When we started to develop Age of Conan we really wanted to bring a new level of immersion to MMOs (and judging from the feedback we have done exactly that!), and we wanted the most lush and detailed areas we could possibly deliver (while hand-picking the best from the Conan lore, across Hyboria). It was therefore a trade-off that we divided Conan into zones, and by doing so we also, naturally, had to have load times between the zones. I think this price is worth paying, for sure, but for Open Beta we reintroduced an old bug which expanded the loading times way beyond the acceptable (the bug makes the game write and store tons of code while loading, which increase the loading times too much).

It is noteworthy to mention that if you want a seamless world, you need to stream a lot of the content to make it load right. We tried this, but it meant degrading the quality of the graphics, and even getting a lot fewer interest points in the game, so the end result was an easy choice. Quality won!

Read the whole thing here.

This is EXACTLY what i witnessed in all the vanguard hoop la,simple truth is that MOST gamers havn't the experience of online play or any knowledge about online play and what it takes as far as PC components  go.

An experience online player of say 7 years plus ,wouldn't need any website or game specs to tell them about performance.Graphic drivers and how machines utilize them have not advanced at all over the last 2 years.They like to HYPE up these new PC chips and these so called high powered graphic cards but in reality how your PC utilizes them[gaming] is a far cry from what they hype.

The people who can't play high end games will of course scoff at the real MMO developers,and use statements like"MY game is better than your game because we have more subscriptions" ..lmao.That's like saying a honda civic is a better car than a lambourghini because more people drive honda civics.

After reading this guys responses i have more respect for him than other games who hide from the public.When was the last time you read a q/a about WOW and there poor quality graphics,and why they chose to copy EQ instead of coming up with there own ideas for an mmo?You won't see it happen,there chicken xxxxx,and wouldn't dare to make excuses for there multi million dollar operation putting out low budget games.

FUNCOM was very direct and i applaud them.

As a software tester, I can honestly say that 150 developers can do a LOT on a product in 2 weeks. Expect to see something different from the beta for launch day.

I have beta tested a great variety of MMO's and I must say that the AoC beta for me was one of the worst I have experienced. Lag...terrible rendering rates...crashes...bugs galore and a combat system that doesn't yet seem "finished". If I were Funcom I would delay this game at least another six months. But, since MMORPG asked a Funcom guy and he is oh so positive I am sure that AoC will be launched with a lot of warts. As to the "150 developers" working on AoC for the next two weaks to tweak and polish, good luck on that. I have seen a lot of MMO's in far better shape going into that "crunch" time and I just don't see how they would ever address without making worse some of the problems this game has.

I know it won't do much when I say this but, if you were going to buy this game at launch....wait. Wait at least a month and see what reviews come in from those that failed to listen and put down the cash for a half finished game.

For everyone having FPS problems & graphic glitches; Make sure you adjust your display properties for your video cards in you OS to application controlled and best performance. A lot of people forget these options are there and only rely on in game options. In most cases fix the majority of performance issues.

Those with nvidia cards that are experiencing these problems, try setting your AA & AF settings to half way instead of full or off. Newer cards perform better with them on instead of off and with it being in beta, it might not be fully optimised for your spec being on max settings.

 If you are still having problems, set your OS display properties for Vsync to application controlled and turn it on in game. (If this was already on in game, try turning it off). This option can improve or make your performance worse depending on your spec.

Hope this helps.

Originally posted by Gruug

I have beta tested a great variety of MMO's and I must say that the AoC beta for me was one of the worst I have experienced. Lag...terrible rendering rates...crashes...bugs galore and a combat system that doesn't yet seem "finished". If I were Funcom I would delay this game at least another six months. But, since MMORPG asked a Funcom guy and he is oh so positive I am sure that AoC will be launched with a lot of warts. As to the "150 developers" working on AoC for the next two weaks to tweak and polish, good luck on that. I have seen a lot of MMO's in far better shape going into that "crunch" time and I just don't see how they would ever address without making worse some of the problems this game has.

I know it won't do much when I say this but, if you were going to buy this game at launch....wait. Wait at least a month and see what reviews come in from those that failed to listen and put down the cash for a half finished game.

 

You seem to take quite a negative stance on the game, there are however, some people that haven't had any issues with the game.

I think in most cases it will just come down to people not understanding how to tweak their settings. It pays to play around with them to get the most out of any game.

Originally posted by Dialtrax

Originally posted by Gruug

I have beta tested a great variety of MMO's and I must say that the AoC beta for me was one of the worst I have experienced. Lag...terrible rendering rates...crashes...bugs galore and a combat system that doesn't yet seem "finished". If I were Funcom I would delay this game at least another six months. But, since MMORPG asked a Funcom guy and he is oh so positive I am sure that AoC will be launched with a lot of warts. As to the "150 developers" working on AoC for the next two weaks to tweak and polish, good luck on that. I have seen a lot of MMO's in far better shape going into that "crunch" time and I just don't see how they would ever address without making worse some of the problems this game has.

I know it won't do much when I say this but, if you were going to buy this game at launch....wait. Wait at least a month and see what reviews come in from those that failed to listen and put down the cash for a half finished game.

 

You seem to take quite a negative stance on the game, there are however, some people that haven't had any issues with the game.

Originally posted by ltdaryth

For everyone having FPS problems & graphic glitches; Make sure you adjust your display properties for your video cards in you OS to application controlled and best performance. A lot of people forget these options are there and only rely on in game options. In most cases fix the majority of performance issues.

Those with nvidia cards that are experiencing these problems, try setting your AA & AF settings to half way instead of full or off. Newer cards perform better with them on instead of off and with it being in beta, it might not be fully optimised for your spec being on max settings.

 If you are still having problems, set your OS display properties for Vsync to application controlled and turn it on in game. (If this was already on in game, try turning it off). This option can improve or make your performance worse depending on your spec.

Hope this helps.

I tried all of this and it really did not help. In fact, it made the game look so ugly that I just turned it off. It still did not address the crashes or the lag or the poor rendering.

I don't agree with the choices Funcom made, but I'm wililng to see if they can pull it off.  They pretty much reaffirm that Funcom is targetting more dedicated/hardcore PC players who have nicer systems.   They're probably expecting their Xbox release to reach a wider audience than PC players.    If they can provide a good game for that portion of the market, then AoC will finally break the terrible record of MMO releases we've seen recently.    

I'm not in beta and haven't really followed the game simply because at first it didn't appeal to me and I'm still not sure if it does. Anyhow, from what I'm hearing about beta so far, I'm more opted to say it sounds a lot more similar to Asheron's Call 2 beta than Anarchy Online's beta.

I'm sure anything is possible in 2 weeks. 150 developers sounds like a lot, but what can I base those numbers off of? I don't even know how many developers most games had working on them 2 weeks prior to launch. Is 150 a lot or is it average or what?

As for the most common issues currently going on in beta, it sounds about right. Performance issues are almost guaranteed, but I sure hope they fix it 100% before launch day, cause nothings worse than performance issues ( Lag, CTD's and so forth ).

Broken quests, missing NPC's and those types of game bugs should be on the back burner. Who cares if you can't complete a quest when your CTDing every 2 minutes.

Anyhow, good luck with the FFA PvP folks and good luck to Funcom on their launch. Maybe I'll be there and maybe I won't, but the way it looks right now, I'm probably going to wait and see.

Well reading a post like that is like anything els. 
They say plx give us response/feedbacks, they invite you to beta ( some paid for other free ). And then a more or less powerfull system as Mmorpg.com go face to face whit funcom, and ask em what we users are responsing to there game, and what they done respons to. And they say: 
Well it realy has to be the user´s lack of RAM, or Gcard. And the games technoligy are denfently not ower power to the comen computer in a normal house this days. 
And ofcuse there is all the other things, that some way just fly by em like the wind, as nothing happend.

Well what can one say..... ??? 
Nothing.

But my guess is that they will laern in time. What we meant in all this letters that are send to them as feedback.

Ps: 
And no my computer arnt old, lack on ram or anything. I was in pvp beta and now on my way to 2end beta, if i ever get it loadloaded. ( I did not pay for more speed, will never happen - becuse of a beta :) 
In away beside the bugs, and my personal feelings about the game, i had more or less no problem. But as a Beta, i feel that i have to look at it as a nutral person, and say what i feel, from the normal computer, to the powerfull ones. And it will be a hell, for the ones that dont whant or have the money to Power it up. 

So, pay for extra download if in beta, pay for extra days ect. pre-ordre the game, or just wait till its out and pay for it then. And get f..., becuse it will happen. When it come to the proformence, and the loading walls( as in eqI/eqII ), 1 its old fashion, 2 it kills the action, and feeling of been free as they say u are in AOC ).
And bugs, yes there will always be bugs, so what thats what patching are for. 

Well, that is no more form here for now :) 

----------- COMON, lat me haer all the nacking/ winning ect. :) -----------------

Originally posted by vendolis

I tryed to get into the open Beta from day one and it always only showed me a black screen and the mouse on it. I heard the musik in the background. New Driver did not help.
I got no answer from Funcom yet about it.. so I can only tell the people I know that I am not even ablt to play the game.

My Specs:

Intel Core Duo E6850
NVIDIA 8800 GTS
4GB RAM
WinXP SP2

Well I hope they fix some stuff until the launch.

Also chose a different resolution like 1024x768.. this worked for many in the guild

Turn off blooming

click on low settings and click on shadder to 2.0

Defrag you hard drive with disk keeper or something better than the POS that comes with windows.

Turn off NPC names because they are not needed in the game anyway since the quest mark the goals with an giant X on your map and radar.

Make sure your running the latest drivers for everything and also the latest bios.