Originally posted by KariTR
Right, because Sigil should support a sound card that Creative no longer support. Do you have any idea how these things work?

Originally posted by AgtSmith

Originally posted by BigMango 2

Sorry for you.

I'm playing with no stuttering (just the 1 second at chunks) with all the settings maxed out and 16x anisotropic.

E6400 @ 3gz, 2 gb ram, ati x1900xt-512.

Sorry to be blunt but you are a boldface liar if you are going to try to claim this.  No way in hell a 1900xt (a card I have had before I had a  1950XTX and a  7950GX@ and my current 8800GTX).

I too played VG, wanted to love it, but ended up leaving for about all the same reasons as the OP.  For em the linch pin was performance - I will simply not tolerate games that are inefficient and VG is so terribly inefficient it is laughable.  The big world all spread out seemingly for no reason other than to waste time between places was another - big world is fine if it is big for a reason - but big just to be big and to waste time is ridiculous.  bugs was another, if Turbine can offer founders a 410 a month subscription for their early patronage then VG should be offering its customers a $5 a month (or even free) subscription for tolerating their public BETA.  Lastly, and not least important, the community in VG is so self important and ego-centric it is nearly intolerable.  Take the guy I quoted who will deny the fact that the games runs fairly poorly for the whole world except of course on his two generation old GPU just to defend his precious VG.  That same fanboy attitude persists in game and extends to the broader community where people whore info because it makes them feel better if they know things others don't and similar type things.

Fact of the matter is that Vanguard was a great idea that was executed poorly - it is like a ferrari that was 80% done when the money ran out so anything left got parts from PepBoys slapped on it just to call it done and get it out the door. 

Originally posted by Eskibo

 

Originally posted by Deathstrike2

Wow, this is annoying.  I have the same exact set up (although my memory is 667 I think instead of 800 mhz and my graphics card is a 8800 GTX.  Performance for me is not smooth.  It's jerky most of the time, and i'm playing on balanced. 

 

I heard there were some problems with the 8800GTX card in Vanguard. Im sure its not your card tho since it pretty much is the best atm.

Just need to wait for a patch that supports it better i guess.

As to if the graphic engine's been fixed since beta? Im pretty sure, coz im running it freaking great.

 My system has the same problem:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6800
4 gigs Corsair Dominator DDR2 1142 (huge bitch to get ahold of)
BFG 8800GTX 756 megs
Craptastic intel D975xbx2 board [ the asus was not out yet :(  ]

windows 2000

no matter if I set it an balanced or all out at 1024x 768 the game still jerks around. Don't get me wrong i get like 70fps  but  then It will just chunk out to 12 and back up to 50-70 again. In cities with alot of people it's not smooth at all. Absolutely not what I would expect with this kind of machine. Other games just flat out rock with this setup so has to be something with Vanguard. TBH my other machine does just as well with a 7950!!

Basically it comes down to this. It doesn't matter if this game is gonna be owned by sony or not. Overall the game is good and will get better as time goes on.

It will end up much like EQ2 overall. I say that becuase not too many are gonna have the comp to fully enjoy the game and overall it much the same type of MMO.

Originally posted by Kraenee
Words from the devs

"We all agree performance is #1 -- we expect to see about a 10% improvement by launch for low-mid level machines. There's only so much we can do in the time we have.

We don't want to rush things but like I said we have a solid launch date. People are crunching and working long hours but the financial reality is we need to lauch commercially, and soon."
http://forums.vanguardsoh.com/showthread.php?p=1850125#post1850125

Which means.. its coming out fast and it will be bug ridden.

"At this point one house. When we later implement player run cities and different types of buildings (commercial, industrial, residential) that will likely change"
http://forums.vanguardsoh.com/showthread.php?p=1848795#post1848795

Which means no player run cities at startup.. and only a single house.

"Realistically you'll see about a 10% improvement in opmtimizations by launch"
http://forums.vanguardsoh.com/showthread.php?p=1847699#post1847699

Don't need to explain that one do I?

"Smed has done EVERYTHING possible to give us as much time and money and support that he can. The reality is that SOE is under Sony Pictures and there are financial realities and the game must be released and go commercial at some point, and it is soon (we'll be announcing the launch date in the next week or so)."
http://forums.vanguardsoh.com/showthread.php?p=1847663#post1847663

SOE isn't giving them more money, they want it launched now.

"Flying mounts will be very hard to get and require you to be high level"
http://forums.vanguardsoh.com/showthread.php?p=1838760#post1838760

Like walking? You better. You'll be doing it for a while.

And theres the forum summary from the head of Vanguard's Sigil team.

This is to answer if Sony gave Sigil money. These links were from Brad quotes.
This is one of my earlier posts

Actually, Sigil created the game, Microsoft was supposed to be the publisher. It was to be the big title for Xbox and Vista. When it was realized the game could not be run on Xbox and may not be ready for Vista Microsoft quit. Sigil went to SOE for support just like they did before with EQ1. I know I beta tested that too. Sigil ran out of money so SOE gave them more money and some peeps from EQ2 for art and whatnot. This helped but it wasn't good enough so SOE gave them 12 Devs from the EQ2 team for the last two weeks so the game would be almost ready for Retail.

Truth Sigil owes SOE a ton of money and other investors. Just like EQ1 SOE will make them a deal and take it over in a matter of a couple of months. The new SOE forums will have a vanguard area.

I'm still getting mine just so i can sell it on ebay this summer when the rare one is not sold anymore :D

Did it with SWG and made some good money /shrug

But after playing it for 6 weeks i can tell you I'm not going to play it live for at least 6 months after release.