Originally posted by Crashloop

Originally posted by Evilzim

Originally posted by Crashloop

The thing that happened to your computer is 99% certain that can't be blamed on AoC. However the problem you mention I have seend before. It indicates that there is a problem with some files for windows and that the system cannot find the files required to load it.

OS missing usually means you have to reinstall the OS, however how old is your hard drive? or the computer itself? There can be many reasons for OS gone missing such as bad clusters on hard drive or that the hard drive simply is about to die.

 

The computer is at most two months old... Do you know if its possible to reinstall the OS without erasing everything on the computer in Vista?

You can try to run the repair utility that windows provides, when isnatlling you can either choose full install or try to repair the previous installation. I have never really used the repair thingy as I keep my important stuff on a different disk then C:. Too many episodes like this when I was playing around and learning how the computer works :P

If this doesn't work you can take the hard drive out or get a friend to do it and put it in his computer, as long as you don't need the files under your user these should be easy to get out. that is of course as long as the disk isn't damaged .

This should not happen on a 2 month computer, but I had a simialr case on a friends computer some months back, they have sent the computer to repair, but not heard anything yet how that goes. I took the backup using my computer and installing their Harddrive in it. That was Vista too, and they had blue screens appearing for some month or so before the computer finally crashed. Have you had any blue screens?

I'll try running the repair.  The computer was running perfectly, I hadn't noticed a single glitch until the incident with Age of Conan.  No blue screens what-so-ever.

Originally posted by Crashloop

The thing that happened to your computer is 99% certain that can't be blamed on AoC. However the problem you mention I have seend before. It indicates that there is a problem with some files for windows and that the system cannot find the files required to load it.

OS missing usually means you have to reinstall the OS, however how old is your hard drive? or the computer itself? There can be many reasons for OS gone missing such as bad clusters on hard drive or that the hard drive simply is about to die.

The computer is at most two months old... Do you know if its possible to reinstall the OS without erasing everything on the computer in Vista?

Originally posted by Vrika

If you have Windows XP you can do a reinstall on top of the old one without losing your old settings or information, assuming that just something small on the hard drive is corrupted, not all the information. I don't know if it works on Vista tough.

But games like AoC don't kill the computers. Games may cause crashes, but if your computer stops working while playing a game it's most likely a hardware failure or something with the operating system or drivers, not anything the game would have done.

EDIT: You might also want to try running some program wich would rewrite the boot record, that being corrupted might be one possible problem. I just don't know any other way to do it with Windows machines than reinstallation. /EDIT

It is vista, unfortunately, so I'm not sure if this will work, although I guess I'm willing to try... Also any idea on what program would rewrite the boot record?  I'm not an expert with computers...

Originally posted by Wuushu

It's not impossible that while crashing your BIOS boot-sequence was somehow reset..

Depending on your motherboard and all other stuff, press DEL when booting up. Go into whatever menu that controls the booting sequence.

 

Make sure the first one is not set to floppy (if you don't have one).. and that it doesn't halt on devices not found...

 

If i'm wrong i'm wrong... but better trying than not :)

 

 

Thanks! I'll try that now!

Edit: Didn't work, the first one was set to diskette drive and the second to hard drive.  I switched them and nothing happened.

If your drives was corrupted and you installed AoC on those clusters it could be possiblibe for such things to happen..

I was refering to the slew of technical difficulties that had been reported at the games launch.  I haven't been following the game for sometime, if it has improved significantly, I'm glad.  My issue is the computer I was playing on was not owned by my parents, there are documents and files on their that they need... Is there any other possible way of getting the computer working that you know of...

I installed the trial for Age of Conan yesterday.  After playing for several hours the game crashed, nothing suprising I'd heard alot about the glitchiness of the game.  I restarted my computer, played for a few more hours only to have the game crash again.  Now when I boot my computer it says "Floppy Disk(s) Fail(40)" and then If I press continue (F1) it says "operating system missing".  Did Age of Conan really just delete my operating system?

I'm no computer wiz but I'm sure the specs on my computer were good enough to run the game on high graphic settings, the game was running absolutely perfectly until it crashed.  Since I only have a trial account I can't even post on the official Age of Conan forums.  After a year of this game being out I find it rediculous that it still is having such serious technical problems.  Any advise on how to fix my computer without reinstalling everything, if possible, would be appreciated.

Originally posted by Shadow786

lol is this true give source please

Of course it's a joke.  No company would ever post something that said we have a broken game thanks for testing it...especially not in such blatant terms.

Originally posted by airstrike

WoW:

Good things (I dont consider them good,but most WoW players do):

-easy to play,even if you have no arms and legs (exageration)

-does not require much thinking at all

Bad things:

-worst community you will ever encounter,comprised of underaged kids or adults that act worse then kids

-endless grind with no real aim (all progress is erased with a new expansion)

-meaningless gank fest/corpse camping pvp

-crap lore,mostly ripped from warhammer (the board game) and crappy pop culture references

-crap economy 

To add a few...

WoW

Good things:

-Range of content, easy content for people who want instant gratification and difficult content for people who want a challenge.

-OK PvP, It's turned more into an esport than meaningful PvP though.

-More Well disguised grind than a lot of games.

-Blizzard is always trying to improve their game.  They actively listen to the player  base and improve their game based on what we say.

Bad things:

-Tons of idiots, you need to find a good guild if you want to keep from killing yourself from stupidity

-The WarCraft Lore is rich, but it is not spoon fed to you, its mostly hidden in the flavor text of quests which no one ever reads.  If you want to know the lore you need to find it yourself.

-Gold Sellers spam you whenever you are in a major city (although this has gone down considerably)

Another MMO doesn't rattle the genre.

WoW still has 10 million subscribers.

It's like Déjà vu...

Literally, its behind RS and everything.

Terrible graphics.

Terrible interface.

Terrible lag.

Terrible voice acting.

The story is like Pirates of the Caribbean without a plot...

Im sorry, I could only play for fifteen minutes after that I simply could not stomach it.  I now realize this game was aimed at 9 year olds.  But I wish I was aware of this before I spent 20 minutes of my life downloading, installing and playing it...

I don't know about him but I certainly want more details!

P.S. The game looks amazing!

Edit: Doh, I just found it on your website.

I think it’s a really cool idea, and a great way for a game to break away from the numerous fantasy and sci-fi MMO, but I think right now, it’s all in theory and they have nothing to show and won’t for a while…

So yes, it may be cool, it’s nothing right now…

Ya, you need at least a decent computer to play, otherwise it will be downright painful; I have a pretty decent computer and I still have lag spikes here and there.  And yes, as you said, there load times are terrible. Easily a minute or two to load a map.

Oh but yes, the game is tons of fun.

Originally posted by Kremlik 

Thirdly it's the word of mouth popularity domino effect, it's gotta THAT popular that your now a 'geek' if you DON'T play WoW, it's like cool to play WoW these days so the youngsters HAVE to play it...

While I agree with most of what you said, and what others have been saying in this thread, this, my friend, is simply untrue.

Originally posted by Xris375

...the gameworld is too large to be dominated by one guild.

The game is going to be huge! Absolutely enormous!  To the point where if everyone on an entire server band together to dominate the server, they couldn't its to big...or so they say.

I'm interested in what everyone's first game ever was.

I'm not talking about like crappy flash online games or something.  What was the first game that you purchased/was purchased for you that you played for any period of time?  I realize that this may spark some debate because some of the older and original games were hand made, with a little picture drawn on them in a plastic bag, but use your best judgment in deciding you think your first game ever was.

For me: Age of Empires

In Final Fantasy XI, you could, in concept, get every class in the game to level 75 (though it takes almost a year to reach the level cap).

The thing that is important to note about this game is you cannot change your class while doing something; you have to be in a set of very specific locations (i.e. your house).  It’s not like you can be in combat and “Oh shit our tank died, TANK MODE ON!” and puff you’re a tank.  You need to plan out what you are going to be before you go off into the field.

I'm an optimist.  I'm really looking forward to the new Tabula Rasa. 

That said the 2004 version looks really cool as well, its different and original.

Now I’m not saying the 2007 version is new and totally different, but it's not another EQ clones.  I really like the story.  Personally I’m still very excited to try TB when it comes out...

The game of which you speak is known as Final Fantasy XI.

In all seriousness though, it’s a good idea, and it works to some extent.  The only real beef I had with it is that it your bank space goes to hell faster than you can say “Moogle”.

I don’t really see much of a difference between a system like this and a system using alts, it makes no real difference to me either way.  I’m actually kind of surprised more games haven’t used a system like FFXI, or maybe they have and I just don’t know about it…meh.

Originally posted by faefrost                                                                                                                    Ummm? didn't they add the Black Temple, Skettis, Ogrila and the Netherdrake areas in a fairly recent patch?

Um, they actually promised both the Black Temple and the Netherdrakes with the launch of BC....