Profile: Locklain
Send PM  Forum Posts  Forum Topics 

Recent Forum Posts [more...]

• • What Rated"M" Means to you

  • Hopefully after two or three weeks most of the immature people will have lost interest in running around topless yelling "BOOBIES" and leave the game to those who actually want to play it.

     

    On a side note after reading my quote from miagisan I was agreeing with you but I should have worded differently. . .I did come off kinda pushy sorry :)

  • Posted: 5/09/08 1:33 PM
    Age of Conan
• • What Rated"M" Means to you

  • Originally posted by miagisan
    

    just on another note....i HATE leet speakers............despise them......abhor even. General chat has been full of them in game, so while M rating may mean mature, it usually has the opposite effect.

    Unfortunately age has nothing to do with maturity these days.  I have seen some Twelve year olds that are more mature than some Thirty year olds.  I really enjoy AoC but I do fear that the "M" rating is going to bring out the worst in the community. . .Hopefully the ignore list has no limits.
    

  • Posted: 5/09/08 12:58 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Despite all the complaining. Game is still selling.

  • I think people hope this games fails just so they feel better about themselves.  in my several years of online gaming I have seen some nasty nasty betas and launches (Anarchy Online comes to mind).  From my experience the game runs pretty well, there are a few hickups here and there but nothing to have a meltdown over.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 12:53 PM
    Age of Conan
• • funcom just redeemed themseves.

  • Originally posted by ethion

     

    I used all the drivers since 169.21.  I've found that 169.44 works pretty good.  174.74 would crash always for me and 174.92 (I think that was the one) seemed to work ok but in my series of trying various drivers I ended up with 169.44 that seemed to be working pretty well and I haven't gone back to the latest beta.

    My issue isn't performance.  I actually am ok with the performance of the game. I get like 60fps with the default and can even add in aa 4x without a noticable change in performance.  My system is a very strong system and once I'm in the game everythign works fine. 

    The issue for me is the game crashes before I can even get into it.  As I've said I've really tried everything and nothing works reliably.  I've even been sitting here trying to convince myself to go buy vista 64 and hope that makes things better.  It might but then it would probably also break other stuff so I'm kinda sitting here hoping/wanting a fix from funcom rather then reinstalling an OS I'm not really sure I want.

    I have actually had very good experience with Vista 64.  There are a few things that cause problems like sound cards and iTunes but so far everything has had some form of a workaround or updated drivers.  I'm not too sure what would cause the crashes, have you had any other odd crashes in the past with games or applications?  I had one bad stick of ram in my computer but didn't notice it until I started to run EQ2 again.  Since then I try and run memtest on new ram when I get it for at least 12 hours while I am at work. 

    If I run across any fixes or possible ideas I will let you know.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 11:45 AM
    Age of Conan
• • funcom just redeemed themseves.

  •  

    Originally posted by ethion
    

     

    Originally posted by openedge1
    

     

     
    

    I have a computer running windows xp 32 bit sp2, quad core intel, 4gb, 8800gtx.  I installed it from scratch maybe 4 weeks ago following my hard disk dying.  So it is a clean install with the latest firmware, patches, and drivers.  I have tried running AoC with a variety of video drivers with mixed results.

    Ok...I should state...I do have Service Pack 3 for my systems...wonder if that has some fixes?

     

    I also downloaded the latest DirectX

    I am using the Nvidia beta drivers

    I have render ahead frames at 1 in the Nvidia Control Panel and all settings application controlled...

    I have my pagefile on a seperate drive

    I make sure that the Video settings have not changed since I last logged in (this is a known issue where it tries to revert back to Shader 3.0...which causes long loads due to rebuilding the cache)

    I guess I did put a lot of effort into it..and for some reason have never crashed, and have eliminated all loading issues...

    Makes me wonder if Funcom only built this OB client for specific hardware (as the only system that does not run well for me is my 3870 ATI system...)

    I did not mean to attack your post either...if it felt like that..I am sorry...

    Later

     

    ha I'm not offended just frustrated beyond belief.  I want this game to work.  I've though about loading sp3 but I'm thinking that might be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.  It's only been released for a few days and I figure I'll let it bake a bit before jumping.

    As to fixing it you have no idea how much effort I've put into it.  Hell I even posted a thread on the forums here with a list of thing to do to get AoC working.  I'm actually pretty good at getting it working.  Now I can usually get it running in 15 minutes or less.  I would be faster except none of my fixes work consistently so I have to try several things before I hit the one that works....

    1. remove cache files, try it.

    2. reboot try it

    3. rebuild db files, try it

    4. remove hiden local config files, reboot, try it

    Usually one of the above will get it working.  Oh and sometimes it just runs from double clicking so I try that too. 

    Once I have it running it works pretty well.  I can usally run for 2-3 hours before crashing which I can easily cope with and my performance sits at 60 which I believe is capped and thats with pretty high settings.  Shader 2.0 or 3.0 don't make much difference both work fine.

    So I like the game a lot.  I just want to scream and hit something preferably someone at funcom to fix the damn thing before the game hits the market.  I might be able to get some people to play it but if it is buggy at launch it will kill the game.

    You didn't list which nvidia drivers you were using.  I had the same poor frame rates when I first started the beta/trial.  I downloaded the new Nvidia beta drivers (I think they are 175 or somewhere around there) and they boosted my frames pretty well.  Another thing I have noticed is a lot of people with the Quad cores are having issues.  This may be due to slower clock speeds than on a dual or single core cpu.  If the game used dual and quad core cpus correctly the clock speed wouldn't matter as much.

     

    I am kinda just grasping and straws but would rather try to help someone that would like the play the game.

    edit : here is the link to the beta driver search from Nvidia.  Hope they help. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

  • Posted: 5/09/08 10:08 AM
    Age of Conan