I recently installed Vista and upgraded the RAM on my computer, PlaneShift worked like a dream. Then I upgraded my graphics card to an nVidia GeForce 8600GT. I am now getting a pitch black screen in the PlaneShift Client window, updater window and the setup window. I can however hear the background music at the login screen and I can log into the game by pressing Enter or clicking where the buttons should be. Basically the client is working, but I can't see a thing.

Specifications:

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
Processor: AMD Athlon 3200+ (2.0GHz)
RAM: 2GB
Graphics Card: GeForce 8600GT (512MB)

As far as the internet and the manual will tell me, the card does support OpenGL. And I've always been under the impression that upgrading is good for your computer .

Thanks in advance for any help

( This has been discussed before, although this post is a bit more specific and if my searches are correct the old posts are nearly 3 years old. I thought that the issue needs to be readdressed. This post is also specific to a certain animal in a certain place. Please don't hang me! )

I like Kikiri. Though they may be slightly physically unoriginal, they do give a bit of atmosphere. But not as much as they should.

To make the Kikiri a bit more lively and interactive, would it be possible to put them on waypoints. We've all seen that waypoints are possible, Harnquist still hasn't recovered fully from the hangovers. I think it would make the place look and feel a bit more alive and active if a few stray wandering round, stopping now and them to drink from the fountains, or eat on the fields. Not too many, we obviously don't want infestations but enough to just give the place a bit of realism and atmosphere, like birds waddling around in the big cities of RL.

I'm unsure how easy this would be and I'm aware that there can be the problem with the NPC falling off the world, but it's been done before so theoretically it can be done again.

Suvok

Happy Birthday Talad! 

Many happy returns to our lord and master...Talad himself! 

(At least, that's what the calander says)

I wonder if release .20 was meant to coincide with your birthday

I was at Harnquist's blacksmith today and I decided to practice the ancient art of 'People-watching'. In the space of 15 minutes, I had about 2 newbies asking me for items, 3 newbies asking me 'how to play this game' and another newbie whose name I will not repeat in the forums, all in an OOC manner.

It is known of course that there are many new players in the game and that most don't read the players-guide. Many assume that this is just another World of Warcraft. I'm sure many RPing oldbies started off as n00bs. But seriously, someone coming up to you in the middle of an RPed conversation asking "can u help me i dont no how to play im a noob" is a tad on the annoying side.

Now the most frequent cause of this is newbies not reading the Player Guide. This is normal among most gamers. Many people don't read manuals. I don't normally. So is it possible that when an account is logged onto for the first time, a informational video is triggered. This video cannot be skipped and continues for about a minute just illustrating the ideals of the game. Basically, it should just say that this is a roleplaying game, what a roleplaying game is, dictionary definition of roleplaying. And where the 'Roleplaying Guide' is found.

Some will ignore it, some won't watch it, but the majority, I believe, will actually take it in. This will hopefully deter the powerlevelling l33ts and inform the willing roleplayers.

So there you go. Pick your flaws 

I thought I would just mention one of thing about chat bubbles that should be implemented, it was also a reason why I got rid of my chat bubbles.

At the moment, chat bubbles display /say, /shout, /guild, /group, /auction and /tell, but, what about when certain people use the /me command for speech.

When I say /me, I mean this:

/me smiles and says "Good Morning!"

as opposed the the usual:

/say Good Morning!

One problem I had was when a newb came up to me asking for help, I used the /me command to speak to him. Unfortunately, he was too preoccupied with whatever was going to pop up above my head that he didn't read the speech at the bottom of the screen. 

He then followed me around because he didn't understand why his bubbles wouldn't work 

Chat bubbles do not currently have the facility to show speech in this context. Is it possible to allow the chat bubbles to display the text within "speech marks" in the /me text?

Or am I talking out of my rectum 

How much do we really know about glyphs? By nature, they are supposed to be mysterious shapes formed by the god Talad. Because of this, we do not know much about them. However, simple things can be assatained from simple experimentation. Here's a few questions of mine.

1. What happens if you swallow a glyph?

2. Can you break a glyph? If so, what happens?

3. Can you combine glyphs that do not naturally mix? If so, what happens?

4. What happens if a purification goes wrong?

5. If, halfway through conjuring a spell, you throw the glyph away, what happens?

6. Can you melt a glyph? If so, what properties does the liquid have?

There are a few bizzare questions. Now, with the hyperactive imagination that the PS community is famous for, they should star a healthy discussion. Or it'll be a flop and last 4 posts.

Maybe the settings team can provide insight too.

I had a pretty random idea that I'm pretty sure that no other MMORPG has done (correct me if I'm wrong).

If you stand in the middle of a city center on Earth and you listen out. You can hear the constant chattering all around you. You can hear the noise of cars, footsteps, people shouting over all this. As you walk around and travel to a more quiet, secluded spot, you can hear the distant sounds, or maybe even nothing but your own footsteps and shuffling.

You stand near Harnquist's Smithy...what do you hear...? Thats right, nothing but the 'inthedarktown.ogg' music track looping in the background.

Now the chat window shows that your character is not deaf, he can hear people speaking from 10 meters away. He can even hear that person who's shouting the closest n00b all the way over by the tavern. Yet, you hear silence. For added realism, I think the client should play certain sounds depending on where you are, and how many people are in the vicinity.

In a way, a movement in this direction has been made with the sounds of birds in the wilderness and you can hear the rain and thunder when the GMs are feeling happy. But I think a chattering noise should be heard when in populated places. Say, when there are more than 20 people in one spot, the client plays looping sound clip of lots of people chattering. When there are less than 20, but more than 10, there should be a clip of a few people chatting. Less than this, you should hear a couple of people chatting.

Obviously, this should also be relative to the area people are in. Perhaps in the Arena, it should echo. In the wilderness, you shouldn't hear much but a whisper. In Hydlaa, it should be loud, city type shouting.

In addition to the chatting noise, if you are near the smithy, should you not hear the flames of the furnace? Should you not hear the clanking and smashing of hammers and the hiss of the red hot metal when they are shoved into the quench tank? When you are in a more secluded spot, your character and characters around you should emit a shuffle of cloaks, a clank of armour, a thud of heavy footsteps.

These voices I believe should all be in a strange language that only people like the Sims or Jabba the Hut could understand. There would be nothing worse than sitting there listening to the same conversation over and over and over again.

And of course, for those select few who find the noises of chatter to be 'cramping their style', there should be the obligatory tick box to turn off background noises and back to the good old guitar and flute.

Right...'nuf elaboration. Use your imagination.

PS: I know it will greatly increase the download size with all those extra sound files! So don't go on about it!

I did a search, couldn't find anything, so here it goes.

At the moment, this probably wouldn't be possible unless roleplayed. But don't you think it would be pretty good to have a sport played in Yliakum.
Sport was common in medieval times, I think it would be pretty good for roleplay and for fun to incoorperate a sporting system into the game.
For instance, each race or each city/settlement could have a team playing this sport. Large competitions can be played in the large stadium in the capital city of Hydlaa. Players can play in one of the teams if their character has been trained enough and the team wants you or support a team of their choice.
Prehaps this certain sport can be discussed and agreed on by players.

So what do all you think?