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Complaint Department / Re: Impressions of a Nub
« on: September 28, 2008, 02:40:25 am »
I'd like to add my voice in a few suggestions about the tutorial.

-NPC chat options are a huge problem, often times when directly answering their questions with a yes or no they would not understand me, nor do they understand even simple deviations from the basic formula. For example on of the characters asked something along the lines of "Can you think of a word starting with "R" that I'm thinking of?" I answered "yes" which makes perfect sense. Yes I can think of a word starting with R. But his reply was that he didn't understand me bla bla bla. This detracts a lot from the roleplay environment and game immersion. Morever I don't think it would have been possible for me to complete the tutorial due to this problem, if it weren't for the tutorial walkthrough you posted. It would help a lot of you did a major expansion of character vocabulary, in particular their ability to understand additional phrases, and vary their responses.

-Movement. I'm new, and maybe I just haven't seen it yet, but in the tutorial nowhere does it mention there being a run command. Given that walking is fairly slow, it would help a lot of there was a run command given to you in the tutorial.

-Small objects. To put it simply, there aren't any. When I first logged in and looked around the game, something was unsettling. Then I realized it. The surrounding area was almost completely empty with the exception of large objects such as trees, buildings, and later on a few crates. Occasionally detail would be drawn onto the skin of larger objects, but practically no small 3D objects existed.

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I clearly stated in my post that the drivers for that device were update . . . . .but I followed the link and re-installed the latest driver for it anyways, like you told me to. Needless to say this did not solve the problem. Perhaps it's not graphics related, since I had no issues with the main game (at least up to the connection screen) with the exception that it told me to run my updater. My thoughts on the matter were:

1) Could it be an issue of compatibility with Vista? - thus I read the entire thread, and people did not seem to have Vista related issues, and posted my problem in this thread.
2) Could it be an issue of drivers? - i found the only thing that looked remotely like a video card and made sure it was up to date.
3) Could it be an issue of my firewall? - I made sure the updater and main game were on the exceptions list.

Any help would be appreciated.



EDIT: The poster in the end of this thread: http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=28988.0 seems to have had the same problems. Since you told him to post system specs I'm going to do the same.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 1.73 GHz
Memory (RAM): 2038 MB
System Type: 32-bit Operating System

I hope this is the info you were asking for.

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I have not been using vista for very long and am having a hard time finding them. In the device manager screen under the ''sound video and game controllers'' tab it only has a sound device listed. "Under the display adapters", the next spot I looked, had a device listed as ''Mobile Intel(R) 945GM/GU Express Chipset Family''. I wasn't sure if this was a video card or not (not being much of a gamer) and didn't manage to figure out if it was :( but hit the update button anyways and it told me it was up-to-date. I found nothing else that looks remotely like a video card. I have tried re-installing the game a few times.


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When I run the updater it come up as the normal box, with a completely black inside. The mouse, when I move ot over teh black area becomes the planeshift cursor, but other then that I found no ways to interact with the updater. It is on my firewall exceptions list and I have no problems connecting, except that when I do it asks me to run my updater. I am using Vista, and planeshift is installed outside of my user, but I'm the aministrator (and only user) so it shoudn't matter.

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Ok thank you. I'll need to dl a new driver.

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What is OpenGL and if I don't have it then how do I get it, because when I try to log into planeshift the screen is lamost completely clabk with a few shapes on it. It most certainly does not display anywhere near properly. . .

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I'm incredibly confused by this..... so do I not run my updater until this issue has been resolved or do I need to do something with my graphics card or drivers before I run it?

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