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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game /
« on: April 14, 2003, 11:33:35 pm »
It\'s all very odd. The pc I\'m running on has had a recent format and I\'m using the latest detonator drivers from nvidia for windows xp. I\'ve made all the changes that you could expect including increasing my clock frequency for a while. No improvement.


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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game / !
« on: April 14, 2003, 07:43:57 pm »
I have 1GB of ram and use a 1ghz cpu along with a Geforce4 ti4600 and windows XP.

I get horrible frame rates, even in the latest build. Is there a fog plain in this game? It looks like it tries to render as far as the eye can see...

Just in case the software has problems communicating with my hardware I\'ve enabled fog table emulation on my graphics card yet I still get horrible frame rates.

I\'ve tested this on 2 of my machines with exactly the same specs though different motherboards.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.


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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game /
« on: April 12, 2003, 11:17:43 pm »
Kundalf

Deep down I\'m probably aware of that as well ;)

But it\'s not good practice you have to admit =)

I\'m aware of how a post like mine may have been treated elsewhere. It\'s good to see that the community here isn\'t like some of the others that exhibit the tolerance of a 3 year old badger.

As for compiling my own documentation, I think it\'s being taken care of already, I hope so.

And for my behaviour...  ;)

I read a few posts and the news messages but the site runs rather slowly for me. I use broadband and am in the UK.

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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game /
« on: April 12, 2003, 10:28:10 pm »
Quote
On a different issue. About how long did it take for you to load? The current version has widely different values for people and would like to know if a lot ( 1.5Gb! ) of ram helped.


It took a while, longer than expected, but that\'s understandable if it was decompressing the relevant geometry and textures, around 4 minutes. Might be worth mentioning this motherboard is old and uses PC133 RAM.
I\'ve yet to install my Biostar M7NCG mobo that supports DDR ram. Ordered 2 512MB DDR333 chips from ebay, hopefully that\'ll make a big difference.

Compared to games like Shadowbane this was relatively fast though it\'s not an excuse as that was a persistent state world ;)

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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game /
« on: April 12, 2003, 09:55:14 pm »
I\'m sure you can understand that if I didn\'t care about this game I\'d have left a while ago =)

The only complaint I\'m making is in regards to the support and the way the client software is presented. I\'ve managed to connect to the server now, as you said it has just come up. I\'m in game and I can honestly say I\'m impressed. The architecture is thought out as is the real time lighting. It is most definitely not sub par and can most probably give some of the more prominent titles out there a run for their money in the future. I look forward to seeing it develop.

In regards to competition, you\'re dealing with the current emulation of the Everquest servers on http://www.eqemu.com .

The advantage that PS holds is that you have a scalable product that you can add to. EqEmu can only go so far via their emulation of everquest and are reliant on the software that SOE implement.  

Only problems I\'ve encountered thus far, after playing for 3 minutes, are some nasty memory leaks that I\'m sure are being dealt with.

I look forward to making my contribution to this gaming community.

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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game / hmmm...
« on: April 12, 2003, 09:27:43 pm »
Kundalf

Are you trying to tell me that the current standardization regarding the administration of free games requires that a newcomer scavenge through all the rubbish that tends to exist on forums nowadays in an endeavour to get a game to work?

I think not.

I downloaded the game which was, in turn, missing essential software in order for the updater to work after which an incorrect dns address is displayed in one of the connection fields. I\'m sure it will be corrected but do I need to tell everyone here it\'s not good practice in regards to making a game user friendly...

The only server that exists turns out to be down according to that page.

If you\'ve had no complaints it\'s because people don\'t leave feedback. There\'s mine. Good day.

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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game / heh
« on: April 12, 2003, 07:44:14 pm »
First off, I don\'t want to hear the \"it\'s free, they don\'t owe you anything argument\".

If I criticise something then take it as feedback, don\'t complain to me about complaining. If it turns into a strong complaint then that should give the devs a feel for the gravity of the situation.

I want to play this game, it looks fantastic for a unfunded endeavour but you won\'t ever catch me saying anything is perfect. To do so would be detrimental to the development of this title. Take my criticism as feedback and not as an offense, which some of you will do.

I request that someone tell me the following:

Is the server up now?

What is the name of the server?

Tell me step by step what I do after I download the client program. Currently I have patched (after getting the updater to work via the dll I found on the forums but never mind that). Tell me from step one what I must do.

System specs are as follows...


1ghz
Geforce 4 ti4600 (128mb)
1.5gb ram
loads of drive space
Windows XP Pro

This game needs to be advertised, serious to god. I didn\'t even know it existed until by utter fluke it caught my eye on source forge.

I look forward to a reply in regards to what I must do in order to the enter world and have a go at this MMOG.
 

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What\'s going on?

The support is terrible for a newcomer...

Download the game, try to update, doesn\'t work so I load up the game make a char, try to upload doesn\'t work, browse the forums, get ddl for updater to work, update, load up game, make char, try to upload, can\'t upload, wrong server, go back to forums, find correct server, server is down or doesn\'t work.

No wonder this game is unpopular. Terrible support and the community is uninformed.

What should I do in order to play this game?

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