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ATI gamer here, question for Athelan

ShanniaShannia Member Posts: 2,096
in Age of Conan: Unchained

I know AoC is an NVidia game and all.  I've been on the official forums over a year and have a great system with ATI.  I know for a fact that I didn't get into some beta tests of other games because they just couldn't be bothered with ATI before launch.  Saying that, any idea when ATI applicants may get some "love"?

The reason I ask here is because answer are easier to get here and I hate the flame fest over on the official forums.

 

 

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  • AthelanAthelan Designer, Age of ConanMember Posts: 145

    afaik we support both cards fine, but we have worked a lot with Nvidia to make sure that things like dx10 and whatnot were working on their hardware. Nvidia has done a lot to even send people to Norway to work with us, so we work with them closer than we ever did with ATI but we can use both cards as far as I am aware.

    Combat, Control, Class Distinction Designer for Age of Conan

    community.ageofconan.com

  • ShanniaShannia Member Posts: 2,096

    Thank, Athelan.

    Just a quick follow up.  Do I need to buy an NVidia card to get into beta?

    Thanks again for your time.

     

    Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

    "Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."

  • bluealien1bluealien1 Member Posts: 526
    Originally posted by Shannia


    Thank, Athelan.
    Just a quick follow up.  Do I need to buy an NVidia card to get into beta?
    Thanks again for your time.
     

    Besides testing out the game and finding bugs, breaking things, etc. I think another point of beta is to see how AoC will run on different systems, and to catch performance issues on specific hardware before the game is released, this would take quite a bit of time and money for FC to go and buy one of everything on the market that can run AoC and do extensive testing with this hardware to catch these performance issues.

  • Playa10Playa10 Member Posts: 26

    Athelan is there a way we can update our dxg file (or check it) without signing up for a new account for beta? I cant remeber If I updated it or not after I got my new comp.

  • AthelanAthelan Designer, Age of ConanMember Posts: 145

    Someone said if you reapply with a new dxdiag it overwrites. But I don't know for sure.

     

    You don't have to have an NVIDIA card to get into Beta as far as I know. I am sure we have ATI people also.

    Combat, Control, Class Distinction Designer for Age of Conan

    community.ageofconan.com

  • whitedelightwhitedelight Member Posts: 1,544

    I would imagine that they allow that type to be in beta seeing as how you would want to get some variety of cards and machines to see how they run.

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  • Shadow1990Shadow1990 Member Posts: 22
    Athlean I know that you will say that you support ATI card also and blah blah blah ( sorry for rudness) , BUT , can you reply me WHY does all those yousers who have 3870 ATI cards , have poor fps from 5-30 ??? and changing video setting DOES NOT HELP ( I tried everything on low , and on high and gain at most 5-8 fps) , so don't try to suggest that .
    While some 8600 ( which IS slower than ati's 3870) get's 35-50 on HIGH ( not to mention 8800gt...) .
  • SevenwindSevenwind Member UncommonPosts: 2,188

    Originally posted by Shadow1990

    Athlean I know that you will say that you support ATI card also and blah blah blah ( sorry for rudness) , BUT , can you reply me WHY does all those yousers who have 3870 ATI cards , have poor fps from 5-30 ??? and changing video setting DOES NOT HELP ( I tried everything on low , and on high and gain at most 5-8 fps) , so don't try to suggest that . While some 8600 ( which IS slower than ati's 3870) get's 35-50 on HIGH ( not to mention 8800gt...) .
    Oh say it ain't so!! I currently have a ATI x1950XT 256 meg and it runs ok. But thanks to Mr. Bush (not), (2nd IRS refund) I ordered a 3870X2 1gig from newegg. Reading this post has me worried now, guess I'll find out tomorrow when it comes.

    BTW I averaged 13-15fps on average on medium setting. On high al I did was lock up. Medium settins I ran all night no problems.

    Goodluck Shadow1990!

     

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  • jayheld90jayheld90 Member UncommonPosts: 1,726
    Originally posted by Sevenwind


     
    Originally posted by Shadow1990

    Athlean I know that you will say that you support ATI card also and blah blah blah ( sorry for rudness) , BUT , can you reply me WHY does all those yousers who have 3870 ATI cards , have poor fps from 5-30 ??? and changing video setting DOES NOT HELP ( I tried everything on low , and on high and gain at most 5-8 fps) , so don't try to suggest that . While some 8600 ( which IS slower than ati's 3870) get's 35-50 on HIGH ( not to mention 8800gt...) .
    Oh say it ain't so!! I currently have a ATI x1950XT 256 meg and it runs ok. But thanks to Mr. Bush (not), (2nd IRS refund) I ordered a 3870X2 1gig from newegg. Reading this post has me worried now, guess I'll find out tomorrow when it comes.

     

    BTW I averaged 13-15fps on average on medium setting. On high al I did was lock up. Medium settins I ran all night no problems.

    Goodluck Shadow1990!

     

    you are going to listen to a 17 yr old? anyway, i seriously doubt it, he probably has no idea how to keep his computer up on maintenance. probably full of spyware and viruses from all that porn. hey shadow, run a spybot s&d, and ad-aware, and an avg scan once over and see what you come up with. also, if you are running vista, install service pack 1. learn to maintenance, and dont blame your inability to do it on a game.

  • Shadow1990Shadow1990 Member Posts: 22
    Thanks for saing this 17years old thing , that is the way to judge people , that's right ! . Seriously you americans , are different , judging by the age , at 19 in college acting like 16 .... anyway this isnt the problem so :
    Now seriously :
    1. I'm not the only one who has this kind of problem .
    2. I build pc's so , and I'm checking my on spyware/viruses every 3 days .
    3. I don't have Vista sp1 sicne it's crap , and I'm using at the moment xp .
    4. And I konw how to maintain my pc .
    Anyway , if the problem was my hands , then I wouldn't have 70 fps in TF2 all maxed out , and about 50-60 fps in Unreal 3. ( crysis gives me 30ish-40ish on high , 1280x1024)
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