Nice thread title. Yeah, people just love to b*tch and moan about things, which makes finding good posts to read and bad posts to avoid a very tedious job indeed.
AoC may look good, but if experience with games teaches you anything, it's that a good graphics don't make a good game and with an MMO this is triply so and with good graphics you really risk alienating those with a geforce 7 series or Ati 1800 series or lower and if reports are to be believed (which they are not, should be taken with a pinch of salt) an 8800GT or similar card may be required to play the game with an acceptable level of eye candy.
People will accept playing a game at low settings when they know that the highest settings require a good graphics card
People won't accept playing a game that requires a good graphics card to play at low settings
I basically ignore posts with titles that make it clear to me that the poster has no idea what they are talking about...
what you're stating is pretty much obvious to all of us. Like I said, it's pretty easy to ignore. Just don't waste time reading obvious threads of people who obviously don't understand system req... there will be plenty, no reason to waste your life trying to read all of them or convince these people otherwise... I prefer not playing with those sorts of people to begin with.
Can't agree more with the OP. When I played Vanguard it worked fine on my rig and I saw dozens of people have performance issues. I was always there to offer advice and 99 out of 100 conversations I had would go something like this:
Moaner: "I cant play this POS game, my fps are like 10 and it keeps freezing up!!!"
Me: "What kind of rig do you have?"
Moaner: "I have a 6600gt 256 mb video card with 1 gig of ram..."
Me: /ignore
Now Vanguard isn't the best game but the performance 90% of the time was fine on my rig because I had more than the recommended settings. If you have a rig that is not up to recommended specs then no matter how much defragging, registery cleaning, task manager tweaking can ever make a game like AoC work.
Is it the fault of the developers? No! The game needs a tough rig and everyone knows it.
Another reason why you will see a bunch of hate mail vs fanboi mail is due to all the players who are enjoying the game are actually to busy to visit forums and write. I know when I get into a game I don't waste my time writing in forums, I'm out adventuring!
Well considering this thread is whine about future whine that hasn't even happened yet, I would have to agree. Whine fest evergrowing. Infact, I guess you can consider this post of mine whine about whine about whine that hasn't happened. Ack it's a vortex sucking us all in! RUN! My real point. STFU. It's a game. Play it if you want. If you don't like it, play something else, or maybe even turn that damn box off and GO DO SOMETHING with your lives.
I lol'ed. Almost all games have "they cant play the game" complaints. It's one of the reason why consoles games sell more then pcs games!!!
-- "Any free people have the right to choose how it wants to be govern thats the essence of democracy. It's sad when America has chosen for the stability and consistency of a dictatorship and doing it democratically" -utnow
Well considering this thread is whine about future whine that hasn't even happened yet, I would have to agree. Whine fest evergrowing. Infact, I guess you can consider this post of mine whine about whine about whine that hasn't happened. Ack it's a vortex sucking us all in! RUN! My real point. STFU. It's a game. Play it if you want. If you don't like it, play something else, or maybe even turn that damn box off and GO DO SOMETHING with your lives.
I lol'ed. Almost all games have "they cant play the game" complaints. It's one of the reason why consoles games sell more then pcs games!!!
I do like consoles for that one reason. Pop in the game and go. No loading times (compared to PC anyways...), no system requirements, no worries. Also, yeah, OP. You win the award for the longest and whining...est... title I've ever seen. Everyone knows people will complain, just for the sake of complaining.
-------------------------------------- A human and an Elf get captured by Skaven. The rat-men are getting ready to shoot the first hostage with Dwarf-made guns when he yells, "Earthquake!" The naturally nervous Skaven run and hide from the imaginary threat. He escapes. The Skaven regroup and bring out the Elf. Being very smart, the Elf has figured out what to do. When the Skaven get ready to shoot, the Elf, in order to scare them, yells, "Fire!"
I've got the cheese if you've got the whine! woot woot
"Sometimes, things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. People are basically good. Honor, courage, virtue mean everything. Power and money, money and power mean nothing. Good always triumphs over evil. Love, True Love Never Dies." Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Ultimate fanbois thread of the year, pre-emtive strike on future whiners who have problems running AoC.
LOL - all you have done is highlight the flaws in the design of this game. If the game isn't scalable to a range of systems then it will never be a success.
I read posts and comments like all the ones above and realize the black hole they represent. No one can stay away from these, we are all pulled in and know there is no way out. Yet we all struggle to justify our own view on the subject. I say we should just accept our eminent demise and enjoy the struggling around us. If you have to go down, go down in a good mood.
"You dont win a war by dieing for your country, you win a war by getting the other poor bastards to die for theirs!"
I'm looking forward to comments about the game, but not to wading through this BS. Hopefully the worse of it will be done in two weeks when I get back... Yeah right, right?
There are 3 types of people in the world. 1.) Those who make things happen 2.) Those who watch things happen 3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
Sorry to say OP but you are wrong , i got CoreDuo 2.4 , 4gb 800mhz patriots , GF8800 GTS , with new installed 64mb windows and newest drivers i still have HUGE problems with running AoC , my friends got similar problems and they got PC similar to mine .
Sorry to say OP but you are wrong , i got CoreDuo 2.4 , 4gb 800mhz patriots , GF8800 GTS , with new installed 64mb windows and newest drivers i still have HUGE problems with running AoC , my friends got similar problems and they got PC similar to mine .
Sorry to say it, but you're one of the "exceptions" i guess... or am i one of them?
I got a 2 GB ram, 8800 GTS 320 mb (yes, teh weak-one) C2D 2.0 GHz and a Vista home basic.
Playing smoothly on High settings with shadows turned off.
My brother has a slightly better PC, and he's playing on maxed out settings 20-30fps.
Sorry to say OP but you are wrong , i got CoreDuo 2.4 , 4gb 800mhz patriots , GF8800 GTS , with new installed 64mb windows and newest drivers i still have HUGE problems with running AoC , my friends got similar problems and they got PC similar to mine .
on what settings do u play the game?
try setting it on high and shadows turned OFF.. maybe bloom too. good luck!
MMOs currently playing: - About to play: Lord of the Rings Online Played: Anarchy Online (alltime favorite) and lots of f2p titles (honorable mentions: 9Dragons, Martial Heroes, Dekaron, Atlantica Online)
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Nice thread title. Yeah, people just love to b*tch and moan about things, which makes finding good posts to read and bad posts to avoid a very tedious job indeed.
The AoC hate threads are as thick as thieves, you won't taint my view! :P
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'Cry Havoc, and Let Loose the Dogs of WARRRRR!!!'
AoC may look good, but if experience with games teaches you anything, it's that a good graphics don't make a good game and with an MMO this is triply so and with good graphics you really risk alienating those with a geforce 7 series or Ati 1800 series or lower and if reports are to be believed (which they are not, should be taken with a pinch of salt) an 8800GT or similar card may be required to play the game with an acceptable level of eye candy.
People will accept playing a game at low settings when they know that the highest settings require a good graphics card
People won't accept playing a game that requires a good graphics card to play at low settings
I basically ignore posts with titles that make it clear to me that the poster has no idea what they are talking about...
what you're stating is pretty much obvious to all of us. Like I said, it's pretty easy to ignore. Just don't waste time reading obvious threads of people who obviously don't understand system req... there will be plenty, no reason to waste your life trying to read all of them or convince these people otherwise... I prefer not playing with those sorts of people to begin with.
Can't agree more with the OP. When I played Vanguard it worked fine on my rig and I saw dozens of people have performance issues. I was always there to offer advice and 99 out of 100 conversations I had would go something like this:
Moaner: "I cant play this POS game, my fps are like 10 and it keeps freezing up!!!"
Me: "What kind of rig do you have?"
Moaner: "I have a 6600gt 256 mb video card with 1 gig of ram..."
Me: /ignore
Now Vanguard isn't the best game but the performance 90% of the time was fine on my rig because I had more than the recommended settings. If you have a rig that is not up to recommended specs then no matter how much defragging, registery cleaning, task manager tweaking can ever make a game like AoC work.
Is it the fault of the developers? No! The game needs a tough rig and everyone knows it.
Another reason why you will see a bunch of hate mail vs fanboi mail is due to all the players who are enjoying the game are actually to busy to visit forums and write. I know when I get into a game I don't waste my time writing in forums, I'm out adventuring!
I lol'ed. Almost all games have "they cant play the game" complaints. It's one of the reason why consoles games sell more then pcs games!!!
--
"Any free people have the right to choose how it wants to be govern thats the essence of democracy. It's sad when America has chosen for the stability and consistency of a dictatorship and doing it democratically" -utnow
I lol'ed. Almost all games have "they cant play the game" complaints. It's one of the reason why consoles games sell more then pcs games!!!
I do like consoles for that one reason. Pop in the game and go. No loading times (compared to PC anyways...), no system requirements, no worries. Also, yeah, OP. You win the award for the longest and whining...est... title I've ever seen. Everyone knows people will complain, just for the sake of complaining.
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A human and an Elf get captured by Skaven. The rat-men are getting ready to shoot the first hostage with Dwarf-made guns when he yells, "Earthquake!" The naturally nervous Skaven run and hide from the imaginary threat. He escapes. The Skaven regroup and bring out the Elf. Being very smart, the Elf has figured out what to do. When the Skaven get ready to shoot, the Elf, in order to scare them, yells, "Fire!"
Order of the White Border.
woot, whine party everyone! whine party! woot!
I've got the cheese if you've got the whine! woot woot
"Sometimes, things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. People are basically good. Honor, courage, virtue mean everything. Power and money, money and power mean nothing. Good always triumphs over evil. Love, True Love Never Dies."
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Yeah, these boards are going to get bad here in the next day.
I think I'll just stay away from them and ignore most of the comments.
Play the game and enjoy it.
Total time played: 9125 Days, 21 Hours, 29 Minutes, 27 Seconds
Time played this level: 39 Days, 1 Hour, 24 Minutes, 5 Seconds
Ultimate fanbois thread of the year, pre-emtive strike on future whiners who have problems running AoC.
LOL - all you have done is highlight the flaws in the design of this game. If the game isn't scalable to a range of systems then it will never be a success.
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
"You dont win a war by dieing for your country, you win a war by getting the other poor bastards to die for theirs!"
-General Patton
Your title, it stuns me.
I'm looking forward to comments about the game, but not to wading through this BS. Hopefully the worse of it will be done in two weeks when I get back... Yeah right, right?
/Also, I was here too
AOC has hardly any staying power, I wonder what % of those 400k that have bought the game will be around in a month (or two).
Sweet mother of titles!
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
Sorry to say OP but you are wrong , i got CoreDuo 2.4 , 4gb 800mhz patriots , GF8800 GTS , with new installed 64mb windows and newest drivers i still have HUGE problems with running AoC , my friends got similar problems and they got PC similar to mine .
Sorry to say it, but you're one of the "exceptions" i guess... or am i one of them?
I got a 2 GB ram, 8800 GTS 320 mb (yes, teh weak-one) C2D 2.0 GHz and a Vista home basic.
Playing smoothly on High settings with shadows turned off.
My brother has a slightly better PC, and he's playing on maxed out settings 20-30fps.
Try installing sp1 ;p
Oh, and btw, don't bump any more old threads...
try setting it on high and shadows turned OFF.. maybe bloom too. good luck!
MMOs currently playing: -
About to play: Lord of the Rings Online
Played: Anarchy Online (alltime favorite) and lots of f2p titles (honorable mentions: 9Dragons, Martial Heroes, Dekaron, Atlantica Online)
My PC doesn't meet the minimum requirements.
That is why I don't own the game.
I'm working on it though.
I am sorry..
ROFL to the title of the post!
Especially about the Compaq Celeron. You could'nt have picked a better machine for AoC.
Good shit though
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