New patch

[Mouse Nightshirt]

Hmmm. I haven't played this game since the 2nd day after I bought it due to the game performance being pants on my rather good rig. I hope this next patch fixes it, becase I'm getting a tad miffed that I can't play the game!

[Gungadin]

So do I Mouse. The game is in my "Unplayable Rubbish" drawer until the performance is improved somewhat through patches or someone coming up with a tweak. It's not even that good graphics for a game like this, it shouldn't take that long to load and lag as well.

[Pete]

It didn't work well on my machine until I turned the graphics down to a reasonable level. Even if you don't load the High Res .exe file, it still has the graphics at top whack.

 

Turn off some stuff and it'll play REALLY smoothly. Turn 32bit colour depth off for one, as there's no way 32 million+ colours in teh game and that's one major performance boost without a noticeable difference in colours.

 

Silent Storm had the same issues when I bought it. Turn off some of the needlessly high end graphics stuff and it'll be fine and you won't notice much of a decrease in graphical quality.

[Martian base commander]

This patch cant come quick enough for me now as my system has just started crashing more.It has been pretty stable up until now,and I think the Wargot missions are the culprit.The date is about May 6th in my current game,did anyone else experience problems around this time?.

 

Hope the patch is still on schedule for the 17th.

 

[Paranoid Jack]

I've crashed to desktop about two dozen times now, Usually when moving items around in the inventory or between the ground and inventory.

 

I am about eight days out from the arrival and I would estimate I have crashed a half dozen times while in combat during a mission.

 

I also hope the patch fixes quite a bit. Though I have played nothing but Aftershock since its arrival from jolly ole England. The same day I bought my as yet unopened Call of Duty 2.

 

Performance is great on my system. I have everything turned up high but haven't messed with the resolution yet. I also stopped using LOS to avoid the performance hits.

 

This is my current system:

 

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (@2.21 Ghz)

2 GB of Corsair RAM

Creative SB X-Fi Platinum

PNY Ge Force 6800 GT (OC'd but barely)

Western Digital 120 GB

Memorex True8X DVD ROM

 

Most of this system is more than a year old. Just added a second gig of RAM and the X-Fi recently to get ready for Elderscrolls IV Oblivion which sadly slipped into next spring.

[Pete]

If you haven't already, turn off True Colour. It may help - saved a lot of hassle for me. I mean, can your eyes really tell the diffrence between 32 million colours and 16 million?

[cduke]

@PJ - any error messages, or just crash to desktop and that's it?

@Pete: there is a huge difference between True Color and High Color - take a look at smooth color transitions. Hurts your eyes at High Color.

[samopal]

If you haven't already, turn off True Colour. It may help - saved a lot of hassle for me. I mean, can your eyes really tell the diffrence between 32 million colours and 16 million?

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if you dont want to see it, you dont see it ..... but yes, it is difference

sample:

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/bit-depth.htm

[Pete]

Yeah, but the point with the above link is that you don't have 16million colours on a screen filled with mostly earthy shades. At no point in the game does it have all those possible colours clearly visible.

 

I'm not saying they're not there, just that it would be difficult to spot teh difference. Just my experiences with tweaking the colour settings. Anyhow, I only mentioned it because random crashes on other high-colour-depth and memory intensive strategy games such as Silent Storm were instantly solved when turning True Colour off and the game ran about 5x as smoothly.

 

Just a suggestion at the end of the day

[Martian base commander]

I have just had a look at strategy cores' front page and the patch has slipped (today was the expected date) to next week for those concerned.

[Crazy Gringo]

Is this the general attitude of the gaming business? They tell you that the game/patch will be out at a precise date and then they change it at the last minute because of 'delays'.

 

That wouldn't hold up in the construction business which I work in. Business ethics....You miss a deadline and you get 'punished'.

*Cracks the whip at the game companies*

 

I do know that it's a lot more complicated to get all the pieces to work properly in a computer game, which is 100 thousand to a million lines of code (i'm guessing here), then 'building a house'. And there a a lots of known and unknown factors that can make or break a project.

 

But bugs are just SO irritating when you get addicted to a game.

 

*Mutters something to himself and walks off to get some bug spray*

[Bad Boy]

Where does it mention about the patch moving from today to next week? I've had a look and the only mention is from a post dated the 4th November.

[Preda]

I have just had a look at strategy cores' front page and the patch has slipped (today was the expected date) to next week for those concerned.

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I don't think so... last week they said that it will next week, that is THIS week. I see no recent news that say otherwise.

[Accounting Troll]

There hasn't been any official word about the arrival of the patch since Martin said that it was being scheduled for the 17th (ie today).

 

Since the Czech Republic qualified for the World Cup finals yesterday, I suspect the guys at Altar are currently too hung over to think about the patch

[Slaughter]

I heard nothing of a delay, but if the patch was ready today it's strange that it hasn't been released yet. I am fairly confident that the patch has been ready for some time already however. Cenega takes some time testing and adding copy protection after ALTAR finishes the patch.

[Slaughter]

Since the Czech Republic qualified for the World Cup finals yesterday, I suspect the guys at Altar are currently too hung over to think about the patch

[Accounting Troll]

Sorry.

 

Look at it this way, you are missing out on the experience of sitting in a cafe when the drunken England fans storm in and start a punch up with the locals. I bet the England fans get England kicked out of the tournament before the first match

[Slaughter]

That would be nice, as Norway misplaced it's ticket somehow...

[Accounting Troll]

You should have bribed the referee. Or you could have persuaded some patriotic Norwegian woman to become a streaker. With her distracting the TV cameras and the referee, your players could have broken the legs of the Czech strikers

[Crazy Gringo]

*Chants 'Bring out the patch! Bring out the patch!' while ringing a large cowbell*

[Accounting Troll]

*Gets a large axe and bursts into the Altar offices*

[Crazy Gringo]

So is hacking (with the axe) the way?

[Martian base commander]

I could have swore I read it,or it may have been a message from LAST week,and next week THEN was in fact THIS week NOW *f#####g confusing myself here* arghhhhhhh

 

The message was on this page,and as there was no actual date mentioned naturally I thought it may have meant NEXT week.Its the 4th section down on the page.

 

https://www.strategycore.co.uk/

[Martian base commander]

*sits staring at the wall mumbling strange indecipherable words*

 

 

*The only word that could be deciphered was*..."patch"

[Preda]

I could have swore I read it,or it may have been a message from LAST week,and next week THEN was in fact THIS week NOW *f#####g confusing myself here* arghhhhhhh 

 

The message was on this page,and as there was no actual date mentioned naturally I thought it may have meant NEXT week.Its the 4th section down on the page.

 

https://www.strategycore.co.uk/

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that's from 2 weeks ago. the they said next week, and after that they said next week again, which bloody means THIS week