Okay, Here's the thing. I bought this game earlier this week. Now I wish I hadn't. I can not only NOT return it for a refund at wal mart, I'm stuck with it. So, what to do? Well, Just to play this game I'm shelling out nearly 100.00+ dollars out of pocket to buy a NEW Video card. I'm mad as Black Hell having to do this because I am out big money. My only other alternative is to choke on the 20.00 and take a a hammer on the CD. I can't figure out why this game had to be made with such a high end video card. It doesn't have any complex animations in it. I managed to see this game finally on a friends computer who was good enough to let me take a peek at it. The only thing I can figure out as to why it was programmed with such high end video cards is that the programming staff must have had some strong drain cleaner with their meals one day and burned out their brain Cells (whoooohooo!!)
So, I am going to play this thing but I'm not very likely to buy any more products in the near or far future from this company. |
Good grief guys, what do you want from us? We're sorry your video cards aren't up to snuff on this.
Here's a list of some fo the games that Intel has verified that don't work on that video card:
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010468.htm
That list includes Lord of the Rings, Grand Theft Auto, Microsoft Baseball, Morrowind, Rise of Nations, Knights of the old Republic, Tron 2.0, Battlefield 1942, C&C Generals. These aren't exactly obscure games.
We are obviously trying our best to find ways to make the game work on these machines. Our work is slowed because very very few people are giving us feedback. We put out a link or an email to someone and we rarely hear back.
The game isn't programmed with "high end" video cards. Just ones capable of doing DirectX 9. The built in Intel graphics controller is not meant for games. It can't even do 32bit DirectX. But despite that, we're working on trying to find a way around these limitations. But it's pretty hard to do that when few people give us any useful information.
For example, REagan's clone, do you provide any info on your system? No. You just flame us. Do you want to be helped or do you just want to complain?
Aaron, you say you're certain it's not your video card but you tell us nothing about your video card.
Basically it boils down to this: The game requires a DirectX 9 capable video card. That doesn't mean top of the line card. It doesn't even mean a new one. It just means, generally, that at least the video drivers have been updated to support it. Some video card manufacturures won't do it. Others can't because they didn't implement the APIs.
All we can do -with user help- is find out hards have a problem and try to get them here. The game is out there on a LOT of machines. Obviously this isn't a very widespread problem. But we do want to help. But at the same time, we'd appreciate some understanding. It's not like the game is buggy or something. We made the game, tested it with a pretty decent sized beta group. Put it through QA and it worked on all the machines in ours and Ubi Soft's compatibility labs.
So far from actual data here all we know is that on those low end integrated Intel graphics adapters the game has problems. That on an older laptop based ATI graphics adapter it doesn't work. And on the 3 year old Hercules Prophet 4500 it has problems which I think is caused by them not having made new drivers in a very long time for it.
