Yes, EA may have pressurised them, but does that excuse such poor planning? If so, where do you draw the line? I think it is not unreasonable to expect a quality product when you fork out you money, not something with bits missing. If they're willing to ship a game in an incomplete stage, what will they deem a day 1 ommission next time? There's always pressure from deadlines - most people learn how to plan appropriately.
@Captain Buzzkill
I still maintain that this was rushed - as you say, the turn around time for a AAA game (even a sequel) is pretty much unheard of. First they left out some of the game assets (so yes, its functional, but not in the way it was designed to be), then there are the issues with the Xbox code (autoattack functionality) being left out the master. That smacks of a rush job. And there was a lack of testing with Nvidia cards, which account for a huge part of the game playing market. I know some people in Nvidia who do testing, and I know that there is a good relationship between Nvidia and game studios - so I think this was again something that fell victim to poor time management. Yes, EA may have pressurised them, but does that excuse such poor planning? If so, where do you draw the line? I think it is not unreasonable to expect a quality product when you fork out you money, not something with bits missing. If they're willing to ship a game in an incomplete stage, what will they deem a day 1 ommission next time? There's always pressure from deadlines - most people learn how to plan appropriately.
I assume I don't have to download this package at all because I'm still using Winxp and the package is for Direktx 11 only ?
Not incompatible - it's rather so that Direktx 11 is available only for Vista ? and definitively for Win7.
You should upgrade to win7. Its the first good windows ms managed to make.Since Direktx 11 is NOT available for Winxp, I CAN'T use it.
Okay, then what the hell are you doing in this thread? Shoo!
I updated my drivers to the beta NVIDIA drivers as suggested and performance went to crap. I tried the demo which ran perfectly fine before and it was crap as well with I suspect smoke effects. I would stay away from the new drivers unless you have problems. I'm going to try going back to 257.21 version which I think I was running prior with the demo.
Edit: Went back and installed 260.63 as I saw that from windows update and now everything is happy again. I have DX11 and Hires and no stuttering.