Well I haven't had any problems with most games. Only rage and now Risen 2 in the last three years. Guess I've been lucky.
Well I haven't had any problems with most games. Only rage and now Risen 2 in the last three years. Guess I've been lucky.
Luck is part of it. That's why you'll have some people say they haven't had any *significant* problems with skyrim and others who can't seem to get it to run worth crap. The strange of it is - both are probably telling the truth.
or is Drakensang 2 worth a try? Picked it up a while back but haven't played much - talk about goofy controls though.
*Sigh*
Anyone remember back in the day when PC games would just work without all this tweaking? You know, like Ultima 7 back in the DOS days.
Sarcasm or not… what I do remember is tweaking the shit out of autoexec.bat and config.sys to free up enough conventional memory. I remember making individual boot disks for nearly every frickin' game and all sorts of crap like that (if you would ask people to do that today -seriously- some of the younger peeps would call the police and they'd have you hauled off in a strait jacket).
I also remember having no (or later on at least no affordable) Internet during that time so you couldn't just download a patch or a new driver or even get help online from a forum. You had to wait for print mags to come out and hope that the CD included what you needed to fix a specific issue.
I'll take today over yesterday any day of the week, thank you!
It's important to have the latest beta driver (301.24) if you're an Nvidia user. It made a significant difference for me.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
Choose custom install and uncheck the boxes for 3D Vision. You only want the graphics and PhysX drivers.
Otherwise, they put zero effort into introducing the setting. Zero. It's not a real issue for me as a past player but they make no attempt to bridge the two games.
From a gameplay perspective, the combat reminds me (very early) of Gothic 3 without patches. Fighting animals is dull and not particularly fun without any skills or parrying etc to spice it up. I think I'll go guns just to avoid any real fighting.
Judging from that vid.. I like that the world seems more open/sandboxy than Risen 1.
Otherwise, they put zero effort into introducing the setting. Zero. It's not a real issue for me as a past player but they make no attempt to bridge the two games.
Ah well you might have missed the most crucial detail about my last post:
Sorry, just wanted a chance to use that old tired overused meme. But yeah, the reason I referenced Ultima 7 as that was the game that forced me to learn all about config.sys, auotexec.bat, himem.sys, manual IRQ and DMA assignment and driver loading. My point was that driver incompatibility issues aren't exactly a new experience for me with regard to pc gaming. PC gaming generally does take a little more effort on the part of the user, but if I didn't think it were worth it more often than not than I wouldn't still be gaming on my PC.