I suggest, all people who have SERIUOS problems with the game post here, and give us there specs. When I say SERIOUS, I dont mean that it might run slow on an 500 MHZ CPU, but CTDs, not playable framerates...thats serious. I just want to hear people who still have problems AFTER they checked out the drivers, DX version, SWAP file...as mentioned in many posts before. And I just want to hear people who OWN the game...not anybody assuming that it might be...tralala, blablabla...

To sum it up: Everybody simowner with unsolvable seriuos issues posts here, and everybody who can run this sim fine posts also (they will be more flying than posting, but we might get a nie number of them here)

After 3 days, we might count...and see if it is that worse, as some of the guys out there think it is.

Just to clear the waters a little....

P3/750
128MB (looks like I need to ask Santa for another 128, though)
400MB swap as suggested in the README
Abit BE-6-II
32MB ELSA Erazor GeForce SDR / Detonator 6.31
SB Live! Value /latest drivers, I guess
Win98SE
DX 7.0a

Cheers,
Orangutan

[This message has been edited by Orangutan (edited 11-29-2000).]

so, I will not save the time:
PLZ, people, post here, that might give us an actual review of the problem status.

thanxs in advance

hehe, to points to add/edit:
1) Oraguan, thanxs for ur commend...u was a little faster than I ;-)

2) Hell, u are from finnland, europe, and bought it on monday?

man, why do I still have to wait for friday this week *snief*

My specs:
PIII 600
ASUS P2B mobo
256MB SD100
20GB Maxtor
6GB IBM
SB Live Player 1024
Philips 48x CD
Memorex DVD/CD-RW
Prophet II GTS 64Mb

I have not noticed any bugs in the game itself or in the front end. It runs perfectly on my system with T&L enabled. I let windows manage my swap file and did not install A3D. Only one problem (if you can call it that). I installed the game from drive E: (my cd) but I have to put the game disk in drive F: (DVD/CD-RW) to run the game. AFAIC no biggie.

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as I said, to keep this one overlookable, I will try to keep the number of my replies a short as possiple. two more points:

1)hehe, another guy a little faster than I...this posting should be righ under plummerx last one.

2) the issue with the CD R Drive...hhmm, maybe u are the same guy who metioned it otherwere, or this is repeating. I can remember around 3 posts with that issue. anyway, glad to hear that it works for u, and have a good time.

asus a7v
gforce mx
196meg ram
T-Bird 1 gig

This game runs like a beautiful but unplayable flick book. I have all the problems that people have except no ctd yet as I can't bare to play it for long...it's just too upsetting....sob!!!!!!!

Abit BH6
Celeron 300@450
128 MB PC100 SDRAM
Voodoo 3 2000
SB Live! Value
Windows Managed VM
2+ GB free on C: drive
Windows 98SE

Abit BX6
Celeron 566@707
384 MB PC133 SDRAM
Asus GeForce 256 32MB
SB Live! Value
Windows managed VM
3+ GB free on C: drive
14+ GB free on E: drive (where game is installed)
Windows 98SE

On both systems, I'm running no background processes except systray and explorer. I start the game after a reboot, to ensure that maximum system resources available. I maintain clean systems and am careful about drivers.

I've tried a variety of VM settings and driver combinations, have clocked all overclocked system components back to factory defaults, have tried reducing sound hardware acceleration and disabling AGP on the GeForce. All to no avail.

There are some others reporting that the game runes fine on there old 400 MHZ CPUs (thats why I wonder whats wrong with Wilders one...there should be a solution for him for sure). Okay, so at the moment, it looks fine to me. No 100 tousands of people coming here and telling that it does not work. I feel with the few ones where it doesn't...well, we will get this fixed..I bet.

Some stuttery play..elsewise, very playable and fun here

PIII600E

256RAM

GeForceDDR..6.47 nvidia drivers (others worked ok too)

SBLiveValue

400MB SwapFile and amended system.ini file to utilize it correctly

DX7a

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Coming to any conclusions on the basis of four samples (five if you want to include my post as two systems) is hardly scientific. If you want a more statistically significant sample, head on over to http://www.bombs-away.net and have a look in the Troubleshooting forums there.

Also, blindly assuming that everyone who isn't posting isn't having problems is spin. For all you know, the people who have the game and haven't posted may be having exactly the same problems in exactly the same proportion. Or they may not be having problems at all. Or they may all be having problems. You simply can't factor unknowns into the equation.

Cheers,
Sean.

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Originally posted by Orangutan:
[B]Bought it Monday evening.
So far, after ca. 4 hours on the sim, it has run flawlessly as far as stability goes. Didn't install the a3d thingie even though it was suggested.

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Originally posted by RSColonel_131st:
so, as Iain said... when u wipe of the crossposting and guys complaining without evene woning the game...it comes down to maybe 8% where it does not work.

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Looks remarkably like a conclusion to these jaded old eyes.

The reason people aren't posting here is that there are already dedicated Troubleshooting forums over at http://www.bombs-away.net The Wayward guys are focusing their efforts there, so that's naturally where people are congregating. The game's been out 4 days, the Troubleshooting forum has been open for 3, and there are already almost 300 threads totalling nearly 1500 posts.

If that isn't a clear indication that there are problems with the game, then you need to consider changing the prescription on those rose-coloured glasses you're wearing.

During the install process the game prompts you to install some a3d drivers or such and it is worded like the game needs this to run.
You can either accept or decline. As a SBLive user I chose the latter. Next follows the DX7a installation prompt which uses exactly the same wording with 'DirectX7' replacing 'a3d'. Wayward should have made a more informative prompt. Had I been a computer newbie, I would have proceeded to install. Would it have hurt, I don't know.

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Originally posted by Vancouver:
Colonel,

Coming to any conclusions on the basis of four samples (five if you want to include my post as two systems) is hardly scientific. If you want a more statistically significant sample, head on over to http://www.bombs-away.net and have a look in the Troubleshooting forums there.

Also, blindly assuming that everyone who isn't posting isn't having problems is spin. For all you know, the people who have the game and haven't posted may be having exactly the same problems in exactly the same proportion. Or they may not be having problems at all. Or they may all be having problems. You simply can't factor unknowns into the equation.

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I hate to say it, but I agree with you Vancouver.

Agree with you too Plurmmerx.

Oh forgot, I haven't got the game!

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