Re: [OT] GRAAAAAAAAAHHHH! HULK SMASH STUPID COMPUTER!! >_<#
- From: Abraham Evangelista <daken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:05:12 GMT
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:37:35 -0500, "Lord Craxton"
<lord_craxton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Okay, so for Christmas this year I decided to get back into gaming. I
>considered getting an XBox 360, but decided that could wait until next year
>when it has a lower price, a bigger game selection and less hardware bugs.
>Instead, I asked for a better video card for my computer and a pair of games
>I've been wanting to play- Fable The Lost Chapters and The Bard's Tale. I
>got all three. Merry Christmas to me, right? Wrong.
>
>The video card installation (a Radeon 9200) goes off without a hitch, which
Did you get it as a gift? The 9200 is DX9 compliant, but it's on the
low end for gaming cards.
>is good because that's what I was most worried about- can't very well play
>games when you've accidentally busted your motherboard, right? But no such
>problems. Encouraged, I install Fable.
>
>It doesn't work.
>
>First it tells me my drivers are out of date. Okay, that's annoying, but no
>big deal. I get the latest drivers, and that's that. Only, it still doesn't
>work. Whenever I try to start it up, it crashes. It's not even an
>interesting crash that you could take to a message board and describe to
>find a solution to, just the standard "Fable the Lost Chapters has to be
>shut down. Report this error?", and asking for details gets you 100 pages of
>technobabble. But, okay, no really big deal either. It's new and a console
>port, so some bugs are to be expected. I figure wait for the patch and go to
>The Bard's Tale for now. So, I install that.
>
>It doesn't work either.
>
>What's worse, I haven't a single solitary clue WHY it doesn't work. It says
>that Direct3D isn't working, and the readme says that basically means it
>needs DirectX9.0c. This makes me grimace badly. See, I have a Dell Dimension
>4400. I got it a while back- a few years ago, I think. It came with
>WindowsXP installed, and they scrimped on the shipping by not sending the OS
>disc. This is a problem because, some time after I bought the machine,
>Microsoft went and decided that all copies of Windows XP had to be
>"genuine", whatever that means, and refuses to update or support any copies
>that are not "genuine". The OS pre-installed on my machine is, you guessed
>it, not "genuine".
Did you buy straight from Dell? Dell doesn't unlicensed copies, so
you should be ok, unless someone has reinstalled windows on the
machine using a different key. Media or not, if your license is
valid, you should be "genuine".
>Which means that any attempt to keep any
>Microsoft-manufactured software on my machine updated requires a lot of
>Googling and frustrated hair-pulling and, ultimately, hanging around warez
>sites.
>
>This turns out to not be an issue, though. The real problem is even more
>infuriating. See, I DO have DirectX9.0c on my machine, at least as far as I
>can tell. I've checked the version numbers on the files, even ran dxdiag,
>and everything appears to be ship-shape. Yet I can't play the frickin' game
>because it keeps insisting it can't work with the version of Direct3D I
>have. Heaven forbid it actually TRY to play the game instead of giving me
>some patent pending excuse and kicking me out.
Tried a DirectX reinstall?
>
>grrrrrrrr...
>
>Crap like this is the reason why players and developers alike have more or
>less abandoned the PC as a gaming platform. When was the last time a
>reasonable game came out that wasn't some EverCrack wannabe or a buggy
>console port?
Well, I'm runnning Civ4 and Pirates! on my box (Northwood 2.4, GeForce
6200 AGP) and they're both runing about as well as I expected on a
budget graphics card. :-/
(WRT Civ4 I'm told I'm lucky. It's appearenly buggy as hell but I've
not hit a bug yet.)
COD2 works. It's not as pretty as it could be with a nice 6800 or a
Radeon X, but it still ownz the Xbox 360 version. :-)
>I should have just taken my chances with the 360. At least in
>that case, when I put in the disc, I can be resonably sure I'll be able to
>PLAY THE FRICKIN GAME!!!!!
And this sir is the number one reason to pick a console. My PS2 still
sees more play time than my PC does. (Heck, my DS sees more time than
either of them, and it's certainly not as graphically intensive
experience.)
>
> -Lord Craxton
>
If it's any consolation, neither the 360 I preordered (IN JULY) nor MY
copy of DOA4 have arrived yet.
--
Nya! Nya! Primula Fthagn!
Abraham Evangelista
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