Re: GRAAAAAAAAAHHHH! HULK SMASH STUPID COMPUTER!! >_<#

Well, it looks like the proud redneck named D-Chance
quite conveniently forgot to come say something like this:

"Evidently, only a perfect imbecile could have
posted an utterly meaningless message that no one
gives two shits about"

::: Lord Craxton 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
> 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 First it tells me my drivers are out of date.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". 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.
>
> 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? 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!!!!!
>
> -Lord Craxton

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