Some people are having problems with the textures while using SM3. It has trouble streaming the high res textures untill your right ontop of it, so what your seeing the low res textures.
Swap down to SM2.x
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Some people are having problems with the textures while using SM3. It has trouble streaming the high res textures untill your right ontop of it, so what your seeing the low res textures.
Swap down to SM2.x
my main problem with the game is the quests.. simply put there is no where near enough of them. I have had to grind for many hours to be able to do quests that are too hard at the level i got them at. They need to drastically increase quest exp at the lvl 50+ levels.
When i played EQ2 they had instances (for example i remember the noob zones had 8 different instances) EQ1 had zones likes WoW but it had a load screen.
It did? You're on about the game proper yes? Not trial island? I dont remember the zones in EQ2 being instanced. Zoned certainly, but not instanced. Could just be my memory though (except for Trial Island, the newbie island, which was instanced), I could be wrong though as I didnt play EQ2 for long, cant stand PvE and the PvP just wasnt up to much then.
Ok, just incase, move EQ2 to the instanced gameworld section, and put Daoc in the zonal section instead
Nope, I played on day one of US release (as well as US beta), never had load screens when moving from one overland zone to another.
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EQ2 had the option to instance. Right after release it was common to have at least 2 copies of commonlands and antonica.
I think they did work rpetty hard to up the player caps and it was rarely seem once the rish of the first few months was over.
I think they did work rpetty hard to up the player caps and it was rarely seem once the rish of the first few months was over.
Yeah, when EQ2 came out first, it was not unusual to have 2 or 3 Antonica zones. It created them on the fly as the first one filled up. When you zoned at the city gate it gave you a choice of which one to enter. Still does probably, it just never has enough people in zone one to trigger the creation of another.
Ok, move EQ2 to the instanced gameworld section (along with DDO, CoH and AoC) and place Daoc in the zonal gameworld section instead. (along with WoW and LOTRO) , the open gameworld (AC and UO) can stay the same 
(WoWs zones still arent instanced of course)
(WoWs zones still arent instanced of course)From the Guild Thread:
Here is the resource map of all the resources I've managed to find, I know it doesn't have names and I'm sorry about that but it's the best I can do and hopefully will give you a good idea of where to find things.
Here is the resource map of all the resources I've managed to find, I know it doesn't have names and I'm sorry about that but it's the best I can do and hopefully will give you a good idea of where to find things.
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I've been reading through the AoC forums and it seems lots of people are having major problems with this game, even with very high spec machines, and there's signs that there's something very wrong with the game.
I can't see this game being very successful with all these problems and such a demand for a top spec system, there's people posting that meet the recommended system requirements and they're only getting 1-4 fps on the lowest settings.
I think part of the success of WoW is that it will run on almost any system. It ran pretty well on medium settings on my familys Dell with a Geforce 440 mx. the system itself is like 5 years old and even back then it was a low spec machine.
I can't see this game being very successful with all these problems and such a demand for a top spec system, there's people posting that meet the recommended system requirements and they're only getting 1-4 fps on the lowest settings.
I think part of the success of WoW is that it will run on almost any system. It ran pretty well on medium settings on my familys Dell with a Geforce 440 mx. the system itself is like 5 years old and even back then it was a low spec machine.
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I've been reading through the AoC forums and it seems lots of people are having major problems with this game, even with very high spec machines, and there's signs that there's something very wrong with the game.
I can't see this game being very successful with all these problems and such a demand for a top spec system, there's people posting that meet the recommended system requirements and they're only getting 1-4 fps on the lowest settings.
I think part of the success of WoW is that it will run on almost any system. It ran pretty well on medium settings on my familys Dell with a Geforce 440 mx. the system itself is like 6 years old, and even back then it was a low spec machine.
I can't see this game being very successful with all these problems and such a demand for a top spec system, there's people posting that meet the recommended system requirements and they're only getting 1-4 fps on the lowest settings.
I think part of the success of WoW is that it will run on almost any system. It ran pretty well on medium settings on my familys Dell with a Geforce 440 mx. the system itself is like 6 years old, and even back then it was a low spec machine.
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There's nothing "wrong" with the game, sure it could use a few more optimisations (especially for Ati cards), but I meet thousands of people in-game who run it just fine. Even if there's hundreds of people complaining on the forum they probably don't even represent 1% of the population, which makes me assume that there's something wrong with the particular setup they're using.
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Well no, there are signs that there's something wrong with the game, there's evidence posted on the AoC forums, and I have experienced it myself. Why was I able to get 50fps by putting settings higher, and then when I set everything to the absolute lowest, I only got 30fps.
Now I restart the game and put everything as it was when I got 50fps, and I only get 30fps.
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I was a bit worried about the performance, it's fine for me, but then I've got a fairly decent system. I thought that it might go the way of Vanguard which ran awful on even top of the range systems at launch. I think they've almost got it right though, it runs great on my system, and it runs pretty well on my friends and brothers medium spec systems. Sure, there is always the danger that you end up leaving those behind who are using very old kit, but in a way that's the price to pay. I'd imagine it would be almost impossible to code a MMO to run well on all hardware spanning the last 6 years.
I guess it remains to be seen how successful AoC becomes, and certainly part of the success of WoW was that anyone could get it and play it on their creaking old systems, but how long can you allow ageing hardware to hold back development ?
The only thing I would say is that taking this as a starting point, this is probably the best performing, smoothest MMO launch I can remember and I've been there for most MMO launches over the last 6 years. There is no denying the bugs and hardware issues, and I'm sure things will improve over time, but I think they've got of to a very good start.
I guess it remains to be seen how successful AoC becomes, and certainly part of the success of WoW was that anyone could get it and play it on their creaking old systems, but how long can you allow ageing hardware to hold back development ?
The only thing I would say is that taking this as a starting point, this is probably the best performing, smoothest MMO launch I can remember and I've been there for most MMO launches over the last 6 years. There is no denying the bugs and hardware issues, and I'm sure things will improve over time, but I think they've got of to a very good start.
Im getting a bit tired personally of people going on about WoW, we were discussing this in game. It's been out for 3 days....3 days people. With regards the actual launch it's been pretty smooth, yes there are bugs but what do you expect from such a large game world. If I remember correct WoW had a very poor launch. Don't expect Polish right off the bat as you are not going to get it, WoW is an extremely polished and good game now because it has been out for the best part of 4 years iirc. Give it a bit of time and I'm confident this game will shine.
I've also updated the Map above with some more markers.
I've also updated the Map above with some more markers.
As the combat system is meant to be really good, is there any news on the official forums with regards to reward and punishment with regards to PvP?
For example in SWG there was durability loss, faction gain, and also credit gain and xp loss with regard to Jedi/BH .. In WoW there is honour gain .. what is there in AoC?
Really looking for any news regarding PvP as that's my main interest in an MMO.
Thanks!
For example in SWG there was durability loss, faction gain, and also credit gain and xp loss with regard to Jedi/BH .. In WoW there is honour gain .. what is there in AoC?
Really looking for any news regarding PvP as that's my main interest in an MMO.
Thanks!
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And I have no idea why people are complaining about the world being zoned and instanced - so it detracts a little from the immersiveness and seamlessness of the world - SO FREAKING WHAT????
Zoning allows for the amazing graphics, which more than make up in immersiveness than the occasional loading screen.
And instancing enables the fast-paced action-packed gameplay, which would not be possible if there were thousands of people all in the same area, as the latencies would skyrocket exponentially! You do realise that things like dodging, sidesteps, and active blocking of attacks that have an activation time of 1.25" (and that's for the SLOWEST of melee weapons!) would not be possible on higher latencies, which are unavoidable if there are too many people connected to the same area? I'm getting pings of 50ms even on my crappy Virgin connection - how many other MMOs can do that?
Zoning allows for the amazing graphics, which more than make up in immersiveness than the occasional loading screen.
And instancing enables the fast-paced action-packed gameplay, which would not be possible if there were thousands of people all in the same area, as the latencies would skyrocket exponentially! You do realise that things like dodging, sidesteps, and active blocking of attacks that have an activation time of 1.25" (and that's for the SLOWEST of melee weapons!) would not be possible on higher latencies, which are unavoidable if there are too many people connected to the same area? I'm getting pings of 50ms even on my crappy Virgin connection - how many other MMOs can do that?
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Well then, as I said, it probably needs optimisation for the particular combination of hardware you're using - this is the way of any new game. Still, 30FPS is eminently playable and will only get better wiht time as the code is tweaked, so you've got nothing to complain about
It's not like it's broken, just like it isn't for the thousands of people who AREN'T posting on FC's forums to complain.