I know you are going to continue your post. But, are you saying that players need to have an "uber" system like yours to not experience most of the problems in this thread? I would hope that if a computer meets the minimum requirements for AO, and the player turns all the settings to minimum, then the game should not have the problems mentioned in this thread.Originally posted by Aspriel
Ripley67, thank you. I was going to start saying something similar but not quite as accurate and well said.
I have a cable connection, 512DDR, GeForce Ti 4600, 1.8gig AMD CPU, and 277(Or however close this figure is to my bus speed.)
and Sound Blaster Audigy. As well as running Windows XP Professional. My computer is Uber.
You want to know something funny? I only get one kind of lag in all of the game. That is when coming up to a highly crowded location with alot of people or a place where people zone in and out of alot.
There are arguments here that are valid and such, I'm not saying any of you are BSing anybody. Only that alot of you blaim the wrong things for different situations.
Yes, server Synch, zone loading(Where you try to zone and it says couldn't connect with server.)
Gotta go will contineu alter
I have most of the problems in this thread. However, I'm running on a 500mhz system, Windows98Se, 256 ram, and a geforce2mx 400, 64 mb vid card. If the game is only playable enough to be enjoyable with an "uber" computer, then Funcom should step up to the plate and change the minimum requirements to whatever allows an enjoyable game. Is it our computers? Is it that Funcom's requirements are too low and we expect more from lower-end systems?
I see a flaw in this thought process as the game was running great, on my computer, through the 14.5 patch. It was only when 14.6 was patched, that I started to experience all of these problems, which seem to be getting worse by the patch. Or, is it getting worse by the amount of content on the playfields? Or, was it bad patching/code? Or, what is it? (Not to mention many others will higher-end systems that are experiencing the same types of problems)
Overall, I can only state what's happening to me and ask others to contribute what is happening to them. My hope would be for Funcom to stay in-tune with this thread and try to find common themes for the critical issues that plague the game at this time. This is good constructive feedback for Funcom, even if it has a lot of complaining in it. They should learn from it and address the issues in it. I'm sick and tired of the "it's your computer's fault" excuse. It may be true for some of the issues for some of the players. But for everyone who is having the same problems? I'm not buying that.