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its been a while
Been very busy of late on various projects so the blog has been given the slopey shoulder treatment.
I need to update the SPRY based multi level search tute, and a few other bits and bobs.
For now if you like an occasional blast away at like minded individuals on xbox or pc you might have ben slogging away through Modern Warfare 2 for the last few months. Some players get to Prestige 10 legitimately apparently- gawd knows how. Anyway no doubt they ar enow slopig over to BF Bad Company2. Had a go onthe Xbox of this- single player was OK but the multiplayer left me cold- think it might be better on PC- I tried xbox. Anyways here is a review!
Frontline Fields of War Vista Problems
My son got FFOW at the weekend and I have to say if it was a car it would be recalled as unfit for purpose. I expect games to have some issues but these ones give the distinct impression of being untested.
1) First issue is if you try to install it anywhere but on a c: drive expect issues. The program does not appear on the start bar, the desktop or in the games explorer in Vista (32).
All these issues can be fixed by a c: drive install.
2) Once installed, don’t expect it to run easily- you start it from the Play button fired up from the DVD menu. Then it tells you to insert a valid disc in the drive! A work round for this is to run up the menu but don’t hit play, eject the dvd and insert dvd 2 inthe drive, this seems to then work oddly. However thats not a permanent fix.
The real fix for this is to install a Vist Hot fix available from the kaos website. However you need to install the 1.0.1 vista patch first and as the game won’t load you might be stuffed as it auto updates- though see bodge round in point one. The solution is to copy down the hotfix and the 1.0.1 patch to your PC as exe’s before installing the game- do a clean install then patch it then hotfix it.
This seems to sort all these issues out.
3) Finally if you have a Nvidia graphics card you may experience the game freezing every 20 seconds or so between bursts of running smoothly. As my sons PC is base don Nvidia GT8800 in SLI mode it might be an SLI problem only- I don’t know, however the fix for this is to grabe the Nvidia beta drivers for vista from the Nvidia website version 169.28
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