Why are you thanking jedi master Ken for graphics?

mystafyi wrote on Jan 18^th, 2014 at 3:05pm:


Too bad some idiots at Turbine Manglement and in the development team are trying to change DDO into a mainstream game.

It's a Niche game that cater for the following :
- No PvP
- No travel time to Quests
- Small parties in quests ( 6 )
- Small parties in raids ( 12 )
- Heavy character customization.

Any deviation from the above is going to make people grumpy.
One of the reason nobody run the Eveningstar, Stormhorn and Wheloon quests is the time ti takes to reach them. Tweaking the XP of said quests won't change that fact, Tweaking the XP from VON3 will just make people go to VON5 instead, and still not go to the quests that takes time to reach.

Don't forget the DDO Preloader as well:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/420738-How-to-make-the-game-loading-fa...

mystafyi wrote on Jan 19^th, 2014 at 4:56pm:


/signed

It's highly visible, highly annoying, and easily repeatable, this is way more important than moving quest givers around the harbor.

mystafyi wrote on Jan 19^th, 2014 at 4:56pm:


Good clue there with the SSD/HDD. Will try in the morning.

Werebadger wrote on Jan 20^th, 2014 at 3:41pm:

sure.

Dullknife wrote on Jan 20^th, 2014 at 4:22pm:



http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/doom

mystafyi wrote on Jan 20^th, 2014 at 7:40pm:


This, totally this! Also why does it/we have to rely on player made solutions? It just boggles my mind! No disrespect Maj.

old install I had (using that bloody 3rd party downloader) seemed to work ok.
Every time I try to run through the Steam launcher I downloaded from now, red connection, no packets in, and crash on startup.
Known a couple of other people who play exclusively through steam who have this issue.

harharharhar wrote on Jan 20^th, 2014 at 8:25pm:


Off the top of my head this is appx my setup too and not had this. But I do understand it is really fucking frustrating when you do, as my old pc did the crash into the desert thing...

Edit. I see the Steam discussion above. I have never used Steam for DDO.

Meursault wrote on Jan 20^th, 2014 at 11:17pm:


I still run this on my Vista machine and never had the initial crash. Even on my laptops and machines all the way back to beta: 2-8 GB RAM. 1-4 GB of DDR5. 5400 - 10K drives, no SSD.  The only commonality is most likely ATI video drivers.

I just get the issue where the memory is not released and when it gets above about 2.5GB, it has performance issues moving and zoning. I ran it up to 3.4GB before - all I have to do is switch characters (run thru like a dozen characters to ramp it up). I believe this started happening when they made that fast logout / login crap.

Steam thing sounds like a firewall issue. Steam loves to forget telling your firewall everything is ok. I've seen this exact thing with TF2 and XCom recently. Seems that the permission for the firewall doesn't renew after a patch or something.

The double log in thing has been seen internally externally but we haven't figured out exactly what the hell it is. Some race condition happens...but the SSD/HDD will muck with the timing of launching, so it may help point to the cause.

No we don't cater to new machines. that is stupid. it's a old MMO. Yes I have someone test on the min spec box. Yes there are some limitations using that old hardware, but the game is playable....barely. No, most players do not have hardcore boxes. Wish they did.