Holj102 said:
Raider - Heard anything from Thamer recently? I keep hearing about this supposed patch but it's been forever. *sigh* My buddy just got a 6800 GS too. Have yet to hear if he's had problems with civ 4 yet (he needs to install it first, of course). I'm more than frustrated that we've gotten nothing in terms of a fix for our cards. Oblivion is awesome though. No major flaws in it. At least ONE studio got it right even if the publisher has terrible support. *sigh*
Have you read this thread about "where is the patch we were supposed to get 3 weeks ago"
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=162263
"Raider, as for your issue, I looked into it along with other card-related problems. Many of those problems have been fixed for this patch, but since it's HW specific, we won't know for sure until you can run it on your setup."-Thamer
Thats the latest I heard. Not too promising huh...Sounds like it might be fixed and it might not. I just wish if they knew it was a hardware problem 3 months ago, they would have either a)released a hotfix b)told us so that we didnt waste hours upon hours of time trying to fix it ourselves
I have no been so utterly disgusted with a game before. Something that should bring enjoyment and pleasure has been nothing short of a pain in the *#%...
I also have a feeling that this next patch is not gonna fix our problems with the BFG 6800... I luckily got my hands on another computer that civ does work on, except the LAN multiplayer cuts out every 5 minutes or so. So out of 3 computers I have tried Civ4 on, None work as they are supposed to....
I'm sorry but this comes down to shoddy programming and/or crappy/limited beta-testing... There's no way this many bugs got missed. Fire-axis released this game early to catch the "christmas rush" and we got to pay for a fairly worthless POS...
I will never ever buy anything from Fire-axis again and I recommend others who have read about our experience support us by not buying the expansion.
I firmly believe they are holding the patch so they can coincide it with the expansion. You know so the expansion will work with the game and not need another patch after release. --- 1 formerly very loyal Civ loving fan