If no patch my Friday...

[distrukt]

I will send my Copy of the game, With the box, instruction booklet, and poster to someone who wants it. This is STUPID.

Until Friday.

 

[rwinbush]

I'll take it.

 

[lifeaquatic]

I'll take and pay you $10.

 

[M4rek]

I will take it if u pay me 10$

 

[naminator]

Quite right Destrukt, when i buy a game i want to take it out of the box and play it. Sure it`ll have 1 or 2 little glitches that a patch will sort out. I`m fed up of trying this trick, installing that, changing a setting here and 101 other ways to make a game work. It says on the box what the max settings are, i`ve got more than the stated settings and it still doesn`t work. A patch comes out to supposedley make the game work and thats full of bugs. What da fks going on Firaxis, pull your thumbs outta yer rustys and next time make a game that actually works on Joe Blogg`s computer. Your all about as good as a one legged man at an a**se kicking contest !! BANG...BANG...BANG Rant over, i`m now going to punch someone !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Moodu]

U must have not been a pc gamer in the DOS days. If you think this is bad. You should have seen what we had to do with memory managment to get games to run back in the day.

"All you bases are belong to us"

 

[Vladamier]

LOL

20 different boot disks with 20 different autoexec.bat files depending on the tides, planet alignment, and barometric pressure FTW!!!

I agree, the bugs today are actually pretty tame to the good ol' days.

 

[Captain Badger]

i agree. back in the old day, it was more satisfying to get the program to load in dos than it was to actually play/use the program!

 

[mmichaels1970]

ZORK worked right out of the box, if I recall.

 

[davidmor]

U must have not been a pc gamer in the DOS days. If you think this is bad. You should have seen what we had to do with memory managment to get games to run back in the day.

"All you bases are belong to us"

LOL, aint that the truth! I remember thinking I was pretty good when I was able to boot my 386DX 25 with 621K of free conventional memory from my gigantic 40 meg hard drive! (who will ever use that much disk space anyways?!) It took a lot of messing with my autoexec.bat and config.sys to get it that way. I learned a ton about troubleshooting though, and I can only think of one game I ever had that I never could get to run. I have yet to find a game under Windows 95, 98 or XP that I can't get to run and I play a lot of them! A clean system and diligence to keeping it that way goes a long way to getting games to run right out of the box.

 

[oldStatesman]

Since the Thanksgiving Holidays start this afternoon in the US, I doubt that it will be out Friday if it is not released today.

Most folks not in Service industries have both Thursday and Friday off.

I would not expect it until Tuesday or Wednesday of next week at the earliest, to give the Q&A folks a bit of time to re-test after getting back from the long weekend.

My gawd, you have waited this long, what is another week or so to be sure they get it right?????

 

[lightnng]

back in the old day, it was more satisfying to get the program to load in dos than it was to actually play/use the program!

Hear hear! I remember writing a sort of memory manager that could swap certain "unswappable" memory blocks around on the fly so I could switch between certain games without rebooting (Spy vs. Spy was one of them).

And do you remember boot menus? Were those great or what! Circa 1990 or so I remember having a boot menu with 13 different "specific game" options... each with its own specific parameters absolutely needed to make the game run.

Ah, those were the days... of course, the good thing was that a DOS box loaded so farn FAST it wasn't that big of a deal to reboot so many times.

 

[oldStatesman]

Hear hear! I remember writing a sort of memory manager that could swap certain "unswappable" memory blocks around on the fly so I could switch between certain games without rebooting (Spy vs. Spy was one of them).

And do you remember boot menus? Were those great or what! Circa 1990 or so I remember having a boot menu with 13 different "specific game" options... each with its own specific parameters absolutely needed to make the game run.

Ah, those were the days... of course, the good thing was that a DOS box loaded so farn FAST it wasn't that big of a deal to reboot so many times.

IRQ's. DMA channels. I/O adresses. Had 'em memorized.

I especially loved the games that would only recognize your sound card on say, IRQ 5...which was the only one the modem would use...so you disabled the modem in the BIOS, then tried to load it up...to find out you could not manually force the sound card from 10 to 5 without changing a physical switch on the card....yeah baby, them were the days!!!!

 

[bhammer]

Oh, I'm sure that will get things moving, distrukt. How do you know the patch will fix the issues you're having. You should probably just return the game now.