That's not entirely true. Drivers get updated constantly. Sometimes the changes that are made to them makes some part of a program incompatible and introduces a bug. In those cases, you can't expect a developer to simply ignore the changes and carry on as if nothing happened. They need to make sure that their code remains compatible with the new versions of the drivers that have been released. It's a very common practise to release a patch because some driver upgrade has created a problem with a program. Granted sometimes there's software errors in the drivers themselves, but that's not always the case. There are occasions where making a driver more efficient overall simply creates a problem for the program.
Why Firaxis hold back Civ5 info?
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That's not entirely true. Drivers get updated constantly. Sometimes the changes that are made to them makes some part of a program incompatible and introduces a bug. In those cases, you can't expect a developer to simply ignore the changes and carry on as if nothing happened. They need to make sure that their code remains compatible with the new versions of the drivers that have been released. It's a very common practise to release a patch because some driver upgrade has created a problem with a program. Granted sometimes there's software errors in the drivers themselves, but that's not always the case. There are occasions where making a driver more efficient overall simply creates a problem for the program.
What I mean is, if a software display incorrectly due to a video driver problem, you can't count it as the software's bug.
I understand it is easier for you to mix O/S, hardware drivers, CIV5 all under the term software and treat them all the same, but seriously, I can't treat hardware driver as ordinary software/program like CIV5.
To be honest, I normally only do software programming... I don't have much interest in hardware and is therefore not really sure about the details of how every components of a computer operates. I assume you are hardware expert
Ummm... we normally create 3 different programs under the same title if we are to sell it to users of 3 different O/S. Only GOD knows how to produce a single program and makes it work in all those O/S.
Honestly, I know you are not in software industry nor a coder, but I believe you can be one in no time, if you want to.
If the code that is causing the error is in the program then is a software bug, by your definition. And as I mentioned, drivers get updated all the time. Sometimes those updates can cause problems.
It's all just lines of code, what's the difference? It all has to work together.
Well that's exactly what game developers do. Have you ever seen 2 or 3 versions of a game for different OS's? Other than Mac of course. They make them so they're as compatible to all of them as possible. I'm pretty sure that Civ 5 was designed to work on all 3 versions. There's lots of people who are still using XP so they're not going to abandon that market share, and Windows 7 is still too new for the game to be designed strictly for that OS. So with all that variation, there's bound to a problem for somebody at first.
Not a chance, it's exceedingly boring work. I've dabbled in it enough to know that much.
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No, computers must be functional off-line, because they can't always be connected to the internet. For instance, people in rural areas not yet serviced by cable (that's most rural areas) are often on satellite, but they won't be happy when they can't use their computer at all everytime there's a rainstorm. Lots of people won't go for it on a privacy basis (rational or not, they just won't trust it). For many small businesses, it won't make sense either - why pay a monthly fee, however nominal it might be, when you only need a machine to do books on? You could buy a very cheap one and it would be sufficient for years to come.
Many reasons why the offline computer will never be obsolete.
