Comments on: Whinge For The Day

By: Paul Andre

Paul Andre — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:21:56 +0000

Very good place

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By: ShineDog

ShineDog — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:16:32 +0000

I think theres a little more to it than this.

Console versions load fine.

Alt tab out and itll be loaded in 10 seconds.

it is possible this is a vista only problem, cause my buddy didnt have a problem with it on XP, but I did.

By: roryok

roryok — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:12:46 +0000

that was one more reason to love Far Cry. The game loads in about 10 seconds. There appears to be a level running in the background of the menu but its actually just a super compressed bik video file. If you take out the ubisoft and crytek bik files its even faster still!

By: suibhne

suibhne — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:16:52 +0000

I meant, of course, “couldn’t see a goddamn thing anyway”. I miss the Edit function. :(

By: suibhne

suibhne — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:15:58 +0000

The main menu for UT3 was one of the worst offenders in this regard: it rendered an actual game level behind the menu, saddling you with the loading time and resource demands that come with it, but then soft-focused it beyond all sanity so you could see a goddamn thing anyway. Loading times and menu responsiveness both skyrocket once you disable that feature – which, of course, is accessible only through an .ini file buried deep in computer never-never-land.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:11:04 +0000

“Christ, how does this kind of glaring annoyance not come up in playtesting and QA?”

It does. And it’s referred to as “shippable.”

Seriously, it’s a PR tag, and it’s used to impress investors.

By: theleif

theleif — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:49:47 +0000

Quickfix for the Battlefiels 2 menues, at least:

To skip the intro movies when you load up Battlefield 2, delete the Dice, EA, Intro, and Legal Bink Video files from your Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies folder.

There you can also remove the menu videos.

Cheers

By: toejam316

toejam316 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:55:07 +0000

Guys, a FYI on Source games. It may not be something you like, but if you add -console to the shortcut, then it generally loads a hell of a lot quicker, and IIRC doesn’t load the 3d background.

By: The Dark One

The Dark One — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:49:12 +0000

Re: Spore’s intro videos

The patch they released today made them skippable again. They also removed the (secret) achievement you’d get for having a creation banned from the Spore servers. :P

By: Daniel Purvis

Daniel Purvis — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:21:32 +0000

@Plopsworth Did a lot of “flipping” then?

By: Daniel Purvis

Daniel Purvis — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:20:21 +0000

Had exactly the same issue with Codemaster’s GRID.

By: MrNeutron

MrNeutron — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:45:14 +0000

I grabbed the demo of this thing because it sounded like a bit of fun, and it was HORRIBLE. No option to change the resolution to something higher than 800×600 (or that’s what it looked like anyway, smeared across my widescreen monitor), awkward and awful controls, a confusing tutorial, and those shockingly bad loading times. Here’s a hint, Disney, if you’re not going to even try, don’t bother making a PC port of your game in the first place. I’ll bet that demo lost them a bunch of sales.