i know i'm not going to try this one. :(
Such a shame. It's a good game. It hasn't made my PC go "boom"... at least not yet.
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Such a shame. It's a good game. It hasn't made my PC go "boom"... at least not yet.
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at least not yet.
I don't want to find out. :wink:
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Thats a shame some of you cant get this game to work, because it is absolutely awesome! I finished Normal difficulty with a total of three crash to desktops and one blue screen of death. Now its on to Epic difficulty.
Many people are having stability issues with this game. I did too, but they were few thank goodness.
Here's a tip, make a back up of your save game file, i hear alot of people are losing their character completely, it just vanishes.
If you're having problems playing the game... i highly recommend buying a computer that will play the game... ITS THAT GOOD
My specs: Pentium D 830 Dual Core, 2gig memory sticks, GeForce 7800 single video card
Many people are having stability issues with this game. I did too, but they were few thank goodness.
Here's a tip, make a back up of your save game file, i hear alot of people are losing their character completely, it just vanishes.
If you're having problems playing the game... i highly recommend buying a computer that will play the game... ITS THAT GOOD
My specs: Pentium D 830 Dual Core, 2gig memory sticks, GeForce 7800 single video card
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I can only pin this problem down to Titan Quest doing something. Similar to that Quake 4 patch that messed up widescreen monitors irreperably.
I had been playing HL2, Oblivion and Need for Speed: Most Wanted with everything right at max on all of them without issues just before installing TQ, I install Titan Quest and the comp goes down the crapper.
Unfortunately, it did it the night before I was flying to Germany for the week because of work. So I haven't had a chance to test it further. I'll have to rip out the graphics card from another comp to test whether it's the graphics card or the monitor.
If I can't return this POS game, I'll have a copy of Titan Quest (barely used, for about ten minutes) going free.
More news as/when anything happens.
I had been playing HL2, Oblivion and Need for Speed: Most Wanted with everything right at max on all of them without issues just before installing TQ, I install Titan Quest and the comp goes down the crapper.
Unfortunately, it did it the night before I was flying to Germany for the week because of work. So I haven't had a chance to test it further. I'll have to rip out the graphics card from another comp to test whether it's the graphics card or the monitor.
If I can't return this POS game, I'll have a copy of Titan Quest (barely used, for about ten minutes) going free.
More news as/when anything happens.
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I've just stated playing and patched the game and not had any errors.
I'm enjoying it, but I'm not happy to head that people are losing characters.
I'm enjoying it, but I'm not happy to head that people are losing characters.
I still visit occasionally.
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Well, it's good to hear you've not got problems, mate. :) Whether or not this was completely caused by Titan Quest, I'm seriously shy of this game now. I won't be trying it again...
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It's sad, because it is a decent game, but It makes me feel a little insecure about the faults found. I'll be a very unhappy man if I get anything wrong with my rig.
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Update:
whatever the cause, whether something else was failing, and Titain Quest just pushed it over the line, or whether the game genuinely FUBARed my comp, I've spent the afternoon testing the box out.
Monitor (Dell 2405FPW): I can't say how glad I am that this doesn't appear to be screwed. Dragged down a mates laptop with DVI and tested it out on that - no issues. Although my mate ain't chuffed that his laptop struggles with FEAR at 1920x1200. :lol: (The laptop's native res is 1680x1050...) Also works fine with temporary replacement for X1900XT, which is a 6800GS I had just "recommissioned" in my Vista box. Which is now in pieces again. I can't win. :lol: But this rig is more important.
No errors with 6800GS in the place of the X1900XT, although I can't say I'm too keen on the new nVidia control panel. It sucks, IMO. Much preferred the old layout. Why, oh why did you have to move toward the style of 'Catalyst Control Centre' with your drivers? Didn't you listen to all the people who hated the CCC?
X1900XT: FUBARed. DVI sync errors in BIOS, let alone in Windows, where any game will make it error in a minute or so. It'll do it in about ten minutes if I just leave it sitting at the desktop, too. I can't see anything physically wrong with the card, so I'm thinking that a potentially flaky TMDS chip had given up, or is in the process of doing so.
Looks like an RMA will be necessary.
And I can't say I'm too keen on having another of those heatmonsters in my system - temps have dropped by 5* ambient and 2* on the CPU by removing that beast of a VPU... maybe I'll sell the replacement and pick up a 7900GTX/7950...
whatever the cause, whether something else was failing, and Titain Quest just pushed it over the line, or whether the game genuinely FUBARed my comp, I've spent the afternoon testing the box out.
Monitor (Dell 2405FPW): I can't say how glad I am that this doesn't appear to be screwed. Dragged down a mates laptop with DVI and tested it out on that - no issues. Although my mate ain't chuffed that his laptop struggles with FEAR at 1920x1200. :lol: (The laptop's native res is 1680x1050...) Also works fine with temporary replacement for X1900XT, which is a 6800GS I had just "recommissioned" in my Vista box. Which is now in pieces again. I can't win. :lol: But this rig is more important.
No errors with 6800GS in the place of the X1900XT, although I can't say I'm too keen on the new nVidia control panel. It sucks, IMO. Much preferred the old layout. Why, oh why did you have to move toward the style of 'Catalyst Control Centre' with your drivers? Didn't you listen to all the people who hated the CCC?
X1900XT: FUBARed. DVI sync errors in BIOS, let alone in Windows, where any game will make it error in a minute or so. It'll do it in about ten minutes if I just leave it sitting at the desktop, too. I can't see anything physically wrong with the card, so I'm thinking that a potentially flaky TMDS chip had given up, or is in the process of doing so.
Looks like an RMA will be necessary.
And I can't say I'm too keen on having another of those heatmonsters in my system - temps have dropped by 5* ambient and 2* on the CPU by removing that beast of a VPU... maybe I'll sell the replacement and pick up a 7900GTX/7950...
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Well I'm glad you found the source of your problems. Sorry that your x1900 is dead. I still love my x1900xt, especially since I bought an aftermarket cooler. It runs cooler and 100x quieter.
Perhaps the video card overheated and damaged the core? Considering the graphically intense nature of TQ, perhaps it did just "push it over the edge" as you say.
Look on the bright side, it's still covered under warranty.
Perhaps the video card overheated and damaged the core? Considering the graphically intense nature of TQ, perhaps it did just "push it over the edge" as you say.
Look on the bright side, it's still covered under warranty.
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I've just stated playing and patched the game and not had any errors.
I'm enjoying it, but I'm not happy to head that people are losing characters.
This was addressed in the first patch. It shouldn't happen anymore. If you are really concerned with not losing your character, you can always backup the character files.
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Agreed, it does have it's problems. I noticed the other day there are so many spots you can get stuck. Screenshot Below. But I still loving playing it. I'm going to do a review sometime today on it.
I still visit occasionally.
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just wanted to add to the missfortune of that still good game that it killed one of my computer.... actually it toasted the cpu... :(
good thing is, it was NOT my main uber computer... and this one was kinda old (1700AMD+)... i changed for a 3000+ and a new board for less than 100$.... and its working again! :)
im pretty sure its not the game fault at 100%... but it DID happen when we were playing, the game crashed the whole computer, had to shut down holding power 5secs... then woudnt come back up... cpu had been toasted... anyway!
just wanted to share with ya all! :)
laterZ
EDIT following the next message : the computer itself wasnt overclocked or anything... but im sure it had something to do with heating... but that computer is only used by my friends for gaming... so its used and able to handle games (BF2, Oblivion, HoMnM5, etc...) all at minimum quality but still! I also know the hardware itself was old... and that TitanQ. demands a lot for machines... so im not actually blaming the game for that... just stating that it was the "click" that made everything go boom! :P
good thing is, it was NOT my main uber computer... and this one was kinda old (1700AMD+)... i changed for a 3000+ and a new board for less than 100$.... and its working again! :)
im pretty sure its not the game fault at 100%... but it DID happen when we were playing, the game crashed the whole computer, had to shut down holding power 5secs... then woudnt come back up... cpu had been toasted... anyway!
just wanted to share with ya all! :)
laterZ
EDIT following the next message : the computer itself wasnt overclocked or anything... but im sure it had something to do with heating... but that computer is only used by my friends for gaming... so its used and able to handle games (BF2, Oblivion, HoMnM5, etc...) all at minimum quality but still! I also know the hardware itself was old... and that TitanQ. demands a lot for machines... so im not actually blaming the game for that... just stating that it was the "click" that made everything go boom! :P
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just wanted to add to the missfortune of that still good game that it killed one of my computer.... actually it toasted the cpu... :(
good thing is, it was NOT my main uber computer... and this one was kinda old (1700AMD+)... i changed for a 3000+ and a new board for less than 100$.... and its working again! :)
im pretty sure its not the game fault at 100%... but it DID happen when we were playing, the game crashed the whole computer, had to shut down holding power 5secs... then woudnt come back up... cpu had been toasted... anyway!
just wanted to share with ya all! :)
laterZ
It's possible that the game is stressing the components more than you systems are used to. When Doom3 came out a lot of people had trouble with their video cards overheating because of the way it used them. Granted most of these people OC'd their stuff. It is possible though for a game to stress a card or chip more than it's used to and overheat it.
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That's always possible with new graphics intensive games, but given that a few days earlier I'd completed a 36 hour dual StressPrime2004 run on the CPU without issues (and with the CPU far hotter than it got playing Titan Quest) and a 10 hour loop of 3DMark2006, which really made the temps on the GPU shoot up (6* higher than TQ reached) and it was OK, I don't think temps were the issue for me.
It is possible that the TMDS chip was just 'on its last legs'... but there really just doesn't seem to be any explanation for what caused it. My normal fault testing routines would have picked up pretty much everything that wasn't caused by either a) the game screwing something up or b) something failing by random chance.
*shrug* Whatever. I have no real desire to test this in the future - I just want my gaming comp back in action...
It is possible that the TMDS chip was just 'on its last legs'... but there really just doesn't seem to be any explanation for what caused it. My normal fault testing routines would have picked up pretty much everything that wasn't caused by either a) the game screwing something up or b) something failing by random chance.
*shrug* Whatever. I have no real desire to test this in the future - I just want my gaming comp back in action...
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I am having more fun with this title than any other this year. I just hit the orient and am truly addicted to the game. I played for 12 straight hours the other day with no crashes or glitches. I have yet to get stuck on/in the environment in my 40+ hours of gameplay.
Don't be scared of this game people! You really are missing out.
Don't be scared of this game people! You really are missing out.
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totally agree!! although i DID get many crashes, 99% of them were playing a Lan game... in Single i really didnt get many problems... and it IS indeed a very nice game!! I thought the Diablo type of game was totally past... but this is really a wonderfull diablo 3 clone! :)
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Hi!
just a little question:
is it possible in titan quest to have a smaller wide screen resolution?
ex: 1024x576 or 1280x720.
For me 1600x900 is so small to read small characters..
Thanx a lot!!!
Sam
just a little question:
is it possible in titan quest to have a smaller wide screen resolution?
ex: 1024x576 or 1280x720.
For me 1600x900 is so small to read small characters..
Thanx a lot!!!
Sam
Titan Quest
Hi!
just a little question:
is it possible in titan quest to have a smaller wide screen resolution?
ex: 1024x576 or 1280x720.
For me 1600x900 is so small to read small characters..
Thanx a lot!!!
Sam
Sure. You should have pretty much all of the resolutions that your video card's driver supports available.
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well for my part, except for 800x600, i havent seen any other resolution with a Y rez lower than 720....
I'd have wanted a res. of 1152x648... my desktop is at that rez... but the game just doesnt have it.... :(
good thing is, since i got my new X1900xt, it auto strech any other resolution to fit the screen... so i can use any i wish and it doesnt really mather.... yet the ONLY resolution that doesnt have clipping (over/underscan) is 1152x648.... :)
I'd have wanted a res. of 1152x648... my desktop is at that rez... but the game just doesnt have it.... :(
good thing is, since i got my new X1900xt, it auto strech any other resolution to fit the screen... so i can use any i wish and it doesnt really mather.... yet the ONLY resolution that doesnt have clipping (over/underscan) is 1152x648.... :)
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