The patch is out see the bottom of the post for download locations:


MP Patch 1.02 is still tentative, and a more accurate change list will be posted in another thread as soon as we have it.

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SP Patch 1.02 changes and bug fixes
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- Combat Difficulty in ?Hard? mode is now harder.
PLEASE NOTE: This fix will not take effect in any game saved prior to this patch.

- Added a new "Hardcore" difficulty mode (1 more step beyond ?Hard?).

- Re-balanced NPC's strength & health on the second half of the game for all difficulty modes.
PLEASE NOTE: This fix will not take effect in any game saved prior to this patch.

- Added an intermediary ?Texture" setting between "Medium" and "High". ("High" could create an overload with some video card memory: so, to offer more scalability, it has been renamed to "Very High" and the "High" option now offers "Medium" textures for the scenery, but "High" textures for the NPCs.)

- No more crashes when NPCs are beheaded (occurred with the ?head_link? error message)

- Fixed the black Bink playback problem with GeForce FX video cards

- Fixed FPS drops with GeForce 6800

- No more graphical glitches on GeForce FX cards when player is under water

- No more graphical glitches on GeForce FX cards when player is being hit or is almost dead.

- No more graphical glitches on GeForce FX cards when equipping a Magic Weapon. If you still have trouble, please set GFX Detail to ?Low?

- Fixed additional stuttering problems, linked to Expression files being read when they should not be

- Fixed random crashes due to a memory patch in the decal system

- Fixed a crash that could appear very rarely on the Tutorial Map if Phenrig plays his base animation

- Fixed crash on Telekinesis used on a NPC after having frozen and then kicked him

- Fixed a crash at the end of chapter 07 if you equipped telekinesis when the mage was talking to you

- Fixed a showstopper bug with Percy in Chapter 09

- Saved Game system changed to the new Async System to prevent excessive stuttering when the game is auto saving (if you?re still experiencing problems, you may want to disable the Auto Save feature in the ?Gameplay? options menu)

- GFX Option is now properly saved

- Variable mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware is now correctly handled, based on individual PC specs

- Prevent Rope Bow from disappearing under the world surface before getting to it.

- Fixed inconsistency with the way Xana behaves during ?City of Flames? chapter events depending on player?s choices

- Fixed a bug where the giant spider was not spawned at all.

- Fixed a bug with some potions being destroyed on map spawn in the ?Temple of the Spider? chapter

- GFX Detail level option is now properly translated in the French version

- Avoid user being stuck in the walls while using the Rope Bow

- Final Boss has been re-balanced

- Removed some dev button that could be found behind some walls in the Epilogue

- Fixed the way some objectives were badly managed with the Pao Kai in the last chapter

- Removed an improper ?use? flagging on some wooden beams in ?Gleam of a Cold Knife?

- NPCs immune to Telekinesis can't be grabbed using Telekinesis Spell when they are in ragdoll behavior

- Arrows that are out of the Game world are now removed properly to prevent framerate from decreasing to zero

- Max number of potions/food you can stack in your inventory is now properly configured

- Prevent the Ghoul script from being broken in some cases (if player used the bow to attack the creature) in ?Dead Man's Trail?

- Remove small memory leak on the Particle System (about 100Kb was lost on each load/restart/map change)

- Remove small memory leak on clear value

- Better memory management with BINK playback

- Disabled two auto save points just before change level that could lead to corrupted saved game in Chapter 05

- Prevent a specific mana potion from disappearing from player inventory during Chapter 05

- Spells cast against the player now deal the correct amount of damage based on difficulty mode

- Vampire Knights will now always correctly play their stun animation

- Arantir's health has been increased

- Game will not auto save twice when triggering the final events in the Epilogue

- Added missing precache on Undead spawned by Necromancer Lord

- Fixed excessive virtual memory fragmentation, which led to occasional program crashes.


3D Gamers

http://www.3dgamers.com/games/darkmessiahmm/downloads/



Filefront

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic v1.02 German Patch

http://files.filefront.com/Dark+Messiah+of+Might++Magic...0321;;/fileinfo.html



Dark Messiah of Might & Magic v1.02 International Patch

http://files.filefront.com/Dark+Messiah+of+Might++Magic...0326;;/fileinfo.html



Gamespot

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/darkmessiahofmightmag...oad.html?sid=6162976



Worthplaying

http://www.worthdownloading.com/game.php?gid=1511



Boomtown

http://download.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=12803



GameArena

http://www.gamearena.com.au/files/details/html/dark-mes...and-magic-patch-v102



Ausgamers
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/25926



Xtra Games

http://games.xtra.co.nz/pc/downloads/details/index.php/25926


GamersHell

International:

http://www.gamershell.com/download_16850.shtml



German:

http://www.gamershell.com/download_16851.shtml



Filecloud :

International:
http://www.filecloud.com/file/4031/Dark+Messiah+of+Migh...d+Magic+v1.02+Patch/

German:
http://www.filecloud.com/file/4036/Dark+Messiah+of+Migh...+v1.02+Patch+German/



Official links :

http://patches.ubi.com/dark_messiah/dark_messiah_1.02_de.exe

http://patches.ubi.com/dark_messiah/dark_messiah_1.02_us_uk_fr_it_sp.exe

(note. International covers all versions except German)

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Ubi_Rickas,

Nice but what about an MP list now? Seeing as how the one with the MP was closed due to "out-of-date" info?

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Nice but what about an MP list now? Seeing as how the one with the MP was closed due to "out-of-date" info?

Agreed!



EDIT: Whoops. Wrong button. Nothing actually changed.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Acheval,

it's another patch for MP !!

Thx for the release but the Memory Bug is not corrected...

And what about a release date ??

If those things are fixed. I'll be Happy.

"coming soon" could be tomorrow??

Wait only ge force fx graphic cards?

Dude i have a Nvidia 7 7300 gs card......

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Originally posted by Oakwarrior:

quote:

Nice but what about an MP list now? Seeing as how the one with the MP was closed due to "out-of-date" info?

Agreed!

Unfortunately, MP is more tentative than SP right now, and we cannot confirm that the list posted earlier is representative of the final change list. Until we have something more official, I don't want to publish a list in a stickied post here in the forums and speculation/discussion of it in those earlier threads wouldn't be constructive.

I've edited my first post in this thread to reflect that state of affairs. Sorry for any confusion.

I always trust you do give us the correct info!

Well, it doesnt matter if any "change" that could be done in 1.02 would be changed... A "prototype" list would be fine ache

Thank You Im happy its coming.

Can You Please Add a "Cinematics" option to the main menu?? i'm missing so much from the bink video bug..i tried the "-dxlevel 90" trick..well it fixed the videos and the checkerbox with magical weps. but i can not get over 3 fps ^^ and i don't want to start all over just to see the movies. as far i was satisfied with the game..but now only i see is a "kick & fly 'em off" game...so disappointed for the very few hours.(i just killed over 15 mobs by just kicking them.well you gonna say you can't kick them all the time from high ground..but when i see a mob i see a spiky thing.and that does the job instead of makeing them fly down.i suggest you should also remove like 1500+ of these spikes from the game)

Are the yellow artifacts and between chapter loading crash when on full GFX settings fixed as well?
Running a rig with a Nvidia 8800 GTX card, and it's getting pretty boring to allways have to exit the game, lower gfx, load game, save, then exit and then back into the game, gfx max, then load from saved point. *Phew*

Does this 1.02 patch include the ever so present "crash on startup" bug?
Where the game loads for 2 seconds then crashes? Because it was originally stated that it would be fixed for 1.02 and it has been...over a month now and i still havnt even been able to get into the menu despite the "Hotfix".

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Added an intermediary ?Texture" setting between "Medium" and "High". ("High" could create an overload with some video card memory: so, to offer more scalability, it has been renamed to "Very High" and the "High" option now offers "Medium" textures for the scenery, but "High" textures for the NPCs.)

From this statement, very obvious nothing is fixed. They only reduce the quality of the textures as a cheap way to get out from crashes. How lame. Very disappointing.

They are only reducing super low quality textures where Medium as High and Low as Medium. Obviously these crashes and extreme jerkiness were not due to textures setting which i very much doubt.

I seriously doubt this patch will do any good.

Nice! How about a fix for the fact that since the 1.01 patch the game won't even start (ran fine for me prior to the patch)? Can somebody who downloaded the game from Steam do me a massive favor and post the target line from your single player .exe

Thanks in advance for the help.

target line for SP reads as:
C:\program files\Steam\Steam.exe -applaunch 2100

@ Archeval,

Thanks for the update - but the mount colossus of bugs is the loading/loading screen crash problem - if that bug isnt squashed the product is in effect unplayable... will this bug be sorted in patch 1.02 - the suggestion by Marco on 15/11 was that it would be (ie. he was half way through sorting it) - the conspicuous absence of this particular bug in later updates on patch 1.02.... is it a bug dealt with in patch 1.02>? yes or no?

@ Acheval,
... and to quote Marco the developer on 7 November 2006 on these forums... note that he classifies the loading/loading screen bug as the "Main Issue"....

"Patch 1.01 is currently through QA Testing and if it goes well, should be released tomorrow (To Be Officially Confirmed)

SP Patch 1.02 will be released as soon as the Main Issue with the Game (aka the crash on loading) is fixed. We'll keep you updated, we're doing as fast as possible."

is this still true or not? yes or no?

Fantastic! Hardcore mode sounds great and will give me an excuse to play the whole game again with luck!

Glad work is still being done on MP I was afraid they'd lket it die, when it has some much potential. Fixing the talents bug and Lorbs will make it so much better alone, but I hold out in hope for more

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Added an intermediary ?Texture" setting between "Medium" and "High". ("High" could create an overload with some video card memory: so, to offer more scalability, it has been renamed to "Very High" and the "High" option now offers "Medium" textures for the scenery, but "High" textures for the NPCs.)



From this statement, very obvious nothing is fixed. They only reduce the quality of the textures as a cheap way to get out from crashes. How lame. Very disappointing.

They are only reducing super low quality textures where Medium as High and Low as Medium. Obviously these crashes and extreme jerkiness were not due to textures setting which i very much doubt.

I seriously doubt this patch will do any good.

Yes ... i agree with Archaven ... and i asked on different topcis about this ... no answer ...

dont udnerstand me wrong .. i really want and hope that this Patch will fix the Game BUT ..

like Archaven it sounds to me, that they NOTHING fixed on that part. They just added a new option. So the very high option is similar to the high option at the moment. When the Patch comes out, i will set the texture qualitiy on very high. And when it will runs so bad like now with high settings, then it is obviously. they fixed nothing ...

well ... let us hope ...

greetz