If you buy new computer with new videocard and with 4 core CPU u simply cant play POP SOT serries with ur PC.

I think POP team should write patch that allows users to play POP with new hardware.

Question:
What do you think:Should POP team make patch that adds new 4 core CPU and Video card support for POP SOT;POP WW;POP T2T

Choices:
yes
no

 

i have played the SOT games with my new pc and it worked

Not particularly. Price you pay for PC gaming. If you want to be cutting edge you sacrifice nostalgia for power.

/not a PC gamer by trade, so incredibly biased.

quote:

Originally posted by rain-13:
>PoP-teams
>Patches
>You suggesting they have ever done one or would plan to

Haha,good one.

That's completely false.
You can play the entire SOTT with a Quad Core.

The problem is coming probably from you software

In the 1980s and 1990s, the better game companies designed their games to be patched.
King's Quest, for example, would display a waterfall where the animated falling water was originally designed for a 25 MHz computer. When a game player on a 100 MHz or faster computer arrived at the waterfall, the cpu accidentally animated the water so fast that the game player could not successfully maneuver past the falling water.
But Sierra On-line published patches on its "bulletin board" so that game players could patch their game and proceed.

That was the "state of the art" of the computer industry which, at the time, was mostly run by businesses familiar with satisfying their customers.

Even Red Orb issued patches to Prince of Persia 3D to fix disastrous problems where floating ruins would just "sit there" not moving vertically up and down. The game player was stuck not being able to proceed forward in the level ... until a patch was issued to fix their software.

Ubisoft, however, programmed, designed, tested, and published their games with their software teams ... and then moved onward to their next game. When fatal game bugs arose, the most that would happen would be to forum members to cooperatively attempt to figure out what was happening to various game players in various games, attempt to rationalize what might have triggered an unwanted outcome, and advise game players how to try to work-around the problem. The work-around often involved loading a saved game position before a problem occurred.

Well put, Jay.

Though you've probably effectively explained why companies are shifting more to console gaming: no patches, no incompatibility, no hardware discrepancies to worry about. Everyone with a console is the same as everyone else, with a small percentage subject to some glitches. Which unfortunately allows the company, as you said, to just make a game and move on. Ubi doesn't even have dedicated tech support. WE'RE your tech support. Their game manuals direct your problems HERE where you've got fans, not employees to help you.

Great, another nextgen propaganda.

You know, if people would focus more on the PC instead of working on the console and THEN porting the **** to the PC, then we wouldn't need any patches at all.Penumbra and Half-Life 2 prove that it works.

Warrior Within is a good example of failed porting, or Mirror's Edge, or Silent Hill Homecoming. All games inteded for the console and never for the PC. Because people like you still waste your money on those overated mashines which will be replaced in less than 2-3 years by another console.
In game technology, PC owns YOU!

That's not a very flattering post. It reeks of PC fanboyism. And 2-3 years for a console life expectancy? What sort of crazy world are you living in?
The PS2 started out in 2000 and still has a huge amount of games slated for 2010 release. 2000-2010 is ten years; one decade.
As for current-gen consoles, the 360 has been going amazingly strong since 2005, with the Wii and PS3 coming from 2006. All three main consoles have games slated for 2010 and are set to continue for a while after that. Get your facts straight, man.

But on-topic. Ubi should sort themselves out and release patches. Obviously they are pretty much always looking to the future and concentrating on the present, but it gives the illusion that they don't care about the customers.

Agrees 100% with Sandwarrior.

*Agrees with James and then with Michelle *

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Originally posted by Tristan_129:
Great, another nextgen propaganda.

Great, another PC propoganda

Also agree with Sandwarrior. PC is fine, but for christ sake there IS justification for the console market. Not all PC gamers can play every PC game, because everyone's system is varied. Consoles eliminate that problem, though at the sacrifice of being capped at a certain technology level from the get-go.

As far as patches go there should probably be a statute of limitations on game support, not just "We're done with the game! Time to move on!" Even car companies that stop making a model of car are required to continue making parts for it for a decade. I don't know how difficult it is to make patches or drivers for the PC for a pre-existing game, and if that's gotten more or less difficult as PCs have gotten more sophisticated.