@McVillenInc

I too freeze every single time i enter the sewers just before chapter 9. I ended up creating 5 gigs of virtual memory after having 3 and defragged my computer over night. Everything to bare minimum levels, even sheathed my sword to reduce the amount the game had to render.. The second i got to the water, screen shuts off....

Marco, please update us today at your earliest convenience and respond to my questions

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Originally posted by Marco-Arkane:
We're simply getting a very hard time reproducing it and debugging it. On our 40 PCs here, only one seems to be willing to crash, and only every three hours... which sounds weird I'm sure since a lot of you are crashing a lot.

Marco, can I ask...These 40 PC's - Do they vary in the hardware that is used in them because 39 PC's that aren't crashing sounds unbelievable going by the amount of people that can't run it.

With all settings on low I could usually get the game running..However on a chapter (I forget which) I'm to enter a sewer..It's then the game would crash..Sometimes with a hard lockup and others with a CTD and error 'memory could not be read' (It was a retail version which I have since returned but I'm keeping track on the situation for legal reasons).

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Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz (Northwood)
Abit IC7-Max-3
Corsair TwinX 1GB DDR XMS4000PT
Point Of View GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB DDR3
CoolerMaster Wave Master
Thermalright SP-94 HS with 3000RPM Fan
Hitachi 160GB Deskstar 7200RPM ATA
2x Seagate Barracuda? V 7200RPM 120GB SATA 150
Zalman ZM400B-APS 400W PSU
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oooooook...hurry up arkane.

*crosses fingers for the patch*

Happy that marco has responed thou...

Im even willing to wait another WEEK now:P

Crash On Loading Screen & Freeze During Gameplay / Fix Under Progress / SP Patch 1.02

Yay! Hope to see it soon

I also have the crash / reboot bug after its almost finnished loading the level.

Everything has the latest drivers out, and pc freshly formated.

I have a
DFI lanparty 875p rev2
PNY 6800GT 256m AGP
maxtor drives x2 raid 0 - intel ich5
swap file is on F: (raided drive)
plextor dvdrw
1 gig GeiL ddr400 ram
Sb audigy.
windows xp pro sp2 / all updates / dx runtimes

this is the only game i have problems with.

strangly i can almost reproduce this problem 100% it always does it when I load a game but not when starting a new game and im currently on the first level after the training.

If you need help debuging this problem please let me know since I can reproduce it fairly easy.

On my pc when the loading bar gets about 1 inch from the end my monitor appears to go into standby then if i press the close button on my kb or alt f4 and wait a few minutes windows will restore the display and i will get a message from windows saying it detected a error and then it'll be in 8bit color 640x480 and the only way to get disp back is to reboot.

also this is the nv log in event viewer
[The driver nv4_disp for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.]


Unfortunately I was unable to load the game with a debugger due to the games protection or detection (I couldnt even start it with a simple program like regmon loaded :X).

If there is anything I can do to help let me know!

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Originally posted by KitoZane:
Marco, can I ask...These 40 PC's - Do they vary in the hardware that is used in them because 39 PC's that aren't crashing sounds unbelievable going by the amount of people that can't run it.

Since you have accurate figures of how many people can't run it maybe you could share them with us. With the likely high sales figures 2.5% IS a high number of people. With only 40 pcs I'm surprised they replicated the problem at all. I think your grasp of mathematics is a bit rusty. If you are basing your percentages of people with the problem on the forum posts then I have to tell you the results will be highly inaccurate as it would be a mathematically self selected sample.

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(It was a retail version which I have since returned but I'm keeping track on the situation for legal reasons).

What possible legal reasons? Has your computer blown up? You've already returned the game for which I'm assuming you've got the refund. If your legal expertise is as good as your statistics I think you're going to end up wasting a lot of time, money and effort for nothing.

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You say it runs on 40 pc's in the office? What kind of machines and what specs are they? I am not being critical here, but am guessing they don't run the gamut of specs that field systems do.

Jeah ... Marco maybe ii would be better you say the specs of your pc's at the office. I'm wondering too why Arkane only get on one PC the crashes ... hmmm .. :-/.

Ah another question ^^.

Can you say a possible release date? Is there a chance to release it this week? maybe weekend?


greetz

I leave the country for 2 weeks and would love to know if i can play it before next Tuesday

Check the first post of this thread for the last update you've been waiting for reg. fix list

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Originally posted by Marco-Arkane:
Check the first post of this thread for the last update you've been waiting for reg. fix list

Thanks a lot for the update, hope the patch is available soon.

oh boy oh boy ... nice ... very nice!!!

Hey .. so when the Check will be okay the Patch maybe will be released tomorow????? .... holy **** ... jeah ...

But do not rush your release Arkane okay? I know that VERY VERY many people want to play this Game but dont rush with your release. Better that you release it when you are SURE that this damn bugs are fixed. Nothing could be more worse than releasing this Patch which dont fix the Game.

Let us all hope that this Patch kick this damn Bugs away and fix the Performance issues.

greetz

I have had minor problems but I found that when experiencing a loading problem kicking your computer into standby mode seems to solve the problem about 60% of the time. I have been able to beat the game myself without major issues I did find that using DHzeropoint nvidia drivers from Driverheaven.net seem to help with performance issues, the game isn't render nearly as well but I am using a 7600GT on default settings. You can all also try Omega drivers for ATI graphic card users.

www.driverheaven.net

For those using Norton antivirus software its seems to cause a whack of problem not only with DM but with pretty much any Valve or steam games. I highly suggest manually entering the program control for all your steam games including SP and MP games so that they have full access to the internet.

Steps to manually enter program control in Norton 2006.

1.Open norton Antivirus
2.Click on Norton Protection Center
3.Click on Security Basics
4.Click on Auto-protect
5.Click on Configure Auto-protect
6.Under "Internet" click Internet worm protection
7.Under the heading "How to customize your settings" Click program control.
8.Click "add" and manually add all the .exe for your games SP and MP including Steam with the access to "Permit".

Rather tedious but it can't hurt but hopefuly it might solve some of the minor loading problems we have been experiencing.

Regards

SE04

The proof, as they say, is in the pudding...we'll see when the patch is actually released. We shall hope, and we shall see. I will feel really bad for Marco and crew if things do not turn around dramatically.

HOLY $#@! Its Fixed!!! What the heck is this QA check and when can we expect its release?
oh man oh man oh man... lol
finally...

I find it sickening and discaceful as a company to even RELEASE a game like this! I am TIRED of waiting to play this game and I am tired of waiting for this bloody patch!!! Never in my life have I ever had to go through such frustration over a a bugged up game like Dark Messiah! RELEASE THE PATCH!

I have every, single, Might and Magic and every, single, Heroes of Might and Magic game. I have been waiting for this game for years, ever since I finished playing Might and Magic 9 I have been waiting for this one. And now we get this great disapointment..... Truely sad...

I am quite glad that all the problems I'm having will be hopefully fixed in the next update. I'm also happy to see all the extra fixes and changes that will occur as well. Just recently on MP some guy claimed he knew that no major updates will ever happen, but I knew him to be wrong. The Arkane team is very resposive, I've noticed. It's very good that a game as good as I've seen this one is has an equally good staff to help the community out.

Good Job ^_^

for those of you who have problems with loading and crashing. if you use Nvidia, the drivers 84.21 i think (forgot) work really well. i downgraded and i can play the game just fine with no problems although i think the framerate is a bit crappier

After trying out beta 1.2, I can honestly say, WOW for a start. Although i didn't have any freezing on load up screen, it did eventually crash on me, but i was able to load a level on FULL everything in the time it took you load a level on minimum graphics. I was inside the game in about 20 seconds. There was NO lag, framerate was amazingly high even though i was inside a building. All weapons equiped including magic instantly. After i ran through my bow, lightning, daggers, i decided to get out my fire sword................ CCCRASSSHHHH

I haven't even had a chance to get into combat lol.