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• • Planetside Crashes, Help!

  • If you're getting whiteouts and missing textures, many people with newer hardware seem to be having that...

    The best option is to go into the graphics settings and reduce everything to the lowest level...Especially the preloaded textures....Turn all preloading OFF and you will likely see most anomalies end...

    If I run preloading, full textures, I start dropping textures and seeing whited-out areas, then I hardlock, usually within minutes....But, with the preloading turned off and some of the graphical niceties cranked down a little, it seems to do okay, and I rarely have lockups or whiteouts or dropped textures...

    The preloading settings are under the "Advanced" tab in graphics...You can set it for 64, 128, 256 meg, etc.....But set it as low as you can, it's where the problems with stability arise on newer hardware.

    Hope this helps...It was unplayable for me until I stumbled across this advice.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 10:12 AM
    Planetside
• • IF you plan to play AC and are new to the game read this

  • I've been in AC since July '99, closed beta...I played the first 5 years solid, and now resub for a couple of months a couple of times a year....BUT, I don't really "play" anymore, and haven't since long before I left originally....I DO log in and talk to old friends....But the macros, the "helpers" like  Decal, and especially the changed magic system pretty much killed off the questing for me personally.

    Originally, AC was a VERY deep, involved, complicated game...The magic system was a pure joy, but lower level mages were very weak...Until they had made the effort and spent the time to learn the magic system and research some decent spells...Melees and mages used to have to work together, but now EVERYONE is a Jack-of-all-trades, and it's impossible to remotely compete as a pute melee, although you can pretty much solo anything as a decent-level mage....THAT is where AC collapsed for me..

    The loss of the elegant and deep magic system totally changed the gameplay and pace....I have friends now that start a new character and pass level 100 the FIRST DAY...Many do it in less than a week..That is NOT the way AC was played originally...and it's far less game for having allowed that, in my opinion.

    All the portals also hurt the game..We used to be forced to plan long trips and run places, usually finding stunning vistas and glorious battles all the way there and back...There is none of that, now...Just run to the nearest housing portals and warp to any destination...and no one has any idea of places like the Tree House west of Holt, or the Sclavus fort down by Sowato...Or any of the other remarkable and gorgeous places and areas that the game has...

    All these changes, for me, caused the loss of the depth and immersion that I look for in a game...Hence my cessation of actually playing.

    I still have a lot of old friends there, and I do enjoy my time with them...But I can't really enjoy questing or hunting in AC anymore, and haven't for a long, long time.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 9:30 AM
    Asheron's Call
• • PlanetSide: Server Merge

  • Actually...PlanetSide has already undergone one server merge, about a year and a half into the game...Johari was merged with Markov and Konried was merged with Emerald...

    The old game needs the scale of many players at once to work...and lately it's been difficult to have that...I see a merge as a positive thing at this point.

    I've never played any game in over 20 years of online gaming, since the original Air Warrior in 1987 on GEnie, that has made so many mistakes and been so determined to change the gameplay....But, having said that, there's still nothing else out there that is remotely like PlanetSide...To this day, over 5 years after I started playing the game....I still grin till my face hurts every time I log in.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 8:34 AM
    General Discussion