11-19-2000, 09:58 AM | #1 |
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Just got this from the RPG Newsgroup from user "Ripple"
------------ After getting no joy from a tech support rep at Activision, I spoke at length on the phone with a developer at Heuristic Park yesterday afternoon. Might have even been DWB himself for all I know -- he certainly knew what was going on over there. Anyway the long and short of it is this: HPI will be releasing an unofficial patch, probably before the end of the year. The kind of things that are being worked on include crash bugs like the Vampire Ring and gameplay bugs like characters disappearing from the Inn or losing money / items. Things NOT being worked on include the interface and engine, difficulty in picking items up off the ground, ladders, and ranged enemies remaining in real time mode when the player is ADP. He also commented that the green tint problem is probably not a software bug, but an issue with the way the video card identifies itself to the program and how D3D handles the information passed to it by the program based upon that identification. The phrases he used were "555 card" or "565 card", with each of the 3 numbers representing the amount of red, green and blue displayed respectively. If a card is 565 but identifies itself as 555, the green value with be skewed. Sort of confusing, but that was his explanation. He said despite repeated attempts, HPI is having extreme difficulty getting support from chipset manufacturers. He wouldn't single out any company names, but you can probably expect nVidia to be prominent among them. He went on to say that HPI is reading the bug reports on the Technical Forum on their site, as well as reviewing the bug list being compiled by Activision tech support. Unfortunately, he indicated that out of that they had only found "about 10 bugs". I think there are many more than that, so in an effort to make the patch as comprehensive as possible, please report all bugs to the Heuristic Park Technical Forum message board at http://www.heuristicpark.com or call Activision Tech Support at 310-255-2050. Or do both! Finally, he said that HPI cares very deeply about this game and their customers, and are therefore releasing the patch without support from Activision. Since HPI has contractual obligations to work on other games right now, the only time they have to work on the patch is after regular business hours. This means that not only is HPI giving us the patch for free (since they won't be getting paid for it by Activision), they're doing it on their own time. I told the guy that it would ease many people's minds if a representative of HPI would post exactly what he told to me to this newsgroup and/or on the message board on their site. He said he would ask their webmaster to do so, though I haven't yet checked the site to see if it's been done. -------------- Sounds good! -Ziroc Webmaster |
11-19-2000, 10:41 AM | #2 |
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Hurrah!!
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Hope they are going to fix the lift problems too.
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