I recently downloaded updates to several mods. Soon after, Oblivion refused to start (frozen during Loading sequence). After much tweaking I traced back the issue to three updates: – Mighty Magick 4.5 – Arcane university revamped – Cyrodiil Transportation Network The issue with MM was resolved with a further update (apparently, I the update I first caught was corrupted when…
Tag: Troubleshooting
Performance issues resolved
I took some time over the holiday to reinstall the last round of plugins, one set at a time, to try and trace back the source of my performance problems. Thanks to the Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM) – timeslip.users.sourceforge.net/ – I traced the issue back to the ArchiveInvalidation.txt file used by many mods to point Oblivion to new locations of…
Performance issues
The first official patch was released yesterday (v1.1). Curiously since installing it, I am experiencing very long delays when starting the game. Going from the initial ‘Bethesda’ video to the first ‘Loading’ screen (before even getting t the main menu) takes up to 20 minutes ! I am not sure if this is caused by the patch itself, a mod…
Half Dead
I’m sorry to report that, at least in my experience, Half Life 2 has been nothing but a series of disappointments. So far, the ultimate experience promised by the game is seems as unreachable as the top of that blue tower dominating City 17. Over the past week, I have barely played a total of 4 hours into the game.…
Doom III – more installations from Hell
I was ready to blame my earlier installation issues on an aging system. Now I can say that again – Doom III has serious issues with its installation procedure. I spent the past 3 days rebuilding my PC – new motherboard, new CPU and memory, new main harddrive, new CD player. Tonight, most of my software has been reinstalled. Time…
Installation Hell
Here is something you are not likely to read in the mountains of amazing reviews of Doom III – a $60 game should not take 2 hours of battle to install. Like legions of other fans, I waited patiently the arrival of a new level of experience in PC games. I even avoided the rush of the first couple of…
Farcried
Although I purchased Far Cry about a week ago, I haven’t played more than an hour of it, and it was not for lack of trying. So far, this game has been a lesson in patience and frustration. First mistake was to install the newly release patch. The game was out for less than a week when the patch was…
Farcrying
After going through two of the most amazing demos I have seen in the long time, I finally got my hands on “Far Cry”. Well… the enthousiasm generate by the demos was short lived. The game turns out to be sluggish, with visual glitches that bring up memories of the first 3D accelerations cards. Once again, this is a game…