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This Is Not (Letting Me Play) A Game
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Can I just rant that online PC gaming is a total nightmare? I downloaded America's Army (which of course took quite a while) and I can't complete the Weapons Training (stupid rocket launchers!) so I can't play the proper multiplayer, but when I join the "trying it out" version of multiplayer (of which there seem to be only 2 servers, with nobody on) I'm instantly kicked for what seems to be some kind of PunkBuster problem. I say "seems" because of course the message displays for around 0.1 seconds before I'm taken back to the menu screen.
Then I tried downloading F.E.A.R which was again a bit complicated as all the sites offering the game wanted me to have a paid subscription in order to get at the file in question. Eventually I had to install a widget called xFire and get the file that way. It then happily installed until the last moment, whereupon a file fails to install. Of course, I can't see what file, because the installation path is too long to display in the error message box... so that's a write off too.
Then I've finally found KumaWar, which has been working nicely for a while, apart from now my connections to all Team games drop after about 90 seconds, one map has misinstalled itself horribly so instead of any terrain I just see big objects saying "ERROR", my PC no longer seems able to change monitor settings without being restarted, and oh yeah, my computer has stopped being able to play video properly. Including DVDs. Awesome.
And finally, there's Defcon, which is otherwise fantastic, won't let me host my own server. Or join half of the games that are on offer, at random. Sigh... there must be a better way, right?
Labels: games, thisisbroken
- Jo said...
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Sounds like your Graphics card may be a bit b0rked.
Jo
-- http://angelsk.livejournal.com - 11:47 AM
- Guy P said...
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Yeah, System Restore didn't work... bollocks. Weirdly, I seem to be able to play .mov's, but not .wmv's or DVDs.
Aces. - 1:31 PM