I agree with you but I was talking about analysis and repair. You know, making it easier to fix it for everybody. Helping to get the word to the people with the problem (vid card drivers/engine/software distributor/game developer/etc). Figuring out where a particular piece of rig hardware won't work with the game at all for some reason.

If you've spent time on these boards for a number of games then you know that all sorts of exotic problems crop up. And any piece of info might be the one to lead someone smart to the problem.

I just got the update 1.1.5b and now the game is slow and moves in a jerky fashion. What happened? I've tried fixing it by restarting to clear my RAM, changing the settings, and made sure it was the game and not my save by loading a couple of past saves from when the game was working fine.

Help!

The game does have a way of sucking me back in as well. The hotfix from the other day allowed me to work through the kingdom and end game with my paladin. Finished at level 16 with a lot of quests still open, but at that point I just wanted the 500+ hours to have meant something (in this case, beating the damn game). I'll be honest in saying that I slid the difficulty down on Nyrissa. One reload was enough, and I just wanted to see the damn end game slides already. Now, I have another Eldritch Scion going, and I'm determined not to screw up his build like I did on the first go around. He's going to save a certain someone's soul because after reading about bronze dragons, it seems like doing so would be a very bronze dragon bloodline thing to do. I also have a scaled fist sitting at Oleg's, just in case I get tired of micromanaging my scion for a while. .

I explained to my better half that this game is amazing for about 90% of the time. In that 90%, I think that the game is on par with some of the best games I've ever played. The other 10%, making a computer into a frisbee has crossed my mind more than once, and it is those moments where she looks at me and asks why in the hell I keep playing the damn game (A question I've asked myself more than once). I had a similar experience to this with Temple of Elemental Evil. the Circle of Eight folks saved that game, period, and I view the game VERY fondly because of their works. In comparison to that, Owlcats is CONTINOUSLY stomping out bugs, which, if being objective about it, wouldn't be such a task had the release been less buggy at launch. Alas, they're hella better about fixing their game than Atari was about TOEE, and that, I can at least acknowledge is something I can tip my cap to.

For what it is worth (Nothing), I think the best game I've ever played/beat was the Witcher 3. For years, I would have said that about the Baldur's Gate series, but as far as emotional investment in the story, the finale of Geralt's journey was one for a lifetime. What a fine opus that was.

Hello,

No problem on quests, mine is BSOD 0x1E after 1-2 hrs. of play, consistently.
Just started complaining about it, maybe Paizo will get involved.

Laters,
A.S.
We shouldn't just discourage them, we should Force Choke them.

if you get BSOD's the problem is likely on your side. Loads of people are playing and it's running fine.

Honestly sounds like a memory problem with their machine. Either that or overheating maybe.

Game has never once blue screened on my and I've got some of the jankiest ass shit around.

I'd bet on either memory or some driver that got corrupted and is acting up. And other games would be fine so long as they don't use that very same driver.

I do not know why, but in 20+ years of building computers, only ATI / AMD stuff has caused me trouble. Intel processors and NVidia graphics cards mixed together just do not do that, plus they seem more reliable life-wise. AMD's stuff seems to do well in the console market these days at least, like in the XBox One, PS4, and now Google's Stadia. ATI was "okay" for a while, but AMD just does constant BSOD for me in Windows or Linux, especially since AMD no longer supports Linux in the wild. For whatever reason, Stadia runs exclusively Linux in their Cloud setup, but that stuff remains highly closed-source, just like Microsoft's and Sony's console lines. Granted, I have no idea for Nintendo, but apparently, their Switch supports what OpenGL runs. I ramble on, though.