Everyone has issues and I dont, are you buying your pcs from retail stores?

my pc i built myself , or my dad did it , i dont remember which one this one is lol, but my specs are

768 ddr pc2100
a pent 4 2.4 ghz
and a geforce 5200 fx overclocked

and I havent had a single problem yet besides with dumb people in groups that dont know how to heal and 90% of the stupid idiots that you come across in game or the dumb crap that happens from uber stupid deaths

but other than that I've had an enjoyable experience so far, level 17 E/R almost 18! and im on a mission to be 20 by tomorrow but work and school get in the way all the time

agreed. I don't have any problems, other than my system being a little slow itself, and I built this bad boy all on my own. Store bought PC's are useless.

Infact, I'd say that they're geared to be faulty so the store can get more money on repairs.

Well, I have a Dell Dimension 8300, 3.4 Pentium 4, GeForce FX 5200, 1012 RAM. Got it from Dell, obviously. The monitor is a 19-inch Samsung flat-panel I got on sale at Circuit City. I haven't had a problem running any game since I got it. Beats me why everyone else seems to have such problems.

Btw, first post, nice to meet you all.

I custom built my computer myself, but I'm still having issues. Buggy software can most definitely be the source of issues.

I wouldn't call this software buggy, because it works fine for me. I'd say however, that it's not yet as widely compatible as it should be.

Thank the lord for Consoles

People who custom build their PC's are techinally smarter then those who just buy from a store. Not everyone in the world has the knowledge of "Ok, if I plug this into here, will it work?" If people knew the answer to questions like that, there would never be a need for prebuilt PC's.

Even buying custom parts and having someone else put it together doesn't mean it will work properly. Sometimes the hardware just doesn't like you.

No technical issued I've seen at all cept for some lockups(read on). One thing I think many people need to do is update their video card drivers. I built my own PC and i run the game almost at full throttle(my video card sux)

My specs
AMD 3200+ 64
1gig Dual Channel pc 3200 RAM
Nvidia 5200 Asylum Edition Overclocked <-(prolly to much lol)(I get short lockups sometimes, over clock about 20% )
All runing on a 1600mhz FSB (eat it intel)
My video card is dated, im opting for an Nvidia 6600GT (seems the best performance to price ratio on the market IMHO)

mine has never had a compatability problem (either of the ones i built)

"Everyone" doesn't have issues. Most of the tens of thousands of players in the game do not. But 85% of the people who do are posting about it on forums, oftentimes multiple times.

I have a nearly 3 year old Dell (as of June 05) and the game runs flawlessly.

512 mb ram (came with the machine)
celeron processor running at 2.6
125 mb nvidia gc (year old)
win xp with all updates patches and whatnot (cept ffor spII, its suicide)

I have no issues at all except occasional lag, and some random choppy spats, but thats to be expected. My machine is also turned on 24/7.

My other machine is a brand new one, but I don't use it for gaming much. If I put this game on that one, I might not be able to see what im doing for the speed :P

I have built my pc myself too and it is running flawless too !

Amd64 3000+, 1gig DDR400 and a 6600 GT..

this is the tech support forum, of course everyone here has an issue that's what the forum is for

Well I run every other game I've tried just fine on my custom built. I was having bad crash issues before the patch and now that those seem to be fixed, I'm having another issue. But this is this company's first game, so I'm not really shocked at all the problems people are having.

I'm running a 3000+ 64 @2700 MHz, 1 GB PC4400, and an overclocked 6600 GT (all water cooled, too) and I have an Err=7 issue with my overclock occasionally, and the can't both connect error... but that may be our network...

I recently tried building 2 computers, and both came with faulty motherboards. Then I bought another motherboard to test the Sempron I was using for the Socket A machine, no response. Personally I'm getting pretty tired of dealing with building them at all.

I don't recommend buying mass-produced computers ever though. Bad juju. However, I'm contemplating just getting a Shuttle, and never installing another motherboard again.

What's really sad about this is that I work in a computer repair shop. Anyone ever find that computer techs can solve everyone else's computer problems, but never their own?

I have a Shuttle, it's my gaming box (literally, the only things installed on it are CoH and GW). I bought it barebones and put everything in myself. Configured it myself. Love it to death. Run's CoH perfectly. Ran Doom 3, HL2 and WoW perfectly when they were all installed. Run's GW perfectly too.... when it's not locking up or rebooting my computer.

This is a problem with the game. It is caused by some change they made in between the second to last BWE and the last one. It obviously doesn't affect everyone, but those of us who are affected by it are pretty pissed off.

I'm at a point where I can't advance any further because I can't stay on long enough to complete a Co-op. Fun.

the first problem i had was video lines appearing on my screen, but a quick update to the latest drivers kinda fixed that :P

let me state that i have a 86 camaro and i didnt know the first thing about cars or camaros in general , and now im working on either finely tuning the camaro or just fixing it up to sell it and needless to say ive learned the ins and outs of the old school f-body style camaros

same with pcs i didnt know nothing and then you experiment or ask questions, but retail pcs are POS , i have a issue with a friends case that was shhipped, thats because ups i think blew it up before it came to my house because the front panel is blown apart ...literally lol

The FX cards are buggy. Just do some 'spring' cleaning and virus scan, defrag, uninstalling useless programs. Things might work out better.

unless ur a computer tech, my fx card is smoking i get like 100 fps anywhere in anything no experience of lag , when i go maxed out on specs for the like directx 9.0c stuff i notice issues but thats because of the fact that um ..its a card from like 3 years ago? COME ON GUYS bAGeZES!

I use a TI 4600, no problems.

I built my own system, and I haven't had any issues with GW but for one error caused by the servers.
AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2GHz)
1GB (2x512) PC3200 DDR RAM (Dual on-die FSB, runs at 800MHz)
GF FX5900XT 128MB (Running well on 71.80, although somebody may recommend different drivers for me)

Actually I was a noob who fell for what they were trying to do, make it look better then what it really was. About four years ago I wanted a computer really badly. I had no experience with PCs, no references, no people to talk to about getting one, that’s the people who fall for these as I call them "scams" That's what Hewlett Packard, Compaq, E-Machines are. They are all crap computers with the cheapest components found installed on them. Unless there the high end ones which you can build for about a grand less then they ask for them. The reason they can jack up the price, is by advertising "MOUSE AND KEYBOARD INCLUDED!" "Stereo 2 piece Polk audio speakers" People are like WOW, its whole computer, little do they know they can buy all of those for about 20$.. (It wasn’t even a optical mouse)

Man I thought I was getting a rocking system..
Intel Celeron 1.1 ghz
128 MB sd ram (PC100 )
Integrated sound and video (Like 4mbs of memory on the vid card)
HP 15' monitor (WOW!!!)
Speakers, mouse, keyboard included!
Cannon S300 printer omg!! wow.
All of those for only $800??? - Which was really $1500 =/

Little did I know, this computer couldn't even handle the game Swat 3...

That's the goal of these prebuilt systems, they advertise to people who don’t know a celeron is a piece of crap, and SD ram sucks, and the minimum a system should have in the first place is 512 megs of ram. Sad sad sad.. This is way off topic I know, but I had to say something (I REALLY HATE HEWLETT PACKARD).

and no, people who get their systems custom built are not technically smarter, they just did the something most, or all of us did - grow out of the noob stage.


It’s called not knowing the difference.

You call it that, I call it becoming techinally smarter.

When your life doesn't revolve around computers, there's nothing "technically dumb" about not knowing about computers.

Edit: And I'm doing to assume that what I bolded was done on purpose.

My computer is custom built. My younger brother's computer is custom built. Identical hardware parts. Aside from software installed, nearly identical. My game runs beautifully, minus the fact that it reboots suddenly, randomly, without warning. Somewhere between logging on and 1.5hours of play time. My brother's computer does not. Playing WoW, my computer runs immensely better than his does. Less lag, better graphical settings, etc. In this game, sometimes I crash every 5 mins, he doesn't ever. By crash, I mean "It reboots my computer". Never before had an issue like this. Software is most certainly not written to par with most released games (ever... since 1992 or so, when online/mass produced non-atari games became big).

I've never had to STOP playing a game, because I was tired of (for the last hour) running around in an instance doing quests... only to crash while carrying back the item to finish the quest. The game is great though. I hate not jumping and being told "You cant walk there... or jump off that... bushes are like concrete walls"... but overall its got some extremely developed ideas. The game just needs to be finished. The fact that the main support site has no mention of the "Reboots my computer" problem, is a joke. In any case, all custom built.

I have extensive (i.e. since I was 2yrs old playing pitfall on an atari, working at an ISP, setting a jr. high up with all their computers, tech support, etc...) experience with computers, and games. This game, just needs some serious debugging. Though, in any case, don't buy prebuilt computers. Its a waste of $$$. On the other hand, it could be faulty memory and unless you spend $$$ replacing everything until it works, you wont really know. Prebuilts you can usually send in and THEY will replace everything until it works. But in any case. Just wanted to rant awhile... now I've had enough of a break to go back to playing.

Oh... and necromancers are a weak joke, devs need to think about their class. Really? only sacrifice 10% of my life and I can do 40dmg? For 5 more energy than an elementalis, and at 10sec more cooldown? Jeeze, thats amazing!

Pathetic

Then you're not playing it right. My Necro is a machine... Dark Pact is a backup attack. But this is hardly the place for that.

I'm in the same boat. I've never had such issues until now. Not going to go into such detail, but it's incredibly frustrating.