I just purchased the Rome Gold game and am very disappointed to find that in your quest to create the game you put in a hardware stipulation of a Video card that requires that Pixel Shader be available on the card. As I did some reading it is pretty much "BUY A NEW CARD" I purchased this card only 6 months ago and so I don't think that will happen any time soon.
I can understand that technology moves on, but REALLY !!!!!!
I would think that something like this would be something that should have been discussed BEFORE putting this to market.
And yes I did look to the System Requirements at the store, it showed use with windows 2000/xp/Vista and a video card with 128 Megs etc. Then you state PixelShader2.0
Very Nice !!!!!
Now there may be those persons that are 24/7 gamers etc but I have been looking at comments and help and other lookups from MANY persons who didn't know what this was. INCLUDING ME.
Why is it that developers write this stuff and don't realize that the general public has no clue as to all of the hardware, and more importantly the FIRMWARE etc that for instance a video card can and can't run.
AND its really nice that once that CD is opened up you cannot return the item to the store or to you as well. Thank goodness it wasn't a real expensive game or I would be less cordal than this thread is showing.
How about in the future when you are doing development that you think of the majority of folks that ARE NOT going to purchase $100 plus video cards every time a company writes a new game.
I sure hope somebody gets to see this game play cuz I sure can't
I can understand that technology moves on, but REALLY !!!!!!
I would think that something like this would be something that should have been discussed BEFORE putting this to market.
And yes I did look to the System Requirements at the store, it showed use with windows 2000/xp/Vista and a video card with 128 Megs etc. Then you state PixelShader2.0
Very Nice !!!!!
Now there may be those persons that are 24/7 gamers etc but I have been looking at comments and help and other lookups from MANY persons who didn't know what this was. INCLUDING ME.
Why is it that developers write this stuff and don't realize that the general public has no clue as to all of the hardware, and more importantly the FIRMWARE etc that for instance a video card can and can't run.
AND its really nice that once that CD is opened up you cannot return the item to the store or to you as well. Thank goodness it wasn't a real expensive game or I would be less cordal than this thread is showing.
How about in the future when you are doing development that you think of the majority of folks that ARE NOT going to purchase $100 plus video cards every time a company writes a new game.
I sure hope somebody gets to see this game play cuz I sure can't
