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STO will not break like Neverwinter when bling bling come, they said...NOT
elvenaar
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I don't know how many STO players play or played Neverwinter Cryptic's other flagship game, but that one had it's bling bling update back in the spring and when it came the game became unplayable for about a month and half for anyone w/ a 5 year or older PC. Well after a while of denial even the devs admitted that it was regrettable that that happened and they swore that it would not happen when STO gets it's round of bling bling. Well guess what happened? STO broke for me when bling bling came and support says there is nothing they can do about it, so 4 years of playing STO goes down the drain cuz they had to do this bling bling update.
At least back then the Neverwinter client started up and then timed out on login, but the STO client just up and vanishes when I hit ENGAGE, but they say it's not their fault, it's mine for having an old PC.
I still have some hope left though, as Neverwinter sprung back to life a month and half later, but that hope is just a sliver now, so most likely I will quit this game even though I really enjoy it...
Well that's that, 4 years gone and I won't have it back, oh well thanks for being cryptic as usual dear Cryptic. See ya.
At least back then the Neverwinter client started up and then timed out on login, but the STO client just up and vanishes when I hit ENGAGE, but they say it's not their fault, it's mine for having an old PC.
I still have some hope left though, as Neverwinter sprung back to life a month and half later, but that hope is just a sliver now, so most likely I will quit this game even though I really enjoy it...
Well that's that, 4 years gone and I won't have it back, oh well thanks for being cryptic as usual dear Cryptic. See ya.
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I was having problems with vertigo....all those cliffs and rickety bridges to cross... ugh....while on top of a "mount" didn't help.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -- Benjamin Franklin
More seriously my computer isnt exactly rocking the latest and greatest hardware either, but if a game updates itself outside my ability to run it then guess what, that's life. Even WoW had a graphics update that pushed min system requirements up.
on a different note, have you tried booting it into safe mode and turning the new shiny off? Or trying the options from the launcher? The "bling bling" update has an off button.
Well, you have to remember that this is a huge update for the PC since they literally have to update the game which is on an aging engine. They're working on hashing out a bunch of the bugs that they introduced, such as with Temporal Agents and other characters unable to claim rewards from the store.
At any rate, bye, see ya, don't let the door hit you in the "bling bling" on the way out.
Damn it! Beat to it!
My PC is over 5 yrs old (a HP Pavilion h8-1241 with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550Ti) and STO is working fine at better than average settings. I am running Win10 now but it came w/ Win7.
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
Of course, that would rob you of the drama of creating this whole "LOOK AT ME" thread.. but obviously, you have that part covered.
I can't judge on this case, since I haven't tried shutting it off (no need). It probably is easy.
But yeah, the general issue appears all too often on here. Cryptic introduces a problem (which admittedly happens more often than I'd like), people complain on the forums, other people tell them how to work around that issue (switch maps, log out and in again, switch out your away team and back to who you want, and so on). Then the first people will complain that they shouldn't be required to use such workarounds. Which is fine, they shouldn't be, but do you want your problem solved or not?
Thank God Cyber Monday is happening before too much longer, I finally squirreled some cash away for some upgrades.
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I reinstalled the game, play on medium settings. Graphics look good, with 2.0 or without. Sometimes I have some weird effects. As if someone turned the disco ball on.
Even if I can fix things on my side by adjusting my settings, I think the whole change is a bad move. Graphics were good in my view. As far as the new graphics look better it is foremost a matter of taste.
The game does best when there's lots of happy players pouring money into it. So other people being happy benefits ME.
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When they got reset, I had to fiddle with them and turns out I could run them on one notch from high. I don't get it. Especially since on my old settings I'd get a choppy frame rate in big space battles, which doesn't seem to be the case (though then again, the red alerts are broken, so I can't be sure, but Badlands runs better. Same with Earth Space Dock. It would chug along at maybe 20 fps, but now it's 30 or so and that's with full shadows.
Still no lighting 2.0, but everything looks so much better.
I suspect the OP's issue may be with his OS; as in the current client isn't working well on PCs with XP. Tribble got an update to address the issue, but seriously if this is the OP's issue, he has no one to blame but himself. Cryptic can't be held responsible for these guys still using an ancient OS that everyone has dropped support on years ago and they should be grateful that Cryptic is putting any effort into "fixing" it so it can still run.
It would be good if people would mention what hardware they have to bring about a better understanding of what they are experiencing. If the OP is running STO on some old Intel Celeron processor with 2 GB of RAM and a GTS 250 with 512MB memory, then it may not be so strange that he or she is having these issues.
But let's say he or she is using an Intel i7 980X, 24 GB of RAM and an old GTX 480 with 1.5 GB memory, then it might be more questionable.
Pls tell me how to turn off stuff when the game doesn't even start? Hmm? But at least there is some progress, w/ today's update the loading screen comes in, it just crashes after loading in about halfway.
So to all the know it alls out there, I CAN'T CHANGE SETTINGS UNTIL I LOAD THE BLOODY GAME IN, which it won't do, but hell keep on saying I'm stupid and whatnot, I dont' give a TRIBBLE anymore.
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Good point. Support for XP ended two and a half years ago. If the OP's PC is still running XP it is probably a virus-riddled mess that should be hauled away AS garbage.
Seriously enough already so you're playing this game on a potato and you're mad at the developers because they decided to upgrade the graphics and you can play on your five or six-year-old computer just stop it supports is is nothing they can do for you I have a newsflash for you how about you go out and buy a new freaking computer I mean seriously what is wrong with some people why do you think that if you have a computer that's 5..6...7... and in some cases eight years old that you should be able to play all the modern games or the modern game should work stop already the people make me sick oh and for all you Apple users out there you know what was happening when you bought your Apple computer okay so don't get pissed off because you can't seem to get STO to run correctly