QW Patch

[[AK]Squidly]

I guess you didn't read the forum posts I linked to?

Hopefully, an uninstall and update through the game itself will solve the issue. It's not like the last two versions of the ATI drivers weren't available during their "testing" of the patch.

In a large enough sample, you'll always find a percentage of people with problems.

And forums are collecting areas for those people. If a game sells a million copies and 1000 people are having issues, 600 of those people will find their way to a forum and it'll seem like a really really huge deal.

Anyway the point Bribo is getting at is that just seems strange that out of all of us who are running games, it's always Hylander with the issue.

I mean hell, I'm running on a Mac for crying out loud.

The next point is that it's fun tweaking Hylander.

[[AK]Nuts]

I installed the patch in-game and now I can't join any server, game crashes. Nice.

Updating ATI drivers now. Crossing fingers

[[AK]Hylander]

I installed the patch in-game and now I can't join any server, game crashes. Nice.

Not possible, it's only Hylander that has this problem. Get off my PC!!!

[[AK]Hylander]

This the latest:

Hi All,

At this point and time it seems from our testing that as long as you update your driver to either the ATi HotFix 7.9 driver or the latest ATi Web Release 7.10 and disable Triple Buffering, you should run without issues.

There is a chance of loss of performance when you rename your executable because this doesn't allow the ATi driver to optimize for ET:QW.

We are currently working on debugging and producing a fix. I will try to keep you all up-to-date with any information that we come up with.

Regards,

Adam

Not sure about this, I'll have to download the latest ATI drivers as I usually use the Catalyst drivers instead. I downloaded the latest Catalyst drivers but had the same issue.

[[AK]Nuts]

7.9 drivers didn't work. Triple Buffering didn't matter.

Going to try 7.10 now.

7.10 failed as well.

Thanks!

[[AK]Hylander]

7.9 drivers didn't work. Triple Buffering didn't matter.

Going to try 7.10 now.

7.10 failed as well.

Thanks!

Let me know if you happen to stumble across a solution, I'll make sure to do the same if I find a fix.

[[AK]Squidly]

The standard disclaimer applies:

"Who are Nuts and Hylander?"

[[AK]Nuts]

I've given up for now and will try again later.

Also, I'm changing everything to Bill. That's me. Me? I'm Bill. Nice to meet you all.

[[AK]Hylander]

OK.. Good news and bad news.

Good:

I was able to get the game to run by updating to the very latest Omega drivers which are based on the 7.10s. Also, go into the OpenGL settings and disable the triple buffer.

Bad:

The game runs like absolute crap so far. I use to get 60 fps, I'm now barely getting 30. I'll do more research on the forums to see if the patch reset anything in settings that is causing the problem. I'm also going to play around with the core thing enably do-hickey.

Oh, and when you start the game up, the UI now takes about 5x as long to start up.



Update... can't seem to gain any FPS. Tried a few tweaks suggested on the forums, but I don't expect the game to be playable for me until they release a fix. But I noticed a few things... the textures seem to be 'blury' more so when moving around and I hate the blurred background when changing maps.

[[AK]Bribo]

Makes me glad I didn't jump on the ATI bandwagon.

[[AK]Gunny Highway]

I have an ATI card in my new pc and its running flawlessly, not sure what is causing their issue. I have an x1950 pro running driver version 8.421.0.0, but then again I always run stock all the way no need to overclock and use the ATI default drivers.

[[AK]Hylander]

I have an ATI card in my new pc and its running flawlessly, not sure what is causing their issue. I have an x1950 pro running driver version 8.421.0.0, but then again I always run stock all the way no need to overclock and use the ATI default drivers.

Overclocking is not an issue for me either. Neither my computer nor video card is overclocked. I don't like to run the stock ATI drivers because they are bloated .net ware. But I'll try them to see what happens.

Splash Damage (ironic considering the patch they released) has already admitted there is a problem:

If you have an ATI card and are crashing to the desktop when you try to join a server or load a map, please do the following:

Disable Triple Buffering in the ATI Control panel.

This should solve the crash problem and allow you to play while we work with ATI to fully resolve the issue.

Unfortunately, the FPS drop - which I have no idea if it's related to this issue or not because alot of nvidia users are complaining about the fps drop as well on the forums - makes the game virtually unplayable for me.

It's basically just a waiting game until they fix it.

[[AK]Squidly]

I am running an ATI x1900 under Windows Vista using stock drivers.

No problems.

[[AK]Hylander]

Update for Nuts...

I did a clean sweep of my drivers, uninstalled everything, deleted all directories, etc. Rebooted. I then installed the latest package from ATI/AMD and installed the full package (Catalyst Control Center and all) and started the game up. Everything is back to normal. My FPS are back up to 60fps or so and graphics look fine.

By default, the triple buffer was disabled.

[[AK]Nuts]

Damn. Just tried it but with no luck. I didn't go as deep with my cleanup as I could have because I've got some overclocking going on. I'll wait till they fix this mess.