ErikVKing
Erik the Viking
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join:2008-06-19
Kuwait
| Vanguard issues
Okay so...I have been wanting to play VG for a long time now to chum it up with old EQ buddies, and about a month and a half ago I bought the digital download and went to town.
Well, I went to town starting the download anyhow, but my connection here in Kuwait is so spotty that it took about 3 weeks to download. During that time I purchased the retail version from Amazon.com and about 2 weeks into the download I installed the game via the disks.
I thought this would help speed up my download since I'd get all of the major crap done then download patches and the like after ... I was sadly incorrect. The download time never decreased (I'm assuming that maybe the information on the disks must have already downloaded).
So I finally get done with the download, and in eager anticipation I get back to my room from work and log in, create a toon, get all that fun stuff done with the basic creation and log in! YAY!
Then it crashes on me, not so yay! I kept trying and nothing I could do would help me stay in (turning down graphics, etc.). So I did a test with a site someone linked on my guild forums and it said I didn't have enough memory room... While trying to find room one of the things I did was look at large programs and rarely used ones to uninstall - and found that I had TWO VGs installed! So I uninstalled both, thinking that maybe I had a conflict with the two (digital and retail maybe? that's what I was thinking, but still not sure).
Back to the ole "drawing board" I went. I installed the game via the disks, and went through the painstakingly long download. This time it was fairly smooth (the first time, I kept having spikes where I would be at 40 hours and it would spike to 400 or some other crazy number) so I thought I had it in the bag.
Wrong again! Now when I play I time how long before I get booted. Exactly on the money at two minutes from when I click "play" to the time I get disconnected.
Any ideas on what could be wrong? |
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mazhurg
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Trenton, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
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June 26th, @12:04PM
| said by ErikVKing  :So I did a test with a site someone linked on my guild forums and it said I didn't have enough memory room... Any ideas on what could be wrong? Talking about Disk space, or RAM? If the latter then removing old stuff from your hard drive would not have helped anyway. If low in RAM then you need to add RAM memory on your system. I believe that VG requires 2 GB RAM to be happy. I remember back when that it really did not like the minimum 512 MB.
Hope this help. |
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ErikVKing
Erik the Viking
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Kuwait | Ah sorry ... I meant to say HD space. Everything else was great, even the "recommended" tab that tells you what would be the "ideal" settings and computer specs had me above their passed threshhold. |
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mazhurg
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Trenton, ON | Unsure what to tell you then, other than I was a little further south than you last fall and spring and connectivity sucks.
I would not be surprised if that is the problem in itself.
Anyway, good luck. |
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ErikVKing
Erik the Viking
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join:2008-06-19
Kuwait
| Yeah I think it may be the issue. WoW runs fine (for a while anyhow  ) but I get booted from there a lot too. Sites take a while to load, etc. ...
It's going to be so crazy when I get back to the States and stay connected for more than 20 minutes at a time  . |
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Dissembled
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Indianapolis, IN
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July 1st, @03:48PM
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I quit playing Vanguard to play WoW almost exactly a year ago. That game went down the tubes quickly because of all the bugs, gameplay and stability issues. I have no idea if Sony has fixed them all in the last year, but don't use WoW as a measuring stick on this one.
The game was also an incredible memory hog. Try turning everything down to a minimum. |
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ErikVKing
Erik the Viking
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Kuwait
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Well if I think of it I'll have to do a speed test at the "LAN center" we have here because even though I can't stay connected in my room, I can stay connected there.
A little laggy, shots register a second or so after I hit the button, text takes a bit to go through, etc. but I can stay on! I like the game right now because it's something new, and learning new aspects of things always keeps me going.
Will have to see how it is when I can learn most of the things and actually get out of the newbie areas. I'm trying to pick up all of the professions I want and figure out what all is involved, so it could be a while, hehe. It's a bit frustrating because it's so complicated, but I remember thinking EQ, then WoW were confusing until i got them down, so I'm sure VG will be no different.
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