That's simply untrue. There used to be a bewildering array of graphics card manufacturers, each with their own drivers, based often on their own proprietrary chipsets, and the Readme files with games had very long sections on which little bits here and there wouldn't work with such-and-such a combination. The reduction of gaming graphics hardware to Nvidia and ATi GPUs has if anything streamlined and made hardware support easier than it used to be.Penfold153 wrote:Thank you EGOSOFT i need this patch before i updrade my motherboard & video card i am loyal & devoted
the reason you used to be able to buy software and not need a patch is because it was alot simpler wheather its was a game or a OS.
the complex nature of todays hardware & software and there interactions is why not all problems can be found before release if you were to delay untill you had found all the problems the beta testing would take a year or more on its own.
way to long for us gamers & the money men and i will admit the deadlines EGOSOFT had to meet did not help but thats the world we live in and i will say THANK YOU to EGOSOFT because they tried there best, they made mistakes yes but im sure they have learned from them just be patient
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In addition, it's simply not the case that most of the bugs that now require patches are related to varying hardware configurations. In fact, they are exactly the same bugs for every different hardware platform; the bugs are due to unfinished software, nothing else. If you don't believe me, look at the list at the beginning of this thread. There isn't a single example of a hardware-specific bug being fixed there.
As for Egosoft learning from their mistakes, all I can say is that they've been developing software for 16 years, and they still haven't grasped the concept of a deadline. Are they going to learn on this occasion? I doubt it, but we live in hope.
More on topic, nice list of fixes, but I'm disappointed to see the absence of anything relating to the obviously broken UT scripts, which affect most players quite considerably.
I am now eating my humble pie due to my post a few hours before this update. But please in the future could Egosoft at least give a few more post concerning updates, they dont have to give out much information but at least the community wont feel so uneasy about the Developers carefactor for support.
But yea I'm finally going to be able to cap some ships and put them to good use. Hehehe. But yea, the Abyss for the update, I'd rather hear that the patch will be late than hear nothing at all. Keep up the good work.
Can't wait for the patch
