EA games vs ATi

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OK, Battlefield Vietnam has been knobbled by EA, so it does not run fully on
the ATi9800Pro.

nVidia on the other hand, have no problem. (I spy a brown envelope full of
cash)

Is this on the edge of legality or what?
 
There is a fix for BF Vietnam, and it does work. I appologise in advance, I
cant find the original posting of the solution but here is my translation.

1) Download and install RADLINKER from www.radlinker.com
2) Use Radlinker to set the following ATI properties for BF-Vietnam: AF 4x
Forced and AA: 2x
3) Sit back play BF1942, and if it moves - shoot it!

CrimsonLiar
 
Andrew said:
Posting dumb allegations like that, yes.
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OK, there are lots of things I can't prove without subpoenaing the
development team.

Especially since the problem can be rectified, just not by EA, the seller of
the game.
 
So the fix is to play bf1942 instead? ;-)

+CrimsonLiar said:
There is a fix for BF Vietnam, and it does work. I appologise in advance, I
cant find the original posting of the solution but here is my translation.

1) Download and install RADLINKER from www.radlinker.com
2) Use Radlinker to set the following ATI properties for BF-Vietnam: AF 4x
Forced and AA: 2x
3) Sit back play BF1942, and if it moves - shoot it!

CrimsonLiar

fully
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Chocolate said:
OK, Battlefield Vietnam has been knobbled by EA, so it does not run fully on
the ATi9800Pro.

nVidia on the other hand, have no problem. (I spy a brown envelope full of
cash)

Is this on the edge of legality or what?
Click to expand...


I have no interest in getting or playing Battlefield Vietnam, but it is
a known fact that nVidia has been courting developers and publishers
with their so-called "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" program. People
would be fools to believe that there wasn't some nice kickback being
paid by nVidia to developers and publishers to slant games so that they
run better on nVidia hardware. Whatever happened to the concept of
hardware like video cards standing on their own merits?

ATI has their own "Get In The Game" thing in answer to nVidia's program,
but if you ask me, both companies should quit resorting to such tactics.
All they are both really doing is dividing the gaming industry and
consumers in general. I for one refuse to be manipulated in this
manner. If I discover that a game does not run properly on my video
card as a result of one company or another giving out money to
publishers and/or developers so that certain games run a lot better on
their video card, I will show my "appreciation" by not buying the game.
Period. I will NOT (repeat NOT) go out and buy a new video card to get
around these sorts of "problems".

If nVidia and ATI continue to manipulate gamers with their respective
policies in this regard, they may find that a lot of us will just go to
the consoles. I'm not at that point right now, but that's not to say I
won't ever be.
 
Yea, even myself who has always thought consoles were of some lower order
than playing games on the pc is considering buying one as it's gotten to be
too much work on the pc.
 
Bit of a stupid argument, how much choice does a game developer have if
their game is published on PS2 or XBOX?
PC games are still far more flexible, and sweetheart deals are called
"business". Companies colluding today will be enemies tomorrow. I doubt any
publisher would be that stupid to knobble a game just for one hardware
manufacturer.
Do you think consoles don't crash - think again...
 
Hmm, i omited to mention that you need to start the game from the installed
shortcut, if you run from the CD inserted pop up menu it wont work

CrimsonLiar
 
I have a Radeon 9500 pro and Battlefield Vietnam runs great on a P4 2.6 1gb
of memory. It could be your computer setup or something like that. Why does
it have to be the card?

Just my 2 cents
Randy
 
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