01-17-2005, 01:16 AM
Here is what bugs me most about the priest nerf-it shows that some rescources were spent doing something other than fixing things about the game which make it so difficult for many of us to play. I am referring not to server crashes or laggy servers, but rather to individual crashes which many of us have referenced in these threads:http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-tech-support&t=569&p=1&tmp=1#post569 and http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...tmp=1#post21810
I have gotten so many of these kinds of crashes since I reinstalled the game a few weeks ago that my error file contained 16.6MB. I am sure my system is not the best nor is it perfectly tuned but it certainly meets the games requirements. (Intell 2800 processor, XPPro with SP2, I gig memory, ASUS P4C800-E mobo, NVIDIA FX 5200 video card). Now it seems to me that I ought to be able to play a retail game out of the box without those kinds of crashes. D2 had the same kind of things only worse if that is possible (C0000005 errors, assertion errors or whatever) and Blizzard North took the same position that Blizzard takes now; namely, it is not our software, it is your hardware. I don't hear those same kinds of problems from players of EQ2. The game may be crap and the servers may lag but individuals don't have these kinds of crashes. I have certainly followed all of the "official suggestions" (the usual pap I remember from D2-make sure all your drivers are up to date, etc) as well as other suggestions such as reinstalling and repatching. Finally, I followed the suggestion of Whit (a Blizzard apologist who posts in that thread) and installed WOW in an additional file which I then renamed. When I get a 131 crash I copy and paste over the data file (sound, texture or whatever). This generally allows me to play a bit longer than if I did not do that. I am fully aware that not every employee works on the same problems at the same time, but when stuff like I described appears to have gotten NO attention, it annoys hell out of me that they are worrying about a few priests "bypassing content" or whether someone's name is appropriate.
I have gotten so many of these kinds of crashes since I reinstalled the game a few weeks ago that my error file contained 16.6MB. I am sure my system is not the best nor is it perfectly tuned but it certainly meets the games requirements. (Intell 2800 processor, XPPro with SP2, I gig memory, ASUS P4C800-E mobo, NVIDIA FX 5200 video card). Now it seems to me that I ought to be able to play a retail game out of the box without those kinds of crashes. D2 had the same kind of things only worse if that is possible (C0000005 errors, assertion errors or whatever) and Blizzard North took the same position that Blizzard takes now; namely, it is not our software, it is your hardware. I don't hear those same kinds of problems from players of EQ2. The game may be crap and the servers may lag but individuals don't have these kinds of crashes. I have certainly followed all of the "official suggestions" (the usual pap I remember from D2-make sure all your drivers are up to date, etc) as well as other suggestions such as reinstalling and repatching. Finally, I followed the suggestion of Whit (a Blizzard apologist who posts in that thread) and installed WOW in an additional file which I then renamed. When I get a 131 crash I copy and paste over the data file (sound, texture or whatever). This generally allows me to play a bit longer than if I did not do that. I am fully aware that not every employee works on the same problems at the same time, but when stuff like I described appears to have gotten NO attention, it annoys hell out of me that they are worrying about a few priests "bypassing content" or whether someone's name is appropriate.