You're absolutely right about the drivers, I have had exactly the same issue in combination with my video card
The recommendation to update the drivers is good if one also has the newest hardware card, where still bugs get fixed by the manufacturers.
Somehow this is the disadvantage of those "generic all-purpose drivers". Updates might help, but not in all cases.
In the past I also used to regularly check for newest drivers, but I have stopped doing this since a few years because I prefer a stable system.
rat_in_car wrote:That means that TM crew is bunch of strange people who don't understand that this is not shareware with lot of fans that worship this game, but commercial product and me, or any other CUSTOMER, don't must be sweet or nice. I just want to get good product free of bugs. That i've paid for.
Its funny you're writing about shareware. With the latest strategy of partially paid beta tests, it looks much like shareware indeed.
True, it is a commercial product, but we have to see that the price is not very high (for one single title).
Also here I'm with you, that the games must give what is paid for, no doubt.
Luckily it is a game only, and not a product that might have safety or health relevant issues which necessite instant fixes or even a recall.
There are still quite many bugs, but they don't all really prevent to play the games.
Some are just annoying a bit, some are at rarely used features (or those features would be used more if they were bug free - bit of henn/egg problem
), some are really bad.
Again it is a question of priority.
I don't say the low price or the insufficient priortiy is a excuse for not fixing bugs.
But the exigence of some users towards the games or the team are sometimes out of bounds.
Now to say the team don't understand their business is only one side view.
They apparently understand it very well from their side, if you look at Hylis message about
ManiaPlanet situation he is very confident about ManiaPlanet and the games.
They just can't make it perfect for everyone, perhaps you and me have to high expectations to it,
but we should not get angry if this bug is not fixed or that feature is not added.
Frustrated, disappointed, sad, yes. But not bad and insolent like some others do
rat_in_car wrote:Guess why I think that? Because once or twice I wrote PM to someone from TM Crew and THEN they answers my post. Otherwise they don't care
This is the bad impression they give, yes, but it is not that they don't care at all.
Their level of care is somehow hidden behind the priority argument.
What is absolutely important for one or two users is most likely not the most important for the majority of users, especially regarding issues.
But in the case of freezes and lags, it is a fact that you are not alone and that many others have them,
and that the right solution needs much more attention and care than Nadeo seems to show.
rat_in_car wrote:(and I'm not surprised - who want to spend 30 minutes every time to check all sections and subsections to find new posts here?).
I'm doing, sometimes much more than 30 minutes
But it is very easy with the links "View unanswered posts • View unread posts • View new posts • View active topics" on top of the forum main page.
The thing is, not every Nadeo developer is reading the forum regularly.
Only Hylis, Aliona, Cerovan, GabrielM and the other community managers are doing it.
Some of the developers like Fix, magnetik, LuckyBoy also do more or less often, but their time is more limited of course.
rat_in_car wrote:If you want to say that they not answers because I am not so nice, then it's even worse.
I did not say this, but you got the intension of what I tried to write indirectly, as more general impression.
Mostly the tone of the message makes it, and the worse the tone is, the less there will be a favorable answer.
This is simply human and not at all specific to Nadeo only.
Some people forget that to be customer does not mean they have all the rights and they can forget about good social behavior.
Users must indeed not be sweet and nice, but preferably just not insolent and swearing all the time.
It is ok to write directly what is annoying, rather as description of situation, not as complain filled with feelings.
Sorry, I don't know the right english words for this. Let's write it like this:
I can understand users who have compassion and put lot of time and effort into the games they like, and that they get angry when they encounter issues.
But this anger should not be turned into offenses and injustified attacks.
If possible constructive or neutral criticism is preferred over desctructive criticism.
The developers team also has a strong compassion about their games.
So if very negative feelings come up from some users, not to respond at all to this is perhaps better than to respond bad as well. To find the right words is often difficult.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you explicitely are "bad all the time", I am pleased to see it is the opposite - that you are discussing cool and fair
Since many things here went a bit off topic, if you prefer, we can restart a new thread which would focus more on the freeze/lag issue again, and let this one be
