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Well, gosh...that actually worked!

I contacted EA tech support regarding my issues with Battle for Middle Earth yesterday, and received two suggestions. The first was to update my nForce drivers, which unfortunately, I had already done, and didn't work. The second was to crank down my AGP speed from 8x to 4x. I did so, and while it's a bit soon to say all my issues have been resolved, so far the results are quite encouraging. I was able to play through a mission of the game (or at least, I did until I died, but I was able to restart!) and it didn't hang at any point. Which, considering that the farthest I'd managed to get before was roughly five minutes in, is quite a nice turnaround.

Sadly, no response as of yet from MacPlay regarding my NOLF2 problems. Of course, after neither game worked last night (plus Painkiller: BooH), I decided to try out the Halo 2 single player campaign, so that's pretty much what I'm playing now (so far? It's okay...but nothing spectacular. Maybe I've been spoiled by Half-Life 2). But at least I know when I'm done with this I can go back to BFME (or at least it looks that way from my preliminary tests).

Posted by jason at January 18, 2005 10:33 PM | TrackBack | Read more: Games , Geek Culture