FAO: Gm's/Mods - Re: Vista Issue

[scorge]

For those interested. Latest news from GOA.

Discussion Thread
Response (CM) 07/26/2007 05:07 PM
Hello,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, we are aware of technical issues with Windows Vista and Dark Age of Camelot. We are working closely with Mythic regarding Vista related bugs and the issues you may be experiencing - this is our number one priority.

All Vista related issues, information and fixes will be posted on our website: Chronicles of Camelot

Thank you once again for your assistance and patience.

Yours sincerely,
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European Dark Age of Camelot Community Manager

Fingers crossed guys

/bow

looks like all those delays for testing where well spent.....

 

[Mephz]

Start looking for the US 1.88 gamedll it should work.

 

[Craft]

looks like all those delays for testing where well spent.....

Because you know so much about multilingual game testing?

 

[Esselinithia]

Craft: Testing a game isn't easy. It isn't easy with single language or multilanguage environment. And I know Mythic had hard time stoping this bug, because:

a.) It was unknown and unexpected at that time
b.) It didn't appear on test servers since the dll in question is called tgame.dll and not game.dll and they had to keep names of these files as is
c.) It probably best considered as a windows bug

Why I say it is a windows bug? Since windows is trying to recognize old version of the game to make it work with vista. Yet due to some poor choices it didn't work, and doesn't check for file versions either. So don't know when to stop using its "fix" and it screws up an otherwise working piece of software (if you avoid this bugous feature in vista you get no bugs)

In case of GOA: There is a KNOWN and IDENTIFIED problem, and they had every reason to expect. And since they don't have a public test server, their test environment can be different and they can use good ways to spot the problems.

They delayed the patch for many weeks for additinal checks and testing, yet they are very slow to fix the problem, even if the way it is solved on Mythic servers are known.