pc games and their patches....

[Tyger]

I installed Frontlines: fuel of war the other day and downloaded the patches(4 patches, just over 2gigs) for it about 2 weeks ago. Started applying the first patch and it took about an hour, comes the second patch and it says no its the wrong version of patch 1.xx it needs the retail version or something to that extent, now I cant even play it single player, as soon as I launch the game it says I have the wrong disc in the drive, eh bull shyte.

Well you paid for it already, so now go get the hassle free pirated version to actually make use of it

[Venom]

I installed Frontlines: fuel of war the other day and downloaded the patches(4 patches, just over 2gigs) for it about 2 weeks ago. Started applying the first patch and it took about an hour, comes the second patch and it says no its the wrong version of patch 1.xx it needs the retail version or something to that extent, now I cant even play it single player, as soon as I launch the game it says I have the wrong disc in the drive, eh bull shyte.

That has happen to me so many times , Its the curse of PC but we love it.

[Murph]

THQ recently released a patch for Red Faction Guerilla which is 3.2 gigs and has to be downloaded from a third party site...
The problem most users faced was that it was unplayable on Core 2 Duo machines (even though it's stated as a minimum requirement). The game engine drew it's power directly from the CPU (or something) which made it playable only on Quad or i7...
Then there was a patch for the fact that it crashes during authentication and gives the user a run time error when trying to launch the damn thing.
It was at that point I said fk it - R350 down the drain and THQ can go to hell

[Maplassie]

3.2gig patch

rofl

[Murph]

rofl

I sure as hell wasn't - the only thing rolling on the floor was the DVD

[Lydon]

Fixed for you. Not with like likes of Telcom still floating around.

Have faith The price war has begun.

[Necuno]

pffft. torchlight v 1.15 is out and.... you have to get the game as a whole again

i would advise those who have not get got torchlight and want it to go the steam route. at least then when we have local you wouldn't have to pay for the download each time around 500-550meg.

[Raven Gold]

I've started seeing tha consoles are also getting heavy with the patches, that was supposed to be one of the very few advantages it had over the PC. Now whats the point?

[Blackhand]

Game bugs will get fixed and patched across all platforms.

Platform specific bugs/optimizations will obviously only get patched on the related platforms.