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    Angry Don't you just hate it....

    When you get a game that doesn't allow any changes to be made to controls and visuals.

    I say this as I decided to get Da Vinci Code yesterday with knowing that Neverwinter Nights was nearly finished. I know its not a superb top title game but I got it as it is something to think about whilst playing with its puzzles, may last me a little longer.

    Once I started it up I noticed that the control set was the familiar W S A D used in shooters. This is not to my liking as I always do my key binds similar to Unreal using the cursors and then map keys like right control and Num 0 for crouching and jumping etc. Upon further inspection there is no option to actually remap anything at all, not even an option to play using a pad. Then to top it all off I went into the options that deals with visuals etc, the only thing I can actually do with the graphic setting is change the resolution and that's it. It is extremely annoying looking at this from a PC gamers point of view. These two options alone are the first things that most PC gamers will look at, sure I'm not the only one that does this.

    Anyhows I spent around 2 hours this morning plodding through all the config files in the installation. I managed to find the control config pretty quickly and there was everything mapped out, thankfully it was pretty easy to understand. I managed to map the game to my pad and started playing, unfortunately I ran into a few probs once the first reaction type mini game started. Opening a window has never been so difficult ! I just couldn't get the required accuracy with the pad to do it. So then it was back in and remapping yet again to keys I like to use. Once again I ran into probs, the game doesn't like keys mapped to the numpad. So once again in and out of the game continuosly doing the same bit till I manage to get a comfortable set of keys that actually work ingame.

    Thankfully it is working now and I've got through the first level, interesting game I think and should keep me going a week or two.

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    Definately empathise with you there Ferral, truly annoying!

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    I agree.

    Can be annoying if you buy a ported game too.


    Pinnacle Game Profiler is pretty good for mapping keys and such.

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    I can imagine that is annoying, although I have not owned a game that does not allow me to change graphics. Some don't allow you to change keys (as far as i could find anyway). But usually you can change graphics same way but looking deep.

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    Thankfully Da Vinci looks alright, it has projected shadows and the likes set already. It would have been nice to be able to up the textures on the NPC's though and bring some AA AF into it without having to force it in the nvidia control panel.

    I have found the file for the vga settings but havn't looked into changing anything as of yet, may take a look once the kids have gone back to school this morning (wooohooooo !!! ).

    As for the control config I was quite chuffed with myself for persevering with it and managing to change the keyset. In the game it still shows the origional keys for the actions but it is working how I want it to. I was really thankful the config was easy to understand and in plain english, made life much easier changing things. On Goblet of Fire also you could only change the resolution, at least when these 2 games were ported over they looked half decent !

    Going to look into the program XA04 has been good enough to mention for mapping keys. This hasn't been the first console port where I have had trouble. I bought Harry Potter Goblet of Fire for the kids and the mapping on the keys and control pad was pretty awful, however I didn't manage to change anything on it. At least with these 2 games they looked half decent thankfully !

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    Its annoying because its a console port, this is typical of all console ports in fact (*cough* pro evolution *cough* although it does have the ability to map keys)
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    i will agree with Goku on this occasion.

    Also note:
    Its a game made out of a film made out of a book. Thats two stages of devolution there, not often you see that!

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    Talking of devolution Harry Potter fits that also !

    Its not a great game but its not entirely bad, I got it for the puzzle solving mainly as games like Da Vinci tend to last me a bit longer when I'm not playing RPG's.

    Like mentioned this is starting to really get to me with regards to console ports, they don't think about the PC gamer at all at times. As PC gamers we shouldn't have to go into the config and map the keys that way, it should been ingame. Same goes for any graphical adjustments.

    One multiplatform game that genuinely impressed me was Narnia. It looks half decent on my daughters PS2 and I found quite enjoyable to play. With that I had a scooch about looking at PC reviews and most were raving about it. I decided to buy it for the PC and it is graphically better on the PC and I had no control issues at all whilst playing.

    I feel it all comes down to shoddy workmanship at times, not forgetting tight schedules on titles like this as they want to tie it in with the movie release and hype. It is no excuse regardless, product testing should be fully done before release. Poor clipping shouldn't happen if a game has been tested properly. I have walked through edges of rails etc and even got caught on bits of invisible scenery on Da Vinci. Thankfully it hasn't really put me off, something to keep me going a week or two bringing me ever closer to Neverwinter Nights 2.

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