dark messiah... Buggiest game ever?

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I had the deluxe version of H&D and it worked a charm for me, mind you they did get it fixed and working great. Dark Messiah is the only game that I have ever had this much trouble with. I've had strange probs with some of the older Ubi games like desktop colour depth etc but thats been it really.

2 patches later and Dark Messiah still isn't fixed. I literally ressurected this thread with some info that worked for me and wanted to share with other players in the hope of helping.

Mind you, been playing this morning and chapter 9 keeps locking up. Literally play for 10 mins then it locks up So close to the end of the game now and it is giving me grief yet again. I've just managed to purge my soul of Xana so I can use the holy sword of the Dragonclaw, got outside and killed the undead in the graveyard and it locked up. So damned annoying. Arcane know of all the trouble people are having with this but are still yet to come up with a patch to fix the constant crashing.

I was one of the lucky users that never experienced the infamous sound loop on HL2, lo and behold though I get it frequently on Dark Messiah which usually leads to a crash or the game freezing for a few mins while it gets its head round what it is actually supposed to be doing.

I do like the game and feel that it would be a great experience start to finish (forget the RPG side of things as its virtually not there) if it was stable. As a first person fantasy adventure its great, granted it is not as good as quite a few of the other FPS games out there on the market today. But being a fantasy themed game it is decent enough until the expansion for Oblivion hits the shelves.

By the look of it I will have managed to persevere long enough to have actually completed it before a working patch is released. I need to get it uninstalled as it takes up over 7Gb of hard disk space and want to install a few other games!

[fathazza]

cant believe that you are still playing it...

the crashes pee'ed me off so much i gave up on it, and i was probably only 2 hours into the game....

Might reinstall at some point if i hear that most of the glitches are fixed because i did quite enjoy it when it was working...

And ive upgraded my computer in the mean time so that might make a tad of a difference i guess...

[MadduckUK]

Nothing beats Hidden & Dangerous for buggiest game ever.

oh thats a blast from the past! how much potential did that have if only it wasnt mostly unplayable

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Yeah a lot of the glitches have been fixed but it still crashes frequently. You also still have to have the gfx setting on medium to stop it crashing whilst loading. Even that is unstable though and it still jumps out to the desktop occasionally.

Solution I gave worked a charm on chapter 8 but after I killed the undead cyclops on level 9 it started again with the loading crash I have just mentioned and now it is around every 10 mins. Just getting so pig sick of it now as there will only be an hour or so play left in it but it won't let me play

[node]

I know people HATE these posts, but I played it through after the first patch and didn't hit any issues. Great game too, the story was trash but the combat was thrilling. Slaying a room of five orcs one by one in butcherous swift succession, some of them using stealth, with twin daggers without taking a single hit is one of my fondest gaming memories.

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I finally managed to get through it last week. Must admit I really enjoyed it. I had some malware on my machine (my bad hadn't done a system scan in a while with ad aware etc) which was contributing towards the crashing !

Ending was pretty good I must admit. I saved just before getting the skull and watched 2 of the endings. I watched the other 2 online. Basically there is a good and bad with variations for 2 key decisions you make during the game, doesn't really change the outcome that much. Just hope that they do something else with it in the form of an expansion or something, enough to finish it off.