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Anonymous
12 years ago

Re: Can't see characters; PvZ Garden Warfare PC

This is a form letter.  Sorry about that.  Modern computer games are designed around modern gaming systems.  The PCs cannot play the games if they are ordinary Internet Beaters, especially the average laptop.  Those PCs aren't up to the standards set by the latest consoles.  Each game has a set of "System Requirements" that it is up to the buyer to either understand or to have a reliable adviser to turn to for assistance.  If your machine is substandard, you shouldn't buy the PC version of any game.  

If you didn't take the time to make absolutely certain that you could run the game, the DxDiag reporting function in Windows will tell you what you need to know, or you can copy the report itself to an intermediate site, such as into Pastebin, for the volunteers to here check it for you.  Here is how that works, and the other games do not care that only Titanfall has such a FAQ right now.  It works just fine for all of them.  

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Titanfall/PC-Graphic-performance-issues-in-Titanfall-here-s-how-to-help-us/m-p/2454360#U2454360

Game forums not that different from Answer HQ have existed since electronic gaming was born in the 1970s.  Personally, I've been visiting game forums for about 40 years.  I've seen a lot of people come and go, and have witnessed the failures of the western nations' education systems at first hand in such places.  When I decided I didn't want to accept the disrespect of any further volunteer moderator brickbats, I stopped being a moderator.  I also stopped collecting any series of form letters that I could copy and paste and consider I'd done what was required.  

I decided to stop answering most of the abjectly ignorant questions entirely, and if a question needed answering, without having been bypassed, I made individually typed answers.   Quite often those have been very brief, and when there is any repeated problem, would read very similarly from one to the next.  The past few months, since the release of BF4 and Titanfall, then Hardline and Garden Warfare, I'm now unable to offer an original answer every time, which I regret.    

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    It's using the Intel HD Graphics with old drivers judging by the screenshots.

    https://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx\

    BF4 and Hardline are about the only two just comparisons to this game in all honesty.  I see people suggesting that because they run TF2 or WoW they should be able to run this game, it just isn't the case.  The Frostbite3 engine is a big ol' beast and requires a decent GPU to run it's games.

    If you have a dGPU nVidia card in there too, it isn't using it currently.  If it has one we can work through how to force the game to use it.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    There are games, and there are also-rans.  An also ran PC is only able to run the also-ran low quality (graphics) games, sorry.  An IGP won't cut the mustard.  


        Required: Internet connection required to install and play
        DVD-ROM: N/A
        OS: Windows 7/8 64bit
        Video Card: NVIDIA 8800GT, AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5750
        Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.0 GHz
        Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c
        Compatible Memory: 4GB RAM
        DirectX: 10.0+
        Hard Drive: 15 GB
        Input: Keyboard, Mouse or Dual Analog Gamepad

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