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[Krakn3Dfx]

A fire sale on a PC pre-order a week before launch like GMG had isn't always a sign of a poorly ported game, Mad Max is an amazing title on the PC and you could get it for $15-$30 pretty easily on the PC leading up to and after launch.

Having said that, Activision.

 

[LilJoka]

When I tried to start the campaign I got this error message (and a crash):

Presumably, my 16gb ram without a pagefile was not enough to run the game ... So yeah, the game has some issues.

Just because you have a fair amount of ram doesn't mean there is a reason to disable the pagefile, it usually causes more issues with some applications.

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

I think the "DO NOT BUY" title is a little premature. Worst case scenario you get a refund.

 

[Grief.exe]

I'm astonished that anybody remembered that CoD came out on PC. Is this the first time a big AAA release wasn't even the number one seller on steam on its launch day?

It's like trying to sell the French on the American healthcare system or something.

You're not going to be able to sell anyone on the American health care system, though maybe that's the point.

I'd rather quit gaming than play any of those

especially overwatch, god what an awful looking game

Terrible taste fam.

 

[Netherscourge]

Update: Steam did refund my money to my PayPal account! They give you the option of the Steam Wallet or PayPal if you uses that to buy it.

Yay, now I can flip it over to SW: Battlefront!

Maybe next year Black Ops will be playable on PC.

Good luck guys. I hope they fix this stuff for you. Sucks these launches never seem to go smoothly.

 

[Dunkley]

Seems pretty bad to me. I'm not interested in COD but if I were I would wait on my purchase until they fixed some of these issues.

Most people here and in the performance thread have already found ways to fix it, so it seems pretty premature especially considering this seems to be something that's gonna be fixed really soon.

 

[roytheone]

I burned my remaining GMG credit on this game, so hopefully it will run OK on my pc. And if not, eh, the credit was about to expire anyway, so not that big of a loss for me.

 

[opticalmace]

Most people here and in the performance thread have already found ways to fix it, so it seems pretty premature especially considering this seems to be something that's gonna be fixed really soon.

I see. What's the fix for the low FPS menu stuff?

 

[jorkila]

Played it for about 2 hours just fine. Was seeing about 120FPS at 1920x1080 with a GTX970.

Of course I also 100%ed Arkham Knight just fine at release on PC, so maybe I just have a blessed golden PC of the ages.

Basically the same for me but 60fps (limited by 60hz)

Must be lucky I guess.

 

[ISee]

I think the "DO NOT BUY" title is a little premature. Worst case scenario you get a refund.

If you buy on Steam. But very often you'll get the disc version 10-20 bugs cheaper in retail (steam key is of course included, at least in germany). And you can't refund that via steam or in stores. The cheapest option is 38.99 Euros with Nuketown preorder atm. Was thinking about getting this initially, but now I am on hold.

 

[R3TRODYCE]

The MP runs good so I guess it wasn't a total loss.

 

[CrichtonKicks]

It defaulted to 4K first time on load? That could explain menu performance problems for some...

Yes, it happened to me as well. This should seriously be bolded in the OP- there are probably a lot of people playing at 4K who don't realize it.

 

[Dunkley]

I see. What's the fix for the low FPS menu stuff?

Apparently for most people it's just that .ini change.

 

[Saucycarpdog]

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Really? We're going to start shit posting this early?

 

[legacyzero]

Welp dodged that bullet. Beta ran like butt for me anyway, so I was already apprehensive. Still might buy it later though if they fix it. Gotta have those mods.

 

[opticalmace]

Apparently for most people it's just that .ini change.

Thanks for the link. Wow, that's kind of crazy. Wonder how that got past QA.

 

[Dunkley]

Thanks for the link. Wow, that's kind of crazy. Wonder how that got past QA.

Your guesses are as good as mine, but if people are already finding ways around it I do hope it's not too hard to patch on a general basis.

 

[paperspace]

I think the "DO NOT BUY" title is a little premature. Worst case scenario you get a refund.

You can't get a refund everywhere.

 

[Pearson]

Well that sucks for PC gamers - Hope they fix it quick

 

[dr_rus]

Advanced Warfare was broken on PC and they never fixed it.

Went through the whole game with no issues whatsoever half a year ago. How exactly is it "broken"?

 

[MillionStabs]

Apparently for most people it's just that .ini change.

I think that's four quad core CPUs only?

 

[mullet2000]

Just tested it out and it's running great for me. Averaging 110-115 fps on a GTX 970/i5 4690/8GB RAM, everything on high.

On the first load it defaulted to 4K and I had really low FPS menus, but after I fixed that it was fine.

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

You would think that an annually released game like COD would not have big launch day issues by this point.

 

[JacksUsername]

Knock on wood, but so far so good for me. Only played a maybe a half hour of the campaign, but seem to be getting a stable framerate and no menu bugs/crashes yet and I haven't touched the ini file. Playing at 1080p.

For reference:
i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz
GeForce GTX 980
16GB DDR3-1600

I'll be trying it out more this afternoon. One weird thing is that I got a Steam card drop after only 15 minutes of playing. I thought cards didn't drop until after the 2 hour window due to refund availability. Would getting cards make the refund process more difficult?

 

[old manatee]

Went through the whole game with no issues whatsoever half a year ago. How exactly is it "broken"?

Multiplayer.

 

[IMACOMPUTA]

The MP runs good so I guess it wasn't a total loss.

Except they lied about dedicated servers. Again.

 

[dr_rus]

Multiplayer.

This is just part of the game.

 

[SliChillax]

Except they lied about dedicated servers. Again.

That's one of the reasons why I bought the game. Are you sure about that? Haven't jumped into multiplayer yet because I don't have much time at the moment.

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

Except they lied about dedicated servers. Again.

Did they say dedicated servers at launch? No, they didn't? So they didn't lie.

https://community.treyarch.com/comm...apping-tools-coming-to-black-ops-3-pc-in-2016

These features were "promised" for 2016 with an closed alpha in March 2016 being a target.

I use the word "promised" lightly because they never actually made an actual promise for this to happen.

 

[MR ARCADE FOREVER]

I already bought it too late! Add me on Steam please: THEBONDIGTY

 

[wbEMX]

Except they lied about dedicated servers. Again.

I didn't get one host migration in 13 hours and the overall netcode is much, much smoother compared to Advanced Warfare. It feels like Black Ops II. I don't think that this is correct.

 

[KHlover]

Another case that supports not pre-ordering games, especially PC games.

Eh, just get a refund.

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

I didn't get one host migration in 13 hours and the overall netcode is much, much smoother compared to Advanced Warfare. It feels like Black Ops II. I don't think that this is correct.

I think he is talking about dedicated server tools for users for PC but I guess I could be wrong.

 

[Tovarisc]

I didn't get one host migration in 13 hours and the overall netcode is much, much smoother compared to Advanced Warfare. It feels like Black Ops II. I don't think that this is correct.

Game has some serious client sync issues going on tho. Played for 4-5 hours last night and in many games I would experience deaths before even seeing player shooting at me on my screen. Then killcam shows I allegedly was seeing him whole time when it didn't go down like that.

 

[wbEMX]

I think he is talking about dedicated server tools for users for PC but I guess I could be wrong.

Okay, that could be the case. I'm also disappointed by the lack of a ranked server browser, but for now this runs great. Netcode and fps performance overall. Maybe I'm very lucky.

 

[The Jackdog]

no point in trying to talk with someone with that mindset. It will probally be patched fairly soon

i cant blame his attitude at all.

he paid 60 dollars for a product that doesnt work when he got it, i wouldnt want to wait either

 

[IMACOMPUTA]

That's one of the reasons why I bought the game. Are you sure about that? Haven't jumped into multiplayer yet because I don't have much time at the moment.

I played 3 matches online and they all had a guy with 0 ping and many moments of classic *shoot 6 bullets, die, killcam lies and says you never shot*

 

[GTR R35_Supra RZ]

Lol PC.

Console+pop in Blu or digital= smooth sailing..all day every day.

 

[Realyn]

Hyperbole.

Had some problems on the first launch, rebooted and spent about 45-60 minutes on configuring stuff and now it's working flawlessly. How did you people survive buggy releases 15 years ago?

-Performance reports from the PC performance thread indicate that it runs like shit even on decent hardware

Just jeez christ.

 

[Lyte Edge]

The game runs great for me, but I don't have a monster rig and am running it at 1920x1080, 60 FPS, and turned the shadow options down. Also turned the rendering option down to about 80% to ensure that the framerate stays rock solid; at 100% and 90%, it would dip to 55 FPS or so at times, which really isn't bad. So no problems to speak of.

My specs:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80 GHz
RAM 16.0 GB
GeForce GTX 860M

I double-dipped and got this on both PC and PS4. Even with what I've turned down, the PC version still looks better.

 

[IMACOMPUTA]

Hyperbole.

Had some problems on the first launch, rebooted and spent about 45-60 minutes on configuring stuff and now it's working flawlessly. How did you people survive buggy releases 15 years ago?



Just jeez christ.

I think it's a lot of people refusing to dial down settings because this is CoD and they/we paid $700 for our GPUs.

Can we just sticky "Do NOT buy {new AAA Release} on PC - yet" to the top of the forum?

I tell ya hwhat, after batman and this I am probably going to just go ps4 for these AAA multiplats.

 

[mnannola]

Can we just sticky "Do NOT buy {new AAA Release} on PC - yet" to the top of the forum?

 

[Kezen]

Went through the whole game with no issues whatsoever half a year ago. How exactly is it "broken"?

Ran great for me as well, 780 at the time.
I've been replaying this (love the campaign by the way) and it's smooth as butter.

 

[Rezae]

Maybe the similar architecture this gen is a bad thing with developers just taking it for granted and underestimating the amount of work still needed. At least last gen if they were going to do a PC port, they knew they had to put some effort into it.

 

[paperspace]

Lol PC.

Console+pop in Blu or digital= smooth sailing..all day every day.

Come on, stop shitposting.

This is due to the developer, not the platform. If Treyarch made a mistake with the PS4-version, would you say the same thing?

 

[rakkadakka]

Anyone who tried the beta on PC should have seen this coming.

I'm sure they'll fix it but damn that was a hot mess.

 

[bathsalts]

Lol PC.

Console+pop in Blu or digital= smooth sailing..all day every day.

Its okay friend, show us where the computer hurt you.

Hope they get it sorted out quickly, was the first COD Ive been tempted by since mw2 released.

 

[Stitch]

[Overreaction Intensifies]

Just don't use the EXTRA settings & make sure the resolution isn't set to 4K if you have DSR enabled and it should run fine on most rigs ¯\_(&#12484_/¯
Also install the newest drivers.


If that is too complicated for some then maybe they should buy one of these console-thingys.

 

[Manac0r]

Installed and unpacked! Just stuck at work. Hopefully it will run fine with a little calibration if not I guess there is a silver lining here, I finally upgraded to 16gig RAM.

 

[Saucycarpdog]

Lol PC.

Console+pop in Blu or digital= smooth sailing..all day every day.

Plenty of other games work fine on PC. What's Treyarch's excuse?

This shit posting needs to stop.