Roleplaying games

I’ve recently bought the latest Sony’s MMORPG, called Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. I must say that at first glance seems quite similar to many other games like everquest 2, and I’ve been playing it only since a week. The first impression definitely wasn’t positive. But let’s talk in order.

First of all, the graphic, which is awesome. But, as the title of this post suggests, there are LOT OF BUGS

On my Nvidia Geforce 6600, was a total pain to make it work! I had installed the default drivers that were working fine for ALL the games I had played in the last 2 years. But no, on this one, there was a really nasty text bug, explained well by the screenshot below:

In practice the text was like “baking” on the background texture, and if you tried to scroll up/down, it was “painting” everything making all the quest (or other game texts) unreadable… I tried to setup the various options but was useless, I found out that turning the setting UseStencil=False in the Vgclient.ini was solving that bug, but creating another interesting side effect (see below):

everything was invisible!! hard to play even in that other “graphic mode” !

I was very pissed until I found some strange drivers on a site called www.3dguru.com . I was reluctant to download any .exe from relatively unknown sites (the fear of spywares or trojan on internet is justified those days) but I was so desperate that I gave it a try - and it worked!

Yes I could play the game like a normal person - but what a PAIN!!! also, for some reason those drivers don’t make the OpenGL games work properly. So once I’m bored of Vanguard, which I presume within a few months maximum, I’ll probably uninstall them and reinstall the official Nvidia ones…