[Haelp! I need 5 minutes of your time]

Completed, i'm afraid that most of my answers were Other - None as i'm not a heavy mobile user, but I assume that is valid considering my advanced age. Anyway good luck.

The only cellphone I ever had was through Virgin, and I found their version of pay as you go extremely expensive, so after a month, I cancelled.  That was my only mobile anything, ever.  I have a roaming portable phone I take out in the yard when I'm at home and doing yard work, washing the car, playing with the dogs, that sort of thing.  Wondering what anyone in a gaming forum thinks is an "Advanced Age"  ? 

 

I started gaming on computers about 40 years ago.  Anyone else got that beat?

[Intel Hd 3000]

Yes, I have intel hd3000 in my laptop and the game runs fine.

It is my belief that you will be in the minority with your lenient acceptance of poor performance and impaired images.

[Option to reduce particles? Please?]

One thing I did encounter quite often in this game is that if I'm on a map/scene with a lot of particle effects (like fog, rain, biawac in the beginning, ...), the framerate drops tremendously. On native resolution (1920x1080) and AA off I run this game around 45-50 fps, but everytime the weather goes to rain for example I can be lucky if my fps stay above 30 fps. The same applies for scenes like the biawac in the beginning and every other "flashy" scene only that it goes down to like 19 fps and thats quite annoying in my opinion.

 

I don't know the exact reason for that, but I guess it has to do with the particles in the game and how they affect my CPU.

 

I'm curious if I'm the only one with this problem and I also wanna ask, if an option to turn down particle effect may solve it?

Are we going on the assumption that such slowdowns are totally independent of the GPUs installed in the machines affected  ?

[Okay it's the 27th, where's our physical goods?]

SHIPPING SOON

Right now, I don't even see anywhere here to have pre-ordered the Boxed Set version.  I greatly dislike digital copies of games,, and thought this game really sounded great, but this sort of unprofessional situation is very discouraging.

[Bard's Tale 4]

http://nichegamer.com/2015/05/bards-tale-4-will-open-its-kickstarter-on-june-2nd/

 

What do you guys think?

Having played it while new, 30 years ago, I still remember it well.  It was difficult as could be; my parties got killed so often starting out, I wondered if I would ever earn a first increase in rank!  But I'd love to try a new version.  I had the one from a few years ago, and never really managed to get into it, however. 

[So still no CDs/Boxes shipped yet?]

No democracy here. And I don't think the backers voted for such delays on physical goods' shipments. The choice was : CDs later with 1.04 patch, or not ?

Given that TWO MONTHS have elapsed, I am probably going to give up and forget about the game because I hate digital-only game distributions. 

 

K.