Nicholas Steel

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=630378225 The first paragraph seems to have really stilted grammar, it's several very short phrases. Surely you could add some comma's in there? The 2 sentences at the start of the second paragraph seem to want to be joined with a comma, but instead it's got a full stop and the second sentence starts with a capitalized And. It's really weird wording too. Heck it feels like both paragraphs could do with the majority of the full stops converted to comma's.

Like for example: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=630373608 You can clearly fit another line of text in there if you got rid of the vignette and reduced the margins, it also in various cases makes the top line or bottom line look really messy with partials of another line visible like the top line of text in the image having partials of a line above it. I know I can resize the window it just seems really inefficiently designed with the vignette. I want to read text dammit, I don't want to have the text in the text box arbitrarily darkened because it's somehow "cool", "neat" or "stylish'. No other game does this as far as I know.

1) Open Control Panel, go to Power Settings and change it to High Performance. 2) Open Nvidia Control panel, Manage 3D Settings, Global Profile, Prefer Maximum Performance.

It's ideal if you started with it, but yeah it's a little wonky when it comes to manual installs. It seems GOG likes to remove support for old patches to games making it often impossible to upgrade to the latest version without downloading a brand new game installer, if you're late to the Update Party. I had this happen with I think Age of Wonders III, the GOG website did not list any method of updating from my current version to the newest version other than downloading a brand new complete game installer, GOG Galaxy also insisted on redownloading the entire game when adding my manual install to it (It recognized the game was installed, but at least 95% of the data needed to be redownloaded). I miss the era of games having their data loosely located in the installation folder and developers using Delta patching too.

So v2.00 save game files are forward compatible with v3.00?

I believe the v2.0 save games are incompatible with v3.00 and were backed up to "C:\Users\username\Saved Games\Pillars of Eternity\2.0 Save Games Backup". I assume you can revert to v2.00 via the Beta tab or... not? Huh, I guess you can't revert to v2.00 because it doesn't exist on the beta tab which makes me wonder why they even bothered to let you keep your v2.00 save game files.

Why does the game use "C:\Users\Paul\Saved Games" instead of the "SavedGames" folder within My Documents? The latter is significantly more popular lol. In fact this game is the first to use that Saved Games location in I think my entire history of using Windows Vista and newer O/S's.

Where does the game store its configuration data? I can't find any paradox, obsidian or pillars of eternity folders that contain any files in AppData\Local, \Roaming, \LocalLow. My Documents, Save Games folders. I have opened the game, changed a setting and saved the changes. Edit: Ah, it uses the 90's method of using the Registry! I would've thought this practice was stamped out considering how unintuitive it is to edit the registry and how all the layman are always warned not to touch the registry etc.

New update today... what changed? Is it the final release?

Considering the number of things in the changelog and the number of posts being replied to with a response that the reported issue is fixed... there's still a **** ton of stuff missing from that changelog unless a lot of the "fixed" issues are in actuality, pending fixes.

I figured it would scale relevant to your party levels (Lowest level party member), quest progression or something...

Why is there an ancient pinned topic here and no pinned topic for v3.0 patch notes/news?

These patch notes seem pretty sparse/don't meet my expectation of the amount of things changed. lots of bug fixes seem to be missing! Edit: The list is getting better...

For those suffering a lack of Cloak Physics, are you running Windows 10 x64, or Windows 10 Insider Preview?

Here I am thinking this isn't boss music at all! Only to then realize 4 minutes later you forgot to ****ing use a time code in the URL and that the video contains multiple songs.

I'm not terribly familiar with integrated graphics as I've never owned a laptop (Though my dad is using the integrated graphics on his desktop, he doesn't play games). The i7 basically offers Hyper Threading, other than that the i7 and i5 product range are very similar (At least for Desktop components, laptop components might feature different integrated video chips). Someone else would need to chime in to properly help you. I would probably go for an i5 with a dedicated video card (Like a Geforce 960m or better, or equivalent AMD card) instead of an i7 with integrated graphics.

What i7 CPU and what i5 CPU? Do you mean a recent laptop like a 2015 or even a 2016 model laptop?

There is a good potential for this bug to be responsible for what you are all experiencing: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/83312-known-issue-missing-items-and-companions/

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/72439-must-read-how-to-report-an-issue/ Output Log file is the most likely log file to be of help in debugging the issue.

1) Are you playing the game at your monitors native resolution (You should be). 2) Font should look best at 100% scaling. 2) If you have a Geforce Video Card the Nvidia Control Panel has a setting that lets the GPU handle upscaling of lower display resolutions instead of your computer display, if you're not running the game at your monitors native resolution you can try toggling this option to see if there is an improvement in visual fidelity.

Which would be fine, if MSAA and variations of anti aliasing weren't mentioned in an enormous array of games from 2004 onwards by their actual abbreviated name. MSAA, FXAA, MLAA, SMAA, SSAA etc. terms are seen in tens of thousands of games, their extremely common encounters in PC video game. I'll admit, SMAA and MLAA are the least common of the lot to a large degree. That doesn't mean the other terms should be obscured, you're obscuring them for no reason other than to confuse people in to not knowing why a setting causes huge performance losses and barely has a perceivable effect (unless you're already aware of aliasing). You're deceiving people in to thinking the setting has a grander effect on quality than what it actually does, which leads to people needlessly putting up with low FPS because they don't want to sacrifice what is likely perceived to be a setting that has a large effect on the visual quality (shadow resolution, # simultaneous light sources, texture resolution, particle density, view distance etc. can easily be associated with a slider that has a generic "Quality" name attached to it).

I still don't know why that Slider is called "Quality" instead of "MSAA" or "Anti-Aliasing", unless it does more than control anti-aliasing and if it does do more than it does a poor job anyways at explaining what the slider controls.

He could be playing at a resolution where the HUD and text has to either be upscaled or downscaled and the process might be blurring the font.

If you haven't yet, you should do another memtestx86 after installing the new RAM to ensure it is fine.

Strange, but cool that you figured it out.