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ok, subtitles isnt bugged. its just badly implemented. the subtitles toggle only effects the pre-rendered, poorly encoded, cutscenes in the game. better design would also allow for switching off companion comment text and even the ability to switch off text in interactive cutscenes.

cant try at the moment, but it did cross my mind last night in bed that the subtitle toggle actually only works on the pre-rendered cutscenes. has anyone noticed if speech in the pre-rendered (yellowish coloured) cutscenes have subtitles when someone talks in them with subtitles on/off.

thats not the right way to do coop. i agree. even though i never play coop in any game, i know how its supposed to work. and how it can work well. borderlands does it very well. i see no reason beyond coders ability why both host and participants are not saved. cant be a design decision surely? i mean, its wrong if it is.

i guess ill keep going with anjali as ive been doing. what exactly is retribution? (ive got a weapon that adds +12) but i dont know what it does. lol ?

not as bad as toshiba. toshiba block official ati drivers from working on all of their laptops. and toshiba are even slower to update then dell. so without hacked drivers you couldnt even run 11.5 on a tosh lappy. however you have a dell and those arent blocked (if they were you wouldnt have even been able to install them) so i highly doubt its because the drivers are incompatible with your chipset. just might be incompatible with some games. anyway, you could use drivercleaner to get rid of all previous ati installs and start again with a fresh set of drivers downloaded from ATI's own website (dont use windows to update that could be the reason why it aint working right) also using the installer itself gives an option to uninstall previous drivers. try that and reboot after uninstalling - then install downloaded 11.5 drivers from ati website. i thik youve got windows 7 64bit? (latest listed for me on there is 11.6) http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/wind...ob_win7-64.aspx you want to go to the individual downloads tab and download the 80meg catalyst control center.

those 2 i can understand. agility for a ranged user like katarina and reinhart is a mage so 'will' is appropriate aswell. what about anjali? shes sort of a mage and warrior. at the moment im focusing on just armour and attack with her , and adding large 'will' gain items when i have them. what makes it most confusing really for me is that a lot of items i get, give lots of stat increases in small amounts. so for instance, attack and retribution might got down 3 points, but stamina and agility go up 3. i aint got a clue at that point if its better or not.

no, the patch didnt fix the subtitles at all. how hard can it be to make sure a toggle button works? not very i would imagine.

Stop opening new topics(I answered your topic in this). oh of course ill stop, i didnt realise you were a moderator... oh wait.

achievements are not working for me either on the pc version (retail with limited edition dlc, activated on steam) im a long way past gunderic manor (since starting play this morning) and so far ive not got a single achievement.

As hes a warrior im sticking with +attack and +armour. but hes not exactly fairing well. should i be concentrating on agility or something else? also what does anjali and the others really specialise in? (i would assume will for someone like anjali or the other mage character)

to be perfectly honest their own forums (here) should be the ones they read the most. shouldnt really have to post on steam about it. thats like telling someone to post on gamefaqs hoping to get a reply. :/

what i would do in your place cynic is to turn off everything in the game. set to 640x480 res. turn off vsync turn off aa and af turn off full screen mode aswell. play in window. see if that works, and then increase the resolution slowly until it gets choppy. once it gets choppy, go back down 1 resolution setting and then start turning up shader quality etc. if the game is still choppy at 64x480 with everything off or low, in a window then the game just doesnt like your mobility with the 11.6 drivers. you might need to come back down to 11.4 or lower and try. or youve got something else nasty on your system. like daemon tools running or something.

im referring to the pc version ill check this afternoon if theyve fixed the subtitles for pc at least. if they have then they are at least aware of the problem. if they havent then it begs the question why they fix achievements and not something as simple as a subtitle toggle.

-one thing to try before others come up with more technical things is to go into the steam apps folder and copy the dungeon siege 3 folder somewhere safe (copy it to your desktop for instance) -then delete the game from steam using the normal option from the right-click tool bar in steam. -then move the folder back, that you moved somewhere safe earlier, into the steam apps folder. -then install the game from steam again. should go through quite quickly because all the files are on the disk, in the correct place, already. and it might help it pick up what file is damaged.

Thanks for the reply. I've attached a dxdiag file. I'm not running any heavy stuff while playing the game at all. Perhaps the heaviest thing that's running is my Anti Virus, which is McAfee. one thing to try - try turning off mcafee completely. not just using a pause until i say so command, or whatever mcafee uses for the same thing. i mean exit out of the program completely and then see if any mcafee processes are still running and force quit them. edit - also, what is E: on your system? it lists it as a cd drive, but you cant have 2 dvd/cd drives in a laptop. is it a daemon tools virtual drive or something?

-what sort of background tasks have you got running? -give us a dxdiag so the devs can see whats what. -at the extreme you can get programs to list ever single process thats running on your system. (theres usually about 50 or so in task manager when you look) something is causing it because the game doesnt crash with 11.6 on my 4890, nor does it on my new 275.33 gtx 560ti.

^^ correct. set anti-aliasing in your, i assume, catalyst control centre to 'application controlled'.

i dont hold out much hope. the developers silence is ignorant tbh. all they have to do is say 'we are aware of this issue and it will be patched in the future' that takes about 10 seconds to type. some reassurance that they are even aware of an issue, or that its not a problem our end rather than the game.

most action rpgs have this form of saving. if it isnt a checkpoint its getting dumped back to the nearest town when you save/quit. torchlight is an exception but there are few others that save your exact spot in the game world when you quit. nothing to do with consoles at all, diablo 2 wasnt a console game but that kicks you back to town when you save forcing you to run all the way back to where you were. there are also lots of rpgs on consoles that allow you to save anywhere. this leads to the conclusion that its a design decision rather than some spiteful console port decision.

have you tried lowering all the graphics options down to the lowest settings? also what is a asus rampage III formula? failing that youll have to post a dxdiag for the devs to look at. a list of running programs might help aswell. things like kaspersky internet security can cause problems sometimes.

275.33 are the latest nvidia drivers, are those the ones youve got installed?

im getting a sense of deja vu here. didnt you post about this the other day and then said you solved it by upgrading your drivers to 11.5? well, 11.6 is out now. possibly try them?

this bug is also present on the PC version of the game. the toggle does nothing. guiscard's random comments as you travel on pilgrims road still appear above his head, and everything that is said in cutscenes is written at the bottom of the screen. very annoying. i hate subtitles. i hate random text appearing distracting me and obscuring the visuals.

steam preload is available now, and by some accounts you can actually play the game right away once its finished downloading aswell. (thats for europe. NA have to wait some more days i believe)

those specs are very low for a lot of modern games, but obviously not this one.