I just downloaded it and it states that I can't play the game until 1:01pm tomorrow? Why would they release it at 1:01pm? I mean I guess midnight may not make sense, although it makes sense to me, but I would at least like to play it when I wake up tomorrow at like 9am or something...
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Gives them a working hour in the morning before everything goes live.
Release looks 18:01 BST, 17:01 UTC, going by Origin.
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But then why release it at 1:01pm (Eastern) and not like 9am? Then they can work on it from midnight until 9am?
Just running origin itself causes the issue. I tried the beta version and that made it worse, lol
I'm not sure about this, but I give a thumbs up to a "preload." It looks like it'll only take about 10 minutes to download for me, but a lot of people don't have 25Mbps connections. So it's good to give a chance for people to literally jump on at a certain time. I don't understand the 1 p.m. thing, but whatevs. I'm tired of playing on my Windows notebook that can barely run it.
Looking at the 2GB file, it seems more promising (as in, we don't have to wait for any updates to start the game). The PC Version started at 200mb and when you went to open, it would spend a load of time downloading updates.
I'm looking forward to the game. Been waiting ages for it, but with all the issues the PC crowd had I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing!
I got the game working on OSX so far I'm able to put mainly everything on high (I have 2 set on medium).
Where teh game starts to fall apart is when you have lighting/shadow. By just having lighting at the lowest (and having shadows turn off) it looks and runs great.
Prior to this I was playing this on a top end PC with duel GPUs and I'm happy with the results.
Where teh game starts to fall apart is when you have lighting/shadow. By just having lighting at the lowest (and having shadows turn off) it looks and runs great.
Prior to this I was playing this on a top end PC with duel GPUs and I'm happy with the results.
anyone running this on 2011 imac with 2GB 6970m at native 1440P resolution?
Curious as to how far back you have to dial the settings. Also trying to work out whether the problems reported are predominately NVIDIA or ATI as well.
(there is dos equivalent switch in the mac origin game settings that adds the resolution
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Curious as to how far back you have to dial the settings. Also trying to work out whether the problems reported are predominately NVIDIA or ATI as well.
(there is dos equivalent switch in the mac origin game settings that adds the resolution
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I got the game to run at 2560x1440 by adding this to the 'Game Properties" in the Origin client: -r:2560x1440
Hope it helps
maroonracoon (EA Forum user)
Does that really work?? Please say so. Also I am running on late 2012 27in imac with a Nvidia 660m 512mb on full settings and not having issues.
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Oh snap it does work. No more black bars!!!
Mavericks is currently unsupported, per post at https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/17807889/. Maxis are working on the issue and we'll hopefully see a fix sooner rather than later.
thanks. I reinstalled mountain lion much to my dismay :s
once origin get it sorted i'll reinstall mavericks
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just added that to the properties. quick question, when i run the game and go to settings should it say 2560x1440 cos at the moment, it shows a different resolution
thanks. I reinstalled mountain lion much to my dismay :s
once origin get it sorted i'll reinstall mavericks
That's horrible you had to re-install the OS to make a game work. I wouldn't have gone that far.
Well it is an unreleased OS so they really don't have to support it yet. But surprised with how long it has been in development they didn't at least test it.
I appreciate that, but as you said, would have been good for them to test it at least
No it doesn't say it. But just not having the black bars on the side of the screen anymore is better.
i've got most settings on high, shadows and lighting is on medium. it seems fine to me.