[Veingloria]

During the first few weeks of retail, I was incredibly frustrated with V:SOH. I had bought an upgraded video card (went to an AGP NVidia 7600 w/512), but that was all I intended to do, and it was still a laggy mess. Then, through no fault at all of Vanguard's of course, my motherboard crapped out.

It took several weeks to overhaul my system and I went ahead and made a few leaps forward in tech. (Finally migrated to a PCI-E video card, for instance.) My system is by no means "tricked out" - I'd say that it is now running pretty standard mid-range gaming hardware - but it is now all "up to date". Between the newer hardware and the work the team has clearly done, V:SOH has been almost glitch-less since I started playing again this weekend. I don't know how much is the result of the dev team really cleaning house over the last several weeks and how much has to do with my upgrades, but... yippee.

My re-starting experience has been nothing like my starting experience. I'm not frustrated, I'm not running into bugged quests (although, admittedly, I'm only four days back), and I'm not running into angry players griping about things every time I go into town!

I hope that SOE does a big marketing push a few months from now. Having taken a break and come back, I can see how quickly things are getting better and can only imagine that people who first experience V:SOH six months from now will be just flat-out awed. (How you feel about the fact that the awe will take some months to deliver is up to you... I'm okay with it, don't really care whether you are or not, that isn't what this post is about.)

- V.

[Aamir Khann]

I did basically the same thing. ( only it took only a day to finish and return for me )

I too am not tricked out and have no real issues either.

What is interesting, is that my old machine the wife plays on and except in REALLY populated areas, she has good fps and plays just fine. The devs SHOULD be comended on the efforts they have made to improve performance.

[PugofStardock]

Nice to see someone having a good run with Vanguard. Admittedly I've run in to very few bugged quests as well. Could I enquire as to where your character is mostly playing?

The reason I ask is: When I got my new top of the line computer, I was playing almost exclusively in Thestra, with some journeying to Kojan (Tsang etc) - Vanguard never crashed. Yes a few weeks of *I never crash*. Then I decided to play around with my character and a new characte in Qalia - and the CTD started to happen - a lot. (Khal is the worst offender). Then I started to build boats - and boats cause me to CTD a lot. Can go a whole day without a CTD in Thestra (provided I don't see a boat). Go to Qalia and I can crash regularly. I think some of the recent patches have worsened things too. My brother's old (A64 and 6800) PC also rarely crashed, until he started going to Qalia a bit.

[Istaira]

I still ctd, and blue screen, but there seems to be a pattern for me and freinds always seems in the same place and area. So they getting there with them.

I am really glad you came back and like it

[Veingloria]

[quote=PugofStardock;230373]Nice to see someone having a good run with Vanguard. Admittedly I've run in to very few bugged quests as well. Could I enquire as to where your character is mostly playing?

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I am playing primarily in Thestra and Kojan, and not at all in Qalia... and in Kojan, only in the wood-elf area.