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Worst games EVER

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:52:08 -0500

Just post the name of the worst game you've played.
Mine is - the new Wolfenstein. I don't even know why It was just boring as hell to me.

Adventure Horror Game

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:30:57 -0500

Hello, I love Penumbra and I finished all 3... But I want a game that's like it, for example with flashlights, scary and no guns(I hate horrors with guns D:). Also it will be good a First Person =).

newbie

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:55:56 -0500

I have just started black plague..i need help please...no hints whatsoever?
I would like to at least get out of the first room

Where are the updates ?

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:07:33 -0500

Hello,

after a long stop, I re-installed and thought I should seek updates to my serie of Penumbra games. Unfortunately, although I found many for the windows version, I didn't find any for Linux, but the overture PenumbraOvertureUpgrade-1.0.2553.sh.

Does this mean only windows version did need updates ? Or is this me that just didn't manage to find the other upgrades (in which case I shall suggest to make them more clearly available ;) )

Thanks for the precisions.

Stuck Again, Penumbra - Black plague

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:31:10 -0500

In Machine room, gas mask on. Trying to break open metal door with bar. Tried everything I can think of but still no luck. What is the secret method?? Please Help.

Go open source

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:40:06 -0500

I have a bold proposition: switch to an open-source development model under a non-commercial license, and offer that same software under a commercial license instead. The software I suggest opening is the stuff your games use or that you use to make the games, such as the game engine and the map editor. Doing this will gain you popularity among the open source community and increase the pace of development. By offering the same resources for money under a commercial license, you will be able to monetize the same work twice.

Please think about it.

DRM?

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:50:46 -0500

Hey i dont know if any devs post on this forum but i was wondering if this game will have any drm. This will be the deciding factor in purchasing this game. BTW i loved penumbra and i would really like to play this game.

Blog: "Horror Tip: The Statement of Randolph Carter"

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:03:40 -0500

One of my favorite stories by Lovecraft. It's short a nice introduction!

http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2010...arter.html

Black Plague - Research Facility crash

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:48:33 -0500

Everytime I try to enter the Research Facility (in the Building after you were outside for a bit, Door requires a Key Card) the game crashes.
I use the Card, click on the door, loading screen appears, crash.

EXEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module penumbra.exe at 0023:0051AAD0

Windows 7 x64
E8400
GeForce 9800 GTX
4 GiB RAM
Latest Drivers for everything
Steam Version

Tried to reset all the settings, load an older savegame, verified all files and tried 2 patches which aren't supposed to be installed on the Steam version.

Had the same problem with Overture at the Last Chapter (http://frictionalgames.com/forum/showthr...tid=3317). But a Patch doesn't help this time.

Novint Falcon

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:10:19 -0500

So, this is probably hidden in the dark depths of "I can't read and it's really obvious" but since that's the case, what's the worst to come from posting here?

Is Amnesia going to / likely to / not going to have Falcon support?
I felt it really added a lot to Penumbra, and I don't actually use the thing for much else so I'd love to see it re-surface for the new game.

Or was there just not enough love from the game-buying public to bother with the massive hassle of coding it all?
If that's the case then fair play, but one poor user will be disappointed at the very least.
(Still probably buying it, so don't feel *too* bad, but disappointed nonetheless)

If it is definitely included, then how do we go about pre-ordering the haptic version?
I'd like to do so straight from your stores and get as little money as possible to people who aren't the tiny team of legends who made all of this possible <3

Penumbra Collection - Serial Number

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:46:56 -0500

Thanks for the wonderful game that is Penumbra and I eagerly look forward to Amnesia; I really appreciate that you've developed your games for Linux as well :).

I purchased the Penumbra Collection last year during the £5 sale.

I've recently formatted my PC, I still have the original PenumbraCollection-1.0.sh file but I can't seem to find a record of my serial number anywhere.

I can provide details of my e-mail address, payment card, etc to Frictional Games if they can track down a record of my payment and reissue me my serial number but I couldn't find suitable contact details on the website... any suggestions?

[Amnesia D.D] about graphic cards

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:56:22 -0500

Hi all,

I'd like to know which AGP graphic card Amnesia will support.
I have an ATI Radeon 8500 AGP 4x but I may buy a ATI Radeon X1650 AGP 8x...
What about that ?

[Solved] Cannot Install (Ubuntu Lucid)

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:45:25 -0500

Because the intel drivers in Ubuntu Jaunty and Karmic were terrible. i decided to give Lucid a try, because the drivers are fixed.

This error i got:

Code:

$ ./PenumbraCollection-1.0.sh 

Verifying archive integrity... All good.

Uncompressing nixstaller.........................................................

Collecting info for this system...

Operating system: linux

CPU Arch: x86_64

Warning: No installer for "x86_64" found, defaulting to x86...

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

./startupinstaller.sh: 169: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/lzma-decode: not found

Error: Couldn't find any suitable frontend for your system

BP freezes on start

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:13:44 -0500

AMD ATHLON 2.0GHZ
512 MB RAM
RADEON 9550 256 MB

The game was working perfect. After getting the container at chemical lab. I escaped through corridors and got out the door to left. After a few sec. PC rebooted, now everytime i try to run the game it freezes on start no error, no crash report CPU 100% for minutes, nothing else. here is the hpl.log

Code:

-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------

Creating Engine Modules

--------------------------------------------------------

 Creating graphics module

 Creating system module

 Creating resource module

 Creating input module

 Creating sound module

 Creating physics module

 Creating ai module

 Creating gui module

 Creating haptic module

 Creating scene module

--------------------------------------------------------

Initializing Resources Module

--------------------------------------------------------

 Creating resource managers

 Misc Creation

--------------------------------------------------------

Initializing Graphics Module

--------------------------------------------------------

 Init low level graphics

 Setting video mode: 800 x 600 - 32 bpp

 Init Glee...OK

 Setting up OpenGL

  Max texture image units: 3

  Max texture coord units: 4

  Two sided stencil: 0

  Vertex Buffer Object: 0

  Anisotropic filtering: 0

  Multisampling: 0

  Vertex Program: 0

  Fragment Program: 0

  NV Register Combiners: 0

  NV Register Combiners Stages: 11

  ATI Fragment Shader: 0

 Creating graphic systems

  Creating Renderer2D

Game will not start at all.

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:37:39 -0500

I have Windows 7 x64. As soon as I start the game it goes to a black screen and my computer completely locks up.

My computer specs are well above the requirements, I have the latest drivers for my video card (it's an ATI in case you need to know), and I'm sure I have version 1.1 of the tech demo.

I've tried putting the game into Compatibility mode, disabling desktop composition, and fiddling around with Catalyst A.I. (I read that it might cause a problem so I tried working with it...), and nothing has worked.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Penumbra loads, but screen goes blank.

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:54:41 -0500

Hi guys, I've had penumbra working under Ubuntu fine, however Ubuntu didn't fulfil my needs any more and moved to Arch Linux (32bit).

I got the Penumbra collection installed but when I come to run it, the screen goes blank, I can hear audio but the monitor goes black and Xorg seems to bomb out on something that looks like the horizontal and vertical refresh are out, and I have to hard reboot cos I can't change to a virtual terminal and bring the system down on the command line.

I have included the hp.log file in tar.gz format as stated in the advise I believe. I have also found a similar thread that exhibits similar results: http://frictionalgames.com/forum/showthr...ank+screen

Same symptoms, I don't think the solution is the same though. I am running up to date drivers for my nVidia 6600 card. Am running Arch Linux 32 bit.

I grabbed the relevant sections of /proc/cpuinfo below and I have 2GB of ram and I have had this running perfectly before under Ubuntu on the same hardware, the only thing I can think that might be the issue is my xorg.conf file, which I have also attached in case it is at fault.

Thanks in advance,
Niadh

model name : AMD Phenom™ 8650 Triple-Core Processor
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 2300.062
cache size : 512 KB

Penumbra Series Ending Discussion (spoilers)

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:36:13 -0500

The final room Phillip enters seems to be illusionary, another test the tuurngait had prepared for our protagonist.

Now there is an interesting dichotomy here. Howard went through the same tests and he tried to burn all evidence of the tuurngait as seen in the opening of Overture. This is what the hivemind requests in the end, to be left alone. Howard complies by requesting Phillip to destroy the evidence.

However, once Phillip is presented with the same choices as his father, he instead, betrays the hivemind and lies ordering the receiver of his email to "kill them all".

So my interpretation is in the end Phillip failed the test, not embracing the peaceful offer the tuurngait had offered, and thus killed. What is your interpretation?

Spiders

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:40:37 -0500

According to one of those monster polls there will be Spiders in the game (thanks to the 13 people who voted for them).

So my decision to preorder the game or not depends solely on the answer of this question:
Will those Spiders be removable or replaceable in any way?

You can throw Giant Radioactive Mutant Zombie Double Bush Rats of Mass Destruction with Rocket Launchers or whatever at me but no Spiders.

Tension/Turgor

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:39:16 -0500

There this Russian First Person Adventure game called Tension (Turgor in Russia). It looks cool!

Trailer: (NOTE: NOT SAFE FOR WORK, I THINK I SAW A NUDE WOMAN IN IT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M30G5KMjzk

Anyways, from what I have read about the game, if I´ve understood correctly, you "harvest" colours from trees and then use these colours and draw lines to solve puzzles, please NPCs and defeat bosses... kinda weird!

Has anyone played it? What do you think?

Can't get Overture to start

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:31:06 -0500

Hi all,

I have an Nvidia FX 5600 and that should be more than enough to run Penumbra.. but it has that vertex shader error.

Can anyone help? Thanks :]