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From: Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 22 May 2011 07:48:57 +0100, JAB <nochance@nohope.com> wrote:

>Not had that problem but from the problems I've had and those that have 
>been reported it seems that they may have released it in a bit of a 
>hurry! My biggest gripe at the moment (I'll leave the non-downloadable 
>DLC out of it) is the regular drops to a black screen and then back 
>again - not overly good from the immersion point of view.
>
>I'm presuming this is a problem with my graphics card but hopefully 
>there'll be a fix this week. I appreciate that there are lots of 
>graphics cards out there (not sure how many different ones/combinations 
>you really have to try though) but is it really this difficult to do 
>just a bit more testing?
>
>erm ... Troll Trouble DLC is now verifying ... ooops, another connection 
>error ... maybe this time ... verifying Ultimate Swordsman's Outfit ... 
>another connection error ... retrying in 10 secs ... 10 ... 9 ... 8 ... 
>7 ... 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... 1 ... 1 ... 1 ... 1 ... oh now 
>it's 10 again. I give in now offline!

Haven't had any drops to black screen and back using nVidia 275.27
beta drivers.  Only real complaint with regard to graphics is the
"grainy" mesh problem mentioned in my longer post in this thread.