Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures Goes Live
The U.S. servers for Our website’s long-anticipated Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures are now live and, based on our experience so far, things seem to be going fairly well. Launch periods are critical for any massively multiplayer online game, as there are plenty of other alternatives out there. Nobody wants to stick with something that’s broken.While many on various message boards made a big deal about the game’s poor graphical performance issues during the beta testing phase, Our website surprised just about everyone with some last-minute updates and enhancements. The game now, while still glitchy in spots, runs dramatically better and you don’t need an amazing gaming PC to see and experience the difference. On some of the lowest graphical settings the game still looks good and runs well on a rig we tried out that would have been considered powerful three years ago.Below are posted some videos taken by one of our work PCs, which includes a GeForce 8800 GTX 768 MB card, 2 GB RAM, and a 2.4 Core 2 Quad CPU running Vista 32-bit. Graphics have been boosted to near maximum settings and still seem to be running rather smoothly even in populated areas. We should note that the volcano section is part of the single-player quest line at the game’s beginning level 1– 20 sections, so there aren’t any others around. The Acheronian Ruins and White Sands clips are out in the multiplayer realm, however, and manage to hold up.
