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$2 game, $2 performance

Postby stopthekilling77 on Wed May 21, 2008 10:34 pm

picked up a used copy of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay for $2 at a game shop today... installed in a few minutes and now won't play. I get these 2 error screens and i'm not sure...
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is my card seriously not able to use OpenGL?
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Re: $2 game, $2 performance

Postby HONkUS on Wed May 21, 2008 11:14 pm

how about a patch

install the 1.1 patch and it should solve your problems :)
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Re: $2 game, $2 performance

Postby stopthekilling77 on Wed May 21, 2008 11:38 pm

#-o i did a quick google for the site after i installed it, went to the official page and didnt see any patches listed... grrrr. i'll see if it works! thanks!

update: works fine now, thanks man!
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Re: $2 game, $2 performance

Postby KnightRid on Thu May 22, 2008 7:10 am

[quote="stopthekilling77update: works fine now, thanks man![/quote]

WOOHOO for $2 games!!!!!!!!!!!! :partyman: :partyman:

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Those are the kind I like :) Is the game any good at all?
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Re: $2 game, $2 performance

Postby martini161 on Thu May 22, 2008 2:45 pm

i remember i once saw a demo for a game in the clearence games section at target :lol:
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Re: $2 game, $2 performance

Postby vicaphit on Fri May 23, 2008 9:09 am

Buying demos??? that is stupid.
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Re: $2 game, $2 performance

Postby Digerati on Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:36 pm

The game is actually not that bad. I certainly did enjoy playing it a couple of years ago.
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Re: $2 game, $2 performance

Postby vicaphit on Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:20 am

I enjoyed the first part of that game on Xbox... I say the first part because I never got out of the prison.

You could do a whole lot worse for $2.
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Re: $2 game, $2 performance

Postby aircommando13 on Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:43 pm

the only thing is that it costs you more money on gas to drive over and get it and back than the thing is worth lol #-o
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Re: $2 game, $2 performance

Postby stopthekilling77 on Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:07 pm

so far its not bad actually! i actually like the little missions in the prison (havent played much, i've been working a lot)

cant wait for the weekend so i can play this and maybe finish Hl2
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