Alien vs Predator - Has problems for some nvidia customers. Read all my posts for full story.

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Wed, 02/17/2010 - 12:14
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I just bought avp for pc. The second I hit adjust brightness it reverted to a very dark setting and even when I cranked it all the way up it was still well below the initial setting. I am finding in some forums that people with similar setups (GTX280 and Win7 64bit) are having the same exact issue. I have also read that some of them are having to run in DX 9 to be able to see the game.

Let's make a pro-con list
Pros
- None so far, I have not played the game yet
- Well to be fair the menu was kinda pretty

Cons
- Steam, steam, and steam
- Sega
- **Game is un playable
- Can be played in DX9 (if u are lucky), problem is I have payed so much money to be able to run high end games at a great setting why the hek would I want to play in an older programming language that will make an already not so great looking game even worse
- I feel like I just wasted 54.75 on a game that could have been spent on a far superior full-priced game
- Should not be a 49.99 dollar game even if it does actually work

I know it seems like I am ranting but, everything I am saying is very true (yes Ima be arrogant and say my opinions are right too)

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Wed, 02/17/2010 - 16:18
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Nvidia problems... Go figure.

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Wed, 02/17/2010 - 19:24
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Update.....Reinstalled the game and did not touch the brightness settings and so far they have not gone to the dark side.

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Wed, 02/17/2010 - 19:39
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I did some reading on this and you did the right thing. Don't touch the brightness controls! lol :P

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Wed, 02/17/2010 - 20:26
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So, can you play the game now?

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Thu, 02/18/2010 - 14:57
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whats so bad about steam? i think its pretty good :P

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Fri, 02/19/2010 - 09:34
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i have ordered this so long as i don't touch brightness controls it will work fine on my dx11 5770

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Sun, 02/28/2010 - 09:18
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Yes, I can play the game now. I still cannot adjust the brightness and I am running my monitors native brightness a lil higher than normal. It seems to be a problem exclusive to the 280 users thus far.

New pros cons list
Pros
- Game is fun to play
- Character detail is nifty
- Can be scarey with lights off

Cons
- Still can't adjust brightness
- Environment isn't on par with character quality
- Melee combat is a little broken(especially for aliens) but still fun

All in all worthwhile so far. I still don't think this should be a full priced game (especially when games like Mass Effect 2 were just launched. I can't help but agree with RR in one of his videos saying game developers in general need to reconsider charging $50-60.

Also, if you like steam then you have something I am envious of becuase I have no choice in using it. One of my bigger problems with steam, other than ruining cs(which I won't go into), is offline mode bugs that stop me from playing games on my laptop when there are no internets.

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