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Mirror’s Edge Physx Lockup issue (fixed)

tHeSiD — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:50:09 +0000

Well, no game seems to come out all ready to play these days. Something has to be done to get it working always. The latest game Mirror’s Edge is no exception. The game seems to lock up after playing for a couple of minutes, usually 5-10 mins. This happens to people with the new nVidia 8000+ cards / all cards which are Physx capable show this symptom. The problem is because Mirror’s Edge’s handing of Physx is like a baby handing a sniper rifle. A lot of people contacted me for a possible fix. Well, there is good news.

The fix is the new patch (Mirrors Edge v1.01) that EA released a couple of days ago which deals with the lockup issue. Download it here. Install and play. If it still locks up, disable Physx and then restart.

Apart from this minor glitch, this game is the most annoying game I have played in a couple of years. Its not due to the gameplay nor the graphics nor the story. At the beginning of the game, there is a tutorial which teaches you how to jump around and die. It took me 5 mins just to figure out how to jump. All credits to the incredible negligence of DICE, the developers of the game. The game tells me to press LB, I being an innocent PC gamer thought it was the Left Button. I frantically kept pressing the LB and all I did was punch in the air. I then realized who the fuck assings LB to jump in an fps and I did the sensible thing, I pressed space and voila I’m in the air. I was overjoyed and approached the next hurdle, slide under a rod. This time though I had to press LT and I was like “what the fuck is LT? left tab?” (btw, since this was an fps I thought the default controls would apply and didn’t look at them or configure them). Back to hit and trial, I tried tab, control and then shift, yay! shift worked.

The next part is what ticked me off. It asked me to press Y, I did. I did again. Again. Again! fucking again!!!. Nothing! I then alt-tab to windows to check if the damn key is dead and no, it was fine. I tried to alt-tab back to the game and gracefully crashed. I restarted, I LBed LTed and then kept pressing the damn Y again and again. I got tired and went to check the control screen only to realize that there is no Y listed at all in the mapped controls. WTH? This is when I realized that Mirror’s Edge was also developed for the console-tards. DICE didn’t bother to change the tutorial. Instead of helping me they managed to piss me off for half an hour. All those were XBOX controls I believe. I then wrote down the controls and started playing game.

Even after all this the controls still confuse me. Disarming an opponent seems to be the worst test for me. I run always. The importance given to PC gamers seems be on the decline. I am disappointed :(.

1st ever photo finish

tHeSiD — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:16:00 +0000

Since my exams finished, I thought of completing NFSCarbon for good, in the process this happened. :)

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tHeSiD — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:57:00 +0000

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