Mirror’s Edge Physx Lockup issue (fixed)
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 :(.
on February 6th, 2009 at 2:14 said :
Funny. I thought people were more serious about PC games than XBox.. since those guys are fewer in number (correct me if I am wrong).
Guess someone needs to give the guys at EA a lecture on proper documentation. Why not you?!! Want me to join you for the lexture? :P
on February 6th, 2009 at 2:15 said :
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well the problem is I stopped tracking for a while. So I reset the stats, all the stats are ten days old. There were almost 40K visitors in last 2 months.
on May 21st, 2009 at 15:34 said :
I threw the mouse at the lcd(now broken) for the same reason
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on August 17th, 2009 at 1:47 said :
Not sure what you’re talking about. I’ve been running Mirror’s Edge since release and I don’t even have the 1.01 patch installed since I don’t have 8000 series card. Long story short the tutorial clearly says hit SPACE to jump and ALT/SHIFT up down and pretty much every other bound key. You sure you didn’t have a joystick or controller plugged into your PC? Perhaps you need to be more attentive.
BTW it’s handling, not handing (I assume you meant handling because there is not context in your sentence regarding sniper rifles, babies, and physx that handing fits). :)
on November 29th, 2009 at 11:01 said :
You do realise that you had a contoller plugged in right ?
Or at least those options are for the XBOX controller on the game ?
on January 18th, 2010 at 0:25 said :
It took you 5 minutes to learn how to jump? Wow.
on February 18th, 2010 at 12:19 said :
I see this more and more in the IT industry itself, and is rampant with gamers in general – the propensity to blame the game or the game’s developers for the player’s own incompetence with either the controllers, the game system, or the game itself.
I have Mirror’s Edge for PC – and it’s one of the most immersive games I’ve played in a long time… I played for almost 6 hours straight the first day I installed it. I never use the default controls in any game I play – and after I set my control keys the way I like I started the tutorial, and it displayed the correct keys to press for each action as it ran through the tutorial mission.
Another issue of PEBKAC – Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.