Far Cry autoresponder

[Nermal]

Don't you love automatic responses?

Originally Posted by me, writing to Ubisoft

I'm looking for the Mac version of Far Cry. I've noticed that most Ubisoft games are published by Feral, but I can't find any mention of Far Cry on Feral's website. I've also checked Aspyr and MacSoft, but can't find the game there either. So who is the Mac publisher?

Note that even though I know that there's no Mac version, I'm still taking the 'assume there is one' route, hopefully that will make these game companies see that we expect all games, if that makes sense.

Anyway, the reply:

Please ensure you have completed the following steps.
1) Ensure you have the latest patches for your game

2) Turn down the settings that you are running the game at.

3) Carry out a dxdiag:
Check that you meet the requirements for the game by carrying out a dxdiag as detailed below:

1. From Windows, click Start->Run
2. In the Open: box, Type DXDIAG
3. Click the save button to save the file as a text file in your Desktop.
4.Log into the Ubi Soft Database. Using your ubi.com login name, login to our database and add the file as an attachment to your incident.

Compare the information on the back of the box with the information in the dxdiag. Pay special attention to the driver dates for your video card and sound card. Log onto the database and attach the dxdiag file.

4) Carry out any Windows Updates for your system from:

www.microsoft.com


5) Update your videocard drivers:

Please find a link to the nvidia web site:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Please find a link to the ATI web site:

http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html

Please find a link to the S3 web site:
http://www.s3graphics.com/index.html

Please find a link to the SIS web site:
http://www.sis.com/support/

Simply select Graphics drivers, Model Range, and Operating system to download the latest drivers. Please install these and then retry the game.

6) Update your sound card drivers

Please find a link to the Creative web site:
http://uk.europe.creative.com/suppor...rs/welcome.asp

7) Update your motherboard drivers:

Please find a link to the VIA web site for the 4 in 1 drivers:
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2

8) Install the latest patch for your game
You can download any patches that are available for the game from our website www.ubi.com/uk

9) Update the firmware for your DVD/CD drive

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php>

Contact the manufacturer of the drive for details on how to carry this out.

10) Disable any CD/DVD emulation software you might be running

Lovely, isn't it?

[vraxtus]

Wow, that's pretty sweet!

[Veldek]

Damn, and I thought you received a hint that FarCry will be ported when I saw the thread title.

[applekid]

The response is in there some where in some abstract way. And you know it, dammit!

[Nermal]

I think the highlight of their reply is the link to region-free DVD firmware

[cb911]

hah. luckily i've never been replied to with an 'auto-responder' like that. that really sucks.

[Nermal]

They just followed up:

As with most high-end 3D games, there are no planned releases on the Mac format.

I find it interesting that they don't consider UT2004, Doom 3, etc to be high-end.

[Veldek]

Doom 3, BF1942, XIII, CoD, UT2K4 are five high-end 3D games I can think of. When I think of games without a Mac version, I think of Battlefield Vietnam, but I can't think of something else. What else is there? (And don't talk about Half Life 2 or Stalker, these aren't even out on PC.)

[whooleytoo]

Originally Posted by Nermal

I find it interesting that they don't consider UT2004, Doom 3, etc to be high-end.

Although their response is mistaken, you can't blame their attitude. There probably isn't yet a big enough market of Macs fast enough to play this game. I don't know how the iMac's 5200 would cope.

[blogo]

Originally Posted by Veldek

Doom 3, BF1942, XIII, CoD, UT2K4 are five high-end 3D games I can think of. When I think of games without a Mac version, I think of Battlefield Vietnam, but I can't think of something else. What else is there? (And don't talk about Half Life 2 or Stalker, these aren't even out on PC.)

BF1942 was high-end 2 years ago.

[Nermal]

Originally Posted by Nermal

I find it interesting that they don't consider UT2004, Doom 3, etc to be high-end.

After pointing this out to them, they replied with a message implying that Ubisoft don't make those games, therefore they're not high-end