Ambrosius 1 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 hi got directed here when I was looking for sacred 2 info as I bought it recently so me and my friend could play through it together,glad I ran into this site as im fairly new to pc gaming and am always looking for a good comunity to join and enjoy and looks like u have a huge database of knowledge and patches on here made by some very skillful members (thanks for taking the time to fix enhance games and release the downloads for everyone to enjoy),I also play guild wars 2 (havent for awhile but im going to start getting back into it! are there any patches I should look at downloading for sacred 2? looking forward to chatting to you all and to enjoy this forum you bunch of skurvy sea dwellers!!! 1 Link to comment
Thorin Oakshield 260 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Hi and welcome from another new member. There are 2 lines of patches out. One for the international / UK release, one for the US release. It's obvious which one you need, looking at your location. And if you have the add-on "Ice & Blood " or not. There is one piece of advice I can give you about installing the game. A lot of users have had problems when installing the game at a Win-7 machine. To avoid that, install the game, install the patches up to the last patch, install the add-on - if you have it - after that and update the game to patch 2.65.2. DON'T install the PhysX package, as it often makes the game bloody laggy. Unless you run your PC with about 16GB RAM and a 8GM Gfx-card. When that's done, launch the game and do the registering. After that the game should play without problems. But in case it doesn't, we've got lots of techies here to help you out. Thorin 1 Link to comment
Ambrosius 1 Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 I have Sacred 2 gold edition which includes - Fallen Angel as well as the add-on Sacred 2 - Ice & Blood registering? is the comunity patch worth downloading and installing? thankyou for the response Link to comment
essjayehm 58 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Absolutely! There are many 'fixes' as well as opening up content that was left out of the original release (for whatever reason...). Welcome to the community, if you need anything, just ask! (Hint: poutine buffet is located in the Key Largo Bar area ) 1 Link to comment
lujate 578 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Welcome aboard! Yes, the CM patch is a must-have. 1 Link to comment
Stormwing 40 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Welcome aboard, Abmbrosius! Echoing the other membs, do get the CM-patch. All the goodies, and really no hassle getting it to work. Not to mention, should ease up some possible instability issues, if any. 1 Link to comment
Ambrosius 1 Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 thankyou for the warm welcome. I have downloaded the cm patch and installed it and its working fine. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 hi got directed here when I was looking for sacred 2 info as I bought it recently so me and my friend could play through it together,glad I ran into this site as im fairly new to pc gaming and am always looking for a good community to join and enjoy and looks like u have a huge database of knowledge and patches on here made by some very skillful members (thanks for taking the time to fix enhance games and release the downloads for everyone to enjoy),I also play guild wars 2 (haven't for awhile but im going to start getting back into it! are there any patches I should look at downloading for sacred 2? looking forward to chatting to you all and to enjoy this forum you bunch of skurvy sea dwellers!!! Ahoy Ye Matey! Glad you found us for Sacred, Ambrosius, and cool that you play Guild Wars 2 as we have members in game playing that as well...you could moonlight on one or the other with us ^^ Welcome to DarkMatters! gogo p.s. On an cool note, awesome how this pirate skin is so catchy Link to comment
Ysne58 236 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) Did you get it on Steam? If so, it should have everything already in it, except for the community patch. Edited January 30, 2013 by Ysne58 1 Link to comment
Etherian 76 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 All aboard! Enjoy the CM Patch. I cannot speak for anyone else. But, I am still currently playing LAN games. Almost nightly after work and husband/father duties. I remain, Etherian 1 Link to comment
wolfie2kX 528 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Hi and welcome from another new member. There are 2 lines of patches out. One for the international / UK release, one for the US release. It's obvious which one you need, looking at your location. And if you have the add-on "Ice & Blood " or not. There is one piece of advice I can give you about installing the game. A lot of users have had problems when installing the game at a Win-7 machine. To avoid that, install the game, install the patches up to the last patch, install the add-on - if you have it - after that and update the game to patch 2.65.2. DON'T install the PhysX package, as it often makes the game bloody laggy. Unless you run your PC with about 16GB RAM and a 8GM Gfx-card. When that's done, launch the game and do the registering. After that the game should play without problems. But in case it doesn't, we've got lots of techies here to help you out. Thorin EGAD! You don't need 16 GB of RAM with an equally overpowered video card to play Sacred 2 with PhysX! You DO need a decent video card tho - Most modern Nvidia based cards should suffice. Since most onboard video chipsets are long in the tooth, they lack the horsepower a more modern discrete video card has. My system is an Athlon II 5200+ with 4 GB of RAM in dual channel mode and with my Nvidia GT 220 based video card, I got really fluid graphics when playing the game. And all of that is FAR from state of the art hardware. That said, having a good video card - preferably one with an Nvidia chipset that does PhysX natively makes ALL the difference. Nvidia is, after all, the people who bought the company that produced PhysX and incorporated the technology into their hardware. When my GT220 died last year, I tried playing with the onboard video - and quite frankly, with only 1/8th of the video memory (128 KB vs 1 GB), the ATI 2100 chipset (older than the hills) couldn't pull the load very well. The graphics with that chipset are indeed choppy. Btw... PhysX installs itself as part of one of the patches (2.34, IIRC -OR- it installs as part of the mega roll up patch from 2.12 to 2.40). 1 Link to comment
Thorin Oakshield 260 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Wolfie, that was meant as sarcasm. Well, most of it, actually; since there are still people out there using a WinXP computer - you know, 512 MB RAM, 256MB GFX-card - asking why the game runs so badly at their computer. Fact is: Sacred 2 runs better without the PhysX package as it does with it. Reason why I mentioned it's a good idea not to install that package. But....If not mistaken the PhysX package was delivered to the CE-version of Sacred 2 only. It could be added to I&B later and thus is also a part of the Gold version of the game. If that's true, there is no other choice but to install it. I guess we just have to wait for Ambrosius to report back in, in case he runs into problems. Thorin Link to comment
wolfie2kX 528 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Maybe so - that would tend to make some sense given there's fewer calculations that need to be made without the PhysX package installed. That said, that was the point of getting an Nvidia card that has PhysX built in. The card acts as a co-processor and takes the load off of the CPU. Btw... The PhysX package was delivered with the 2.31 to 2.34 patch - the really BIG one that had the file check built into it. It's what made that patch as BIG (800 MB) as it was. This is/was true of both the US (CDV) and UK (DS) releases. It was also included in the mega roll up patch that took you from 2.12 to 2.40 (1 GB). And BTW.. He has checked in (yesterday) and said he got the CM Patch and everything is working fine... Link to comment
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