New patch and units for Shogun 2 Total War

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Yeah.  Definitely feels like it's a low priority issue to CA.  There are a few tech guys that occasionally respond on the official forum, but it's mostly to ask for more DxDiag files and encourage the users to email them with "additional info".  One poster went through everyone's posts and seems to have isolated the issue. 

There appears to be a strong possibility that Radeon 7XXX series cards can only run the post FOTS release of Shogun 2 on PCs with a CPU using socket 1155 config.  Those with 1156, 1366, or 2011 can't get it to run in DX11.  The poster emailed CA with these findings and all they did was forward it on to ATI.  Obviously it's a problem with the FOTS code as the game ran on all socket configs prior to the FOTS release.

Wow.

Great testing there CA.  ::)

Don't worry.  According to some CA flunky on the official forums, while they simply can't roll back to a version where the game, you know, actually ran on AMD HD 7XXX cards, they are "actively looking into" the problem.  What what I can gather, "actively looking into" means reading the thread in the tech support forum once every two or three days to see if a customer has come up with a solution and, if so, clicking the FWD button to send it on to AMD.   

Twats.

[Gusington]

^You're angry. I can smell it.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Well, now that the weather's been heating up and getting humid round these parts, all the trapped fart gasses (why isn't fart lighting an Olympic event?) and ball sweat that was trapped in my office chair has been....wafting.  I washed the chair a few days ago but didn't dry it quickly enough so now things smell like mouldy fart gasses.

Maybe that's what you're smelling?  (that and my urge to stabinate.)

[Gusington]

The chair I'm in is 12+ years old but doesn't smell. How did that happen?

[Sir Slash]

Deep-fry it. It'll smell better then.

[Shelldrake]

Latest patch screwed my graphics again!  >:(

Verifying cache integrity seems to fix the problem, at least temporarily.

[Nefaro]

Is now the time to ask the question:

Does the ease of pushing out new patches via Steam encourage developers to test less (and make their customers do so even more) when they can just upload fixes whenever they feel like it?  Instead of making a big deal out of patch releases, publisher consent, packaging, and monetary/contractual considerations involved with a non-Steam update release that tends to make them test those more?

[eyebiter]

Latest NVIDIA beta drivers supposed to increase performance in Shogun 2.  Results will vary depending on your card.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx

Under recommended/beta select beta.