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Frontlines: fuels of war
Decided to take a blast from the past and reinstall this game now that my hardware can properly handle it. (it was a beast when first released)
I have to say it installed and ran without trouble for win 7 x64. That was until about halfway through the first map when the stuttering began. Thus began the process of updating the game.
Unlike many newer patches they have apparently decided to make the FOW updates non-inclusive. Meaning you have to download each of them in order, from their super slow server (two of them are nearly a gig) and wait.
...so the waiting began.
First patch downloaded, start installation. The patch takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.
Second patch finishes about this time. It takes nearly 30 minutes to complete.
Third patch is basically the same...
That massive time of waste over with I can now play the game, and have to say it's mostly worth the effort. Considering the age of the game the graphics are still passable, and game-play reminds me constantly of the battlefield games. I don't know what system they expected people to run this on at release though as I don't see any system available at the time running it maxed.
I don't know I just felt like blabbing about this...