Did what? Point out that it’s for the disc version? I don’t considering uninstalling and reinstalling a fix. It’s a work-around, sure, but I was kinda hoping to avoid that.
Yeah, that sounded more short than I intended it. So yeah, I just trashed the install and reinstalled it, but I did notice that the uninstall left the “patch backup” or something to that effect in the folder. You might be able to just drag out those parts.
Fixed it by dragging the apgame.exe file from that backup folder to the AP/binaries folder. Apparently all the patch does is extract and replace the .exe.
jeffd
1644
I got this on sale from Steam. I’m sure it’s been gone over already, but is the hacking minigame even doable? If I match the left one successfully most of the time I can’t even get the thing there before time runs out. Forget the right one, mouse control is straight up broken. HALP!
Don’t try to solve the left side first. Look for letters that are not changing first. Then figure out which set it goes with and match. When you have to use right side (mouse), don’t click immediately, it will always move before you have a chance to click. Wait, correct, then click. That’s how I got through it.
I also had to manually crank down mouse sensitivity to keep it from flitting around when I was trying to enter it. It’s much easier with the 360 controller, if you can swing that.
Kunikos
1647
Good god, between the framerate stutter and terrible mouse controls in the hacking game, I am finding this a little more frustrating that I expected. I really want to like this game, but it is hard right now. Also, menus that need up/down seem way more finnicky with the mousewheel than they should be.
Joe_M
1648
Welcome to AP, where everything except the dialogue is like walking uphill through a blizzard in a pair of shorts and flip flops. The game will fight you every step of the way.
Tim_N
1649
Or perhaps “Welcome to AP for a subset of users”. I am having barely any trouble with it using the pc version with mouse/keyboard. The responsiveness of the hacking minigame is annoying, but that’s a minor issue.
funcroc
1650
added Joe M. to ignore list, but still had to read his quoted comments. it’s as annoying as obsidian’s notorious game bugs.
Don’t mind Joe M. He’s the Alpha Protocol troll that refuses to die.
Amasius
1652
I got AP yesterday from Steam and had problems with the mouse controls but after some ini tweaks found in this thread it runs well enough. Hacking still sucks but the rest of the game is very promising so far and from what I’ve read it only gets better.
Not even close to true. Played through the entire thing with a 360 pad and had a great time. No crashes, no bugs (that I saw), no issues with controls.
This.
Has to be the best $7.50 I’ve ever spent on a game. I’m really liking this game so far. I’m actually starting to get upset knowing a sequel has already been ruled out.
For the hacking minigame you really just need to completely ignore where your mouse cursor is on the screen or its going to distract you. Once you get over that its completely do-able without much frustration. The only problem is when your mouse cursor just so happens to land on the “cancel” button once you get the code lined up.
Also, I got motion sickness from the stuttering framerate at first. Once I made the ini file fix, turned off all the graphics options, and pushed my monitor an extra two feet away from me its all okay now. It doesn’t even look that bad with the graphics set low. It doesn’t make much sense that I would need to do this with a Nvidia GTX275, but it definitely helped make the game tolerable.
I think it must be on a per graphics card basis, or simply has improved a lot with the patch. The game was annoyingly glitchy at times with my 4890 in the past, but now runs pretty smoothly (the most obvious early sign was the crazy stuff that would happen when going down the ladder at the end of mina’s training level). Once I got rid of the motion blur and switched back to the 360 pad, I was back in fighting form in no time.
So who else is OCD about the completion scores on the training levels? I wish it was obvious, but keeping the medical scrubs instead of taking the body armor from the locker is the best route for stealth oriented characters, iirc, since you can’t switch to civilian attire until your first real mission.
I run this with most things maxed on my 8800 GTX with no issues so I don´t get where all this “stutter” issues come from. Alas I believe tweakling the INI is essential for a good experience.
There is a thread on their forums wich contains alot of usefull tweaking suggestions. YOu haev to read all posts though as there is not one page gatehring it all together I think. Especially a Mouse ini tweak was helpfull as it completley removed mouse weirdness in minigames and menus.
Kunikos
1658
At what resolution? 1920x1080 on a GTS 250 here, and it’s smooth until I turn the camera around such that it also renders the main character then it goes to hell (controls included).
More importantly, is there any way to shut off the startup movies/logos? That is always my favorite PC game modification, but it doesn’t seem easily uncovered in the ini file.
Every game I’ve ever wanted to do this with I just renamed the video files to .old and it looks like AP is no different - they are in the \alpha protocol\AP Game\Movies folder.
slate_obsidian
slate_sega
Opening movie
(something like that).
