Well, Vanguard installed nicely then it went a bit wonky until I fiddled with the settings and now, finally, I can play...Yipppeee!
I headed off to Seradon (sorry, Elf8bliss) and created a little Halfling Druid (No surprise there to those that know me). After a quick session of clobbering a few beasties I thought I'd investigate this new-fangled Diplomacy thingy. I love it!! So, my little druid has put away his walloping stick and is now trying to talk his way out of (or should that be in to?) trouble. That was fun.
Then, for a change of pace, I created a High Elf Pally (again, not a surprise to some
). More fun, more clobbering. I did notice that the High Elf areas didn't seem as 'laggy' graphically as the Halfling area so I bumped up a few settings. The game now looks so much better than my original 'Max Performance' setting but every now and then gives some odd graphical wierdness (like removing the terrain and characters but leaving the names) but nothing that can't be resolved by camping out and logging back in.
In short, I like this game! I know it's still early days so I'm prepared to accept the random crashes and other anomalies, they'll get fixed in time.
Just for a bit of reference, my PC isn't the best around now - an AMD Athlon 2500+ CPU, 1Gb PC3200 RAM, an nVidia GeForce 6600GT AGP card and an old SB Live!
So, if anyone wants to help, or even chat with, a little pie-eating Druid (Gotty) or an Elven Pally (Vila) then I'll be online most evenings (GMT)!
Hope to see you in-game.
Gotty