Sein_Schatten

As I said, "good chance it'll be caused by hardware" does not mean "100% chance it'll be caused by hardware".

hu, running in circles.
it is my understanding only certain bugs like graphic glitches or so are caused by hardware. bugs like "person x is invincible after you do sidequest y in a certain way" are independed of hardware. that only a certain amount of people may encounter that error has different reasons. mainly their playing style and outcome and order of all the situation the game throws at you.

What I actually said was that there's a "good chance" any given bug will be caused by hardware incompatabilities, which is far from the same thing.

ack, the third edit.

and i said i dont understand how that is possible. its not that the program is altered by the hardware. there are hardware issues, thats undiscussable.

game stopping bugs like
1. vampire bloodline crashes when playing a soundfile. (do a search in gamebanshee forum for zhao crash. [i didnt alter any of the sound files!])
2. reloading several times to reset the area to open the shit door in the kill xao quest.
3. countless bugs in arcanum.
4. diablo2.

all the bugs are plain software bugs and some of them are showstopper. so with good testing they are ought to show up. and that has nothing to do with vast variation in hardware.


but maybe i missunderstood your post.     

Care to explain how "good chance" means "100% chance"?

EDIT: Incidentally, I don't recall ever experiencing such a problem in Bloodlines...

do you mean me? what has your answer anything to do with my question? my quote was not based on  bloodlines anyway.

a bug (well, not all. only a certain type. for example some programs wont work with a laptop, those are excluded. ) is independend of hardware. how it is possible that the cpu type has any influence with a bug like "key x wont work with door x"?
i should have quoted only the last sentence.

The problem is that while the bug may appear on some systems, there's a good chance it'll never be an issue on a huge number of other computers, and thus may well have never been noticed during betatesting, however intesive it was.  That's the main problem with the fact there's such a vast number of possible PC hardware combinations.

care to explain why software bugs like "door wont open until you kill all enemies in area x whereas the door should be opened anytime" has any relevance with hardware combinations?