Well, it’s my graphic card in fact. You see, yesterday I was playing Aion and suddenly my screen pixellated, screen went black and poof, computer shuted down. To say I was concerned is putting it mildly. So I rebooted in hope it was just a once in a lifetime thing but no, right at startup my screen was showing all sorts of weird colors and lines and I know this to be a sure sign of a dead or damaged graphic card.
If it had happened out of the blue like that I would have screamed, said ugly words and cried inside at the fact my graphic card just died. But I was calm, scary calm. Why? because I half expected this to happen. While researching the CrySystem.dll bug I came across a few posts with people reporting that Aion had destroyed their graphic cards. Just type “Aion destroyed graphic card” or “aion crashed graphic” and you will have a few results right up there. The other hint was a real life friend of mine had to replace his graphic card after it died while he was playing Aion too. The funny part is that both his computer and mine are near identical as we bought them at the same time. I believe in coincidences but not like this and not with multiple people. I searched for my particular graphic card and aion and found a few people whose card died too while playing Aion. Right now it looks like Aion + Nvidia gtx8800 + vista = dead card.
But before blaming it all on Aion, Nvidia recently released new drivers (october 3rd) wich includes SLI support for Aion. So it’s either Aion fault or Nvidia. My understanding of it all is that every time the Crysystem.dll bug was happening it was making my graphic card work like crazy wich damaged it in the end. Seriously, if you are getting the Crysystem.dll error consider stopping Aion until they fix it, you could be damaging your card.
So here I am, currently computer less (posting from the job) looking at close to 10 days without it. Since my computer is still on warranty I have to bring it to the shop for my card to be replaced and real life prevents me from going earlier than saturday and I expect a week before getting a new one.
As far as Aion is concerned this will probably means the end of my adventures in that game. It’s tearing me up because I really loved the game and the more I played the more I enjoyed it. I’ve also met a more than awesome guild and I really don’t want to leave them. On the other side, a game wich managed to destroy my graphic card is a big no-way for me, no matter how much I love it.
So what’s next?
Fallen Earth : Syp over at Biobreak really seems to love the game. However the graphics and theme doesn’t appeal much to me. I mean I need my raid bosses and my instances and Fallen Earth just doesn’t seems to be that kind of game.
WoW: Like someone said before me “I learned long ago that Azeroth is never out of the question”. I don’t feel like reactivating my WoW account to be honest. The whole achievement system (LFG pst achievement mantra), the time guilds require you to put in was getting to me. I don’t want to spend 3/4 nights a week stuck in a raid. Or might it have been my old guild who killed the fun for me? I mean I would need to find an awesome no pressure casual guild who understands I can’t always be on. Something like the guild Pike(aspect of the hare) found.
Another game?: That’s the problem. I have more of less tried most recent MMOs and didn’t stay in any of them. So my options are becoming rather limited.
Anyway, I have two weeks to think about this, hopefully I’ll come up with a solution.
Aww no! =/ Really blows man, sorry to hear that. Hope mai little HD Radeon 4870 is okay :<
Wow, sorry to hear this. I hope everything works out.
I know I go into fits when my PC isn’t working right.
Maybe go with a different video card? This game is barely a month old, and judging by your own words, you are having a lot of fun playing it. I wouldn’t give up on it just because of a hardware glitch. I mean it sucks, but I would require at least another vid card going bad on me for me to believe that it was AION that was responsible.
Mojeaux: Yeah, I tought about that. Now I’m on a warranty so I don’t know yet what card I will be getting since I’m supposed to get an equal value card(in terms of money). I paid 700$ back when I bought it so I don’t know yet wich card I am getting. What’s certain is that I will keep looking at Aion updates to see when and if they fix this bug. Once they say they did and if the reports of the crashes stop coming in then I will probably give it a new shot.
Right now NCsoft has to prove to me that they fixed their game before I retry it. I don’t want to blow a second card on it.
The plus side is that they will probably replace your video card with something a bit beefier. You can hope anyways. Looking forward to seeing you back in action.