Solution for Wheelman start menu freeze problem

Ali — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:25:04 +0000

You’ve got yourself a copy of Wheelman, installed on your PC, but couldn’t make the game pass the grey start menu? Well, then you’ve probably have a PC with ATI graphics card and installed latest ATI drivers, as it’s been suggested at Wheelman readme.txt.

Bad news is Wheelman hangs on the start menu screen with the latest ATI drivers. Good news is downgrading your graphic cards drivers to previous versions can solve your problem.

I had ATI Catalyst v9.8 installed on my PC, which has a Sapphire ATI 4850, when I installed Wheelman, and it failed. Than I’ve tried the latest v9.9 (as of 11th of September, 2009), and it failed too. After that, I digged into Google and found a guy with the same problem, who told on the Ubisoft forums that downgrading the driver worked for him. I have uninstalled the latest drivers and installed v9.2, as he suggested, and game started working fine :)

You can download old drivers from AMD website here, if you are having the same problem.

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X: Usage of satellite imagery for creating more accurate maps

Ali — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:03:24 +0000

I don’t know if this is the first time of using satellite images for creating more realistic maps with detailed 3D terrains in games, but it sure is a good idea. And, it looks like team behind the Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X did create the “real sense of authenticity”, as they call it.

Game will be available next week, enjoy the trailer.

[via VentureBeat]

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Solution for Wheelman start menu freeze problem

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X: Usage of satellite imagery for creating more accurate maps