Borderlands broken for anyone?

[zinfamous]

I haven't played Borderlands much recently, but I tried to load it about 3 weeks ago, got 5 minutes in and it locked up, overloading all my cores and I had to close it.

Just tried 2 times a few minutes ago, and it freezes after the opening menu, clicking on single player, and crashes. I verified game cache through steam after the first crash, today, and it said everything was fine.

Thing is, these are the only times I have loaded the game since Steam auto-downloaded and installed that usage-tracking crap from Take2.

anyone have similar problems, especially after the more recent update? (they installed that logger, or whatever it is, about 2 months ago, I think?)

 

[Barfo]

There was a thread about that recently...some people solved their issues by opting out of the logging thing.

 

[zinfamous]

There was a thread about that recently...some people solved their issues by opting out of the logging thing.

it doesn't seem like I can, now, as it is already in there, somewhere, inaccessible. at least, I can't find any sort of option. I'll scour the game install files.

I scanned the steam forums, briefly, and didn't see this mentioned, though.

 

[Murdoc]

I played Thursday and yesterday without any issues. I opted out of that logger when it was first offered.

 

[Childs]

I fired it up yesterday and it played fine, but I did opt out.

 

[zinfamous]

curses, I know I should have opted out. lol. I'm hosed.

I assume if I remove then re-install, I would have to re-opt again?

somewhat related--I'm thinking of reformatting the desktop in order to remove some BS shithole controller emulator software (MotionInJoy = Real Player-esque embedding junk).

Best way to backup the saves would be to copy individual save files externally? It seems that some games aren't cloud synced, correct? I don't want to do the complete backup through Steam, as that would take several days with my now-slow connection.

 

[Elcs]

Mine works but I opted out.

I hope all of this nonsense means that they'll fix the FoV problems that plagued a lot of people with the first installation. Very fun game, especially with the DLC's which were packed with content but lethal on the stomach and the head.

 

[DaveSimmons]

See here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2190754&highlight=borderlands

You may have hosed your saves, hopefully you have a backup.

 

[PrayForDeath]

Best way to backup the saves would be to copy individual save files externally? It seems that some games aren't cloud synced, correct? I don't want to do the complete backup through Steam, as that would take several days with my now-slow connection.

If you wanna back-up your saves I believe they're located in Documents > My Games > Borderlands

 

[Pandora's Box]

i opted in myself. no issues here

 

[zinfamous]

See here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2190754&highlight=borderlands

You may have hosed your saves, hopefully you have a backup.

Fuck me in both ears. I think I'm hosed.

the only back up I made, I think, was before installing willow tree, and that was maybe 50 hours game time previously--that probably loses tons of progress and tasty guns on my Siren, a playthrough for my hunter, and all of my soldier.



I wonder what the chances are they will actually fix this BS?

 

[DaveSimmons]

^ you might not be though -- do the steps to clean out the Dr. Zed shader stuff other custom files, then try running again.

 

[zinfamous]

^ you might not be though -- do the steps to clean out the Dr. Zed shader stuff other custom files, then try running again.

I'll give it a shot at some point. The only annoying thing would be the loss of loot, of course. I wouldn't mind running through the game with a Siren, again...if only I could eventually have access to my gear.

...though I don't think I want to redo any of the Knoxx missions, ever. and especially Dr Zed. I dislike that DLC.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I've only done the Knoxx and Zed DLC once but I found some of it entertaining and other parts amusing (Shank's dialogue, Zed claiming not to just be Ned with a fake mustache).

I'd hate to do Knoxx again without the Oasis map mod though, having a single restart point made the driving tedious.

I haven't looked yet, but perhaps someone has updated the Zed shader stuff to work with the latest version of Borderlands?

 

[Arg Clin]

I opted in - work like usual.

It's quite broken though, giving me 30 fps on my 6870CF rig because of dynamic shadows, but that's a whole other story - nothing to do with the update :whiste:

 

[Pandora's Box]

I opted in - work like usual.

It's quite broken though, giving me 30 fps on my 6870CF rig because of dynamic shadows, but that's a whole other story - nothing to do with the update :whiste:

570 sli here. locked solid 60fps with 2xSSAA

 

[n7]

more info here: http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=129981

All i had to do to "fix" it was delete nvcpl.dll as that was what breaks it.
Oasis still works fine.

 

[PrayForDeath]

570 sli here. locked solid 60fps with 2xSSAA

Did you have to rename the .exe to enable AA?

 

[Pandora's Box]

Did you have to rename the .exe to enable AA?

using nv inspector. antialising compatibility: 0x080010C1

 

[PrayForDeath]

using nv inspector. antialising compatibility: 0x080010C1

Ah ok, I'm guessing that's the UE3 profile?

 

[Pandora's Box]

custom. not ue3.

some screenshots:

8xSGSSAA 8XCSAA

 

[Arg Clin]

570 sli here. locked solid 60fps with 2xSSAA

CF is enabled, but the fps still drops down to 30 once in a while with dynamic shadows turned on. From what I have been able to gather, the game engine is broken and there's no fix for this.

 

[PrayForDeath]

custom. not ue3.

some screenshots:

8xSGSSAA 8XCSAA

Looks good. Sadly I don't think I can run it smoothly on my 560. When I renamed the .exe to bioshock and enabled 4x AA through the drivers the game got super slow with dynamic shadows on, and I'm not about to turn those off...