Microsoft have finally got around to releasing their long awaited Dungeon
Siege beta patch - Version 1.09B of Dungeon Siege contains the following updates
and changes:
- Fixed all known Journal update issues related to quests.
- Fixed all known content placement issues such as
inaccessible containers and "floating" objects.
- Increased game performance in several low-performance
areas.
- Resolved all known issues with end bosses.
- Fixed all known fading issues.
- Updated ZoneMatch user interface and improved ZoneMatch
functionality and performance.
- Resolved issues with sounds cutting out.
- Fixed problem with 5.1 speaker setups getting reset to 2
speakers when enabling EAX.
- Added safety to prevent the game from starting if critical
resource files are missing.
- Added retry code that enables you to attempt to recover
from unstable hardware causing corruption in data that is loaded from hard
disk.
- Moved screen shots into their own \Screen Shots
subdirectory.
- Added new command line options:
noalttab=true, prevents task switching during gameplay.
nowinkeys=true, disables the Windows keys (supported on Windows 2000 and
Windows XP only).
user_path=, specifies where the user files go (rather than \My
Documents\Dungeon Siege).
Other path-related command line options are: keys_path, map_paths, mod_paths,
res_paths, save_path, and shots_path.
- Fixed the issue of a missing or moved "My Documents" folder
causing problems.
- Improved many error messages to include more information to
better help diagnose hardware configuration problems.
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download the Dungeon Siege Update Beta v1.09B.
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