What is it and what does it do?

The exception code you are getting appears to indicate some code is trying to execute something very low level (e.g. direct device access) when it isn’t allowed.

This isn’t a widespread issue, so it seems reasonable to assume that it is specific to your machine.

My guesses are:

• Corrupt game files, try deleting the user data for the game. Not sure where that lives.

• Corrupt install but I think you’ve addressed that.

• Corrupt windows, a scan disk check might repair something.

• Corrupt drivers:

• Fresh install of GPU drivers, using amd’s tool or ddu.

• Update chipset drivers if there are any.

• Disable or uninstall anything that controls additional devices. E.g. led or fan controllers like Armoury crate or MSI afterburner.

• Any other app that injects itself into the process. Game overlay, antivirus. Amd adrenaline does this, as can steam and gamebar.

A lot of those are features of notepad.

I think the implication was that the prisoners are actually hostages too.

How else can you judge what direction they might go in? If you like the projects they worked on in the past does it not make it more likely that you’ll like their next project? Effectively we are getting a merger of two of the better publishers that are going independent from more corporate overlords? Maybe I’m being overly optimistic…

It says it needs 16GB of vram

It was the photo mode and filters setting in the overlay. You can switch it off.

Interesting, I don’t remember it being talked about for any other game before it was used as an attack on this one. My read from the industry is that it’s a meat grinder, so I would have assumed that most people working on any project are at least new to the company. Plus the big hiring drive that everyone went on during COVID must have brought in lots of inexperienced game Devs to all games?

Is that unusual?

On the same day I got an email to say my savings rates were going down, what a surprise!

How many adaptations came out this year? Maybe they had to have a list of 6…

You missed the end of the quote, “Dragon Age: The Veilguard is this year’s Alan Wake 2, squeaking onto the Golden Joysticks’ GOTY shortlist at the last minute, joining fellow award outliers Tekken 8 and Helldivers 2.”

The similarity with Alan Wake is that it launched so close to the cut off for the shortlist.

I think the author is saying it doesn’t belong on the list, along with Tekken and Helldivers.

It does though doesn’t it, it has a fall back execution route on non-intel GPUs that isn’t as good?

There was a really good interview with nixxies where they went into a lot of detail about what they did, but it was basically as you said.

Didn’t digital foundry report that pc was slightly faster at loading h:fw?

Might be a UK thing, it’s the standard size in multi packs. Asda

Maybe, I liked the game play though and thought it would be good to play with another to do another play though. I suppose that’s what it takes two is, I just like having options to enjoy things in different ways.

I dunno it’s about working together? Plus the story still hits when one of you are removed from playing?

Meh, I want to play it with my daughter not write a thesis.

To be clear I just wanted the option to play that way, not for it to be the only way to play!

I played it way back when and tried it again after it takes two. Proper co-op would be great, for me