Privates has received a HUGE update, hopefully fixing every issue we’ve been made aware of.
You can grab the new version right now, FOR FREE, from privatesgame.com. If you had any issues with the original download at all, we’re hoping this will fix you up.
Zombie Cow Studios is a teeny tiny little outfit. We don’t have access to a million billion pounds worth of computer equipment to test Privates on, we were able to test it on about a dozen machines, which we thought was pretty good going.
When it launched last Thursday, we were pretty damned disheartened to find out that a near-infinite combination of PC setups meant some people couldn’t play the game. We’ve now got three main concerns: performance, crashes, and bugs
PERFORMANCE:
So, post launch we identified an issue that was causing it to run reeeeeeally slowly on certain setups. My crappy 7 year-old desktop runs it at 60 frames per second, but on some peoples’ whizzy state-of-the-art gaming rigs it’d chug at a lowly 4. TOTALLY WEIRD, right?
So we’ve fixed up these problems as we’ve found them – hopefully the game will now run a lot better on more setups. It’s not going to be perfect everywhere just yet, which is why if it’s still running slowly on your computer it’d be insanely helpful if you could pop a little message in the comments below, letting us know the full specs and operating system of your computer.
CRASHES:
Again, we’ve eliminated all crashes across all our computers, but you and your weirdy-beardy graphics card might be doing something we couldn’t account for. So we’d love to know why it’s crashing, if it does. And you can help!
If you re-download the game and start it up, a little a little box will now pop up should the game phut out at all. You can click ‘Details’ and you’ll get a teeny little report.
So, if it crashes, copy and paste the info to the comments section below, and we’ll see what we can do to fix up whatever’s causing it.
It’ll make you feel a little bit like one of those computer hackers you see on films like Hackers and The Jurassic Park, only totally cooler.
BUGS:
At this stage, bugs are a pain. Obviously they generally don’t occur on our systems, but can do for the wider public. So recreating them and working out what’s going on is a right faff. We’ve fixed up all the issues as they’ve arisen so far.
HOWEVER: If you stumble on anything unusual and buggy happening in that NEW version, do let us know below.
No one make ‘jokes’ about Level 2 having ‘loads of bugs’, please, we haven’t slept in a month and it’s really stopped being funny.
If you had any issues at all playing Privates, we’d really appreciate you uninstalling it, re-downloading it from E4, and having another run through.
