Orange Box patch released

[AC!D]

EA has sneakily released a beefy patch to address problems with The Orange Box on PS3.

The 1.10 update is 128 MB, and unhelpfully has no associated documentation to outline the changes.

Early reports suggest friends not appearing on lists and certain accounts not connecting to the EA servers should no longer be a problem.

Orange Box PS3 owners have publicly complained for a while over the framerate and connection issues as well as slow loading times.

Valve does not develop PS3 versions of its games internally but outsources them to a third-party. It has said this is the model it will follow for the foreseeable future.

Can you tell us what else the patch has addressed, Eurogamer reader? You can have an Easter egg as a reward.

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[Epix]

Hopefully some performance issues are addressed.

[VG Aficionado]

I've read some people saying framerate issues in Episode 2 have been fixed. Can anyone here confirm this?

[Cash]

No idea, hopefully it will fix my issue of the game not even fucking loading for me...

cuts out right after the valve head guy or so... and makes me want to break things. I hate it when games don't work.

[Kiwi]

I've heard a lot of people complain about Episode 2. I recently finished playing through HL2 and Episode 1. Decided to try out Episode 2, just to see what would happen, and it works fine. No frame rate issues, loading times are about the same as the other games. I haven't downloaded a patch for it, and I've had no problems. I'm coming to the end of it now.

[VG Aficionado]

I guess 1crap has defective PS3s :susp:

[Kiwi]

Well Seph was telling me that the frame rate wasn't that great, and there's a few other people who've said they've had problems.

Maybe my PS3 is special :-D

[VG Aficionado]

I think many of the complaints were because of framerate drops during autosavings, while the rest wasn't all that bad.

[Kiwi]

I think many of the complaints were because of framerate drops during autosavings, while the rest wasn't all that bad.

Is that it? From what I've heard/seen it was practically unplayable.

Anyway, mine has worked fine. Kinda sad that I've come to the end of it though, it's all I've played for the last week or so. :(

[AC!D]

Well Seph was telling me that the frame rate wasn't that great, and there's a few other people who've said they've had problems.

Maybe my PS3 is special :-D

I have to agree with you Matt i posted sometime last year that the entire series on the orange box of half life episodes works fine for me and i thought it was really overexagerated. Portal also worked fine for me. The only probs i did have were with Team Fortress and i mean name me one online game that has been released without a few online problems and this patch is said to remedy that just like patches do in other online games.

Only time i ever recall the framerate dropping so badly that i couldnt play was the section where you build bridges with the gravity gun to avoid the ant lions in the desert in Half Life 2 and when i reloaded the game that portion worked fine afterwards. Again like i said in another post i saw more framerate problems and tearing in Mass Effect in the Citadel level and yet i saw not one review mention that but the media were all over this. The media are seriously strange.

[Kiwi]

Weird, eh?

I noticed a few drops in the frame rate, but it was only ever for a second or two after an autosave. The one time where it was any worse was when I was using the hoverboat in HL2, when you get to the part where a gate closes on you before you get to it. The rate dropped for maybe 5 or 6 seconds, and then it went back to normal. But is it really that big a deal? Not as if it kills the gaming experience, if you're the kind of person who is disappointed in a game because of something like that, then you need to really ask yourself why you're playing games in the first place

I haven't tried Team Fortress yet, but as you say, every online game has its problems along the way.

[VG Aficionado]

Only time i ever recall the framerate dropping so badly that i couldnt play was the section where you build bridges with the gravity gun to avoid the ant lions in the desert in Half Life 2 and when i reloaded the game that portion worked fine afterwards. Again like i said in another post i saw more framerate problems and tearing in Mass Effect in the Citadel level and yet i saw not one review mention that but the media were all over this. The media are seriously strange.

Half the times it's 1up and a PS3 game. Anyone can see a pattern.

[Sephiroth_VII]

Well, I had some serious framerate issues by the end of Episode 2.

Maybe my PS3 is special :(

[Kiwi]

At what point did it start? The last time I played it, I was just about to leave the silo, after learning how to use those sticky balls on the striders, and I haven't encountered any real problems.