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EA's "Easy Info" even worse than System Requirements Lab's bad answers


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Gorath Alpha

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EA's poor opinion of its customers left me with an equally bad opinion of that company several years ago, and it literally pained me to the core when Greg and Ray were swayed by the Evil Empire's offers and sold out to it. 

The two Bioware games (OK, three, with both ME-1 and ME-2 counted) have been my only recent exposure to EA, and I had never heard of the "Easy Info" tool that they distribute.  A few days ago, someone appeared on the ME-1 Tech forum complaining about the game not being able to run without a video card, when "Easy Info" proclaimed otherwise. 

It is something similar to the System Requirements Labs' tool, although limited to older EA titles (neither Dragon Age nor ME-2 are included).  Compared to SR Labs' tool, this crappy piece of junk is still worse.  (Remember, SR Labs' results are already so bad that the place is a laughing stock.)  

According to Easy Info, ME-1 has no limit as to the Operating Systems it runs under!  Sure, RIGHT!

Further, according to Easy Info, ME-1 has no minimum requirement on the video devices it runs with. 

Finally, it doesn't know the difference between a P4, an A64, an X2, and / or a C2D.

It is total and absolute crap, in other words. 

I've known for years that no one at EA had any idea how PCs work, and the idiotic actual requirements that were written for ME-1, the PC game, proved that quite well, but Easy Info is really RIDICULOUS!  I'm writing this for this forum here, as this is the newest of the Bioware games, with (I'm pretty sure) the most comparatively inexperienced game players in the reading audience compared to ME-1 and DA O, at least. 

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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 21 avril 2010 - 03:43 .


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Fredvdp

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I installed EasyInfo just out of curiosity. It doesn't find any games and when I click 'update game list' I get a 404. Not that I need it anyway but I was bored one day.

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Gorath Alpha

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AFAIK, it's only compatible with WindowsXP; that was the only one it worked in for me (I didn't try Vista -- my Beta copy expired long ago, but was adequate to confirm I wouldn't ever pay for such a thing!) 

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joey_mork84

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I have Vista (been using it for over a year and no complaints from me. I like it), and EasyInfo works just fine for me (for the most part).