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Funnily enough if you download APB through steam but launch the game through APB.EXE with steam disabled you can play w/o steam. I sometimes do that

Oh wow that's crazy

Wait what do you mean by "anti-cheat is working" was it disabled or something? And I completely agree about the Discord part

Some modern cards, mainly Intel's lineup struggle with older non DX12 games like APB. I know in the past Matt mentioned that he wanted to update the game to DX12. Is this something that is currently being worked on or is it just something he would like to do but is a low priority now? Thanks.

>yesterday's maintenance announcement >try to log in today - game ded >no news So we're moving from one full day downtime to two?

Hey, we would appreciate if you guys posted things like these sooner. I know you have the discord but not all the players know about that it and some of us like to get the news the old fashioned way Believe it or not some people still like to play this game and with no news they end up wasting too much time hitting the refresh button on forums and game hoping maybe now they will be able to log in...

So day-long maintenance is a thing now?

Tfw still no scoped CSG

After updating to the latest Intel drivers my game turned into stutter city. After trying out various things I finally found a fix: Clear shader cache: Search -> Disk Cleanup -> DirectX Shader Cache. You cave to do this after every driver update for the Intel Arc... Gonna leave this here for future users. This helps with all games and not just APB.

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My week so far: Monday: server lag - no APB Tuesday: new Intel drivers lag - no APB Wednesday: game ded - no APB Thursday: login server ded - no APB Mage's avatar perfectly summarizes the current situation at LO xD

I remember Matt mentioning in his last AMA that they prefer to perm trade lock instead of banning so most likely you did something naughty in the past. He also mentioned that the best bet is to contact support and to have patience as they have a lot of tickets and not many staff

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This is more to do with Intel being a new player in the market and having history with poor backwards compatibility with older applications not running DX12, APB being a very unique game and not because of the card not being powerful enough to run it (and the above mentioned is true as it's struggles without changing settings in the config I mentioned a few posts above). This card is powerful enough to run modern titles like Cyberpunk. Also funnily enough old APB did ran better with older hardware of that time, hell even 4 gigs of ram was enough at the time. Performance went down the gutter sometime in 2012 when every patch degraded performance. While we're on the same topic I did find a workaround for crashing while customizing vehicles and clothing with symbols. The trick is to do one thing at a time: select colors of vehicles or clothing and parts (for cars) and save, then click customize again and start applying symbols and save again, do not go back to part/color screen without saving or you will crash.