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Locks Up Constantly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Bought this game and my laptop meets all the requirements but about 5-10 hands into any game the video starts going crazy making the game unplayable. Contacted Activision support and they were no help and would not offer a refund. It appears Activision doesnt stand behind their products.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game has so many bugs its unplayable. Installed it on my main gaming system, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 gigs memory, 8800GTX video card and after a few mins of play the video would hang, get jumpy, and eventually the whole game would freeze. After searching the web i saw 1000's of people complaining about the same problems. I saw a few people claim they got the game to work on older systems. So i installed it on my laptop, P4 3ghz, 1 gig mem, with on board video. The end result, not any better. Activision has horrible customer support - would avoid this game like the plauge.

A Good game IF you have the right video card and driver...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have experienced the same video problems that many others have with this game. When I first purchased the game I was using an ATI X850XT video card and had no problems playing this game. I recently upgraded my video card to an NVidia 8800GT and the game would go "crazy" after about five minutes with flashing and flaky video problems to where I could barely figure out how to exit the game. It was unplayable and very frustrating. I looked for updates from Activision (of which there were NONE) and read many complaints on the net about others having problems as well. I even updated my video drivers to the latest version at the time. Nothing worked UNTIL today! I just updated my video drivers to the latest version (version 169.38) and now it works perfectly! I don't know what it is about the older NVidia drivers, but they fixed something in this latest version that also fixed the video issues with this game. I recommend anyone who has a fairly recent NVidia card to update to this driver version and see if it works for you. I don't think the ATI cards are having same issues, but I could be wrong. Hope this helps! As far as the game itself, it is very enjoyable once it all works and I do recommend it if you can get it to work properly.

Does not work on my system, period

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After I play this for 5 minutes, the graphics corrupt to the point where I can't find the exit button. Random images overwrite everything and the game is compltely unplayable.

My system is a quad-core Pentium, Nvidia 8800 gtx with all software updates. I play other demanding games like Crysis, Stalker, COD4 with no corruption or other graphics problems.

This game needs a patch and is unplayable without one. Unfortunately I rushed in head first and bought the game without checking reviews. Please, please heed this advice and do not buy this game until Activision gets a patch out. And even then, wait to see if reviews say the atch is successful.

For now, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

Bad Bad Bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst video game I have ever bought. It would not run on a new laptop running vista. It did run on my desktop running xp. When it did run it was poor at best. My computer locked up several times while it was installed whether it was running or not. When I uninstalled it the problem went away. The brat must have been behind on his mortgage payment to put his name on this trash.World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets

Where's my shredder?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Couldn't wait to buy this game. And have it not live up to Helmuth's hype was disheartning. My Vostro laptop [great concept by Dell] is state-of-the art and this game consistently plays less than a minute before crashing. Graphics "flutter", controls are more confusing than the 2007 TOC version [BTB.... it plays fine on my Vostro], avitars are worse than the 2007 version, and I can't wait to take it back.

Video Woes

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have an older system that after 10 minutes of play the whole system hangs. Video screen goes all black and the system becomes unresponsive.
I've updated the video drivers for my system to no luck.

Athlon XP 2000+
1 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

I play it on my Dell XPS laptop and I don't have any issues, at all. Although occationally I see some slow down if I use the mouse.

As a review I'd say the game, for what it is, was done pretty good. Perhaps the player graphics could use some help but, again, for what it is...is pretty good.

If anyone finds a patch that corrects the video problem I'd love to play it on my home PC.

WSOP 2008 - Battle for the Bracelets

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game with fair to good graphic rendering of the WSOP stars. Some of them are barely recognizable. Good AI, playing styles and personality of the poker greats. It installed and runs just fine on my XP Home Addition at 1.2 MHZ and 2GB ram. All-in-all, I have no more complaints with it than I do with the live game. You still need more luck than skill to win.

Obvious console port to PC makes a sub par PC game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I play online poker pretty regularly, watched the World Series of Poker for the past few years and was excited to "play with the pros". Installed on a machine that plays World of Warcraft, Titan Quest and other mainstream games at average graphics settings. Pentium 4, 750MB memory, nvidia 6 series graphics card. Not the latest technologies but good enough.

Voices are out of sync with animations. Animations run extremely slow for some reason. Key shortcuts on the one page instruction pamphlet are incorrect. The user interface is not very intuitive. The game is made for joystick play and little was done to make it usable for mouse/keyboard.

Game play is reasonable once you mire through the animations. Poker tips are helpful.

Even though Activision is the first animation you see, there is no support on their web site. You instead need to go to Activision Value. There are no support solutions for the game on the Activision Value web site. After contacting them about patches and/or graphics performance improvements, they said neither were available.

Play some other poker game instead because you do not get quality time with the celebrities in the game.

sucks all the way

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Bought this for my hubby, he plays the wsop & wpt circuit events, was all excited about it , and said it is the worst game ever. Nothing seems to work right. His computer is 6 months old cost over 2300.00 , has the best of almost everything .... threw the disk in the trash after trying 3 times to play. I think retarded was his most forgiving part of his review.

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