Just stumbled upon this thing.
The encounter went as well as you might expect.
Google and ESO wiki say nothing about it, and I'm scared.
First I've noticed this thing at 45.40 x 28.25.
Shrugged, thought that maybe I didn't notice it all of the times I ran past this cliff looking for chests, moved on.
But then I also saw this just some feet away, at 44.80 x 25.75.
Pretty sure there was no such crevice before, and if there was, it was much smaller. Now I can almost fit through.
And yet another few steps ahead, at 35.25 x 25.75 there is another opening in the cliff, that I usually could just walk into. Now it's much steeper than before, and I have to jump to squeeze in. The ground near it also now looks kinda... creased?
And the longer you go, the more you notice that something is wrong. Like, for example, this piece of wall sticking through the cliff at 58.60 x 33.55, that definitely wasn't doing so before the patch.
Tell me I'm not insane, please?
Vestige is kinda fun %)
The problem appeared, as far as I can tell, after the recent (KB5089573 and KB5092427) Windows updates.
My specs are:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13450HX (2.40 GHz),
32 GB RAM,
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU (8 GB)
Intel(R) UHD Graphics (128 MB) (16 GB shared memory)
Win 11 Pro
The game obviously runs very choppy. While the game runs, the task manager shows 100% of integrated GPU usage, and 0% of Nvidia card usage.
Forcing AoE2 to use Nvidia GPU in the app settings and/or in Nvidia Control Panel, updating the video card drivers to 610.47, reinstalling / moving the game to different SSD had no effect.
Other games (i.e. AoE1 DE, AoE4 etc) can utilize the dedicated GPU without issues.
I feel stupid. Anyone with the same issue? Halp?
EDIT: even after disabling UHD Graphics card in the device manager, AoE2 still ignores the dedicated video card. Ugh.
EDIT 2: adding a screenshot of my task manager with AoE2 running in the background and a relevant bit of system settings for posterity, just so I know I'm not insane. The problem still persists.
