Today was actually spent mostly back in Hellgate: London again. I had planned to set it aside for a while, but after hearing about some other people’s experiences on forums, I gave it another shot after turning all of the graphics options down to around their ‘medium’ settings.

Amazingly enough, it did indeed improve stability quite a bit. Previously I was having trouble making it through three zones without crashing in order to reach a boss fight, but after the options change, I played in a good dozen or so zones without any stability problems. Unfortunately, of course, the change degraded the graphics a fair bit, making even the minimap appear a bit blurry.

I finished off the current act and cleared up a bunch of other quests, and now I’m supposed to head off to the Necropolis. Sounds…ominous…

The game still has a lot of rough edges, and there’s a beta patch available for their test server that includes a bunch of fixes for things like chat, the UI, the minigame, etc. I might wait for the final release of that patch before continuing.