Rev's stated a few times that we're working on an in-game support tool. It didn't quite make it in time for the ship date. Stay tuned!

No, the digital version doesn't come with a buddy pass. The D2D site will tell you what they include as a part of their purchase.

If you want to get a buddy key in the box, you'll need to get a retail copy in a store or have a retail copy shipped to you.

Characters cannot get randomly deleted; can you check to verify all the different servers in the server list to see if you are just choosing the incorrect server. If you check all servers and don't see your character, please submit a bug report and it can be researched.

You can do so by clicking on "Support" in the upper right corner of this site or clicking directly on: http://support.flyinglab.com

Good luck!

HAHAHAHA!!! This is very true. I was recently at the park feeding the wild parrots...they very much like the melon.

Nope, we have no such plans at this time.

Don't worry about it. I know where you guys are coming from, and I'd be just as frustrated.

Here's what happened, as best as we understand it:

Nvidia releases some new drivers which up the performance for most games, ours included. Yay!

We released an update to Pirates which increased the perfomance pretty dramatically. Yay!

Combining the two, we're hitting frame rates that we'd never hit before. Yay!

Once we hit a certain frame rate, the flickering starts appearing. Boo!

We actually had a similar problem a while back, when the game would run faster than the monitor refresh, the wake would start flickering. We assumed it was a problem on our side, and attacked it that way, but after a great deal of investigation, found that it was on the driver side. How long it's been there we don't know. It could have been created by the new driver, or it could have been the speed improvement of the Nvidia driver and our performance improvements hitting at the same time. Regardless, it's there now, and Nvidia is investigating it. Until they can find the root cause, the only thing we can do to remove the problem is to slow the maximum frame rate down to what it was before both patches came out.

Of course, that's not a good solution if you're not having the problem at all, and want maximum performance. So we made it a variable that you can adjust. To get at it, put the attached ini file in C:\Program Files\Flying Lab Software\Pirates of the Burning Sea. If you already have a file with the same name there, copy the contents of this ini file to the other file. The sole variable is MaxFrameRate, which lets you throttle how many FPS you're getting. It's set to a hundred in the ini file, and 40 in the patch (that solved it for all of the machines in the office).

Obviously, none of this is supposed to be a real solution, it's a temporary one to allow you to continue using the faster Nvidia drivers for your other games and not have the flashing with Pirates. As soon as Nvidia finds the problem, we'll let you know what it is and when you can expect the real fix.

Hello all,

We do encourage people to discuss and even debate almost whatever they wish. As long as people do not break the PotBS Forum Rules & Expectations, you can discuss your thoughts on the game.

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You can click directly on "Support" in the upper right corner of this site or click directly on http://support.flyinglab.com

Moving your post to Known Issues / Troublshooting for assistance.

You guys are so missing out. Google Benny Lava.

This is a terrible idea, don't do it. Obviously you in particular can't do it cause your IT staff right said no. This advice is for everyone: don't make your computer a DMZ unless you absolutely know what you're doing and have other security measures in place.

Where exactly did you find this silly suggestion?

Are you having trouble connecting to Launchpad or to the game?