The Blog for the Sports Gamer Three guys who love Sports Gaming rant and rave about various stuff.

Sega and EA sports offer support

From the ESPN Videogames board:

"Thank you for playing ESPN NFL 2K5 online!

Due to the large number of online users, we are currently experiencing a few play-affecting issues.

Xbox Users: If you are having difficulties getting another user to accept your challenge or if you are not receiving challenges once you’ve created a match, power down your Xbox and restart. Currently, users must reset their Xbox if they initiate or receive four or more challenges if they wish to send or receive game invites. We are working hard to address this by August 6, 2004. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. We will continue to keep you updated. Thanks, ESPN Videogames Staff."

You've got to love console patches!!!

EA Sports offers these words of wisdom for Xbox slowdowns:

"Some people have noticed a few slowdown issues with NCAA Football 2005 with certain screen settings, both in offline and online matches.

To solve this issue, please set your XBOX to the correct video mode:

Power on the XBOX without a disc in the disc drive

Select "Settings" to go to the Settings menu

Select "Video" to enter the Video Settings menu

Select the top option "Normal" from the menu, also, if the option is availible, enable "480i" and disable all other numeric settings. 

Press the B button until you are back at the main menu.

Now that the Video settings are properly set, launch NCAA Football 2005

At the NCAA Football 2005 Main Menu, select "MY NCAA"

Select "Settings", then enter "Visual Settings"

Once in Visual Settings, change the camera view from the default "NCAA" to the "Classic" camera view.

This should clear up your slowdown issues.

Note: If you are playing online, and your opponent has incorrectly set their Video and Visual settings, you may notice the same slowdown. In these cases, it is best to either find a different opponent, or explain that they should properly set up their Video and Visual settings."

I rented NCAA for the XBox, after selling it. Like Bill, I couldn't resist. Maybe I had been a little hasty. Well the graphic slowdown is still there, even with the 'settings' EA provides. Hey, how about a patch to fix it, huh?

In other news, I havent been playing as many sports games as work has taken over my life, and I've been watching the Democratic Convention. No matter who you support (I hope you're supporting somebody), it makes no sense to see the crap that's on network TV when a lot of America is missing some very good speeches (then again, if you watched Howard Dean, maybe you wanted to miss that--what a total disappointment). Last night Barack Obama spoke, and boy that guy is going places.

Believe it or not, I'm looking forward to the Republican convention as well. Both of them have some great drama!