I'm pretty excited about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning but am pretty cautious about which version to get it for. Downloaded the PC demo today, but when i got it running, its absolutely unplayable. Everything is fine until after i create my character. When the game actually starts, the entire screen is black save for the mini map. I can run through this blackness but the only thing that pops is a button prompt indicating i can grab a sword. When i go into the inventory to equip it, the menu stays on my screen and won't let me get out of it no matter what i try. I fought and killed a rat like this. Even the steam overlay ghosts on the screen.

This happen to anyone else or is it just me?

turn off post processing and you will be good to go! :)

Worked fine for me.

@EndlessObsidian: I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

@Daneian: you should let me know if it worked for you.

This seems to be a very common issue, it happened to me too and lowering graphical settings was the way to fix it. Also I noticed that the game runs consistently well most of the time but it freezes for a sec sometimes after a combat sequence.

Hopefully they will use the time they have left and the feedback from this demo to fix these things before launch, but I dont know...

Post Processing disabled will fix that issue, i had it too.

nope, ran flawlessly for me, except for a few 2 second hitchups going in and out of combat.

@EndlessObsidian said:

@Daneian: you should let me know if it worked for you.

It did. Thanks for the tip.

@EndlessObsidian said:

turn off post processing and you will be good to go! :)

Damn! I just deleted it on favor of downloading the steam version.

Same here. Turning off post processing should fix it.

Turn of post processing where? Video card control panel, in game?

Thanks, everyone. I was experiencing the same problem last night. I'll try this potential fix tonight.

Any gamepad support? I have a logitech dual action but, it doesn't even give me an option to use it.

If they're too lazy to put that in the demo, then what the hell is the point OF the demo?

I'm not going to sit there and use a third party program to remap every button. It looks really fun and fluid but, if you're trying to hook me into buying it, you've failed.

Assassins Creed used my game pad flawlessly. I see no reason why I should buy a crappy 360 controller just to have the game functional.

Offenders: Both Batmans, Rorschach, Darksiders, Warhamer, etc. I mean, really?

@m16mojo2: x360ceis what you need. Give it a try.

@SlasherMan: I have tried that before, and thank you. However, the button prompts are still in Alphabet mode "X Y A B" and often times it's completely backwards to how it's supposed to be mapped to my button config.

The post processing is ugly as sin in this game any way.

Hah, it was funny. I'm like "What a cool way to intro the game. Since I'm dead, I shouldn't be able to see anything anyways."

That's why I thought my screen was pitch black (when not doing the character customization). I had a big "ohhhhhhhh" moment after I realized that there was an issue.

Pc gaming 101: Did you update your video drivers for the new game you are trying to play?

I didn't have any technical issues. The only thing I noticed is that once in a while the lip syncing would stop and the dialog would keep going.