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Brink comes not only with beautiful views and as a great teambased game. It also comes with the usual suspects. Errors, blue screen crashes, ATI problems, FPS-drop and whatnot have become a habit to PC gamers when buying a new game. Luckily there’s people that have figured out how to get around most of these issues until Splash Damage release a patch to sort it out.

The following list is compiled by SegmentNext and Zawad Iftikhar.

1# Brink (PC) ATI Driver Fix
First turn on in-game console. For this go to your steam library and find brink. Right click and choose properties. The on the General tab select SET LAUNCH OPTIONS and add this.

+com_allowconsole 1

Start up brink and open the console with tilde key, and type ‘r_shadows 0′ without quotes. After this tweak. Download and install the latest ATI HotFix Drivers.

2# Brink Multiplayer Servers Not Responding, Connection Issues and Server Joining Problem

Forward these ports and you will be able to connect to servers just fine.

UDP/TCP 27015, 27016 and 8766

3# Brink – Blue Screen of Death Fix
Turn off motion blur in game options, this will fix this issue.

Add these console graphics tweaks:
r_useHighQualityPostProcess 1
r_useMotionBlur 1

4# Brink – Crash at Desktop/Start Up
OpenGL used by the game engine seem to the root cause of this issue. At the moment, it appears that if you are forcing triple buffering through your card, it will crash the game at start up. Make sure you aren’t forcing triple buffering through the card. Also make sure you have updated Drivers.

5# OpenGL driver lost connection with the display driver
Lower the game resolution a bit and it will resolve.

6# Brink Error creating game rendering context
If on start up you are receiving “Error creating game rendering context”, and the only option you have is to quit. If you are using nVidia card, Disable Triple Buffering and If you are using ATI card, try the hotfix above.

7# Brink – No Sound
Make sure you run the game in stereo. If the problem persists, update your sound card drivers.

8# Brink – Low FPS and Performance
Install the latest ATI hotfix pr nVidia Updated Drivers which address these issues.
Disable Motion Blue.
Disable Shadows.
Disable Triple Buffering.
Optimize the game for multi cores using this console tweak: seta r_useThreadedRenderer “2″

9# Game Freezes at Save The Arc, Escape The Arc Screen

10# Brink – Texture Bugs, Graphics Issue

11# Brink – Grid Effect and Blue Tinted Screen
This issue is associated with people running the game on ATI video card. Refer to ATI Fix to resolve this issue.

12# How to Skip Intro Movies?
Simply rename your assets folder.

Steam\steamapps\common\brink\base\video\assets

13# How to Change FOV
In the console type g_fov XX. Where XX is your FOV; default (and lowest) is 70.

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