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Hello guys,
this is my first post here at Sorcerer's Place...

I started playing IWD2, I have a P4 1.4 Ghz, 256 RAM and a NVidia GTSII with WinMe...
not this crap of a PC, but the game stutters like hell: the PCs seem to "think" before executing a command (ALWAYS, not only in those places where Quint & Extremist catched the inventory bug, however I've also installed their fixes)...

I tried to increse the Maximum Frame Rate but that only leads to a crazy stutter/haste/stutter/haste in the PCs and cursor movements...


I gave a look to the game .ini file and there are some lines I find VERY weird (see below)... if I have a 3D video card why does the game sets the option "3D Acceleration" to -1? I tried to manually set it to 1, but when I lunch the game it sets it back to zero (along with Display Frequency=60... i play at 800x600 and my video supports 85Hz)



I have both IWD2 and Throne of Bhaal installed and ToB runs perfectly and smoothly!

The IE engine worked really well with SoA/ToB... with IWD2 I am about to say that bioware made a step backward...

Is there anyone who could give me some suggestions, please??



Thanks and Greets
RoMaus

PS
Here are some lines from the game .ini file

[Program Options]
3D Acceleration=-1
16Bit Textures=0
Display Frequency=60
Resolution=800
Maximum Frame Rate=40
Path Search Nodes=400000
Backwards Compatible 3d=0
BitsPerPixel=32
GLSetup Driver=-1

[ January 03, 2003, 17:58: Message edited by: romaus ]

 

Please try with disabling hardware acceleration - first for the sound card (inside dxdiag) then if that doesn't help for the graphics card.

3D acceleration is not available inside IWD2 engine despite your efforts to turn it on.

 

Yeah, that GTS and 1.4ghz P4 have the power to run IwD2 pretty decent. Leave your Ai updates at 32,000; that IwD2 doesn't have SSE2 extensions built in.

What's your sound card? Is it a PCI card, or a southbridge function?

The southbridge will pull your system down, a fair amount, with hardware (EAX) sound on. If it's a Soundblaster Live Value, then you've got problems somewhere else. Defragmenting and a contiguous pagefile might help.

 

Thanks for the advice guys! I couldn't imagine the problem was sound-related ...
My soundcard is a Creative SoundBlaster AudioPCI 64V (WDM) ...
I am setting DXDialog according to Your suggestions

Thanks again
RoMaus

PS


One Last thing... I defragmented the HD, but what is "a contiguous pagefile"?
Have to implement that in the system prefs?

[ January 04, 2003, 11:25: Message edited by: romaus ]

 

Pagefile is a large file used by Windows to store temporary data. Through shrinking and expanding Windows pagefile gets spread all around the hard disk in a discontinuous way which prevents your files to be defragmented optimally. I'm unsure for WinME, but the defrag util which comes with Win9x will not disable and remove the pagefile BEFORE defragmenting nor will make it continuous.

Anyone with WinME here?

 

I had ME, and yeah I had the problem, so yes I upgraded to Win2000.

 

Um, I actually ment to ask if someone knows how to activate the startup scheme of pressing the continuous pagefile on WinME.

 

well I implemented all the things you suggested but still the game speed sucks and, MOST FRUSTRATING, my PCs do not obey orders (even with AI turned off): enemies around cast spell, move here move there and my lazy PCs just stay there and get hits...

I don't like when I buy a game that doesn't work...

I'll try to get some comfort with ToB...



[ January 05, 2003, 19:53: Message edited by: romaus ]