Really? I thought Telltale could stand to update their engine a little bit to be honest. Though the last adventure game I played was Dreamfall, and maybe I played a little too much Crysis lol
It seems like very few people are running this game without issue. Even the best computers with fast processors and souped up graphics cards are suffering from slow downs on this game.
No, it's just people trying to run it on their grandmother's laptop that are having issues. The system requirements are extremely low compared to other games on the market, and my fairly cheap computer can run it at 60fps at full detail and very high resolutions. I'm afraid your survey information is incorrect.
There's a problem in the PC gaming market where people seem to be on extremes. There are people witch computers that are technologically 7-8 years old (including laptops with no true 3D acceleration, etc), and then there are people with real computers. The fact is, you can make a PC that can play this fine for like $200. It's not a demanding game. But there are still people with worse systems like that that don't play games but think they can try this one.
I'm running the game on a Pentium 4 2.93 GHZ CPU (That's not a dual core CPU) with a ATI Radeon 3650 HD, and have the graphics up to 9 with no slowdown in sight.
(Which is more then I can say for Warhammer Online, which eats my computer alive)
I played this game on two systems with absolutely no problems at all. The first system is a PC running on a Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz, 2GB of RAM, GeForce 9500GT 512mb and on Windows 7 RC. Graphics quality was set to 9, at 1440x900.
The other one was my 2007 white Macbook, Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz, 1GB of RAM and integrated graphics (GMA X3100, which is crappy as crap can be). It was running on Graphics Quality to 3, at 1280x800. Anything past 3 would result in a lot of lag/slowdown, but that's the integrated graphics fault.
Really, this game ran really well on both systems.
I have a Nvidia 5200 graphics card, and I had to set it down all the way to number 3. No bloom or fancy blur effects for me anytime soon. But I AM pretty outdated on that end. Half-Life 2 won't even run right.
I guess the game is more forgiving on processors than graphics cards.
My PC has an old single-core Socket 939 Athlon 2.0GHz, but I recently upgraded the graphics card to an ATI 4670. It ran superbly at 1280x720 graphics setting 9.
Maybe the trouble people is having is with old graphics cards.
I guess the game is more forgiving on processors than graphics cards.
It's forgiving on graphics cards too. The problem is that scumbag laptop manufacturers make systems with chipsets that can't even meet the 6 year old DX8 standard and users who don't know any better. It'll work just fine with a $20 video card, but you'd be shocked at the number of people with far less than that in their laptop and just don't know/understand.
I ran it on 6 1014x768 on my laptop (2.6 core duo, 3gig ram, not sure what the card is but it's only 4 months old). Running on my HDTV (upscaling to 720p) gave me free anti-aliasing and it looked great. The difference between 6 and 9 is very small. So I can't complain.
Had some weird issue's with my Windows 7 desktop though. It should have ran better tha my laptop but even windowed at 800x600 it had to be set to 1 to run smoothly! But I guess that's because it wasn't designed for Win7 yet.
Even got it running ok on my MacbookAir via Crossover (commercial version of Wine) at 1280x720 and graphical quality 3!
You're joking, right? First people complain the graphics aren't good enough, now they're too good?
Haha, this was exactly what I was thinking. Personally, I had to play the game on level 6 or so with a little lag, but that just makes me happy that I could someday play through the game with higher quality graphics on a better computer...
If graphics aren't an issue then why does it matter if you have to drop the graphics quality down to 3 or so for it to run smoothly? It sounds like you're just upset you can't play it at optimal graphics on your computer.
I ran it at 1920x1080 and a quality setting of 9 and had zero problems. Everything looked fantastic. Of course, my PC is a beast! I had no letterbox bars on my screen because my monitor is a true 16:9.
It made me so glad I got it on PC instead of waiting for the Wii version, because Wii can't go higher than 480p.
I'm actually quite surprised to hear all the people having performance issues, having to dial the graphics all the way down to 1. What kind of dusty computers are you guys using?
No slow downs here.
Worked perfect on the highest resolution (1280x1024) and level 9 detail.
Don't change anything about the detail, Telltale!
It's amazing!
I have a 286/10 Mhz, and a brand new EGA (that's ENHANCED graphics adapter) card, and DOS 4.0 is telling me that the executable is not valid. What gives?
If this game is graphic intensive then every other new game out there must be from a future age. If you cant run this game Im honestly amazed your computer turns on.
I had it on the highest settings and I play at 1920 by 1200. Though I do have a 2.66 ghz quad core i7 processor and 4gb of ram,and a 512mb Radeon HD 4870 i ran this game on my old machine that has all junk parts and it worked. that thing has a single core processor still and a 256mb card. and 1.5 gb of ram.
I have a 286/10 Mhz, and a brand new EGA (that's ENHANCED graphics adapter) card, and DOS 4.0 is telling me that the executable is not valid. What gives?
Pshaw. Nowadays, it's all about VGA! They're even talking about SVGA being out soon! And hellooooo! Windows 3.11? a.k.a the future of gaming? With my rig, Wolfenstein 3D runs with almost no slowdown at all! (until an enemy appears)
It's fine for all of you who are running it perfectly, but I have no idea why mine wont run smoothly set to 9. There are audio skips, there's terrible lag and even at 5, the mouse is not smooth by any means. I have an Intel Core 2 duo, 4gb of ram, a 256MB GeForce 8400M , etc. etc. There's no reason it shouldn't run fine--hell, it runs Dreamfall, everything in the Orange box, ALL the Unreal Tournaments without a hitch and yet I still have issues with TOMI.
It's fine for all of you who are running it perfectly, but I have no idea why mine wont run smoothly set to 9. There are audio skips, there's terrible lag and even at 5, the mouse is not smooth by any means. I have an Intel Core 2 duo, 4gb of ram, a 256MB GeForce 8400M , etc. etc. There's no reason it shouldn't run fine--hell, it runs Dreamfall, everything in the Orange box, ALL the Unreal Tournaments without a hitch and yet I still have issues with TOMI.
The 8400M is a pretty low-end card. Everything else you have is fine, just dial the graphics settings down a couple notches and you should be golden.
So what now? On the one side there's gamers complaining about the game looking like something made in 1996, on the other there's people bitching it won't run maxed out on their 30$ video chips and seven years old systems alike.
The 8400M is a pretty low-end card.
It is. It was never meant for gaming at all - I've got an 8600GT which isn't a super duper gaming card itself. However, it's twice the card that an 8500GT is and 8400 is obviously below both of them. I think I had a tiny little bit of stuttering during the prologue. My uneducated guess tells me this has something to do with some of the volumetric effects, the fog and so on that might bog the engine more down than it probably should. But the game's mighty fine on that card, naturally.
What resolution are you people playing on, by the way? Playing with a Geforce8400M in anything above 1280x1024 pixels is probably not such a good idea, particularly if you're intend to run the game at its maximum settings. I dunno if there's anti-aliasing on by default, but you can also make sure to put all of it off in the driver settings. This can slow down lesser cards immensely. As does cranking up the screen resolution.
However, reading about those audio skips there might be something else wrong with that system at hand. Outdated drivers, for example.
It may not be the latest card, but it should be well over the requirements for TMI. I would have thought Dreamfall was more graphics intensive than TMI.
It may not be the latest card, but it should be well over the requirements for TMI. I would have thought Dreamfall was more graphics intensive than TMI.
I'm not sure if Dreamfall has all of the effects going on that ToMI has in maximum settings. However, you should be real fine still, I guess. I'd try to put anti-aliasing off in the driver settings and try to turn the screen resolution down by a notch. But first of all I'd look for updated drivers for everything, particularly audio and video hardware. Those audio skips don't sound all that natural to me (heh).
I have a really ancient single-core PC with an nVidia 7600GS card. With graphics quality at 5, it runs the game absolutely fine at 1280x1024. The only PCs on the market that would probably run the game worse than my PC are the laptops without a proper (ATi or nVidia) graphics card. Also, you don't need more than about 20-30fps for a smooth game of monkey, it's not a reflex based game that would involve lots of camera movement. Turn off that frame rate counter and rather enjoy the game!
I'm not sure if Dreamfall has all of the effects going on that ToMI has in maximum settings. However, you should be real fine still, I guess. I'd try to put anti-aliasing off in the driver settings and try to turn the screen resolution down by a notch. But first of all I'd look for updated drivers for everything, particularly audio and video hardware. Those audio skips don't sound all that natural to me (heh).
In terms of effects, CoD5 has ones that blow TMI out of the universe. Walk under water and there's simulation of water going over your eyes (everything becomes blurry and wavy), there is heat wave simulation from flame throwers, clouds of dust and smoke from grenade detonations not to mention fog and various other weather effects. That, and my card renders dozens upon dozens of animated characters at a time as well as dozens of corpses of once animated characters perfectly fine. In TMI, there are... what, a max of 2 characters on one screen at a time? 3 if you include the monkey and the mouse.
It may not be the latest card, but it should be well over the requirements for TMI. I would have thought Dreamfall was more graphics intensive than TMI.
"latest" is not really the thing. An 8400 is well below a much older 7600. It's intentionally made to be a low-end budget card.
That said it IS enough for ToMI. Just not at max settings. On max setting it does have some shader and depth of field effects that games like Dreamfall didn't so that's why you need to crank it down a bit. Don't worry, it won't look bad on 4 or 5.
I'm on my year-and-a-half old laptop here, running on 1440x900 screen resolution, I had to lower the graphics setting to 5 on the first sequence due to all the shadered water and weather effects, but after that I could bump it up to 9 and play without any performance issues.
What might be a good idea in subsequent releases, is to give the game an advanced graphics tab, for better customization, since performance issues can be circumvented on some systems by turning down specific features while keeping others turned up.
Yeah really..... it only seems that way because the people who's systems are not up to the task log on to complain..... The larger majority of the people who got it working just fine are not going to log on to complain about how great it runs..
It's fine for all of you who are running it perfectly, but I have no idea why mine wont run smoothly set to 9. There are audio skips, there's terrible lag and even at 5, the mouse is not smooth by any means. I have an Intel Core 2 duo, 4gb of ram, a 256MB GeForce 8400M , etc. etc. There's no reason it shouldn't run fine--hell, it runs Dreamfall, everything in the Orange box, ALL the Unreal Tournaments without a hitch and yet I still have issues with TOMI.
What works for me when that happens is turning off browsers, messenger, Skype and any other background process I don't need.
I'm running the fine fine on my crummy old laptop at 1280x720, settings at 9. Only when I crank it up to 1920x1080 it starts to slow down significantly, but that's to be expected. This makes it slower than Strong Bad (heh), but about on par with Sam&Max and Wallace&Gromit.
Specs:
Core 2 Duo @ 2ghz each
2GB DDR2 RAM
Geforce 8600M GT
Windows 7 RC 64
My computer is less than a year old, and it's an HP desktop. 2GB of ram and I think and Intel duo processor. I had to set my graphics at 3 to get it to run properly, 4 works ok too, but anything above that makes the game run progressively slower, almost to the point where it takes like 5 seconds for the mouse to move a few pixels across the screen. And the music gets all skippy and choppy. I thought it was my computer for a second... but I didn't think it would run that slow. I'm sure a lot of people have the same problem, but I don't see how some of you with the same or similar system specs as my own would be able to run the game fine at 9 graphics.
Also, what do you mean about "what monkey island is all about"? <.<; Makes you seem arrogant. The graphics in previous monkey island games haven't ever been amazing, even for their time. Particularly speaking of Escape, those graphics were not very good.
Intel Core 2 duo, 4gb of ram, a 256MB GeForce 8400M
Whoa, back the fun bus right up. Here's your problem: 8400M
Not to sound like some sort of graphics elitist, but there's a basic rule that goes with NVIDIA cards: If the model number (the one that follows the series number, eg. "6" in 9600GT) is less than six, you're going to have performance issues.
I learned this the hard way, my laptop has a 9500M GS, a card that is only saved by the oversized frame-buffer taped to it's insufficient clock-speed.
"I have a 286/10 Mhz, and a brand new EGA (that's ENHANCED graphics adapter) card, and DOS 4.0 is telling me that the executable is not valid. What gives?"
I have a one year old Dell XPS1530 that I bought with all the specs maxed, and I'm getting stuttery graphics and sound at 1440x900. The whole "lol you guys just have old computers of course it doesn't run smoothly on your Atari 2600" thing is childish and annoying.
Just that you bought a computer recently doesn't mean that it should run this game at max settings. A lot of ready made desktop systems have really terrible graphics cards (or even on board ones) since most people only use them for work and laptops are even worse. Tweaking a bit in the graphics options should fix the problems for 90% of the people having trouble I would say.
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There's a problem in the PC gaming market where people seem to be on extremes. There are people witch computers that are technologically 7-8 years old (including laptops with no true 3D acceleration, etc), and then there are people with real computers. The fact is, you can make a PC that can play this fine for like $200. It's not a demanding game. But there are still people with worse systems like that that don't play games but think they can try this one.
(Which is more then I can say for Warhammer Online, which eats my computer alive)
The other one was my 2007 white Macbook, Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz, 1GB of RAM and integrated graphics (GMA X3100, which is crappy as crap can be). It was running on Graphics Quality to 3, at 1280x800. Anything past 3 would result in a lot of lag/slowdown, but that's the integrated graphics fault.
Really, this game ran really well on both systems.
My PC has an old single-core Socket 939 Athlon 2.0GHz, but I recently upgraded the graphics card to an ATI 4670. It ran superbly at 1280x720 graphics setting 9.
Maybe the trouble people is having is with old graphics cards.
Had some weird issue's with my Windows 7 desktop though. It should have ran better tha my laptop but even windowed at 800x600 it had to be set to 1 to run smoothly! But I guess that's because it wasn't designed for Win7 yet.
Even got it running ok on my MacbookAir via Crossover (commercial version of Wine) at 1280x720 and graphical quality 3!
Haha, this was exactly what I was thinking. Personally, I had to play the game on level 6 or so with a little lag, but that just makes me happy that I could someday play through the game with higher quality graphics on a better computer...
It made me so glad I got it on PC instead of waiting for the Wii version, because Wii can't go higher than 480p.
Worked perfect on the highest resolution (1280x1024) and level 9 detail.
Don't change anything about the detail, Telltale!
It's amazing!
Vista
2.66Ghz Quad Core
4GB Memory
Geforce 9600GT
I had it on the highest settings and I play at 1920 by 1200. Though I do have a 2.66 ghz quad core i7 processor and 4gb of ram,and a 512mb Radeon HD 4870 i ran this game on my old machine that has all junk parts and it worked. that thing has a single core processor still and a 256mb card. and 1.5 gb of ram.
Pshaw. Nowadays, it's all about VGA! They're even talking about SVGA being out soon! And hellooooo! Windows 3.11? a.k.a the future of gaming? With my rig, Wolfenstein 3D runs with almost no slowdown at all! (until an enemy appears)
The 8400M is a pretty low-end card. Everything else you have is fine, just dial the graphics settings down a couple notches and you should be golden.
It is. It was never meant for gaming at all - I've got an 8600GT which isn't a super duper gaming card itself. However, it's twice the card that an 8500GT is and 8400 is obviously below both of them. I think I had a tiny little bit of stuttering during the prologue. My uneducated guess tells me this has something to do with some of the volumetric effects, the fog and so on that might bog the engine more down than it probably should. But the game's mighty fine on that card, naturally.
What resolution are you people playing on, by the way? Playing with a Geforce8400M in anything above 1280x1024 pixels is probably not such a good idea, particularly if you're intend to run the game at its maximum settings. I dunno if there's anti-aliasing on by default, but you can also make sure to put all of it off in the driver settings. This can slow down lesser cards immensely. As does cranking up the screen resolution.
However, reading about those audio skips there might be something else wrong with that system at hand. Outdated drivers, for example.
I'm not sure if Dreamfall has all of the effects going on that ToMI has in maximum settings. However, you should be real fine still, I guess. I'd try to put anti-aliasing off in the driver settings and try to turn the screen resolution down by a notch. But first of all I'd look for updated drivers for everything, particularly audio and video hardware. Those audio skips don't sound all that natural to me (heh).
In terms of effects, CoD5 has ones that blow TMI out of the universe. Walk under water and there's simulation of water going over your eyes (everything becomes blurry and wavy), there is heat wave simulation from flame throwers, clouds of dust and smoke from grenade detonations not to mention fog and various other weather effects. That, and my card renders dozens upon dozens of animated characters at a time as well as dozens of corpses of once animated characters perfectly fine. In TMI, there are... what, a max of 2 characters on one screen at a time? 3 if you include the monkey and the mouse.
"latest" is not really the thing. An 8400 is well below a much older 7600. It's intentionally made to be a low-end budget card.
That said it IS enough for ToMI. Just not at max settings. On max setting it does have some shader and depth of field effects that games like Dreamfall didn't so that's why you need to crank it down a bit. Don't worry, it won't look bad on 4 or 5.
What might be a good idea in subsequent releases, is to give the game an advanced graphics tab, for better customization, since performance issues can be circumvented on some systems by turning down specific features while keeping others turned up.
Oh, specs btw:
CPU: Intel Core2Duo T8300 2.4GHz
RAM: 2GB DDR2-667MHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS 512MB
OS: Windows 7 RC (7100) 64-bit
Biggest. Overstatement. Ever.
"It seems like a few people have issues with running the game." perhaps you mean.
What works for me when that happens is turning off browsers, messenger, Skype and any other background process I don't need.
Specs:
Core 2 Duo @ 2ghz each
2GB DDR2 RAM
Geforce 8600M GT
Windows 7 RC 64
Also, what do you mean about "what monkey island is all about"? <.<; Makes you seem arrogant. The graphics in previous monkey island games haven't ever been amazing, even for their time. Particularly speaking of Escape, those graphics were not very good.
Whoa, back the fun bus right up. Here's your problem: 8400M
Not to sound like some sort of graphics elitist, but there's a basic rule that goes with NVIDIA cards: If the model number (the one that follows the series number, eg. "6" in 9600GT) is less than six, you're going to have performance issues.
I learned this the hard way, my laptop has a 9500M GS, a card that is only saved by the oversized frame-buffer taped to it's insufficient clock-speed.
Enjoy Monkey Island 1 and 2. :P