Game runs at 1 - 3 FPS like a slideshow

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First off, my machine meets the minimum requirements and slightly exceeds, I am running the game on the lowest settings possible and with /nosound. Here are my machine spec's:

AMD 3400+ ( 2 GHz Single Core )
1 Gig of 400MHz DDR Ram

Radeon X700 Pro PCI-E

Western Digital 7200 rpm 1.5G Sata 80 Gig hard drive

 

Now, I can play plenty of games on medium / low settings just fine and get a tolerable FPS in the 20 - 40 range on average. Like I said above, when I run Demigod on lowest settings, /nosound, and yes I updated every driver on my machine ( chipset, audio, and video ) all to no avail. I typically get 1 - 3 FPS and it eventually slows down beyond that to a slide show.


Investigating I find my CPU is working 99% on Demigod, while RAM usuage is only at 300 megs typically, with plenty free.

 

I'm running no antivirus, no firewall, in fact I run nothing but the necissarys in the background. I'm losing hope :( any help here is appreciated, thank you.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Google desktop is known to cause problems. Make sure it isn't running is the only suggestion I have.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Google desktop is not running, I never install any bloatware like Google desktop or what have you.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

X700 Pro specs -> 6VShaders, 8Rops,8Tex, 8PShaders (SM2.0), PixelFill 3360, TexFill 3360

 

MinRec specs X1600(XT)-> 5VShaders, 4Rops,4Tex,16PShaders(SM3.0), PixelFill 2360, TexFill 2360

6800-> 5VShaders, 12Rops, 12Tex, 12PShaders(SM3.0), PixelFill 3900, TexFill 3900

Recommended HD2600(XT)->120U(VandP)Shaders, 4Rops,8Tex (SM4.0), PixelFill 6400, TexFill 6400

7600(GT)-> 5VShaders, 8Rops, 12Tex, 12PShaders(SM3.0), PixelFill 4480, TexFill 6720

 

Makes you wonder doesn't it. On the ATI yes yours is faster than the X1600XT but it doens't support everything that the X1600XT does. Although it is faster it isn't by much. But it is slower than the 6800 and your videocard is nowhere near the speed of the Recommended cards although I would seriously recommend a faster card than what they are recommending. These recommendations need a lot of work (not just for this game but all of them).

 

Anyways I would up your memory even though it says you have 300MB free(I hope/used wouldn't make sense[Of course you could mean before running the game in which ok but the game uses more than 800MB on my system it uses about 1.5GB(Vista 64)]), anyways I doubt that is the truth of what is being used remember you have Virtual Memory and Windows WILL use it on things it thinks are not as important if it thinks it needs to put something in the Real memory. The thing to watch out for is your Peak commit charge when looking at memory usage (XP taskmanager under performance, Vista (Process Explorer[Google] View->System Information)) This tells you how much memory (Virtual + Real) that you are using. For the Videocard if you have the money the HD4770 is a sweat deal right now ($110) it will play any game nicely other then that going dual core would also help although that would mean moving to AM2+/3 socket, but at least you don't need a new video card as you are on PCI-E and your HD is SATA.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

caqde: Thanks for the response, you're right. After looking into it some more I now realize that my hardware is quite lacking :( I had looked at the minimum requirements on 3rd party websites before game was released and they appear to have been lower than they are now.

As far as upgrading go's, that's unfortunately out of the question *sigh* barely scraped up enough for game ;) Will have to either wait or see if Stardock is willing to refund me for now.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Just as a follow up, Stardock gave me a full refund for my online purchase of Demigod. Thanks Stardock :) If anyone is having trouble deciding on the game because they've heard about technical issues with this game... you really shouldn't. Stardock has your back.