So what happens when you take MI's graphical settings up to 4?
I'm not sure if this is the right section, so sorry in advance if it isn't.
On default (i.e. the very first time I played TMI) the game starts-off at graphical setting 4. The whole thing lags; even the mouse takes a good few 10 seconds to move from point a to b. What's so interesting is that as soon as I turn the graphics down to 3, it runs very, very smoothly. It's kind of ridiculous. I was wondering what graphical setting #4 activated that would basically choke my PC like that.
On default (i.e. the very first time I played TMI) the game starts-off at graphical setting 4. The whole thing lags; even the mouse takes a good few 10 seconds to move from point a to b. What's so interesting is that as soon as I turn the graphics down to 3, it runs very, very smoothly. It's kind of ridiculous. I was wondering what graphical setting #4 activated that would basically choke my PC like that.
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I had the graphics all the way up to 9, and the whole game played perfectly, no glitches whatsoever. I have a reasonbly new video card, however.
loads of people get lag though just gander around these forums, even people with decent systems. the secret of monkey island must be inside the game, the secret must be that the game is alive!!! it thinks!! ahahhh!!!
yep.
I also believe that the higher settings also bring about higher quality mipmap textures, and activates the more advanced lighting components.
The menu shows that the quality is at level 1 (and seems to be unchangeable), and so I imagined that TOMI would work on my computer, because both Sam & Max seasons are running just fine with my integrated graphics controller (Intel 82865G, it's old, I know). I did read somewhere that T&L doesn't work with this old card, so I imagine Sam & Max episodes don't use it. All the DXDIAG graphics tests were alright (except AGP tests, because I don't seem to have any AGP features).
Should the graphics in TOMI work with the "old renderer", if they work in Sam & Max?
I tried to search through this forum, but found nothing that would help me out. If I really have to, I'm ready to buy a new (budget level) graphics card, but I'm still hoping to solve this without doing that just yet.
In short: no. It appears that in polishing up the engine, they broke compatability with some older cards, perticularly anything pre-Direct X 8.1. It appears they also broke compatability with some early Direct X 8.1 cards as well. Solution: buy a new and cheap graphics card.
Would it be possible for me to get my hands on a version of the prefs.prop file where the quality is actually at level one (or two or three)? I'd appreciate it very much. Even if it doesn't work, it would ease my mind a bit.
The graphics quality actually defualts at the highest setting that your graphics card can handle, not necessarily at 4. If it defualts at 1, then your graphics card probably doesn't support higher graphics modes.