Poker Night Slowness
Hello there TTG fourms. I just downloaded PN with hopes of great poker fun. When I open the game, the TTG logo apears and then the menu appears. I try to move my cursor, but it moves with the speed of slo-mo in slo-mo IN SLO-MO. I manage to set the settings to low graphic and it still runs like slo-mo is in slo-mo and so forth. I also got to play about 5 minutes of it and it was VERY VERY VERY slow. The voices were fine but it was running terribly. Later, I unninstalled many unnessicary programs to fix the slow (not the graphics) but THAT didn't work.
Any help tips?
Any help tips?
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This is a tutorial I posted on a topic some time ago.
Download RivaTuner, open it, click in the side of your VGA name, Directx Options, and check Force Pixel Shader 1.4. Reboot your computer and play the game
But have in mind that this will force every 3D application to run under DX8.1 (AKA. newer games won`t run), I think there is an option to try that withou doing this procedure, through a software named 3DAnalyze, you choose the game executable, check the box limiting the game to run in pixel shader 1.4 and run it.
Well, could be an extremely different issue, but who knows, hope it helps.
Uhhh what? I'm sorry, I have ABOSOULUTLY no idea what forcing anti-aliasing in my card's driver settings is.
EDIT: Now re-downloading from Steam
EDIT 2: Didn't help at all. I asked my friend through Steam about forcing anti-aliasing in my card's driver settings. He said it was in-game. I looked at the graphics settings, chaned graphics to 1, turned off Shadow quality, and effects are on.
Still waiting for TTG assistance
I messed around with the graphics settings. Froze and crash. Now every time it starts up, it freezes and I have to force restart. Won't let me readjust the settings either. Uninstalled it and reinstalled it, no difference.
It sounds like you set something to a level your system can't handle (probably the Shadows setting). Try deleting the file named "prefs.prop" in the following location:
Documents\Telltale Games\Poker Night at the Inventory
This will return the game to its original default settings. Hope that helps!
Isn't there supposed to be arrows by the shadow and graphic setting?
That is probably a video card issue. You might try updating your drivers. It's also possible that the buttons that will allow you to change the settings are actually useable, but you just can't see them. Try clicking about a half-inch to the left or right of the various settings.
How do I do that?
It is laggy as hell.
It takes forever to load.
There has to be a way to fix this. It is on the lowest setting possible.
EDIT:Ha heavy made a joke about my lag it was taking so long for it to load and he said "HA not even I take this long to point
I'd also appreciate to know how to do this
Please i must know this.
This fixes the laggy mouse, black screen and crashes on resolution/fullscreen changes I was getting, but it still crashes after the intro.
Except for the tiny, tiny fact that Tycho no longer has any color of any sort and is just a black silhouette.
I'm running with a Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family integrated graphics card if that helps anybody.
Im going to bump this because I still have no clue how to turn this off.
Yep, tried this as well. Was amazed at how well it ran, but then I get to the table and Tycho is all black.
EDIT: I think I'm just going to be playing like this for now. It just runs so much better, with no mouse lag at all.
Any chance of TellTale making a shader 1.4 version of Tycho for all of us with older cards?
That program they were talkinga about.
I open Poker Night, and see a nice menu, no background or anything. I click play and see some subtitles, and that's literally it. Graphicless at the Inventory. Just a black screen and subtitles, and the game crashes if I try to change the resolution.
I tried to do a few things to fix it on Steam, and I've now upgraded to precisely this problem. In a nice little window, with the brand new addition of subtitles, but nowt else. I know we didn't pay much for this game, but I think everybody's just so shocked.
The game probably runs better now, just because your GPU doesn't have the extra stress of rendering Tycho in the pixel shader at all.
Even on my Radeon HD 4850 i can only play up to 1440x900 smoothly, although S&M S3 runs fine with highest details at 1920x1200.
With PS 1.4 forced, i can play PNATI at 1920x1200 with highest settings at 60 fps, while i get 30-45 fps at best with Tycho visible.
Therefore i think a much better option than a Tycho for a lower pixel shader version would be an option to have Tycho rendered the way Max or Strongbad are. It wouldn't have the same comic look anymore, but that's a low price for having the game running smooth.