TOMI: menu screens are fine, game is laggy
I'm not sure what the problem is. I have the game set to the lowest quality, and the menu screens are running perfectly fine, but when the game starts, the framerate drops to about five to nine frames per second.
I've shut down all other programs while playing, that hasn't helped. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it. That hasn't helped.
The Sam and Max games worked fine for me. So have SBCG4AP and the first two parts of W&G.
Muzzled gave me the exact same problem when I was playing it. It would go from fine to laggy and back to fine. I just downloaded it again an hour ago, and now it's running smoothly.
Can someone tell me what's going on?
I've shut down all other programs while playing, that hasn't helped. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it. That hasn't helped.
The Sam and Max games worked fine for me. So have SBCG4AP and the first two parts of W&G.
Muzzled gave me the exact same problem when I was playing it. It would go from fine to laggy and back to fine. I just downloaded it again an hour ago, and now it's running smoothly.
Can someone tell me what's going on?
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Go to your Start menu and click on Run.
Type in "dxdiag" and hit enter.
Then go to the Display tab
While here, the useful things for us:
Name:
Current Display Mode:
Main Driver:
Version:
Date:
Also, what is your operating system?
Current Display Mode: 1024 x 738 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Main Driver: igdumd32.dll
Version: 7.14.0010.1147 (English)
Date: 12/12/2006 10:50:10 AM
OS: Vista
Wallace and Gromit demo worked just fine for me. Even Vampyre Story with higher specs required was playable.
My specs:
Name: Mobile Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family
Current Display Mode: 1024 x 738 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Main Driver: igxpmp.dll
Version: 6.14.0010.4764 (English) [Intel page says it's current]
Date: 2007-01-13 12:33:00
OS: XP
Is there any way to do something with my poor computer that I can play ToMI and enjoy it?
Now my game is crashing after the title credits.
Try going to the Computer manufacturer website and try get the driver from here.
How do I find the computer manufacturer website?
(Sorry, I'm latin american and I can't find a better way to express it... My poor english knowledge!)
I'll head down to Best Buy tomorrow. Get my compy a bigger hard drive and better video card.
These are the minimim specs
Operating system: Windows XP / Vista
Processor: 2.0 GHz + (3 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent rec.)
Memory: 512MB (1GB rec.) Sound: DirectX 8.1 sound device
Video: 64MB DirectX 8.1-compliant video card (128MB rec.)
DirectX®: Version 9.0c or better
And this is what I got from dxdiag:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600@ 1.83GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.8ghZ
Memory: 2038MB RAM
DirectX: Version 10
And I don't know how to check my video card XP
Is there anyway to update my lappy's processor?
EDIT: Just found out how expensive that would be. I'll just stick with my earlier plan of upgrading my desktop.
Thanks for your kindness and really fair-play company policy, but I'll rather buy a new graphics than give my pre-ordered ToMI back : ) Anyways, supporting people who brought MI back to live is worth my 35$ even if I wouldn't get anything for that.
A little hint - driver from Intel didn't help, but after downloading new one from HP page (I have HP compaq DC7100 - maybe sound driver helped, too) and doing your msconfig trick the game was... well, on lowest settings it was playable. Just a little laggy durign the intro puzzle and in the town, but I was able to finish it (which I'm proud of).
Thanks again.
Wait...what msconfig trick?
1. Click Start --> Run --> Type MSCONFIG --> Click OK
2. On the General tab, choose Selective Startup
3. Uncheck Load Startup Items
4. Select the Services tab
5. Check Hide all Microsoft services
6. Click Disable all
7. Click on OK
8. Click Restart.
9. After reboot, run game to see if it works.
After performing the necessary steps, restore your system by doing the following:
1. Click Start --> Run --> Type MSCONFIG--> Click OK
2. On the General tab, choose Normal Startup
3. Click Ok
4. Click Yes, when asked to restart your computer
Great! It's working now. Thanks!
Go to Run and write dxdiag. Then, check the Display tab.
Where did you find that?
I've only just got round to installing and playing TOMI. Very disappointed that I'm having a similar lagging problems with the game. The Animation is very jerky. Could be that my processor isn't powerful enough but my display diagnostics are:
Name: NVIDIA GeForce 6100
Current Display Mode: 1280 x 720 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Main Driver: nv4_disp.dll
version: 6.14.0011.7813 (English)
Date: 18/09/2008 00:55:00
Running on Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
I don't know whether it's the fact that it's 1.81 GHz that might be causing the problem but any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Danimate
It does seem likely that the processor would be holding you back. I'd say your best bet is to try turning off as many background programs as possible before playing the game, and then turning your graphics settings down a bit. The clean booting thing mentioned above would also probably help you greatly.
I called geeksquad.
I will look to improve my processor and sort out my background programs. Got far too much on my desktop.
I can actually play it properly without any problems, just had to reduce the quality a fair amount. Still brilliant quality though, doesn't take anything away from the game.
Cheers
Danimate
Cheers
Danimate