Massive Lag and Crash in Requiem

[Steppenwolf]

Oh, I forgot to mention hat the latest patch 1.0.1 already was installed.

To solve the lag problem I de- and reinstalled the graphic, sound and OpenAL driver. Nothing works. Also a new install of the game doesn't help.

Thats really weird. While Black Plaque runs "normal" (some small lags in the biggest areas) with highest settings, Requiem still lags while everything on the lowest (!) and a resolution of 800x600 instead of 1024x768. Ok, wiht these setiings it goes from initially unplayable to nearly playable with ugly graphics. :cry:

I know I have old hardware (Athlon XP 2600+, 2 GB Ram, Geforce 7800 GS and Sounblaster Live 1024), but that shouldn't be responsible for this differences in the performance of these two games.

But some good news, I found the reason for the crash. The game seems to have problem with Hardware Acceleration = On in the Sound Menu (strange on a Soundblaster card). When it is Off the game didn't crash on exit, but when it was turned On one time I can only fix this by deleting the settings.cfg.