Demo not working correctly

[Ophidian]

Okay, I played this at my friends house perfectly. Got home and tried this on my machine, quite a few problems. The 'frictional games' logo which comes up shows doubles of them, and the same for the logo circle thing which shows when its loading the game (it shows 4 of them). After that onto the game, theres a black screen but theres audio, the subtitles are very off timed also.

Have updated graphics drivers, put the resolution and graphic settings all to lowest, reinstalled but no luck.

Running on Windows 7 32bit
3GB RAM
ATI Radeon X1950 Pro
3.0Ghz Intel Dual core

Any help would be great, thanks.

[Catloaf]

I'm having the same exact problem, It is said to be a problem with the Radeon X Series.
I use Windows XP 32bit
Around 2GB RAM
ATI Radeon X1650
And a processor with about 2.0-2.6Ghz

[Thomas]

Have you tried running the game in windowed mode?

[TyjanIgarushi]

I'm also having the same problem as well. I've done everything suggested in the X-series part of the guide to no avail. I've reinstalled the game and my drivers, I've tried graphical settings from the highest my PC can allow to the lowest settings I can select, running it with both fullscreen and windowed.

Just like the OP, the Frictional logo and the other logo is stretched and there's doubles of them stretched out and the Loading logo has 4 logos on them. The menus work fine, but as soon as I start the game, the speech is the only thing that goes and the game is horribly laggy. The audio also take s a while to load, so I'm guessing the game is just running VERY low FPS. There's a black screen unless I Ctrl+Alt+Delete, which shows the game and promptly freezes the game when I do so.

Here's my Specs (From DXDiag):

Processor: AMD Athlon™ 5000 Dual-Core Processor, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Card name: Radeon X1650 Series PCI-E Card
OS: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100427-1636)

And here's my most recent hp.log file:

-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Engine build ID 20100818114615

Creating Engine Modules
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Creating graphics module
Creating system module
Creating resource module
Creating input module
Creating sound module
Creating physics module
Creating ai module
Creating gui module
Creating generate module
Creating haptic module
Creating scene module
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Initializing Resources Module
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Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
Adding loaders to handlers
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Setting video mode: 1024 x 768 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Renderer: Radeon X1650 Series
Version: 2.1.8545 Release
Max texture image units: 16
Max texture coord units: 8
Max user clip planes: 6
Two sided stencil: 1
Vertex Buffer Object: 1
Anisotropic filtering: 1
Max Anisotropic degree: 16
Multisampling: 1
Texture compression: 1
Texture compression S3TC: 1
Auto generate MipMaps: 1
Render to texture: 1
Max draw buffers: 4
Max color render targets: 4
Packed depth-stencil: 1
Texture float: 1
GLSL Version: 1.20
ShaderModel 2: 1
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 0
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 1
Adding engine materials
Initializing DevIL
Vendor String: Abysmal Software
Version String: Developer's Image Library (DevIL) 1.6.8pre Aug 12 2006
Version Number: 168
Adding engine post effects
--------------------------------------------------------

Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
0. Generic Hardware on C-Media CM6501 Like Sound Device(OpenAL default)
1. Generic Software on C-Media CM6501 Like Sound Device
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on C-Media CM6501 Like Sound Device'... Success!
Number of mono sources: 32
Streaming setup: 4 Buffers x 262144 bytes each
--------------------------------------------------------

Initializing Game Module
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Adding engine updates
Initializing script functions
--------------------------------------------------------

User Initialization
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- DEMO VERSION -
--------------------------------------------------------

Game Running
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-------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 4398 ms
Entities: 1703 ms
Compilation: 1 ms
Total: 6265 ms
Meshes created: 22
Bodies created: 5
-------- Loading complete ---------
Setting profile: 'Tyjan' Path: 'C:\Documents and Settings\Tyjan Igarushi.TYJANIG\My Documents/Amnesia/MainDemo/Tyjan/'
-------- Loading map 'demo_00_rainy_hall.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 10430 ms
Entities: 17721 ms
Compilation: 32 ms
Total: 28841 ms
Meshes created: 132
Bodies created: 42
-------- Loading complete ---------

EDIT: Also, just ran the Graphics Compatibility Test Round Two and everything matched up with the pictures.

[Thomas]

The big problem is that the drivers simply are old and outdated.

However! I will get myself an X-series card and do my best to get it working. I cannot say when we can have a patch out, but if you register on our mailing list you will know as soon as it is out:
http://www.frictionalgames.com/propagand...cribe&id=3

Meanwhile there is no known fix I'm afraid. That does not mean that there does not exist one though!

SUGGESTIONS:
- Turning off all posts effects seem to get the game running.
- Try deleting files named inventory_screen_effect_frag and mainmenu_screen_blur_frag.glsl in "shader" dir in the install directory. Make copies first though!! This will disable any effects during menu rendering and might help!

[TyjanIgarushi]

-snip-

Thanks a bunch! I've been waiting to try this game out since it's initial trailer, and I hope to love it as much as I loved the Penumbra series!

[JordanTate]

I have the same problem, running a X1950XTX
It seems everyone on these series of cards has the same problem.
Turning off imagetrail should get the game running in the game options, (not the launcher options when the game is actually at the menu) but after i encountered another problem. The game freezes when pressing Tab, J, Escape. Making the game unplayable (cant open journal)

So try turning off image trail and see if it works (should) and then help me find a solution to this next problem
Thanks!

[Thomas]

JordanTate:

- Try deleting files named inventory_screen_effect_frag and mainmenu_screen_blur_frag.glsl in "shader" dir in the install directory. Make copies first though!! This will disable any effects during menu rendering and might help!

Tried that?

[JordanTate]

JordanTate:

- Try deleting files named inventory_screen_effect_frag and mainmenu_screen_blur_frag.glsl in "shader" dir in the install directory. Make copies first though!! This will disable any effects during menu rendering and might help!

Tried that?

I just tried that there, and no luck.
Still freezing, only this time BlackBox opened with a error

Amnesia.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module Amnesia.exe at 001b:00470C1E

[Ophidian]

Downloaded the game and got the same problem, guess we'll have to wait for a patch or something.