Sometimes the game runs sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it just runs very badly.

[taviow]

Note that my GPU is fine to run the game. Also, the game very rarely runs fine, but it can happen. Sometimes it doesn't start, "couldn't initialize renderer #0" message. Sometimes it does run, but it's unplayable because of how terrible the performance is.

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[jens]

Lower the settings a bit, such as SSAO quality (leave it at medium if you changed to high), samples to 8 and do not use edge smoothing as they are all very demanding features.

Also try and turn off Aero before starting the game to see if that helps.

[taviow]

Lower the settings a bit, such as SSAO quality (leave it at medium if you changed to high), samples to 8 and do not use edge smoothing as they are all very demanding features.

Also try and turn off Aero before starting the game to see if that helps.

I wanted to run it at 1600x900, SSAO quality medium, samples 16, +edge smoothing and everything else.

Sure, I can lower them, it's just curious that it did run fine with those settings selected once or twice.

I'll try and roll back to another driver version or something.

In an unrelated note, why couldn't you let us alt+tab? Whyyyyyyy? ;_;

[taviow]

I'm back here to prove my problem is a valid one and it's not just a case of "your settings are too high!"

Here's my problem:

Run the game once, and here it is, 9fps.


Try running it like 10 more times, and voila, here it is:


60fps, the way it was meant to be running.

This is what I'd been trying to explain all along and it's still here, just about a month later.

The game works RANDOMLY. MOST OF THE TIME IT DOESN'T. LOW SETTINGS OR NOT.

[Thomas]

Have you Windows Aero or something on in the background?

This kind of random behavior usually has to to with either conflicting hardware and/or applications.

[taviow]

Have you Windows Aero or something on in the background?

This kind of random behavior usually has to to with either conflicting hardware and/or applications.

Well, yeah, Aero is on.

Other than that there's nHancer and d3d overrider.

[Thomas]

Aero is known to lower performance on some systems so start by turning that off.

[Themathking]

Aero is known to lower performance on some systems so start by turning that off.

Yeah, I also have the same problem as the fellow here. My computer can run this game at max settings easily, with like 60fps, but then some days it's so choppy that it takes me 5 minuites to close the game.

Also, it seems to have been affecting my save files to a degree. Sometimes the save files get corrupted and start in some sort of debug mode where the fps is abyssmal, and a lot of fps and "numsounds" information is printed to the screen. Earlier saves won't have it, only some saves that have these issues.

It's also on steam, so will the next steam patch resolve this?

Thanks

[Pojoman]

I have actually had this problem as well, but i found a relatively easy solution to it. In my situation this problem always occurred after running some cpu/gpu intensive application then switching to Amnesia. I found just restarting my computer and running the game off of a fresh reboot would cause it to run properly every single time.

[ultio]

I'm having the exact same problem as well. I just bought the game a couple of hours ago and I played it with all settings maxed out, except for SSAO, and after taking just a 10 minute break I wanted to just jump right back to the game. But suddenly the perfomance of the game was really bad, going from pretty much constant 60 fps down to 1 fps - 20 fps. This is quite weird, you guys should look into it.

I tried what Pojoman said - restarting the computer - and that actually worked, but it's still not a satisfying resolution to the problem.

My specs:

Windows 7 Professional - 64 Bit
Purchased the game on Steam

Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 3 Ghz
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS - 512 MB
3 GB DDR2 RAM (800 Mhz)
abit IP35-Pro Motherboard
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer - 64 MB - Soundcard

All drivers are up-to-date.