Simon's furniture is flying around

**Interjace** · 05-09-2016, 06:55 PM

Hello. I googled the internets but couldn't find anything on this issue.

I recently tried playing SOMA and it works fine, the graphics look fine, everything is fine. Except that entire Simon's apartment decided to explode on me. A fork is flying in the middle of the room, some doors and drawers are stuck, a pack of clothes flies around and the entire kitchen is falling down to the floor. I can interact with everything except the dvd player, which sent me behind the kitchen.

Here are some examples of what it looks like:
http://imgur.com/a/r82Xu

I have tried reinstalling it, I have updated my graphics card, I changed my power management mode (in nvidia control panel) from "adaptive" to "Prefer maximum performance, I have verified integrity of game cache on Steam, and I tried messing with the graphics settings

My computer:
Operating System: 64-bit Windows 7
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 320
Processor: Intel Core i3 2.93Ghz
Memory: 8 GB

**plutomaniac** · 05-11-2016, 02:46 PM

That graphics card is barely able to play the game. The problem is probably driver related. Make sure you have the latest Nvidia drivers installed from nvidia.com (341.95) and select a "Clean Installation" during setup in case of corruption. Other than that, you should restore default settings at the Nvidia Control Panel for the game and perform a steam file integrity check.

**Interjace** · 05-12-2016, 02:34 AM

(05-11-2016, 02:46 PM)plutomaniac Wrote: That graphics card is barely able to play the game. The problem is probably driver related. Make sure you have the latest Nvidia drivers installed from nvidia.com (341.95) and select a "Clean Installation" during setup in case of corruption. Other than that, you should restore default settings at the Nvidia Control Panel for the game and perform a steam file integrity check.

Hi! I know I'm on minimum requirements but I thought that at least I'm above minimun, it should work. I mean, it handles Overwatch just fine a few days ago and that game is heavy.

I tried a clean installation now, didn't work
I restored the settings and I did a integrity check.

Is there anything else I can try?

**plutomaniac** · 05-12-2016, 01:44 PM

SOMA uses OpenGL and not Direct3D like most games. I believe that it's a system specific issue related to graphics, probably drivers. When I said that the game can barely run on such graphics card, I meant hardware and not performance wise. Based on the HPL.log the gpu supports OpenGL 3.3.0 which is exactly what the game requires as a minimum. It could be that the driver implementation of 3.3.0 in that gpu is not proper. Does it occur later in the game? Simon's apartment is a very small part so maybe you can just bare with it for a few minutes and move on. Usually though, such graphics corruption doesn't happen in only one place.