Horrible Lag Issues - Have tried the stickied solution

[Terefall]

First of all, I want to say how amazing of a game Amnesia is. It's nearly flawless - one of the most horrifying/exciting games of all time.

Here's my issue. I will run at an awfully low FPS for no apparent reason. I've turned every setting and the resolution to as low as it can get.
I have met the system requirements and updated my drivers. I have a Nvidia Geforce 6150SE nForce 430 and 3gb of RAM.

There are no background applications that cause me to run slowly. I perform fine in games such as World of Warcraft, but even at the lowest settings possible Amnesia lags at around 5 fps and makes it very hard to play and at times unenjoyable. Any solutions for this?

[jens]

Have you checked issue B?

http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-3754.html

My first guess is that you try and disabled Aero for Windows and then try to run the game.

[Terefall]

Have you checked issue B?

http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-3754.html

My first guess is that you try and disabled Aero for Windows and then try to run the game.

Yes. See title. "Have tried the stickied solution."
Aero is not on my computer and has never been.
Any other things I can do?

[Thomas]

Check that you turned down SSAO samples to 16 or so and use medium resolution.

If so, is there anything at all that gives you higher FPS? Or do you have low fps even if running at 640x480 with low settings? I am not saying you should run the game at this setting, but if you mess around you might be able to see what feature(s) it is that is the culprit. When that is done, we can probably help out more.

Also make sure to install patch:
http://support.frictionalgames.com/entry/98/

[Terefall]

Check that you turned down SSAO samples to 16 or so and use medium resolution.

If so, is there anything at all that gives you higher FPS? Or do you have low fps even if running at 640x480 with low settings? I am not saying you should run the game at this setting, but if you mess around you might be able to see what feature(s) it is that is the culprit. When that is done, we can probably help out more.

Also make sure to install patch:
http://support.frictionalgames.com/entry/98/

My settings are on the lowest settings possible - resolution, SSAO, etc.

[Thomas]

Very strange..

Did you try a full driver re-installation? As in download new, uninstall, reboot, install new, reboot?

Perhaps there is a secondary card messign with you.

Could you attaching hpl.log and main_settings.cfg found in "My Documents/Amnesia/Main"

[Terefall]

Very strange..

Did you try a full driver re-installation? As in download new, uninstall, reboot, install new, reboot?

Perhaps there is a secondary card messign with you.

Could you attaching hpl.log and main_settings.cfg found in "My Documents/Amnesia/Main"

I installed the patch, and tried full driver re-install.

I couldn't locate the main_settings.cfg - where is it?

Here is hpl.log:

Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
Adding loaders to handlers
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
0. Generic Software on Line 1/2 (3- FastTrack Pro)(OpenAL default)
1. Generic Software on Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
2. Generic Software on S/PDIF (3- FastTrack Pro)
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on Line 1/2 (3- FastTrack Pro)'... Success!
Number of mono sources: 32
Streaming setup: 2 Buffers x 524288 bytes each
--------------------------------------------------------

Initializing Game Module
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Adding engine updates
Initializing script functions
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User Initialization
--------------------------------------------------------
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Exiting Gui Module
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Deleting all sets
Deleting all skins
Deleting all gfx elements
Deleting all materials
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Exiting Generate Module
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Exiting Scene Module
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Exiting Input Module
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Exiting Sound Module
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Exiting Graphics Module
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Exiting Resources Module
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Done with fonts
Done with scripts
Done with particles
Done with sounds
Done with meshes
Done with materials
Done with Gpu programs
Done with images
Destroyed all textures
Done with sound entities
Done with animations
Done with ent files
All resources deleted
--------------------------------------------------------

Exiting Physics Module
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Exiting System Module
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Deleting game setup provided by user
- Deleting lowlevel stuff.
Physics
Sound
Input
Resources
System
Graphics
Haptic
HPL Exit was successful!

I've turned SSAO off, shadows off and I still lag horribly. I have set the game to the lowest graphical settings possible.

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[Thomas]

The hpl.log file you attached was not correct. Look in "My Documents/Amnesia/Main". You will find main_settings.cfg there too.