Back to the future game

[GeneHunt]

I am experiencing serious lag with this - has anyone else had this problem? it is constantly stuttering/lagging. I have tried turnning the settings right down and makes no difference at all.

The computer is a laptop with an:

intel i7 processor
4GB Ran
ATI Radeon 1GB Graphic card

Not brilliant but its still pretty decent. Anyone got any ideas on why this might be happening?

 

[Jadzia]

I've heard of this before. There are two possible causes. One is overheating of the gpu. I forget what the other cause is but it has something to do with windows.

edit: I remember! Try disabling the clock application on your desktop

 

[GeneHunt]

I've heard of this before. There are two possible causes. One is overheating of the gpu. I forget what the other cause is but it has something to do with windows.

edit: I remember! Try disabling the clock application on your desktop

Thanks for that - im at work at the mo but ill try when I get home - by "clock application" do you mean the calender in the bottom right hand of the screen?

 

[Holdfast]

Try disabling the clock application on your desktop...

If this is a time-travel-related joke suggestion, it's one of the finest gags I've read on this board.

If it's for real, it's even funnier.

 

[Jadzia]

If this is a time-travel-related joke suggestion, it's one of the finest gags I've read on this board.

If it's for real, it's even funnier.

It wasn't a joke, and I didn't see the connection! It would be funny if it is the problem

This stuttering problem has never happened to me.

I've heard several complaints over the past year that some modern radeon cards stutter with some modern games, and the common solution is to disable the clock application, whatever that may be. Those who ask the questions seem to know what to do.

Being simple minded I interpret 'clock' to be the thing that shows the time on the desktop -- that the program is stealing pulses of time from the gpu, so making the game pause intermittently.

But it could be something else. I don't have a modern graphics card so I don't know what features they have now. Do some of them overclock/underclock the gpu when the graphics workload is high/low? Is there an application which runs in the background specifically to do that?

 

[SD70ACe]

Just do what I do.

Play the BTTF card game.

 

[Jono]

Have you looked over in the forums at the Telltale Games site?

 

[The Lensman]

If this is a time-travel-related joke suggestion, it's one of the finest gags I've read on this board.

If it's for real, it's even funnier.

It wasn't a joke, and I didn't see the connection! It would be funny if it is the problem

This stuttering problem has never happened to me.

I've heard several complaints over the past year that some modern radeon cards stutter with some modern games, and the common solution is to disable the clock application, whatever that may be. Those who ask the questions seem to know what to do.

Being simple minded I interpret 'clock' to be the thing that shows the time on the desktop -- that the program is stealing pulses of time from the gpu, so making the game pause intermittently.

But it could be something else. I don't have a modern graphics card so I don't know what features they have now. Do some of them overclock/underclock the gpu when the graphics workload is high/low? Is there an application which runs in the background specifically to do that?

I once had some graphics issues when using the clock "gadget" in Windows 7. Maybe that's what's being referenced?

 

[Jadzia]

If you mean the clock "widget" that sits on your desktop, that's what I assumed was being referenced too.

 

[GeneHunt]

If you mean the clock "widget" that sits on your desktop, that's what I assumed was being referenced too.

I did that and it worked, thanks

 

[reversepolarity]

Haha, that's the most appropriate bug i've ever heard of!

 

[Jadzia]

If you mean the clock "widget" that sits on your desktop, that's what I assumed was being referenced too.

I did that and it worked, thanks

Cool

Enjoy your game.