How do I make wonder videos run better?

[chego720]

Does any one know haw to make wonder movies run better? When they do them they like skip.

 

[Zydor]

Please post your dxdiag

Start Button - click - type dxdiag - press enter - wait a min- select "save all information" - post as an attachment using the 'go advanced' button below

Regards
Zy

 

[chego720]

can you explain that a little better?

are their any other ways

 

[Chieftess]

Moderator Action: Merged posts, and made the thread title more descriptive.

 

[kornish_pasty]

Click on start - goto run - type in DXDIAG - Click on display tab - what does it say next to chip type and approx total memory

 

[bsorc]

I think this might work


Install Patch 1.52 twice.

if you have already installed 1.52 then just once more reinstall it. It worked for me when i did this. I then removed my game and tried it again..worked again

good luck. Tell me if it worked

 

[Hyronymus]

I think this might work


Install Patch 1.52 twice.

if you have already installed 1.52 then just once more reinstall it. It worked for me when i did this. I then removed my game and tried it again..worked again

good luck. Tell me if it worked

OK...

Don't forget to run around the table 3x too . Make sure you have the most recent graphical drivers and try setting te virtual memory that your graphic card is allowed to use at a higher value.

 

[chego720]

Nevermind I fixed it. That patch ting is stupid and it didn't work. It made the game worse

 

[Iceberg]

Chego,

Can you tell us what you did?

I'm having the same problem: The wonder video's looks like a slide show. The sound stutters, too.

 

[chego720]

Well all I did was reinstall the game and took off the patch. When i didn't have the patch the movies ran at normal speed but with flickering sound. When i installd the patch again the movies ran like they did before. So i guess it had to do the patch...

 

[Zydor]

V1.52 placed more work on the Video card -one result of that is it flushed out under spec hardware in droves, and those with low end/marginal video also surfaced.

If its worse under V1.52, that indicates - for whatever reason - a marginal graphics system. Can also get the effect with marginal hardware in other areas of the setup. Difficult to say without sight of the dxdiag

You're probably going to say you have an SLI behemouth

Regards
Zy

 

[NerdBird]

The way that I've been able to get best performance on my machine when playing the wonder movies is to make sure my desktop resolution and in-game resolution are the same. Sounds odd but I swear it works (for me). Unfortunately the later game movies still suffer a bit but I think it's because there is so much processing going on. The early game movies have perfect sound and video, though, but not if the two resolutions are different.

 

[Zanmato]

Try this, delete the cache files in Application Data folder. May need to unhide the hidden folders in Windows.

Assuming you use Nvidia,
Go to advanced in the display control panel, find the settings for the card itself. Switch AA off, Anisotropic filtering off, Image quality set to high performance, Vsnyc off, Triple buffering off, Negative LOD bias allow.

INI changes - AllowScreenshots on, Bink16bit on, all other Bink related settings set to 0, SyncInput off, D3X9 queries off.

I did these changes and now my videos run smoothly even into late game. Although I do not know if it is down to changing one setting somewhere or a combination of settings or just by simply deleting the cache. The game is set to a different res than the normal windows res, but it seems to work happily here now.

 

[Ponet]

Hi everyone i have problem in this game:
everything is ok in main menu ,but when i start new game ,game going veeeeeerrrrryyyyyy slllllooooowwwwww ,so i change in "advance options" everything on "low" but ,this doesnt work and game going slow too
My computer is" AMD Athlon xp 3000+ 768DDR-RAM GeForce FX 5200 128 MB WinXP ,patch 1.52 ,and DirectX 9.c ,help?

 

[Zanmato]

Ponet, increase pagefile to 2Gb first, see if it makes a difference.
Should be okay with 768mb RAM but chances are it will spill over into your pagefile if you play on anything bigger than standard maps into the late stages.

The FX5200 128mb - is your weakest link. It isn't very good at the latest 3d stuff. I had one and I was struggling with it. Have you updated the video card drivers? The latest are 81.98 and has better support Direct 9c. Download from here, http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.98.html. A GeForce 6000 series card is reasonably priced if you are willing to part with some money. Get one with a onboard fan and 256mb of video RAM if you end up looking for one.

 

[Ponet]

yep iam download latest video drivers and nothing happens

 

[Zydor]

Some relief on the way, they have put together low texture movies which will cut down the load to 25% of what it is now when movies run. Release date not known,but we anticipate - not based on fact - a release with the next patch. They will certainly help, whether they will resolve the FX5200 hassles remains to be seen

Regards
Zy

 

[Ponet]

i hope so ,can`t wait to play!!! but at now i can`t thx for help
Regards