Game stuttering and optimus

[Veneke]

* Please include the version and build information seen in the middle at the bottom of the main menu screen.
- v1.01

* What problems do you see. E.g. which screen you are looking at, which buttons did you press to repeat the problem. How does the game go wrong.
- The game stutters, the video is choppy, the animations are jerky... I think you get what I'm driving at.

It is possible that this is because the game is attempting to run on the graphics chip on my CPU rather than on my dedicated graphics card. My particular setup has it so that operations which are not graphic intensive do not utilize the graphics card - in particular it uses NVidia optimus to do so. You can override this by having an application use one or the other by adjusting a particular setting in the NVidia control panel. I have tried, multiple times now, to attempt to follow the normal procedure for adjust this and, each time, the application uses the integrated chip rather than the dedicated graphics card. When I set the application back to the proper GPU it accepts the update but, upon further inspection, appears to auto-revert. I've never had this issue before and I have had games where I've needed to adjust this setting.

* A Directx Dialog file - see below for instructions on how to generate a Directx Dialog file.
* The log file written by the game. It is located in "User\Username\Appdata\Roaming\Proxy Studios\Pandora\Logs" or "Docs & settings\Username\Appdata\Proxy Studios\Pandora\Logs" depending on your OS
- See attached.

Help resolving this issue would be appreciated.

Edit: Whoops, forgot the file.

[Veneke]

Ah. Nevermind, I fixed it.

For anyone else who runs into the same problem you need to adjust the graphics card used for the following .exe

...\Slitherine\Pandora\Binaries\Pandora.exe

On the Nvidia panel it thinks that it's Splinter Cell Pandora tomorrow but that doesn't seem to cause a problem. I don't have that particular game so I don't know if having it might subsequently cause an issue. At any rate, you then need to launch the game directly from this .exe (I just created a new shortcut to it from the desktop to replace the main menu shortcut). It'll skip the main menu screen but it will still check for updates.

[VPaulus]

Great to know it's working.
Thanks for telling how you have done it.