Game stuttering and optimus
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:48 am
* 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.
- 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.