Metalheart:RR Lagging

[Rafaello]

Hello

I couldn't find any other designed forum that this for asking.

Recently i installed Metalheart: Replicants Rampage. I got Windows 7 with all the requirements more than met. Game runs very smoothly half of the time - the other half is short, 1-10+ seconds, freezes. I wouldn't mind a couple of them, but not if they're happening every other line of dialog, every other turn, every other map scroll.
I've looked a bit and found only info about uninstalling VCM 9, which i did. I'm running the game with Windows 2000 compatibility - those two combined "optimize" the speed but the problem isn't solved at all.

Has anybody of you played this game and found a resolve to it? I would appreciate any hints or guides.

PS. I tried VirtualPC with Windows 98 and Windows XP - the game couldn't even run though.

Thanks for you time!

 

[TheWesDude]

have you tried assigning it to only a single core and not core 0?


a lot of older games run in a single thread only, and due to the OS and how it tries to normalize the wear across all your CPUs to make sure one doesnt burn out prematurely, it will swap cores around for what you are using.

try assigning it toa single core. start up the game, open task manager, find the game proccess on the process list ( not application list ) and then right click it and do something like "cpu affinity" and make sure only 1 core is checked, and that its higher than 0.

 

[Rafaello]

Tried that right now.
Selecting only one core, either Core 0 or Core 1 makes the game even worse. I had to restart the game 4 times to finally load and hear some dialog.

Tried that with compatibility, without compatibility and also with VCM uninstalled and installed.

 

[ErnestGaskin]

Refreshing

Hey!

After having the same problems i found this post of yours via google. Seeing you didnt succeed i tried to mess around and found out the lag is actually caused by audio itself - when the game is muted via its settings, no lag appears.

Now this is a bit more common issue, easier to google - the recomended solution is turn down mixing quality in the windows speaker settings, though this didnt really help me at all (for some reason, i had the lowest settings turned on already).

Playing the game muted makes it rather unenjoyable, so i am not willing to settle for this.

Any suggestions, anyone?