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Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent
AdamAK Offline
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Solved: 8 Years, 1 Month ago Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent

EDIT: Terribly sorry! I accidentally posted the thread in the Penumbra forum, rather than the Amnesia forum. Could a kind moderator please move it to the correct section?
Hello everyone,

It's been many months now since I have bought Amnesia, and I've had dozens of hours of fun with it. A few months ago, however, the game started running terribly. Regardless of what settings I use the framerate is dreadful, and the game is practically unplayable. I have not made any adjustments to my computer over the past few months, and this issue arose quite suddenly. I have tried things like updating my GPU drivers, and have even rolled back to the original ones now as well, but nothing seems to make a difference. No important software or hardware changes have been made since I've been playing Amnesia; just a few games being installed and such.

The odd thing is thus that I used to be able to play this game on high settings while streaming it while getting a solid 40/50+ fps, and now I'm getting sub 15 fps on the lowest settings without even streaming it.

Any ideas on what could be causing it?

I'm attaching a dxdiag file, but in short, my specs are:
i7-2630QM
4GB DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GeForce GT540M

EDIT2: Added the hpl.log file.


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.txt   DxDiag.txt (Size: 38.83 KB / Downloads: 192)
.log   hpl.log (Size: 13.53 KB / Downloads: 168)
(This post was last modified: 07-01-2012, 08:24 PM by AdamAK.)
06-18-2012, 10:58 PM
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Solved: 8 Years, 1 Month ago RE: [Wrong forum] Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Just a guess:
Have you recently cleaned your fans? Summer has arrived and things are getting warmer. Having dust in your fans might increase CPU temperatures to levels which creates lag in games (at least for me).

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06-19-2012, 08:38 PM
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Solved: 8 Years, 1 Month ago RE: [Wrong forum] Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Summer hasn't really arrived in my country, sadly. Besides, this issue started in early March (quite suddenly), when it was still pretty chilly out here. My idle CPU temperatures are sitting at a regular level.
Furthermore, my other games run fine on this laptop and only Amnesia is giving me trouble.

I'll clean my fans again, but I'm quite sure the problem I'm having is not really hardware-based.
06-19-2012, 08:52 PM
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Solved: 8 Years, 1 Month ago RE: [Wrong forum] Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent

from where did you get the game?
06-19-2012, 11:07 PM
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Solved: 8 Years, 1 Month ago RE: [Wrong forum] Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent

I bought it on Steam back in August 2011.
06-20-2012, 08:07 AM
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Solved: 8 Years, 1 Month ago RE: [Wrong forum] Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent

do a file integrity check
06-20-2012, 02:14 PM
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Solved: 8 Years, 1 Month ago RE: [Wrong forum] Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent

I did a file integrity check, but the game has been re-installed several times over the past few months anyway (during my attempts to fix the problem).

I've managed to make the game playable (the low fps kicks in later, and is mainly an issue in larger rooms) while streaming, but it's still underperforming substantially compared to how it used to run.
06-21-2012, 07:28 AM
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Solved: 8 Years, 1 Month ago RE: [Wrong forum] Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent

maybe you have programs that interfere installed
06-21-2012, 03:09 PM
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Solved: 8 Years, 1 Month ago RE: [Wrong forum] Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Doesn't look like it. I've tried disabling background programs, but it didn't make any noticeable difference.

I've also run several malware sweeps, but they didn't find anything, so it's not a virus either (though that would've clearly affected all my games, rather than just Amnesia).
06-23-2012, 01:37 PM
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Solved: 8 Years, 1 Month ago RE: [Wrong forum] Framerate issues with Amnesia: The Dark Descent

after doing another file integrity check, run the game until it starts to lag and reattach the hpl.log file
06-23-2012, 02:46 PM
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