Framerate issue in oldschool games

[cbrunny]

DirectX 7 is no go as well.

 

[Gryz]

How about googling for a solution ?

I googled "Dungeon Siege windows 7".
Immediately got interesting hits.
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/how-do-i-play-the-original-dungeon-siege-on-windows-7
http://www.deathmarine.com/dungeon-siege-and-windows-7-x64/?ModPagespeed=noscript

It seems you need to make sure the videocard is selected correctly.
If you want to play "Legend of Aranna" (which I assume is some DLC), you need to do a few more things.
I'm sure all the answers are somewhere on the web.

I know it used to take some work to make the old Thief1 and Thief2 games work on Windows 7. Luckily the fanboys have made an all-in-one package that fixes all little issues. I bet all the same problems apply to Dungeon Siege as well, only nobody took the time to create such a all-in-one fix.

 

[cbrunny]

How about googling for a solution ?

I googled "Dungeon Siege windows 7".
Immediately got interesting hits.
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/how-do-i-play-the-original-dungeon-siege-on-windows-7
http://www.deathmarine.com/dungeon-siege-and-windows-7-x64/?ModPagespeed=noscript

It seems you need to make sure the videocard is selected correctly.
If you want to play "Legend of Aranna" (which I assume is some DLC), you need to do a few more things.
I'm sure all the answers are somewhere on the web.

I know it used to take some work to make the old Thief1 and Thief2 games work on Windows 7. Luckily the fanboys have made an all-in-one package that fixes all little issues. I bet all the same problems apply to Dungeon Siege as well, only nobody took the time to create such a all-in-one fix.

I've tried all of these things with no improvements. Google is my homeboy.

 

[EliteRetard]

I think it was the same game, an oldie either way...and had the same low frame rate issue. This was on a laptop with a 9800m video card and I think Vista/Win7. Anyway I ended up getting an older version of EVGA Precision software that allowed me to manually change clock speeds. For whatever reason the game would not detect and the GPU stayed at idle speeds (like 50Mhz or something stupid low). When I forced the GPU to run at higher speeds the frame rates went from the teens to 60+. Problem was it refused to stay clocked up.

I made shortcut key for it so you could just hit that while in game to force the clock speeds back up. The highest speed setting only stayed for a few seconds, then the GPU would drop to lower and lower speeds. The moderate speed settings were all 40+ FPS still and it took 2-5 minutes for it to drop back to idle (which dropped from around 40 to teens). So you just had to hit the force speed key every so often.

There may be a better way to do things, but the point is that it may be your GPU not clocking up for whatever reason. It may be worth trying to force a higher speed to see how it affects the game and if that solves the problem then you just need to find a good solution to hold the speeds up. I had inquired here about the issue at one time but nobody had a single idea at the time.

Anyway, just throwing it out there.

 

[Jaydip]

OP have you tried to set the CPU affinity to one core?

 

[Anarchist420]

Lol. This is ridiculous reasoning. "A video card isn't designed to play video games"

Thanks for beating my ass to it.

 

[Keromyaou]

To FalseChristians: I agree with your experiences. I recently changed video cards of my main computer from ATI to Nvidia. I have a lot of old games I purchased at GOG.com (I have almost 80% of their games since I like DRM-free games). There were many games I could not even run decently at ATI cards under W7 64bit (I tried many settings using RadeonPro). Most notable games are Enclave, UFO series, Outcast, and Nox. For this reason I have another computer with Q9650/Gtx9800 under XP just for running old games. For instance, there are many links suggesting to set CPU affinity to one core to run Enclave under W7. I tried it using different methodology. But I was never able to run this game with ATI cards at all. There are many links about the issues to run UFO aftershock at a full screen mode. And in fact I couldn't do it either with ATI cards.
But recently after I changed my main computer's video cards from ATI to Nvidia, I was amazed to find that the new video cards can run all these problematic games without any issues under W7 64bit at all. I mean that I can run all these games with my new Nvidia cards without any efforts at all. Although I could run Dungeon Siege 1 with my old ATI cards fine, I feel that the new Nvidia cards run more smoothly than that. Surely in some games mouse lags might be problems no matter which video cards I use. But at least I can run all the games with new Nvidia cards. I wonder if Nvidia drivers might still retain codes to run old games while ATI drivers might focus on newer games mainly.

To Arkadrel: Can you show me the old link to show that ATI cards run old games better than Nvidia cards? I am interested in reading the link to see other people's experiences.