I?m recently getting back into pc gaming after several years and unfortunately, since no one I currently know is a pc gamer ? it?s all PS3s and X-Boxes for these guys -- I?m forced to turn to internet opinion and feedback about certain game issues?
Until this week, when my wife?s cousin paid us a visit. This is a guy who actually had the gumption as well as the mula to recently get himself an Alienware Area-51 gaming laptop. Just days before he showed up, I?d been looking up issues about Gothic 3 and all the stuttering I?d experienced even though game is fully patched and my system is running a QuadCore Q6600@2.40 GHz, 3 GB of memory and an ATI Radeon HD4850 512MB video card. I have Vista Ultimate Edition, 32-bit. The few other games I have installed (Oblivion, WOW, Jericho, The Witcher, GTA 4) run extremely smoothly at max settings. Oblivion stutters once in a while but it?s rare and quite tolerable.
Gothic 3 on the other hand, for me at least, is an unplayable stuttering mess. And it?s not terribly new either. I thought maybe it was a Vista thing (despite the fact I?ve no issues at all with Vista in the four months I?ve been running it, although UAC was annoying during setup) and tried running Gothic 3 in XP SP2 compatibility mode as well as running it with administrative rights (suggestions which I?d read in other forums). None of that helped.
Turns out my wife?s cousin has Gothic 3 installed on his fabulous laptop (as he likes to call it). I asked him to run it for me, so I can actually see an example of Gothic 3 running smoothly.
I wasn?t impressed. Not even a little bit.
While it?s been noted that the beginning of the game is choppier than the latter part of it, this guy?s laptop was showing me a half-hour beginning of contant choppiness that matched my own (it might have even been worse, I couldn?t fully tell).
And the amazing thing was HE COULDN?T see it! I didn?t want to be rude or anything, but I twice asked him if the stuttering bothered him. His answer each time: what stuttering?
And with that, I breathed a sigh of relief as an explanation had been given which was better than anything I?d read so far on this issue. And that is: some players simply DON?T SEE IT. While some people claim, ?It?s YOUR system, YOUR computer, I DON?T have that problem? the fact is they just might be the sort of gamer that doesn?t see a certain kind of stuttering?perhaps if its consistent enough, their eyes just register it as a part of the gameflow or something?
Anyway, I just felt the need to impart this revelation, in case there are other frustrated pc gamers who wonder if they?re alone with certain issues?
cheers!
Until this week, when my wife?s cousin paid us a visit. This is a guy who actually had the gumption as well as the mula to recently get himself an Alienware Area-51 gaming laptop. Just days before he showed up, I?d been looking up issues about Gothic 3 and all the stuttering I?d experienced even though game is fully patched and my system is running a QuadCore Q6600@2.40 GHz, 3 GB of memory and an ATI Radeon HD4850 512MB video card. I have Vista Ultimate Edition, 32-bit. The few other games I have installed (Oblivion, WOW, Jericho, The Witcher, GTA 4) run extremely smoothly at max settings. Oblivion stutters once in a while but it?s rare and quite tolerable.
Gothic 3 on the other hand, for me at least, is an unplayable stuttering mess. And it?s not terribly new either. I thought maybe it was a Vista thing (despite the fact I?ve no issues at all with Vista in the four months I?ve been running it, although UAC was annoying during setup) and tried running Gothic 3 in XP SP2 compatibility mode as well as running it with administrative rights (suggestions which I?d read in other forums). None of that helped.
Turns out my wife?s cousin has Gothic 3 installed on his fabulous laptop (as he likes to call it). I asked him to run it for me, so I can actually see an example of Gothic 3 running smoothly.
I wasn?t impressed. Not even a little bit.
While it?s been noted that the beginning of the game is choppier than the latter part of it, this guy?s laptop was showing me a half-hour beginning of contant choppiness that matched my own (it might have even been worse, I couldn?t fully tell).
And the amazing thing was HE COULDN?T see it! I didn?t want to be rude or anything, but I twice asked him if the stuttering bothered him. His answer each time: what stuttering?
And with that, I breathed a sigh of relief as an explanation had been given which was better than anything I?d read so far on this issue. And that is: some players simply DON?T SEE IT. While some people claim, ?It?s YOUR system, YOUR computer, I DON?T have that problem? the fact is they just might be the sort of gamer that doesn?t see a certain kind of stuttering?perhaps if its consistent enough, their eyes just register it as a part of the gameflow or something?
Anyway, I just felt the need to impart this revelation, in case there are other frustrated pc gamers who wonder if they?re alone with certain issues?
cheers!
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