Gothic 3 troubles (PSU Related?)

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  1. okcpu

    okcpu Member Guru

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    After trying this game i'm suffering from terrible stuttering lasting upto 3 seconds sometimes but mostly just small consistent stutters. I'm aware that mostly this is down to a poorly optimized game as i have very few issues with any of the latest games so rather than cry about it i am using this game to tweak my system. Reading on the official forums there are many claiming there game is running perfect so there must be a weak link somewhere in my system that is being exposed and if i can find it then all the better for me.

    This brings me to the main reason i posted here. I monitored the rails on my PSU while playing Gothic 3 and noticed that while the 12v stays steady at 11,968 while idle it drops to 11,712 while playing Gothic 3. The test was only for a couple of minutes but should i be worried by the results? Is it normal for it to drop this much and if not is there away to keep it more steady?
     
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  3. Sieras

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    I'd say that your voltage is fine, defragment your hard drive and be sure that your page file is not fragmented too...
     
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    I have defragged at least 3 times already. I also disabled my page file to test something then enabled it again and defragging once afterwards.
    My system is performing well, just not with this game. Gothic 3 either has the worst programming ever or i have a PC setting wrong that no other game has exposed in the last year. Help!

    P.S. it has me thinking that a 7200RPM hard drive with 8 Meg Cache just doesn't cut it no more.
     
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  5. Dominator

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    I'd say it's the game coding. Looking at your specs, you should have no problems at all.
     
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    Hm.. oh well, then do some .ini tweaks as eclap suggested, increasing the memory cashe size might help here.
     
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    Your PSU is fine, tweaking as mentioned before will be best.
     
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    Tweaking was the first thing i tried. I'm running at 1024*768 so that shouldn't cause a problem ;) I tried running no AF, medium textures and running more cache to no avail. This is why i'm now looking at my hardware and settings for a tweak rather than the game settings. I can now rule out my PSU :) Ta
     
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  9. morfeus02

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    try disabling shadows.

    i play smooth (30fps) at 1280*1024 everything maxed

    and if you do some ini tweak even the boring loading times during the game are reduced

    anyway this game need to be fixed
     
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