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Support / Re: for those of you with laptops using ati who can't get updated drivers

« on: December 15, 2008, 01:47:46 am »

It seems the ATI Omega drivers are outdated. Last Update on their HP is from June 08 and the last Omega drvier (4.8.422) is based on the old Cataclyst 7.1 -> ATI is currently at 8.1. (Still better 7.1 base than an Laptop Vendor's old 5.x / 6.x version)

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Support / Re: Major issues/unplayable

« on: December 15, 2008, 01:44:39 am »

Just checked for new Omega drivers, but it seems the Version I have (4.8.422 / Cataclyst 7.1, it was just displayed wrong in the System control) was the last driver they made at omegadrivers.net (it seems they are not updating their site/drivers anymore, it seems current version of ATI Cataclyst is 8.1)

I am going to try and install the new 8.1 Cataclyst... let's see if that works helps

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Support / Re: Major issues/unplayable

« on: December 14, 2008, 10:08:23 pm »

Thank you!

Ill keep checking back for a new demo.  (I guess I can't return the full version if it is buggy for me as well?)

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Support / Re: Major issues/unplayable

« on: December 14, 2008, 09:15:11 pm »

In essence that means: "Buy the game to see if you can play it"?

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Support / Re: Major issues/unplayable

« on: December 14, 2008, 12:55:02 am »

Oh, sorry. It happens with the demo.

The game looked so fluid and cute in the Video on moddb.com - I just found it yesterday and wanted to try it because it reminded me of ECCO the Dolphin on SEGA Genesis.

It's the Demo that was hosted on Mirror 1, linked from the Aquaria home page (AquariaDemo.2007.12.07.exe)

Thanks,

- akeean

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Support / Re: Major issues/unplayable

« on: December 13, 2008, 10:54:29 pm »

I have a similar problem.

The game does not crash, but runs at a speed of about 0.5 - 1 FPS. The intro screen has the same "Filming a 60hz TV" slow motion line scan effect. It takes my trusty laptop about a minute to get through the logo animation and do the fade to open the main menue. There the sluggishness persists. The Click animation to start a new game takes 20 seconds to run.

The games does load, but after 10 minutes of waiting the frame-by-frame animation i finally terminated the game (I could see the little mermaid moving her feet, though)

I already put all graphic options to as low as possible, disabled framebuffer effects and mipmaps, tried running it in Window but no prevail. It's just far far far to slow.

I am surprised to see this 2D-Styled game kill my Laptop, while I can play a lot 3D titles smoothly...

What kind of System do I need to run this game smoothly? Does it use a lot Pixel Shader 2.0 effects? (Because, then I understand that the performance is so bad on my Laptop)

My Stats:
Centrino 1 Mobile Pentium 1,86ghz
ATI Radeon X300
1GB Ram
Windows XP, SP3
DX9c
Omega 3.8.422 Drivers