[Solved] game is slow and crashes at intro

[steamgamer]

hello i just bought this game over steam today, and i cant get past intro screen without going 0-1fps and crashing after the blit blot intro

[Alec]

Do you mind sharing your computer's hardware and OS information? Thanks.

[steamgamer]

my computer is a fujitsu notebook, 2ghz centrino duo, ati mobility x1600, 2 gb ram, vista

[Alec]

Can you send me your debug.log? You could be able to find it in the "common" sub folder of your steam program files. Please email it as an attachment to zaphire@gmail.com

Thanks!

[steamgamer]

done

[Alec]

Have you tried playing around with your graphics card settings at all?

You could try changing texture quality, making sure antialiasing is off, forcing vsync on, etc.

Also there's going to be an update dropping soon that might alleviate part of the problem.

[steamgamer]

i've done almost everything in my power and knowledge to get the game working.  i've even defaulted my catalyst control center to default graphic settings, i've even tuned down all options to "none" on anti alias, and anitriscopic and such. vsync on/off. i found out that when i loaded Aquaria, it causes my cpu usage to go up 50% at all times if the game is loaded (no matter the graphic settings, it always uses up 50% of my cpu), but will not go past the blit blot logo without crashing.

[Alec]

I'm confused as to why the game is crashing, unless the install from steam messed up and you didn't get all the content (you could try deleting local content and redownloading) or if there's some very rare driver-hardware combination messing it up.

I'm not seeing anything in the debug.log that indicates why the game would crash. In fact, it seems that the last thing that happened was that you alt-tabbed out of the program?

[steamgamer]

i only alt tabbed to close it with task manager, i deleted content and redownloaded and still not working, i'm having the same problem as that other guy that gave the screenshots of the 60hz television displaytype pictures. i cant figure out what's wrong, i can play every other game out there. but not this one.

[Alec]

i only alt tabbed to close it with task manager, i deleted content and redownloaded and still not working, i'm having the same problem as that other guy that gave the screenshots of the 60hz television displaytype pictures. i cant figure out what's wrong, i can play every other game out there. but not this one.

I'm going to try to get a patch up today, we'll see if it helps this problem.

[steamgamer]

that would be great, and by the way i looked into the debug log also, near the end i have bout  5lines that read "precaching such and such" then below it some would say "loaded texture from disk" but some like "gfx/healthbar, gfx/bar, and gfx/shock-hit", were "missing" etc etc. is that normal?

[mikemakesright]

I am also having the same problems as many others.  The game gets to the start menu and then if I try to click on one of the buttons, or if I leave it alone for a few seconds, the screen freezes, then it exits out and windows says that there is a problem with the program.

Here are my particulars:

*Homemade PC
*Intel Core Duo 3.0 ghz
*ATI Radeon HD 4850
*2 Gb Ram
*Windows Vista Premium
*Downloaded off of Steam

I hope you can help me fix this problem.

[Alec]

Sound like ATI cards are the common link.

What version of catalyst do you guys have?

[mikemakesright]

Mine is Version 8.7

[Hiro]

Just thought I'd let you know, I have an ATI graphics card and my Aquaria works just fine with the new patch.
My catalyst control center version is 8.9, and I have a Radeon X1300/X1550 series card according to the control center.

Just letting you know that not all ATI cards break with this game.