Hi guyz,

I have an issue with Blade Runner and my Nvidia 970M. In videos there are stutterings. The newest Nvidia driver was installed.

Someone has a solution?

My OS is Windows 7-64.

It looks like Nvidia 970M is quite powerful to run Blade Runner (ScummVM engine, which is what GOG uses).

I can run it without an issue on an Intel HD Graphics 3000 on a relatively old laptop with an Intel i5 2520M CPU @2.5Ghz and Windows 10 x64.

- Can you check if you are able to run other games, that contain FMV videos, without issues?
- Also, can you check that other processes that make heavy use of the CPU and/or GPU are not running at your system at the same time?

At the moment Blade Runner is my only game with FMV videos. There are no other processes, that make heavy use. Only my browser is active in RAM.

Other things to check:
- What is the CPU/GPU usage when running Blade Runner (especially when playing the stuttering videos) ?
- Is the game installed on an internal HDD (not necessarily an SSD but also not a slow external HDD)?
- Can you try and run the game with the latest development version of ScummVM for your Operating System to see if it makes any difference?

For Winodws the latest snapshot would be found here ("ScummVM Snapshot for Windows") and it's both for 32bit and 64bit Windows):
https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#daily

Setting up Blade Runner with this version should be quite trivial (just point it to the directory where GOG has installed the game). However I have posted some detailed instructions with screenshots in the ScummVM forum here:
https://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?p=87200#p87200

To CPU/GPU usage: Unfortunately I have no programs to measure it playing Balde Runner at same time ...any suggestion?

Yes, the game is installed on an internal SSD.

Yes, I can try and run the latest version of ScummVM (is there a risk that might corrupt the GOG-config-file? Because I am not into the technics of ScummVM), but I ask for patience for an answer.

I would suggest to run the game in Windowed Mode and check the CPU/GPU usage with Windows Task Manager. ScummVM will create another config file which, as far as I know, will reside in your User's Roaming data folder. The path for that would be sometihng like:
"C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ScummVM\scummvm.ini"
or equivalently:
"%APPDATA%\ScummVM\scummvm.ini"

GOG uses a local ScummVM config file which resides in your Blade Runner game folder and it is called "project_nov.ini"

In order to start Blade Runner windowed, when launching it with via GOG shortcuts, you can edit that project_nov.ini file with a text editor and change the:
fullscreen=true
to
fullscreen=false

Switching between fullscreen and windowed mode should be possible at runtime with Alt+Enter.

@Praetorian

First thank you very much for your help-support, but I think an installing of the latest version of ScummVM..well it will cause for me more problems than delivers solutions. It does exist a risk that something in the GOG-config-file would be broken or corrupted.

As I explained above, installing ScummVM will not affect you GOG installation or configuration.
I am a developer with ScummVM and work mostly on the Blade Runner engine too.

However, if you're uncomfortable with this solution I will not insist.

I was also thinking that maybe a Windows service running in the background takes up CPU/ GPU. For example, this last week I installed the Folding@Home and Rosetta@Home clients and set them to use CPU/ GPU resources on my PC quite aggressively (eg even when working, and at full capacity). They are for a great cause, but these services continue to run in the background even when closing the web or local client app, unless explicitly paused or stopped. And as such, they may cause slow CPU and GPU performance for other tasks (again only if configured to be aggressive).

Perhaps this could be a possible cause for your issue?

I really do not know. I can not check -playing Blade Runner- if an other app cause an issue.
Do you know any prog that could check such issues while playing a game?

- After launching the game via GOG, press Alt+Enter. This will switch it to windowed mode. (You can switch back to fullscreen by pressing Alt+Enter again).
- Windows 7 has a task manager tool that shows CPU usage per user running app; but you may have to click to some option like "More details" or similar to also see Windows services in that run in the background in the same view.

A better alternative to Task Manager is the "Resource Monitor" that is also a Windows tool and from what I see from the link below it is available in Windows 7 too (From Start→All Programs→Accessories→System Tools→Resource Monitor):
https://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-7/how-to-use-the-resource-monitor-in-windows-7/

About GPU usage you could us a freeware program like GPU-Z which also provides information about your available GPUs (if more that one).
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
From GPU-Z you need to go to the Sensors Tab and check the "GPU Load" field for current GPU usage.

By the way, I know that some laptops do have two GPUs (an integrated less powerful one and a dedticated GPU that should be used for gaming). I don't own such laptop, but maybe your laptop has two GPU and there's a setting to use the dedicated GPU (which should be the NVidia one) somewhere?