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Posted June 11, 2011
Second time now (in a row) that a game purchased from gog is having FPS issues. In this game, when fully zoomed out and in most areas I am getting anywhere from 10-25 FPS which makes the game pretty much unplayable for me. It's very jittery and starts to give me a headache.

I actually own Sacred on disk (albeit not the Gold version, hence my purchase) and it runs fine.

I've scoured these forums and have tried every suggestion and combination of suggestion I could within the last few hours. WAITTRACE, core affinity, compatibility mode, and more.

At this point I think I'm close to just giving up and just call it a loss...it's only $5 but I have to admit I'm getting pissed off. Wasted a lot of my time and in the end I still don't have a game that works properly.

I'm wondering if I would have better experience if I picked up the game elsewhere? Anyone know if the Steam version (or some other version) is any better?
Posted June 11, 2011
A better question would be why you are having such trouble with GOG games in particular. Technically, there is no real difference between the game that GOG sells and what is sold elsewhere, including your original disk version, so by all rights, the GOG version should work just as well as your disk version or a version from any other DD service.
Posted June 13, 2011
Like cogadh said are the games the normal sold versions, just without DRM (which makes the performance better than the standard)
Try to start the game via the command line and look in the game folder for logs.
Maybe they include an clue what's wrong.
Posted August 11, 2011
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cogadh: A better question would be why you are having such trouble with GOG games in particular. Technically, there is no real difference between the game that GOG sells and what is sold elsewhere, including your original disk version, so by all rights, the GOG version should work just as well as your disk version or a version from any other DD service.
That is not necessarily true, and is often not the case. Many games that won't normally install and/or run well on the latest windows, esp 64 bit, will in fact without having to do much when bought from Gog, run just fine.

For a game I cannot remember, they even added higher rez's... (div divinity? i think)


Anyway, I have to agree with theOP - if they are going to sell a game, I dont care what the price, it should run perfectly fine on modern systems... END OF STORY!
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dnuggs40: Second time now (in a row) that a game purchased from gog is having FPS issues. In this game, when fully zoomed out and in most areas I am getting anywhere from 10-25 FPS which makes the game pretty much unplayable for me. It's very jittery and starts to give me a headache.

I actually own Sacred on disk (albeit not the Gold version, hence my purchase) and it runs fine.

I've scoured these forums and have tried every suggestion and combination of suggestion I could within the last few hours. WAITTRACE, core affinity, compatibility mode, and more.

At this point I think I'm close to just giving up and just call it a loss...it's only $5 but I have to admit I'm getting pissed off. Wasted a lot of my time and in the end I still don't have a game that works properly.

I'm wondering if I would have better experience if I picked up the game elsewhere? Anyone know if the Steam version (or some other version) is any better?
1) Disable any and all tripple buffering and vert sync, anywher yoh have it enabled or forced.
2) right click on the sacred exe and remove ANY compatibility settings
3) open up the Config exe and make sure the AA filter is off and make sure the 32 bit color setting is on
4) in your grpahics control panel, disable any AA other than the regular kind - in other words, no transparency AA or gama correction. For the regular AA, override and set to 4x or 8x, as per your preference.
5) is your are running SLI, set this game to run in single-GPU mode.

That is why I did, and while the game isn't 100% silky smooth, its more than playable and VAST improvement over what my default (works for smooth Crysis lol) setup is.

HOPE THIS HELPS!!!


PS - Your right, btw, if GOG is going to sell a game, it should run flawlessly on new pc's. Virtually not PC running today couldnt handle 99% of the games here...
Post edited August 11, 2011 by BINARYGOD
Posted August 22, 2011
Game runs perfectly on my computer, which is only a year old and built for gaming. Now with Fraps running I'm getting a constant 60fps (which is good, as it is locked to the screens native refresh). I have had zero issues with any Gog game thus far. I would suggest you look at your own system, as modern hardware is not the issue here, but more of a user issue. If anything, the only thing jumping out at me is the screen resolution, and that is only mildly noticeable after a while... something that no one will fix for a game that is this old by PC standards and that is very cheap. Play and enjoy, this title is far superior to Diablo 2 imho.

ps. I love my Daemon Succubus
Posted August 30, 2011
Dude, I have been building computers for over 20 years.

My current specs are:

Q6600 @ 3.0gjz
4gb Ram
260GTX Core 216
Windows 7 64bit

All my drivers up to date and I keep my computer nice and clean. This has nothing to do with my computer this computer should be able to run Sacred Gold in it's sleep. I have tons of other games too and the only games I get FPS issues with are BOTH from gog. This game, and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. Meanwhile Crysis plays like a champ go figure.

By the way I've spoke to many people around the web and almost everyone I spoke to with similar setup (Windows 7 and modern hardware) has similar issues with the frame rates for Sacred. Some have been able to tweak all the suggested setting to get acceptable frame rates, some haven't.

I have got it to work somewhat better though playing around with more settings. I can get it to work at around 30fps now for the most part except when I go into a town...it start dipping into the low 20's which makes it a bit stuttery.

It's almost playable now but damn...I thought the whole idea behind gog was making these old games available and playable on new systems. I should not have to go through so much work just to get the game to a just barely playable state.

Kinda feels like I am back in the DOS days...might as well start making boot disks again to free up some himem and extended memory lol.
Post edited August 30, 2011 by dnuggs40
Posted September 23, 2011
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dnuggs40: Dude, I have been building computers for over 20 years.

My current specs are:

Q6600 @ 3.0gjz
4gb Ram
260GTX Core 216
Windows 7 64bit

All my drivers up to date and I keep my computer nice and clean. This has nothing to do with my computer this computer should be able to run Sacred Gold in it's sleep. I have tons of other games too and the only games I get FPS issues with are BOTH from gog. This game, and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. Meanwhile Crysis plays like a champ go figure.

By the way I've spoke to many people around the web and almost everyone I spoke to with similar setup (Windows 7 and modern hardware) has similar issues with the frame rates for Sacred. Some have been able to tweak all the suggested setting to get acceptable frame rates, some haven't.

I have got it to work somewhat better though playing around with more settings. I can get it to work at around 30fps now for the most part except when I go into a town...it start dipping into the low 20's which makes it a bit stuttery.

It's almost playable now but damn...I thought the whole idea behind gog was making these old games available and playable on new systems. I should not have to go through so much work just to get the game to a just barely playable state.

Kinda feels like I am back in the DOS days...might as well start making boot disks again to free up some himem and extended memory lol.
FWIW I have the Steam version of Sacred Gold and it lags big-time on my Windows 7 laptop(other games run fine) but runs like a champ on my Vista 64 desktop, so definitely something up with Win 7/Sacred combo for some folks.
Posted December 18, 2011
I too have an issue with choppy graphics now and then.
At first i would restart the game under the assumption it was a memory issue.
Then I started to alt-tab to the desk top then tab back into the game once the desktop loaded and it would run normally.
Posted December 21, 2011
Yes, I'm having the same issues in Windows 7 x64. Frame rate drops to about 10-15 in towns and forested areas when zoomed all the way out. No issues with frame rates in other games, including max settings Battlefield 3 and Skyrim. I've tried resetting my graphics card settings to default, dropping all the video settings in Sacred to low, and disabling sound.

I want to like this game, but the choppy graphics are kind of killing me.

EDIT: Forcing 4X AA in the Nvidia control panel and forcing Vsync off by adding WAITRETRACE : 0 to the settings.cfg file helped. It still chugs in town when lots of people are around, but it's at least playable zoomed out now.
Post edited December 21, 2011 by BluesAlibi
Posted January 05, 2012
Has anyone come up with a solid fix for this yet? This is the only game I get FPS issues with, so I figured I'd just wait until the issue is resolved. I'm using Windows 7 64 bit as well, which I am starting to see is a trend with issues running this game.
Posted January 05, 2012
Is this possibly a Win7/Nvidia issue? I'm running Win7 64-bit with an ATI 4870 and I don't seem to be getting the same problem. Go into a town, zoom way out, still plays smooth.
Posted January 06, 2012
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ekj7: Is this possibly a Win7/Nvidia issue? I'm running Win7 64-bit with an ATI 4870 and I don't seem to be getting the same problem. Go into a town, zoom way out, still plays smooth.
It very well could be, since I use Windows 7 64 bit, and I have an Nvidia Geforce GTX 580 graphics card. So that would make sense.
Posted January 27, 2012
Just bought this today with the sale, pretty disappointed. I have Win7 64-bit/Nvidia with exactly the same issue. The only way to I got it remotely playable is to force vsync OFF and add WAITRETRACE : 0 to settings.cfg as BluesAlibi suggested above. Nothing else I tried made any difference, changing processor affinity / game settings / compatibility modes did nothing to solve the extremely low fps.

Edit: Actually once I reached a town it plummeted back to unplayable again. :|

Edit 2: Thankfully it works great on my old ATI based rig with Vista 32.
Post edited January 27, 2012 by MikeMaximus
Posted April 15, 2012
It isn't just Nvidia, as I'm strictly an AMD/ATI guy and I too am having the chugging problem which considering i have an AMD Hexacore and ATI HD4850 which just slaughters more modern games it would be kinda comical if it weren't so irritating, so I'd say its a Win 7 issue. I've seen it on both my AMD desktop and my AMD netbook, both running 8Gb of RAM and Win 7 X64.

It runs fine in my old XP install but considering how much of a hassle it is to reboot just to play a single game and how I've pretty much moved completely into Win 7 I'm hoping that some of these tweaks suggested here my work. Boy I hope so as i never did get i76 to run on my system. Maybe GOG should put a warning up if a game has serious Win 7 issues.
Posted April 15, 2012
I don't think it's specific to Nvidia or ATI either.

I also don't think it's a problem with the GOG edition, I think it's a problem with Windows 7. I say that because I have both the box retail and GOG editions, and they both run superbly on WIndows XP while both struggle to remain above 15 fps on Windows 7 64 bit (with exact same Nvidia card).
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