Posted June 16, 2013
Hi guys,
I bought this game: GOG version now and years ago the original one. Ok as far as I remember the original version on an old PC is really smooth but this GOG one it could be a choppy pain at least for my hardware+software configuration.
First of all my current config: Radeon 5850, Dual Core CPU and Win 8.
I read here about T&L executable: please remember the TL exe is the hardware full details version of the game, the other one is the D3D emulation file (!!!). Of course the emulation exe will work on any machine but your target is to try to execute the TL one. Again: the TL exe is the FULL details game.
The bad thing is that TL exec in Win8 is a true choppy pain and the other exec in Win8 is a 'minor' choppy pain but also far far far away from the real game. By considering my configuration here follows my experiments.
Win8 default both exe choppy and pain, the game is almost unplayable after some hours when the city grows larger. Just to report an example you'll find yourself in clicking a lot of times to be understood from the game. Definitely it's not the REAL game. I do not know if it's a GOG version fix for Win8 or so but anyway it's unplayable and frustrating.
Win8, executable run in the WinXP or Win7 mode: that's it, the real game. Smooth smooth, real time response everything glides everywhere. That's the way the game must be played. The TL executable can be fully loaded and playable at full screen with all the REAL details (look at the light from the windows). Anyway this mode will show some graphic glitches but maybe with an nvidia card ti's not the same.
Linux + Wine, fast and smooth but there is some rendering problem with many black screen and the buildings are all black. So it's not speaking as a test (but this try suggested to me to set in Win8 the compatibility mode :) ).
I hope you find these lines useful.
For GOG developers: is it possible to have in win8 plain execution the same performance of Win7 and WinXP mode?
Regards.
I bought this game: GOG version now and years ago the original one. Ok as far as I remember the original version on an old PC is really smooth but this GOG one it could be a choppy pain at least for my hardware+software configuration.
First of all my current config: Radeon 5850, Dual Core CPU and Win 8.
I read here about T&L executable: please remember the TL exe is the hardware full details version of the game, the other one is the D3D emulation file (!!!). Of course the emulation exe will work on any machine but your target is to try to execute the TL one. Again: the TL exe is the FULL details game.
The bad thing is that TL exec in Win8 is a true choppy pain and the other exec in Win8 is a 'minor' choppy pain but also far far far away from the real game. By considering my configuration here follows my experiments.
Win8 default both exe choppy and pain, the game is almost unplayable after some hours when the city grows larger. Just to report an example you'll find yourself in clicking a lot of times to be understood from the game. Definitely it's not the REAL game. I do not know if it's a GOG version fix for Win8 or so but anyway it's unplayable and frustrating.
Win8, executable run in the WinXP or Win7 mode: that's it, the real game. Smooth smooth, real time response everything glides everywhere. That's the way the game must be played. The TL executable can be fully loaded and playable at full screen with all the REAL details (look at the light from the windows). Anyway this mode will show some graphic glitches but maybe with an nvidia card ti's not the same.
Linux + Wine, fast and smooth but there is some rendering problem with many black screen and the buildings are all black. So it's not speaking as a test (but this try suggested to me to set in Win8 the compatibility mode :) ).
I hope you find these lines useful.
For GOG developers: is it possible to have in win8 plain execution the same performance of Win7 and WinXP mode?
Regards.
