All but a few things are at 60fps. Help troubleshooting?

[Doofdum]

So, my character and MOST other things in the environment are at 60fps on high settings. But certain things like grass and moving target dummies are really choppy. They move at like 10fps... on their own. Anyone have an idea as to why this is happening?

[Doofdum]

Also, my mouse cursor on the pause screen moves really choppy. The game SHOULD be able to run fine on this rig

[Pafti]

Having the same problem, seems to affect the mouse in general, not just in the menu. Moving the camera feels inconsistent.

I'm on Win 7 x64
i5-650(Overclocked around 4.00gHz)
4gb of DDR3 RAM
2x AMD 6850 HD (Crossfire disabled)
I'm using the onboard sound on my EVGA P55 LE.

Playing around with Graphics Settings doesn't fix.
Vsync On/Off doesn't fix it.
Limiting the frames to 60 with 3rd party software and disabling Vsync doesn't fix it.

The last thing i tried was setting the compatibly mode to Windows XP Servicepack 3, didn't do anything either.

I'm thinking about doing some video stuff with this game, really don't want obvious bugs showing.

[Doofdum]

Yeah, they seem kind of unavoidable in the PC version. I'm not sure.

[....]

Yeah, in the past I gave up on this game bacause of that. It's almost like a micro stutter/camera stutter. The menu is pretty bad too.

[Doofdum]

sad, too. I love this game

[....]

I'm going to pop in my old CD for this game and give it another shot. I will also try to google around for some possible solutions. I REALLY want to play this game again.

[lKasHl]

Are you running with vsync on/off?

[Doofdum]

either/or. same thing happens regardless

[lKasHl]

Sorry I don't have the game on me at the moment so theres no way I can experiment, I do remember though that when I played it a while back, at 60fps the camera movements were perfectly smooth but some of the animations were inconsistent. I wouldn't say 10 fps though, more like 30, maybe the devs just put in static animations that don't scale with faster GPU's?

[Doofdum]

This is exactly what's happening. Things like the menus and the target dummies. Sometimes the grass. For me it's 10 fps tops. I only have a gtx550 ti, but this should run perfectly on it. Oh well. I'll just get on xbox if I ever need to play it

[lKasHl]

The XBOX version plays at 30 fps or so though not to mention the graphics aren't as good (Fable TLC was pretty remarkable back in its day). I do remember the menus being frustrating but nothing was bad to the extent that it destroyed the experience. Maybe try frame capping the game to 40 fps and see if it makes things more consistent/bearable for you?

[Doofdum]

Indeed, I'll try tweaking the settings a bit. See what happens :)

[Jamash]

I had a similar problem, i.e. 60fps when static, but dropping to sub-10fps when I moved the camera or my character.

After a week of frustrating troubleshooting, it turned out the problem was caused by the prorgrams "Asus Smart Doctor" and "Asus GamerOSD" that I'd installed with my grapics card.

After I'd completly removed these programs via Control Panel (as opposed to just disabling them), all my problems disappeared and this game runs smoothly with a consitently high framerate in all situations.

I don't know what it is about Asus Smart Doctor and Asus GamerOSD, but those programs seriously hamper the performance of older games (Sid Meier's Pirates was also reduced to single digit fps), perhaps they interefere with DirectX 9 or something, but removing them has done the trick for me.

[Dionysus 🐭]

Has anyone found a fix? I got this one instead of anniversary so I could have mouse control in menus, but this problem ruins it.