Anyone else get framerate issues?

[Fuzzball]

I'm very much enjoying this game, but I've noticed that at some points, the movement of everything on screen slows down quite a bit. I very much doubt this is due to my hardware, seeing as it should be more than capable of running this game (2.4GHx i7 quad-core, 8GB RAM, GeForce GTX 675MX).

I've noticed the framerate seems to drop usually in an outside area where a lot is going on in the background and surrounding environment. It also happened at busy points in the poison gas caves. So I'm guessing the game is struggling to handle lots of things going on?

Is this speed drop a known issue? Or is there something I can adjust to improve performance?

(Sorry I'm posting so many new topics. I'm just trying to get as much enjoyment as I can out of this great game!)

[Fuzzball]

Ha! Turns out this was a common issue that I found an explanation for on Klei's forums. Turns out whenever I've been playing Mark of the Ninja before now it's been using my laptop's integrated graphics card, instead of the nice powerful NVIDIA one. I changed the settings so that it uses the better card, and now the game runs slick!

It's a shame I only found this out now, as I've nearly finished the game. Up until this point I thought all stealth kills were supposed to be in slow motion, but it turns out they're meant to run just as quickly as everything else! Why does this game default to using the inferior graphics card when other Steam games don't?

[Obelisk]

Glad you got that sorted out!

Originally posted by Fuzzball:

Why does this game default to using the inferior graphics card when other Steam games don't?

This is actually up to the graphics driver, not the game directly. The driver detects games based on it's own database of information, and uses that to decide which graphics card to use. In the case of Mark of the Ninja it isn't being detected for whatever reason (mainly because it doesn't know about the game specifically, as it will for most big-budget games), and is falling back to the default low-power card.

[Brother Slim]

Originally posted by Fuzzball:

Ha! Turns out this was a common issue that I found an explanation for on Klei's forums. Turns out whenever I've been playing Mark of the Ninja before now it's been using my laptop's integrated graphics card, instead of the nice powerful NVIDIA one. I changed the settings so that it uses the better card, and now the game runs slick!

It's a shame I only found this out now, as I've nearly finished the game. Up until this point I thought all stealth kills were supposed to be in slow motion, but it turns out they're meant to run just as quickly as everything else! Why does this game default to using the inferior graphics card when other Steam games don't?

So how did you go about fixing it exactly? I know what the solution is now, but I have no idea how to make it happen. I apologize for my lack of understanding.

[Obelisk]

Originally posted by ds2 (self employed):

So how did you go about fixing it exactly? I know what the solution is now, but I have no idea how to make it happen. I apologize for my lack of understanding.

If you are also using an nVidia graphics card, you can find detailed steps here: http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/28693-troubleshooting-steamstandalone-problems-and-solutions/#configure-nvidia-control-panel

[Brother Slim]

Sweeet, thank you! I learned something new as well.

[AugustusCB]

I use an AMD. Would it work the same way?

[troylights]

I haven't gotten so far as to notice slowdowns yet, but I just checked my NVidia control panel after reading this topic. The auto detect was for integrated HD 4000, so I set it to NVidia instead. Oddly enough, this game identifies as "Blitzkrieg II (bin/game.exe)" whether selecting it as a recently used program or directly via file browsing. The icon is correct, however, and I don't own any game called Blitzkrieg.