Extreme lag with video in main menu. Anyone else?

[JDR13]

The game itself runs fine for me on the highest settings, but for some reason it's extremely laggy while on the main menu. It's so bad that I can barely even move the mouse pointer around.

I've circumvented the problem for now by renaming the WMV file that plays in the background while you're on that screen, but I wish I could figure out what's causing it to run so slow, and I'd like to be able to have that video running in the background.

I tried updating my video drivers and video codecs and fiddling with the settings in my video players, but nothing I've tried seems to work.

Has anyone else experienced this with Risen 3 or perhaps with another game? If so, were you able to figure it out?

[JDR13]

Bump...

[Rexero]

i have the same problem, how solution?

[Ted Snark]

I don't know if it's fixable, but ingame setting v-sync on fixed the general lag for me.=)

[Kaldaien]

I have had this problem in other games before. For those games, the problem was that I had ffdshow set to rescale video files with resolutions < 640x480 to 1080p. You might be able to setup an exception rule for ffdshow, if that is your problem. There is usually a list of .exe files that the filter will not run for.

[JDR13]

Publicado originalmente por Kaldaien:

I have had this problem in other games before. For those games, the problem was that I had ffdshow set to rescale video files with resolutions < 640x480 to 1080p. You might be able to setup an exception rule for ffdshow, if that is your problem. There is usually a list of .exe files that the filter will not run for.

How do I change those settings in Windows 7?

[Lex]

Same here, thx for the fix JDR13

[JDR13]

It didn't work for me :(

[Drakster]

Same problem for me.

[Thorus]

Any fix by now? I Turned v-sync on, I created excpetion in ffdshow for Risen 3.exe, I actually disabled all the filters but with no luck. I have a decent PC that carried Risen 2 on highest graphic settings... Btw I'm on windows XP.

[MadNinjaPenguin]

It's still laggy for me too (Risen 1 & 2 play fine), I turned on v-sync & have the resolution lower but the menu is still laggy (not alot though) & at the start (on the ship battle). I know my laptop can handle it as i can play games like Alien Isolation fine with no problems (Mad Max i had to tweak it a bit but that works fine also)