Extreme lag when using pills

[godmachine]

It's not bad at first, but as the game progresses, the lag worsens. My machine is more than capable of running this game with no problems (i7, 12gb ram, 3gb 670). Does this happen to anyone else? What could be causing it? It hasn't done this until about a month ago.

[XMog]

It may be the graphic effect that goes along with some of the pills (like the status change pills).

Your hardware is plenty good for the game, but there can always be incompatibilities or other conflicts. When you first noticed the issue, did you recently update your video drivers?

Check the stickied "Known Issues" post, and look at the "Performance issues, or shader problems" section. As a possible workaround, try the game with some of those graphic options disabled (possibly the bloom effect?), and see if it makes any difference in your issue.

Good luck.

[godmachine]

Thanks a bunch for your helpful and courteous reply, XMog! I checked out the section you mentioned. I set all the options to 0, and 1 by 1 tested the game and eventually found the culprit: Bloom! I never have liked that effect, and now I like it even less! Pills work smooth as anything else now, and I'm sure things like Tammy's Head + Azazel won't slow down either. Thanks again!

[XMog]

Excellent; glad I could help.

[godmachine]

Originally posted by Fusion:

You can turn off bloom? How?

Check out the "Known Issues" post on this forum and look under "Performance issues, or shader problems" and follow the instructions to create this extra graphics file. It will have all the text you need, just copy/paste it in, and set everything to 1 except for bloom.