Performance worse after last patch?

[Shocks]

On a Intel HD Graphics comp I now have much worse performance than before, I played the game a lot on this machine with no issues. Could there be an issue in the last updates?

[mkl]

Hi,

With the update the performance (loading times, etc.) have been better for me than before. I do not have an Intel GPU though.

For the sake of troubleshooting, it'd be good if you'd post the full specs (including your operating system). If someone else runs into lower performance as well, a comparison between full specs can be made, which then might pinpoint the issue and allow a faster fix (if it's a game side issue).

Best of luck with resolving the issue.

[shadowflash]

Intel HD graphics means absolutely nothing. Because there's a few types of that chip and there's a lot of processors, from single core ULV Celeron, which obviously not a top performer and can run only ten years old titles at full speed (Angry Birds and low-res 2D indie titles don't count). Right now i'm using laptop with i3-3120M and Intel HD 4000, and even more - it uses linux so there's a small performance drop on D3D9 -> OpenGL translation. And game runs at full speed everywhere but one place in a first level where i'm getting 51-55fps - the ONLY slowdown in a whole game.

[Shingo-Y]

Of course performances are worse : the game doesn't even boot now :(

[mkl]

Shingo-Y: Does the game launch and close itself instantly or not launch at all? Are you getting any error message when this happens?

If not, try checking your Ikaruga folder (Steam/steamapps/common/Ikaruga/) and see if you can find any crash logs. These would be in the following format: game_<numbers>_crash_<year>_<month>_<day>_<more info>.mdmp

If launching the game generates such files, providing them to Treasure's support would likely make it faster for them to fix your issue. Sadly there's not much you can find out through the logs yourself, as they seem to be encrypted.

I trust you have already tried verifying the game files via steam, as well as reinstalling it?

[mkl]

tf: the performance issues you've mentioned - are they mainly loading times or slow downs while playing?

If they are loading time related and you have a decent amount of RAM, you could try to modify the boot.ini file's load_all 0 to load_all 1

This would load all the chapters at once, rather than at every chapter's beginning.

The boot.txt file can be found at Steam/steamapps/common/Ikaruga

If it's slowdowns: do you play in windowed or fullscreen mode? If full screen, you could try if lowering the full screen resolution mode from the boot.txt helps. The default resolution is that of your desktop, but you can lower it with the full_screen_resolution option from the boot.txt file.

[ᴰᵉᶜᵏ Rambo M]

The game still will not boot up for me and it is not generating any kind of crash log.

The new settings that they added the boot.txt, somehow, don't even EXIST in my copy of the file, despite getting yesterday's patch and reinstalling the game.

I've verified the game cache and reinstalled it multiple times. Nothing works. This game has been completely defective since they started patching it. I'd have asked Steam for a refund already if they'd offered it.

[mkl]

Rambo M.: Sounds like it could potentially be a writing issue (no permission). You can change the settings from your OS on a file-by-file basis. I'd recommend checking that writing is allowed for that (and perhaps all other Ikaruga files).

What you can do in the meanwhile to test, is to add the information yourself. Below are the default boot.txt settings (with comment fields removed for the sake of message length). Please try replacing the file's content with this and see if it boots:


boot 1

display_adapter 0

no_vsync 0

window_resolution 0

full_screen_resolution 0

no_audio 0

load_all 0

load_retry 5

[ᴰᵉᶜᵏ Rambo M]

No luck.

[Shocks]

Sorry if I "Intel HD" is too vague but I can't get more info from say Device Manager.
The problem is slowdowns and like I said the game has been running well for a very long time, also changing the resolution or playing in windowed mode does not help, get roughly the same weak FPS.

[mkl]

tf: If you go to the "run" menu, you can open dxdiag which will give you more information about your computer that you can post here. The display tab has the GPU information in it.

Hold down the windows key and press R -> type dxdiag in the "open" field and press ok.

Sadly there's not much I can do here, but posting more information about your computer will help the developers if they spot this thread.

[eFMeral_dEVO]

Originally posted by tf:

I now have much worse performance than before, I played the game a lot on this machine with no issues. Could there be an issue in the last updates?

I'm having the same problem with slowdown. I have been running the game flawlessly since it arrived on steam. I was getting a rock-solid 60 FPS(at 1080 or "Desktop" settings in options).

Today I started up the game to see my framerate dipping into the 30's and 40's. Some parts would run fine and didn't seem to have anything to do with how much was happening on screen. It slowed to a crawl during the "Cloud" transition of stage #1. Yet, at the part where all the "space-tank train things" are causing ruckus it jumped back to 60 FPS.

I dont have a clue whats going on, but it makes me sad. It ran like a dream last week...

I'm running on a dual 3 Ghz Intel Xeon processors, 2GB of ram, Nvidia 8600GTS, Windows XP Pro SP3.

[Fishbull]

Same problem slowdown on my leptop with this new patch(Build 215401)

[ZaD]

Same problem here, the speed is significantly reduced since one recent patch.
It was working fine from the release until that.
I have a GeForce GTX 570, an AMD Phenom II X4 965, and win 7 64 bits if it can help.

[CueZero]

Weird, I thought my gfx card was dying then I find this post. Guess I'm not the only one with sudden slowdowns. Playing on a gtx660, vista 32bit, 2gbs ram. The game was running absolutely perfect last week.

[eFMeral_dEVO]

For me, the slowdown is bad enough to not allow postings of Highscores to the leaderboards... I really hope this gets fixed soon.