Dollhouse not running well.

[Skullsvl]

The actual game runs perfectly well, but when I launch Dollhouse it runs either at a low frame rate or slow motion through all loading screens and gameplay. Again the main title works great I'm only having an issue with this dlc. Has anyone else had this issue or has a solution? I've tried verifying the game cache, changing the frame options and resolution in the options, and running the game as an admin.

[ironforward]

i'm also experiencing this. after visiting the garden and having Spooky move all the dead dolls to the electric doorway i returned to the music box and saved, and as it saved my game started moving very slowly and the frame rate seemed to suffer as well; moving through a doorway fixed it temporarily, but it continues to occur seemingly at random. It also happened after I tore the pinwheel off of another doll and did not stop until i exited through a doorway as well. I'm only seeing ~40% CPU utilization during these strange slow-downs, and none of the cores are pinned either. not sure what is causing it.

[ironforward]

Also, sound effects, don't seem affected by the slow downs

[The Ant]

I'm having the same issue. It seems the game is running Dollhouse on my integrated graphics processor. You can check with ctrl+shift+escape and going to the performance tab.

I set the program, as well as the whole folder, to run on my dedicated graphics card from the nvidia control panel, but it is still running on integrated graphics. I'm kind of stuck.

[Bomb Bloke]

Originally posted by brachiosaur:

I set the program, as well as the whole folder, to run on my dedicated graphics card from the nvidia control panel, but it is still running on integrated graphics. I'm kind of stuck.

Last time I had a game stuck on my integrated card, I found it was due to launching it in admin mode. NVidia's display switcher was unable to act on it until I switched it back to using my regular user credentials again.

[The Ant]

Alright. Updating both the integrated graphics driver and the dedicated driver fixed the issue for me. For future readers, try setting the game to run on your dedicated card both from the nvidia control panel and the windows 10 graphics settings menu.

[Spectral_Orion]

Got the same issue, though it's most likely because I'm running on a partitioned Mac with Windows 7 installed. I did complete the DLC on the original game, but it's definitely a slow process. -_-

Oddly, both the main game and Karamari Hospital ran fine for me.

[The Ant]

Originally posted by Demon_Orion:

Got the same issue, though it's most likely because I'm running on a partitioned Mac with Windows 7 installed. I did complete the DLC on the original game, but it's definitely a slow process. -_-

Oddly, both the main game and Karamari Hospital ran fine for me.

Did you specifically add SDH.exe to run on your dedicated graphics card? Make sure you've done that, both from the graphics card control panel, and from your OS settings on whichever OS you're running spooky's from.

[Spectral_Orion]

Originally posted by brachiosaur:

Did you specifically add SDH.exe to run on your dedicated graphics card? Make sure you've done that, both from the graphics card control panel, and from your OS settings on whichever OS you're running spooky's from.

This computer only has an integrated Intel GPU. There is no dedicated. Even then, configuring the settings through Intel doesn't seem to do anything.

I also launched the original game and Karamari Hospital again to check and found out their frame rates are awful. This never happened before so I assumed they would be fine now. :/

But I found out what my issue is. It's Steam itself. If I run the game using the executables instead, it runs perfectly fine. But if I launch it through Steam, it runs terribly. It's so weird.

I also tried out the HD Renovation version of the game and didn't run into a single performance problem with no changes to my graphics settings.

[Savage Source]

Originally posted by Skullsvl:

The actual game runs perfectly well, but when I launch Dollhouse it runs either at a low frame rate or slow motion through all loading screens and gameplay. Again the main title works great I'm only having an issue with this dlc. Has anyone else had this issue or has a solution? I've tried verifying the game cache, changing the frame options and resolution in the options, and running the game as an admin.

I'm having this same issue quite sometime for now. Sheena was talking about this poorly working engine to me. I don't know what causes this issue, but I have a 8 GB RAM system with i5 processor and a 1GB VGA. HD Renovation version runs effortlessly. I don't know what might be the exact problem with the original game's Doll House.