God Awful Slow

[sax5thave]

Just tried starting the first game and it runs SO SLOW! Like, up arrow, wait a second, cursor moves. Run? Nearly a second per footfall.
Is there some kind of massive optimization issue? My machine is far from a potato

[shodan1138]

This is one of those weird games that wants to use your motherboard's video chip, instead of your dedicated GPU.
You can change that with the Nvidia Control Panel tool, or... whatever AMD's thing is, depending on who made your GPU.

[sax5thave]

It's Nvidia. I've never played with that before (never had to) but I'll take a look. Thanks.

[shodan1138]

Originally posted by sax5thave:

It's Nvidia. I've never played with that before (never had to) but I'll take a look. Thanks.

If memory serves, what you want to do is:
1. Load up .hack
2. Load your /proper/ game, so you aren't in the "choose your volume" launcher anymore, but are in the game itself.
3. Pause the game, alt-tab out.
4. This is where my memory gets fuzzy, because it's been a while, but fire up the Nvidia thing, and somewhere in there, there should be a list of every game you have installed. Or at least, every game that is currently running. Select .hack, and there should be a way to explicitly tell it "Use this GPU exclusively".
5. You'll probably have to restart the game for it to take effect, but once you do, it should run much better.

[VSX]

I just lowered anti aliasing

[Blade12775]

Go to Nvidia control panel
Manage 3D settings
Click Program Settings
Under 1. Select a program Choose "hackGU" or click Add and find it wherever you installed it.
In the 2. Specify setting find Max Frame Rate click the drop down box and set to 60
Click APPLY
This will set the game to 60fps. I don't know what happens if you set it higher but you can if you want.