Game runs at smooth FPS, except everything is in slow-motion

[FibS]

So whenever I start a match or enter Creation, the game suddenly runs at half or a third speed or so. The framerate is peachy smooth, but everything is moving in slow-motion. It's very comical, but also kind of ruins the game.

This is not clearly affected by reducing the display resolution (e.g. from 1600x900 to 800x450).

What might cause this? Is it a compatibility thing? Driver issues maybe?

I suppose I should post the PC specs.

Windows 10 Home 64bit
AMD FX 6120 Six-Core Processor (3.5Ghz)
AMD Radeon HD 7400
10.0 GB RAM

[KayJay]

In pretty much all Fighting Games, the gamespeed is tied to the framerate.
If you can't maintain perfect 60 FPS the gameplay will run slower than the intended speed.
Install Afterburner with Riva Tuner statistics, then you will see which part of your specs is the bottleneck.

[FibS]

Originally posted by KayJay:

In pretty much all Fighting Games, the gamespeed is tied to the framerate.
If you can't maintain perfect 60 FPS the gameplay will run slower than the intended speed.
Install Afterburner with Riva Tuner statistics, then you will see which part of your specs is the bottleneck.

I've played a few (often laggy) fighting games on PC and I've never seen this phenomenon in such a game before, but I'll look into it anyway.

I was expecting SC6 to not run very well on my PC. A pity I was right!

[Ghuldarkar]

these specs sound like a laptop to me. I don't think you can run any modern games above 20 frames on that system.

[tizeY]

a good indication of a cpu bottleneck is the fact of no frame gain by lowering resolution .

the cpu is old , the gpu is old and 10gb ram probably means it has horrid timings in addition to being ddr3.

this is not a compatibility issue , your system is simply too bad.

[FibS]

The system isn't "bad" though. Other games that look just as good run a lot better.

If that's really the problem, that sucks. It's a real shame that games make progress in computing pretty much irrelevant by promptly lowering even basic optimization in response to any and all increases in performance. =/

[tizeY]

Originally posted by FibS:

The system isn't "bad" though. Other games that look just as good run a lot better.

If that's really the problem, that sucks. It's a real shame that games make progress in computing pretty much irrelevant by promptly lowering even basic optimization in response to any and all increases in performance. =/

other games do not run on unreal engine 4 , running bad is relative to the base of the game

[Gato Rudeman]

Maybe try the rendering scale option in the graphics menu? My system is pretty entry-level/budget, but can run this 1080p on high with 100% scale. The moment I switched from 100% to 200% (just testing the limits) render scale it became slow motion and stayed at about 30 FPS. Maybe this setting is one you can tweak.

[Tikka Qrow]

Your CPU should be okay for this game, if you kill all the other uneeded processes and run the game in true fullscreen (not borderless window), but that graphics card is very... long in the tooth... Is it by chance one of those integrated GPUs AMD liked to use? Those integrated GPUs bottleneck everything, including CPU, real fast...

I know they made 7400 desktop cards, but afaik they weren't availible to the public and thus are rather rare...

This said there's a guy somewhere on here plays on a 7970 so it might be possible to run the game. It's not too demanding graphically, even being on Unreal 4.

Yeah you need to play with the setting to get 60 FPS constant. This game is made to show all 60 frames per second, even if the system has to wait more than a second to render. The real shame is if you go online the match will syncronize your opponents frame rate to yours which will just get you a lot of salt and cause everybody spectating to lag as well.

Do as the above stated and drop your render scale as low as you can handle.

[John Maylives]

maybe u have lags

[rednecked_crake]

The 7400 is very old and was never designed to play modern games in any capacity, even then.


Steam has an in-built FPS counter, you can easily see what frame-rates you're getting.

[RiftHunter4]

Integrated graphics have never been good for gaming.

[LookAtMyHorse]

might be late but google gives this as one of the first so.
wallpaper engine slows down soul calibur

[IBJamon]

I had this game problem trying to play the game on my woefully underpowered GPD Win 2. I solved it completely by switching from fullscreen mode to borderless windowed. (Of course my details are all the way down, but that's besides the point.)

[󠀡󠀡]

The game goes to slow-motion because it loads the characters and stage and all the other game assets. The menu can run at 1000 frames if you like, it's just the user interface nothing gpu/cpu intensive, except for the character selection but it's only a small part of the game.

How much gpu ram do you have? Maybe you can boost it if you have shared graphics memory and not dedicated ram. Have you tried to start the game without any shaders? Updated your drivers and reinstalled DirectX afterwards? Updated your video codecs? Did you uninstall anything related to windows media packs in the past like the windows media player? You could uninstal the dual core optimization software that AMD likes to force upon us. Anyhow here is a little video that hopefully lets you deal with your issues better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kza-b-JAzLE

The location of the SC6 config files: AppData/local/SoulCaliburVI/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor

or simply %AppData%

Scalability.ini:
https://pastebin.com/2VAkKhcw

Is that a laptop you use or is that a pc? The only thing you have not mentioned in your specs is the PSU wich can be a bottleneck too. If that's a pc upgrading to 750ti or 1030 would be beneficial for you. And If it's a laptop then try to underclock it to see if the cooling is the issue. Try to stress test the pc with benchmark tools.

[ᛉᛏneon@stralᚨᛉ]

Originally posted by tizeY:

other games do not run on unreal engine 4 , running bad is relative to the base of the game

Street Fighter 5 , has same issues