Mr. Prepper

Mr. Prepper

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SilentScav Jul 14, 2020 @ 2:19am
8 FPS demo
oh man, what a drag. I know my temporary laptop is crap, but 8fps makes this demo extremely hard to play.

The tutorial can use a little work also, like showing that you need to cover the ladder to the bunker, (right click and choose cover) not just say hide it. I thought I was to grab the rug and click/drag it over the man hole.
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Mitttiir  [developer] Jul 14, 2020 @ 2:37am 
Maybe reducing and disabling some graphical options will help :) ?
SilentScav Jul 14, 2020 @ 2:46am 
I did, I average at 12fps. I can play Dishonored on full quality on this rig and rock 60fps, but not this demo.
Last edited by SilentScav; Jul 14, 2020 @ 2:46am
tmtc Jul 14, 2020 @ 3:46am 
8FPS ins't the demo its your machine. if the demo was that unstable the forums would be alive with it.

The title should say My laptop can only manage 8 FPS on this demo. yours is misleading people to think its the DEMO! it isn't (and this could lose the DEV teams customers based on YOUR machine and a badly worded title)
sp3lfanaaT Jul 14, 2020 @ 11:51am 
Originally posted by Mitttiir:
Maybe reducing and disabling some graphical options will help :) ?


with games like prepper it is usually the GPU .

use a new CPU but also use an old GPU and blam: you will have problems
At the very beginning the recommended system was set to an old dinosaur quad core 2.66 ghz and an also old GPU..... thats why i followed this game cause i knew that sounded too good to be true and i was right :steamlaughcry: now the GPU is a 900 series that is quite a difference :steamsunny:

the demo doesnt work on my old quad 2.66 ....
it also doesnt work on my 9700K BUT the thing is the GPU is also and oldie a gtx 750 ti 2 gb'
so my guess is that with a decent or preferably a RTX 2080 and an Intel Core i9-9900K (only around 500 euro give or take a few Euros )
the demo might run a charm .

First i guess it uses far too many FPS that is all ways the cause , but we will never know if it is a too high fps ....

Anyway.... even if i had a high end GPU it would still not run.


SilentScav Jul 14, 2020 @ 2:49pm 
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 18362)
i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
16384MB RAM

NVIDIA Quadro K1100M <--- This is my problem.
insatiablesage Jul 14, 2020 @ 2:58pm 
Originally posted by ToadStoned:
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 18362)
i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
16384MB RAM

NVIDIA Quadro K1100M <--- This is my problem.

Yes, yes that is your problem. That is not a gaming GPU. Just cause the benchmarks look good doesn't mean it's good for gaming. Games are not designed around those cards or their drivers.
sp3lfanaaT Jul 14, 2020 @ 3:03pm 
Originally posted by ToadStoned:
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 18362)
i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
16384MB RAM

NVIDIA Quadro K1100M <--- This is my problem.


My problem: GTX 750 ti ( 2GB)

i have a huge bottle neck :lunar2019crylaughingpig:

Last edited by sp3lfanaaT; Jul 14, 2020 @ 3:14pm
sp3lfanaaT Jul 14, 2020 @ 3:17pm 
Originally posted by insatiablesage:
Originally posted by ToadStoned:
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 18362)
i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
16384MB RAM

NVIDIA Quadro K1100M <--- This is my problem.

Yes, yes that is your problem. That is not a gaming GPU. Just cause the benchmarks look good doesn't mean it's good for gaming. Games are not designed around those cards or their drivers.



True, but the more powerful computer processors become, the less effort might be made regarding development, tools like Unity are very common, and widely used, the majority of games also seem to have no frame limit set.....



Anyway, i have a number of decent casual games that are written in unity or similar 'tools''
that have a fps problem, i was able to run some of them by limiting the frames to 20 or max 30 to 40 fps instead of the unlimited frames it is set to by default by the Nvidia panel.
Vsync and similar setting also seem to help by changing settings until the game runs okay, many games seem to ignore it.
Last edited by sp3lfanaaT; Jul 14, 2020 @ 3:37pm
insatiablesage Jul 14, 2020 @ 9:04pm 
Originally posted by sp3lfanaaT:

My problem: GTX 750 ti ( 2GB)

i have a huge bottle neck :lunar2019crylaughingpig:

Yeah certain casual games just aren't written in the most efficient ways as far as GPU load but most games should still run fine, especially on lower settings. 770 ti isn't a horrible card. I'm surprised it doesn't run well for you.

For reference I'm running a GTX 960 and it runs like a dream with this demo. Still only 2GB and not ti version.
sp3lfanaaT Jul 16, 2020 @ 4:32am 
Originally posted by insatiablesage:
Originally posted by sp3lfanaaT:

My problem: GTX 750 ti ( 2GB)

i have a huge bottle neck :lunar2019crylaughingpig:

Yeah certain casual games just aren't written in the most efficient ways as far as GPU load but most games should still run fine, especially on lower settings. 770 ti isn't a horrible card. I'm surprised it doesn't run well for you.

For reference I'm running a GTX 960 and it runs like a dream with this demo. Still only 2GB and not ti version.


GTX is far better than the one i use, but as far as i remember it had no vga support slot, and converters be it active or passive don't work , they probably work on other old VGA, but not on a CRT VGA, that seems to be different and the people that made the hardware converters.

It seems Nvidia said something it would never work , somewhere on a page but that is not very common knowledge otherwise i'd never tried :lunar2019coolpig:

That is why i have the old 'dinosaur' gpu in the new setup, cause that's what it is, ancient
all it can do and dit is bottlenecking a quadcore 2.66 ghz .... and now it's being bottle necked by 9700K cause many times it uses >50% of the GPU, it's lucky the new setup is very well cooled .

If and when the GPU kicks the bucket first, i will have a problem, if it out lives the old CRT VGA
i still have a problem cause then i'd be forced to get a new screen and those are garbage , even the expensive oled have sort of 'burn in' seems some things can burn in , if it is used for a long period of time.

Anyway, things won't get better, they get worse and will become very expensive....unless my own 'hardware' buys the farm prematurely :lunar2020thinkingtiger:

Last edited by sp3lfanaaT; Jul 16, 2020 @ 4:34am
SilentScav Jul 17, 2020 @ 10:49pm 
ok I figured it out. My potato can't handle this game because of the grass and other moving foliage.

I'd like to see the developers add more graphic options than what is currently available.
For a few options I would like to be able to disable the grass and stop foliage from moving.

I think this will help alleviate some processing resources.
tmtc Jul 18, 2020 @ 6:39am 
So you want the developers to work on something so your potato computer can run the game?

That’s pretty selfish!

How about this? You go and replace your potato parts so the development team can work on the game for the rest of us?
Mitttiir  [developer] Jul 18, 2020 @ 7:27am 
The issue seems to be quite common. I must agree with you @tmtc. I see a lot of people complaining to developers that they can't run the game when they have very old computer. I have also seen that some developers work harder just to make their game work for older computers and even remove overall quality (even for high settings) just to let older computer users play the game.
tmtc Jul 18, 2020 @ 8:55am 
@mitttiir,

i appreciate i may even come across rude and blunt at some point, i just get "irritated" by how ignorant some people can be. not sure if its the new younger generation coming through that have had it a little to easy.
insatiablesage Jul 18, 2020 @ 9:11am 
It behooves game designers to design games that normie computers can at least handle, and the fancy graphics an option for avid gamers. There just aren't enough people with cutting edge tech to sell games to. Leave particle effects, shadows, moving grass blades, etc optional and then everyone is happy.

That being said, workstation gpu's are not normal, and you can't expect games to always run, let alone well. Compatibility issues do happen. Knock on wood, I've not had an issue with an NVidia card since my 64MB that didn't like the original copy of Alice, but I have run into issues a lot with Radeon, especially the onboard versions.
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Date Posted: Jul 14, 2020 @ 2:19am
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