Bought Prince of Persia (2008) cant get it fullscreen and extremely low framerate

[Riyo]

hey guys, i just bought prince of persia (2008) off the ubisoft sale but since then it is just painful trying to play it. first of all, i cant get it to full screen, i tried several solutions given by the internett (for example, to access the game directionary -> open launcher folder - change settings through launcher.exe) but nothing helps, i still get big black stripes along the screen

second: the game stutters really hard if i move the camera. i dont know how to solve this problem but i'm most certain, that it is not my specs' fault

my specs:
i5 3570k
amd radeon hd 7950 3gb
8gb Ram

[Riyo]

please help me guys :/

[dirrtymartini]

What OS?

The game forum has several reports of problems so you might not be alone.

[Riyo]

Originally posted by dirrtygsharp:

What OS?

The game forum has several reports of problems so you might not be alone.

thanks for your interest ♥
im using windows 7

[dirrtymartini]

Someone reported this:

Ok, as read on another thread, enabling Vsync and setting DISABLE_OPTIMISATION=TRUE in the .ini worked for me. Give it a try

..as a possible fix for slow fps and malformed graphics.

[Riyo]

Originally posted by dirrtygsharp:

Someone reported this:

Ok, as read on another thread, enabling Vsync and setting DISABLE_OPTIMISATION=TRUE in the .ini worked for me. Give it a try

..as a possible fix for slow fps and malformed graphics.

i do get the game running, but as i move the camera the framerate drops down so low, that i cannot play it :( i mean, i can look past those fat black stripes along the sides of the screen, but how am i supposed to play the game with this low framerate?

EDIT: I already changed that line in the .ini file, got the game running, but still terrible framerate :/ maybe it is worthy to mention, the the framerate only drops when i move

[Mr Humrumph]

I had the same problem. I went to CCC / My digital flatpanels / Scaling options and ticked the box "Use the scaling values of the customized setting" Now it works like a charm! The black borders are gone and my fps are steady

[Mr. Mayhem]

It's funny seeing people say things and know nothing about them, fullscreen is exactly what you're getting, you want widescreen support. Fullscreen is 4:3 and that's why you have black bars.

[Salomaa]

Im having SOOO many problems with this I cant even go into it all! Sound, freezing, cant save/quit. Unplayable!!! Another one for the recycle bin. Thank God it was on sale, cuz no one is going to give me a refuind, are they?

[Riyo]

Originally posted by Mr. Mayhem:

It's funny seeing people say things and know nothing about them, fullscreen is exactly what you're getting, you want widescreen support. Fullscreen is 4:3 and that's why you have black bars.

-.- then why do i have black bars along all the sides? left,right, top and bottom!

[Kargor]

Originally posted by BatAK11:

-.- then why do i have black bars along all the sides? left,right, top and bottom!

That's an ancient bug in the ATI drivers. Basically, the drivers are compensating for something called "overscan" -- some very very very old TVs would scale up the picture by a few %, then cut off the borders to bring it back to screen size. Thus, "overscan compensation" would simply make the picture smaller, so when it gets scaled up it fills the screen. Which is a bad idea for video, and outright horrible for a computer image.

You have to switch your desktop to the same mode that the game uses (for me, this was 1920x1080 at 50Hz, for some reason), then use CCC to put the overscan scaling to 0%. Then switch the desktop back to normal. Apparently, the driver configures this overscan crap as a "per mode" setting, so you have to do it for every mode used in your games.

It can happen that the overscan is already shown at 0%, although it's clearly not. In this case, set it to something other than 0%, apply, set it back to 0% and apply again.