How To Fix The Dialog Cut-Off Issue

The dialog cut-off issue (where the dialog sometimes cuts off abruptly at the end of a sentence) wasn't in the original game; it happens now because of modern multi-core CPUs. In this guide I will show you a quick fix that will prevent that issue from occurring.

Old games like Titanic often have problems running on multi-core CPUs, so we want to tell the game to only use one CPU core, like old CPUs had (as the game expects).

Changing processor affinity (i.e. telling the process that's running how many CPU cores to use) is traditionally done via Task Manager on the process in question. That usually causes Titanic to crash since you'd have Ctrl+Alt+Del out of the game window, locate the process in Task Manager, and change the affinity every time you launch the game. When you go back to the game after that you'll probably find it not to be responding and frozen. These methods solve that!

Set Processor Affinity to 1 via "Launch Options"

Step 1. Locate Titanic in your game library, right click it, and click on Properties.

Step 2. Copy and paste the following into the field that says Launch Options: -start "Titanic" -affinity 1


Step 3. Close the Properties menu (the commands you copied into the Launch Options will be saved, so you'll only have to do this once).

Step 4. Launch the game as you normally would and notice that the dialog no longer cuts off.

Set Processor Affinity to 1 - Alternative Method

If the previous method doesn't work for whatever reason, this method will. This requires you to have a little knowledge of navigating and configuring in Windows.

Step 1: Right Click on the Desktop, go to New, and select "Shortcut".

Step 2a: When prompted "What item would you like to create a shortcut for?" copy and paste the following:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "Titanic" /affinity 1 "<GAME PATH>\TI.exe"

Step 2b: Be sure to then copy/paste the full path to "TI.exe", replacing <GAME PATH>. It will be the path to the folder where you installed the game.

Step 3: Click Next and name the shortcut whatever you want.

Step 4: Click Finish. Now, launch the game from this shortcut each time you play.

[forgingeagle]

I loved this game growing up, and bought it as soon as I found out it was on Steam. I've been having the same audio cut off issues. I first attempted to use the options suggested, but while the audio was no longer cutting off, my game was crashing from the changes. I decided to set it to launch with the settings: -start "Titanic" -affinity 2 This seems to have resolved both issues now for me. So if you run into that issue as well, give it a go.

[gbrading]

Really useful thanks. The Steam launch options didn't work, but the shortcut option did.

[☽⋆˖Nightbreed˖⋆☾]

No worries, sorry I couldn't be of more help.

[FSVRandy597]

Thanks for your help.

[FSVRandy597]

Oh. My apologies. I completely misunderstood that.

[☽⋆˖Nightbreed˖⋆☾]

This guide isn't intended to address any crashes, it's to fix the dialog from cutting off abruptly.

[FSVRandy597]

Sorry, but I'm getting a bit frustrated with this problem. I have duplicated the text and settings in that window. I still only get to Smettles answering the door and the touch of Mal Demar comment, then poof.
I've also been trying the different previous versions of compatiblity options in the Ti.exe and Titanic.exe, but no luck there. It just keeps crashing once I'm on the ship answer the door.
I'm at a loss.

[☽⋆˖Nightbreed˖⋆☾]

See the screenshot I just included.

[☽⋆˖Nightbreed˖⋆☾]

You need to realize Launch Options is a FIELD, like I said in the guide, and not a tab.

[☽⋆˖Nightbreed˖⋆☾]

Launch Options is right there, one of the first things you'll see after clicking on Properties. Now what's this about outdated fixes? lol