Larian Studios Forums Divinity 2 - Ego Draconis (English) Technical problems Extreme lagg problems on PC! READ AND HELP PLEAZE!

Hello everyone, I have got a BIG lag problem. It starts when I start up the game. It just laggs like hell... I got windows Vista and my Game is in the direcory C/... So i tried that before. But no helps... But my computer can run it, cause I have played it before and then my PC runned the game verry smoothly, but suddenly when I wanted to play the game after 2 months or so... It was lagging like hell....

Pleaze guys help me! post every solution here.. Ill try everything!!

Geatz Viinii

(And sorry for the dual post, but I saw my previous post was in the wrong categorie)

PLeaze guys help me... I tried alot of things... But nothing works. Pleaze give me some solutions!

This may be a bit of a fly/sledgehammer suggestion, but...
Do you have a spare hard drive (or partition, if you know what you are doing) that you could use to try a separate install of Windows on? If the game worked fine previously and you have not made any hardware changes, then it seems likely some driver update, anti-virus program update or other software install is causing a problem. A clean install of Windows may be easier than trying to remember every change in the last 2 months and systematically undoing them to check it it helps the game, but I wouldn't want to have to redo everything (program re-installs, settings changes, etc) on the main Windows install only to find the problem was something else.

But iff I install a new windows, can I still use the one I am using now or not? Cause i never did that before and I don't know how to do it. Or maybe do it on another account on my computer is saver maybe?

You could try running the game under a different account. That could help if you have it set up to disable non-essential services, etc.
Actually, I'm sure I've seen a program mentioned somewhere to shut down non-essential stuff before gaming, and optionally restart it afterwards. However, a quick search only found an old topic;

How to close programs and services before gaming?


There are several ways to setup a dual boot system. The easiest and safest, if you are at least comfortable with hardware changes, would be to turn the computer off and unplug the power cable from your main hard drive, then install Windows on a different drive. If you only have one drive, some motherboards may be able to boot off external backup drives, or you can install Windows to a USB key (Google for instructions).

Do you know any computer geeks that could give you a hand? Chances are anyone who has set up a dual boot system would probably have a spare hard drive lying around, from a previous upgrade.
There is no guarantee this will even help, so I'd hate to encourage you to try something potentially dangerous if you are not comfortable with installing/re-installing Windows, etc. A full backup should allow recovery from any problems, but it would still be a pain.

Found this interesting thing, although I think it might not apply to the game:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/2d-windows-gdi,2539.html?xtmc=2d&xtcr=4