Stuttering (Rubberbanding) on Immortal Throne solved?!

[alxnet]

So like most people here, I bought the TQ expansion only to discover massive stuttering, slow loading and rubberbanding. Tried everything with no solutions in sight (odd thing is TQ ran fine prior to the expansion).

This is on a PC running the following: Core2Duo E6600, 8800GTX, 4GB RAM.

Totally by chance, I stumbled across a few articles about properly setting your page file size and location. Like most power users, I'd set a large virtual memory page file on a separate harddisk and deleted the page file on my C: drive.

The articles I ran across said something to the following effect: Despite having a large page file on a separate drive, you should still create a tiny page file on your C: drive (something about WinXP getting confused at times if your only page file is on a drive other than C.

Voila! After creating a tiny virtual mem page file on C: while keeping the large page file on a separate drive, no more stuttering, no more rubberbanding, and much much faster loading between transitions! Runs smoothly pretty much all the time now. I can finally enjoy this **** expansion in all its glory.

Hope this also works for others out there.

[Sumyunguy]

Very interesting. I will try this...I usually keep a single static 3GB pagefile on drive E:\ and run with it. I can't say i've never had the problem of Windows XP complaining about my pagefile, or had it ever automaticly create a large pagefile on drive C:\, but I am willing to try anything with this game, it has issues.

Thanks for the info.

[Erbaf]

Tried, did nothing for me...

Nice try though, i hope it helps some people if not me

[TheEye]

Originally Posted by alxnet

The articles I ran across said something to the following effect: Despite having a large page file on a separate drive, you should still create a tiny page file on your C: drive (something about WinXP getting confused at times if your only page file is on a drive other than C.

How tiny is tiny? I wanna try it too.

[alxnet]

I have a 10GB swap file on my F: drive (a physically separate drive from C). Then I created a really tiny 2MB-32MB (the MB's not a typo) variable file on C:, which is a suggestion made by the article I read. This solved all my problems with Immortal Throne. I played it for a couple hours straight last night, swapping in and out of desktop mode and it was steady as possible with no stuttering or rubberbanding. Night scenes and entering/exiting caves were smooth as well. Been loving the game ever since.

[TheEye]

I'll try it, even though I don't have two physical hard drives.

[Dracochi]

Originally Posted by alxnet

I have a 10GB swap file on my F: drive (a physically separate drive from C). Then I created a really tiny 2MB-32MB (the MB's not a typo) variable file on C:, which is a suggestion made by the article I read. This solved all my problems with Immortal Throne. I played it for a couple hours straight last night, swapping in and out of desktop mode and it was steady as possible with no stuttering or rubberbanding. Night scenes and entering/exiting caves were smooth as well. Been loving the game ever since.

How do you get a 10gig swapfile on one drive? Every XP system I've worked on always says the largest I can enter is 4096 meg.

So what's the trick?

[Arvetis]

I've had rubberbanding issues ever since installing the game, and I keep my swap on C:. No fix for me

[alxnet]

Originally Posted by Dracochi

How do you get a 10gig swapfile on one drive? Every XP system I've worked on always says the largest I can enter is 4096 meg.

So what's the trick?

Hmm.... Not sure if it makes a difference but I'm using the Media Center Edition of XP with SP2. It let me create a 10GB file just fine. Edit: All my drives are also formatted NTFS.

For the other guys not getting much out of this tip, try setting your swap file to some ridiculously small size (2MB-32MB variable) on your C: drive.

This game for me went from downright unplayable to being one of the most stable, consistent games I've played.

[LittleCupcakes]

Using Vista x64, I set the paging on C:/ to 16-32 MB...

...and no help for me.