Hello all, Wolfshrimp in need of tech support.
I occupy the awkward middle ground of knowing just enough about computers to SOUND like I know what I'm talking about but not enough to actually KNOW what I'm doing. It's a recurring theme in my life.
This particular problem is concerning the classic Hitman Blood Money. I used to have this game in the autumn/winter of 2007. Played it to exhaustion, loved it. Then, in order to scrounge together some cash, I sold it. Haven't looked back until now, where owing to an ongoing fight with a storage company, I haven't got my precious 360 and its catalogue of games back. So I went to the local second-hand game shop and purchased a lovely version of Hitman Blood Money for a couple of pounds.
There was one thing up with the installation where it said it couldn't read a particular movie .bik due to a possible corrupt disk but it still installed and functioned reasonably well.
The trouble I'm having is that the framerate is ghastly. If I want to let of some steam and pull out something that fires automatic, the game gets more choppy than a butcher with a large consignment of lamb. Even rotating the view around Mr. 47 or running leads to stuttering screen. I'm running the game on minimum settings (which I didn't do before) and the lack of clarity really adds to the ruination of a good game.
I don't understand how my laptop can quite happily run CoD 4 on medium setting and could easily handle Crysis and didn't do too bad a job of handling a low-set FarCry 2 and then crumple on something I know it ran smoothly and decently in the past. I've even upgraded the RAM and installed the only update for my graphics card (ATI Mobility Radeon X1400- made for Toshiba by ATI supported by neither after 2008) since I got rid of my first copy of Blood Money. All the settings on my graphics card are optimised for the best performance and still I can't get the game to function correctly. What could be causing this frustration? Can anyone suggest anything to help?
Pre-emptive thanks to all you chaps and chapesses who know how to sort such things.
WS
I occupy the awkward middle ground of knowing just enough about computers to SOUND like I know what I'm talking about but not enough to actually KNOW what I'm doing. It's a recurring theme in my life.
This particular problem is concerning the classic Hitman Blood Money. I used to have this game in the autumn/winter of 2007. Played it to exhaustion, loved it. Then, in order to scrounge together some cash, I sold it. Haven't looked back until now, where owing to an ongoing fight with a storage company, I haven't got my precious 360 and its catalogue of games back. So I went to the local second-hand game shop and purchased a lovely version of Hitman Blood Money for a couple of pounds.
There was one thing up with the installation where it said it couldn't read a particular movie .bik due to a possible corrupt disk but it still installed and functioned reasonably well.
The trouble I'm having is that the framerate is ghastly. If I want to let of some steam and pull out something that fires automatic, the game gets more choppy than a butcher with a large consignment of lamb. Even rotating the view around Mr. 47 or running leads to stuttering screen. I'm running the game on minimum settings (which I didn't do before) and the lack of clarity really adds to the ruination of a good game.
I don't understand how my laptop can quite happily run CoD 4 on medium setting and could easily handle Crysis and didn't do too bad a job of handling a low-set FarCry 2 and then crumple on something I know it ran smoothly and decently in the past. I've even upgraded the RAM and installed the only update for my graphics card (ATI Mobility Radeon X1400- made for Toshiba by ATI supported by neither after 2008) since I got rid of my first copy of Blood Money. All the settings on my graphics card are optimised for the best performance and still I can't get the game to function correctly. What could be causing this frustration? Can anyone suggest anything to help?
Pre-emptive thanks to all you chaps and chapesses who know how to sort such things.
WS
