Game is running slowly/laggy

Firstly, hi all. Nice finding this place with some fellow Arcanum lovers. Been a fan for many years and now had one of my urges again to play it.
So well, I installed it and looked for patches and found this place, which had the official one, an unofficial patch and higher resolution one which could be nice. Installed them and things seems to be working like they shall except for one annoying thing. My game is running very slowly, like I had lag. Telling my character to just go somewhere is taking much longer than normal and it's very jerky in the movement. Then things like loadings, both saves and areas is taking a long time too.

So wondering if anyone had similar or have any clue what might be the issue?

 

Hi, did you change the config.ini file of your HighRes folder? That may make the game slow, antivirus or some programs running in the background can do this too, my config.ini file is like this:

//Arcanum High Resolution Patch Settings

//Basic:
Width = 1600 // original: 800
Height = 900 // original: 600
DialogFont = 2 // 0 = size 12, 1 = size 14, 2 = size 18
LogbookFont = 1 // 0 = size 12, 1 = size 14
MenuPosition = 1 // 0 = top, 1 = center, 2 = bottom
MainMenuArt = 0 // 0 = black, 1 = fade to black, 2 = wood
Borders = 0 // 1 = add borders to most UI graphics
Language = 0 // 0 = English, 1 = German, 2 = French, 3 = Russian

//Graphics:
Windowed = 0 // 0 = fullscreen mode, 1 = windowed mode
Renderer = 0 // 0 = software, 1 = hardware
DoubleBuffer = 1 // 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (unless windowed)
DDrawWrapper = 0 // 1 = install DDrawCompat wrapper
ShowFPS = 0 // 0 = no change, 1 = always enabled

//Advanced:
ScrollFPS = 100 // original: 35, max: 255
ScrollDist = 0 // original: 10, infinite: 0
PreloadLimit = 120 // original: 30 tiles, max: 255
BroadcastLimit = 50 // original: 10 tiles, max 255
Logos = 0 // 0 = skip Sierra/Troika logos
Intro = 0 // 0 = skip the main menu intro clip

 

I actually can't find any config.ini file regarding the HighRes. I changed the resolution with the prompts right after I had installed it and set it at W:1280 H:720.

Only other program I'm running is my antivirus but never had an issue with it slowing down any game before.

 

Arcanum is running on a nowadays deprecated DirectDraw API so you MUST install the DDrawWrapper for it to run smoothly on Windows 8 or later.

Either get the wrapper here. Or install the new version 1.5 High Resolution patch and set DDrawWrapper to 1 in config.ini (and make sure to re-apply the patch).

 

Not only this but sometimes the game freezes on windows 10

 

No shit, you need the wrapper.

 

how does it work after I install ?