Anyone played Dark Messiah yet?

[glocktodahead]

Ye it lags like a mofo once you start messing around with all the spells. I'm trying to find a solution but no luck yet.

 

[Sticky Mick]

Thanks GTDH

Gonna try some of them later.

With regards to the lag, I think it's one of those games that runs better from a fresh boot, rather than messin about for 1/2hour with something else then starting DMoMM. The lag could be helped by RAM fragmentation.

I find things run a lot better that way, it's not the only game that does that. If I run Far Cry immediately after messing with other games/apps, I find it pauses in mid game quite a lot, Re-boot and no probs.

 

[Sticky Mick]

Well guys, I picked up DMoM&M Collectors Ed yesterday for the bargain price of £20 from Gamestation, in their second hand section

I couldn't believe it when I completed the first quest (Retrieving the crystal). On the second quest, as I was approaching the castle, it turned into a 5spf (yes, I do mean 5 seconds per frame) Slide-show and it sounded like Porky Pig. I was devastated Then I found out about a patch, D/L'd it, installed it and that sorted it all out . But yep VERY heavy on combat. Took ages to get into the castle 'cos I kept gettin' killed by these little imps that looked like Gollum.

 

[FragTek]

I might need to pick this game up, I've had a ton of fun with the demo.

 

[glocktodahead]

I might need to pick this game up, I've had a ton of fun with the demo.

Did you try what I posted to get the most out of the demo? If not than give it a whirl b4 you purchase just to be sure.

 

[aintz]

darkmessiah lags because its source engine is buggy. dont bother buying the game just download it and play single player. multiplier blows

 

[Ham]

source engine is buggy. dont bother buying the game just download it and play single player. multiplier blows

if the engine is buggy how come HL2 runs perfrectly, CSS would if they stopped faffing with it and countless mods run like water.

And downloading it without paying is illegal.

 

[jiffz]

darkmessiah lags because its source engine is buggy. dont bother buying the game just download it and play single player. multiplier blows

Yeah I don't get this comment.... I find that source runs really well on quite low spec machines. It's been developed for a while by the team responsible for HL1. Loads of people decide to make mods on this engine as it's easy to work with and good physics.

HL2 doesn't crash out that much, a crash or 2 is expected from any game/engine. Back up your comment - Which bugs do you mean?

 

[aintz]

i said dark messiah is laggy because of the bad source engine they modified for it. im not talking about hl2 or css...

 

[Ham]

HL2 and CSS run on exactly the same engine as DM. Are you saying they've screwed up valves creation?

I’m quite intrigued now, as in another thread youve stated you dont have a computer that can run CSS. Then you go bashing oblivion for being poorly written. How much experiance do you have of these games at anything below minimum settings on an uplayable computer?

 

[aintz]

my friend gets all the new hardware and i play on them hahahaha. i cant even install them on my laptop lol

he does benchmarks and stuff like that. been at xs for about 3 years i think now. i just like to play games

the difference you see upgrading from x1900xtx to 8800gtx is so significant in dark messiah than any other game