starshroud
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Character screen animation is jerky, sound occasionally glitches. Only four resolutions to choose from whereas before there were maybe a dozen. Have tried running both 32 and 64 bit and DirectX 9 and 10. Any other ideas?
Upgrade to Windows 11, the 24H2 version preferably, and if necessary use the various tricks to install it on "unsupported hardware". BTW you can use even an old product key, I'm using my Windows 7 one on my current setup.Character screen animation is jerky, sound occasionally glitches. Only four resolutions to choose from whereas before there were maybe a dozen. Have tried running both 32 and 64 bit and DirectX 9 and 10. Any other ideas?
It can also be useful to manually install a Virtual C++ redist for the .dlls etc ...
Step 3, manually install DirectX 9 librarys and reboot the computer. They don't always get installed right by DDO and Windows 10 doesn't have them by default; this can cause all sorts of issues.
Also step 10.
If you run multiple DDO clients do NOT use 24H2Upgrade to Windows 11, the 24H2 version preferably, and if necessary use the various tricks to install it on "unsupported hardware". BTW you can use even an old product key, I'm using my Windows 7 one on my current setup.
Windows 10 has been pretty horrid since before the release of 11.
It can also be useful to manually install a Virtual C++ redist for the .dlls etc ...
First time I ever did that was a couple of weeks ago, and I saw no real problem running three -- was problematic running four, and I needed to run them Windowed not full screen.If you run multiple DDO clients do NOT use 24H2
I run full screen (windowed) for both clients. *debates installing the evil update again to test just windowed*First time I ever did that was a couple of weeks ago, and I saw no real problem running three -- was problematic running four, and I needed to run them Windowed not full screen.
This precise method is not guaranteed to work, but one method or other should :Also my machine cannot run Win11
Worked through the list and no improvement unfortunately. Graphics are onboard and no updates available. Also my machine cannot run Win11.
Another data point... when the game starts and I'm on the character screen, my fan cranks up and I can see that the client is using 95% plus CPU.
10) Make sure your graphics card is selected. (launcher > options > repair tab> your video card)
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That sounds like the corrert graphics driver could be missing and it's reverting to CPU rendering in-game instead of offloading to whatever GPU you've got on board. So tracking down the chipset/GPU driver could make the difference. Most laptops have some sort of GPU built-in be it intel or nvidia/etc.I don't have a separate graphics card. Display Adapter dropdown lists Automatic and Microsoft Basic Render Driver. (Perhaps significantly the latter is listed twice?)
It's generally motherboard limitations rather than CPU, except -- do NOT try it on 32-bit hardware !!I would not suggest doing a workaround to run Win 11 if your current processor is not capable of it.
The actual caveat really is that you shouldn't try it with an older motherboard, such as those designed for i3 and similarly old or older hardware, and there are absolute minimum RAM requirements that simply should not be ignored.My daughter's computer was an I3 running 11 and it was awful.
Blimey !!The daughter's old computer issue was HP making an I3 with Windows 11 on it.