Those commands don't work for me. I'm not running a Professional version of Windows 8.1 so it's missing a bunch of stuff, managed to clear the pagefile through control panel etc though. No change as far as the animations go.
Admittedly, the specs on my PC aren't great but considering that I'm having trouble pulling up pre-rendered videos I'm not sure it should matter. I mean this thing runs zBrush as smooth as butter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ anyway this is what I can tell you.
OS: Windows 8.1 x64 (home)
Motherboard: MSI A55M-P33 <MS-7786>
CPU: 4-core AMD A6-3670 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
RAM: 8GB
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6530D
I'm aware I need to update this potato I'm using, but I really don't see how these kind of games could be more demanding than other things I use this machine for. I'm hoping I've just got something setup wrong, but with this latest post by Netsepp and other players reporting the same issues I'm not so sure.
As always, you have my thanks and appreciation for taking the time to hear me out.
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Could someone point me in the direction of older builds of this game I could check out? Currently I've only played this version and I'm particularly interested in checking to see if the previous version with webm instead of mp4 clips works for me.
From what I'm seeing in your specs, your system *should* support the game with no problem.
I've played the game on a system with 2GB of RAM and a dual-core CPU and it ran fairly well, albeit a bit slow, especially during the animated scenes.
The problems began around, I think, v0.7.6 or v0.7.8. So if you wanted to check an earlier version, I'd start just before that. I know when I began testing MotH on various operating systems in VMware when the resolution problems started popping up, the only OS that I found where I didn't need to do anything with was Windows 8.1. Strangely, MotH ran right out of the box with no additional software or updates needed. Windows 7 and Windows 10 OTOH required updates to the OS before it could be played. Mind you, these were clean installs of Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 in VMware with nothing "extra" added.
The two commands I gave most likely didn't run because you would have needed elevated privileges in the command line (running it as administrator). So that would explain why that didn't work, but you were able to clean the pagefile, so that's good.
According to the specs on your motherboard, your MSI supports up to 16GB of DDR3 (1066/1333/1600/1866). I see you only have 2 DIMM slots available, so you'd want to look for a 2 x 8GB kit if you ever decide to upgrade the memory. Adding more RAM would definitely improve performance, not just for MotH but for day-to-day activities as well.
Unfortunately, a quad-core is the best your motherboard is going to support. So there's not much you can do to upgrade the CPU unless you decided later down the road to upgrade the mobo. But as the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
One thing I can suggest (if you're able to) is to make a backup of the partition of your hard drive. This will back up the entire system and will take several hours to do so (I'd start the backup when you're going to bed). And then once that's done, format your drive and do a reinstall of the OS/drivers/Windows Updates then recover your files from the backup you made and see if that cleared up the problem, not just with the game, but any other issues (slow performance for example, programs becoming unresponsive/crashing, etc..) you might be having. You'd need an external drive or an extra internal SATA drive.. with at least 25GB of free space. If you need software to do the backup, let me know and I'll make it available. I use, and highly recommend Farstone's TotalRecovery Pro (not freeware).
