Low framerate and freezing in intro cutscene.

[CyrusVonNox-01]

The In the Intro cutscene, the framerate is choppy, then when Campbell and Swan leave the shuttle then there's a popping sound andf the cutscene freezes while the cutscene sound continues.

I can send you my pc specs if the issue is on my end.

[DanielGibson]

As my crystal ball is currently in the repair shop, knowing your PC specs (and what operating system and which version of dhewm3 you're using) would be helpful ;)

[CyrusVonNox-01]

Here they are:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name LAPTOP-PS7V804G
System Manufacturer HP
System Model HP Laptop 17t-by400
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU 18B32AV
Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz, 2803 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date AMI F.10, 11/26/2020
SMBIOS Version 3.3
Embedded Controller Version 44.11
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer HP
BaseBoard Product 881B
BaseBoard Version 44.11
Platform Role Mobile
Secure Boot State Off
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.19041.3636"
User Name LAPTOP-PS7V804G\Thadeus Gordon
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.6 GB
Available Physical Memory 7.19 GB
Total Virtual Memory 18.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 8.52 GB
Page File Space 2.38 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection On
Virtualization-based security Not enabled
Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes

And I'm using version 1.5.4

[DanielGibson]

My guess would be that your GPU driver doesn't have proper OpenGL support - try updating it.

I think the latest driver should be this one: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/785597/intel-arc-iris-xe-graphics-windows.html

If that doesn't help, please attach your dhewm3log.txt to a post here, you can find that file in Documents/My Games/dhewm3/

[CyrusVonNox-01]

Well the cutscene doesn't freeze anymore, but the cutscene and game is still choppy as hell.
dhewm3log.txt

[DanielGibson]

Thanks!
You could try disabling soft particles (in the F10 menu).
If that alone doesn't help, make sure that Antialiasing is disabled and maybe reduce the graphics quality preset to High or Medium.