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When I played Stranded 2 at first it was ok but the game got more and more glitchy as I went along. It may or may not have been because the islands kept getting more and more items for the game to render. I've tried turning the fog on but unless I set the viewing distance to the friggin BOTTOM (and my computer is a beast so I shouldn't have to do that) the game keeps freezing up every two seconds and jittering along really slowly. Especially in certain parts where there's a lot of buildings/fires/items.

Is there any known fixes for this? Like "turn off this one thing" or "download this patch"? That'd be grand.

The problem can be seen in this video at the start:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XncJybe0xwQ

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pretty strange because the game seems to run good (at high fps) besides those nasty lags.

you could try a lower grass amount setting (consumes pretty much GPU power and doesn't look really good anyway) or to reduce the water detail.

the game is not very optimized and uses dx7 which is so old that some newer gpus (and windows versions) are not able to use it efficiently anymore.

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I've been trying to change the settings one by one to pinpoint the problem and when I put the water settings at the bottom it got way better, even with everything else at max. However the problem still happened more inland... with a tree on fire.

Is there no way to... modify windows to use DX7 better?

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hey Adkit, nice to see you made it here

well, I dont know which system you are using but if it is windows vista or windows 7 you might want to try out this fix here: *link*

it also appears that some of the newer NVidia graphics cards have more problems with Stranded 2 than older ones or graphics cards from Ati and trying different drivers (older ones and newer ones) might also help.

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Well, I'm using A windows 7 fix but I'm not sure if it's that one. The exe I'm using is called "StrandedII_Vista7Fix". And the one you linked me to isn't online anymore.

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it's still available here but I think this might be the same one you already have...

also: did you turn off the 2D Postprocessing in the options? you said that there were more lags when looking at a tree on fire so I'd guess this has something to do with the 2D Postprocessing...

Edit: if you downloaded the game before October 31 last year or if you downloaded it from anywhere else than this site you might try to redownload it from here again, extract it to a seperate path, replace the old exe with the new one and then start it, without the fix.
this might help because DC recompiled the source code with a newer version of blitz3d which supports dx7 better.
here is the link: http://www.unrealsoftware.de/get.php?get=stranded2_en.zip
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Oh wow, that worked! I re-downloaded the game and tried it without the patch and it worked beautifly! Sadly I finished the game shortly after so it felt kind of silly that I had those graphical problems for 99 percent of it but hey, now I can play random islands with no problem. Thanks.
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