Hardware acceleration and overlay problems

 KingPetre


Edited 6 May 2016 - 12:11 am by KingPetre
I have the latest userpatch (2015/07/23) installed. I'm using win10x64. When I run the game directly from age2_x1.exe everything works fine. In Voobly the game overall does not seem to run smoothly. In particular there is a very noticeable mouse lag and when starting the game in single player I can see that the intro movies are pixilated and blocky. I tried disabling "Hardware Acceleration" and "Scaling on high DPI Settings" and it removes the mouse lag, but it makes the mouse movement jagged. I tried also a few other settings, running as admin and compatibility mode. It almost seems as if Voobly applies an overlay to the game regardless of the Live Streaming settings both being OFF that prevents the game from being hardware accelerated properly. In the registry editing the DirectPlay entry CommandLine from "Lobby" to "Lobby NormalMouse" fixes the mouse lag issue. However disabling hardware acceleration and "fixing" the mouse this way isn't really a fix. I haven't played with Voobly in a while, but I clearly remember maybe a year ago that there weren't any problems like these. Below is a Game Diagnostics

Non-DirectPlay game path is 'C:\Games\Age of Empires II'
Verifying 'C:\Games\Age of Empires II\language_x1.dll' exists...
Success!
Verifying 'C:\Games\Age of Empires II\age2_x1\age2_x1.exe' exists...
Success!
Voobly path is 'c:\games\voobly'
Game version is '1.0C'
Verifying 'C:\Games\Age of Empires II\language_x1_p1.dll' exists...
Success!
Checking DirectPlay libraries...
Looking for dpwsockx.dll...
Looking for dplayx.dll...
'c:\windows\system32\dplayx.dll' size: 220160 bytes
DirectPlay Init Success!
Scanning installed DirectPlay games...
Age of Empires II
Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion [found]
Game was found in DirectPlay registry!
DirectPlay play thinks the game is installed at 'C:\Games\Age of Empires II'
DirectPlay command line is 'Lobby'
DirectPlay play thinks the game exe is at 'C:\Games\Age of Empires II\Age2_X1\age2_x1.exe'
Verifying file exists... Success!
DirectPlay play thinks the language dll is at 'C:\Games\Age of Empires II\language_x1.dll'
Verifying file exists... Success!
Scanning 'c:\games\voobly\gamedata\AOC\age2_x1.exe'
Success!

Everything looks fine. DirectPlay is configured and the game was found on your harddrive. If you still have problems try rejoining the lobby or restarting your computer.
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 kitt


Edited 5 May 2016 - 11:24 pm by kitt
hi
my first suggestion would be to put the game in the correct directory.
C:Program files[86]/Microsoft Games/Age Of Empires11/
and see if that helps or not.
voobly goes like that well
c:\program files[86]\voobly\gamedata\AOC\age2_x1.exe
it looks as if you have both in the same place. "games"


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