Planescape and hardware acceleration

Swordtheguy

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Hello Eight Forum.

I recently bought a new laptop to replace my aging desktop. So I've spent the past week getting in working order. (Ripping out the pre-installed software, getting avast/spybot/malwarebytes on it, etc.) After that I'm now ready to install some of my old games. I decided to start with the cult classic, Planescape: Torment. But after installing, I found that during gameplay there is this horrible lag that just renders it unplayable.
Luckily, some light googling told me that turning off hardware acceleration would fix the issue. But when I went to Display Setting>Advanced Option there was no Troubleshoot tab, which is were the hardware acceleration option would be.
So I'm in a bind here. I spent all last night googling, but couldn't find were Windows 8 had moved the hardware acceleration option. I really want to play this game, but the lag just makes it unplayable. Does anyone know were the hardware acceleration option is or know of another solution for my problem?

Thanks in advance.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Hi Swordtheguy welcome to eightforums :)

First off no one can help you without system specs, so you need to list those.

With regards to Planescape: Torment we're talking about a 14 year old game here so there are bound to be all sorts of compatibility issues, thus I'm not sure you'll ever get the game to run right. As you've found, you may have to do some further Googling to see if, and/or how people got the game to run under Windows 8

More than likely you'll have to run the game in either Windows 95, or XP mode. See this video to get to compatibility mode...

[video=youtube;4kawSjcHD5I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kawSjcHD5I[/video]4kawSjcHD5I

Hopefully either 95 or XP mode will help get the game running.

Let us know.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom built by me
    CPU
    Haswell i7-4770K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte G1 Sniper 5 (BIOS F9)
    Memory
    Corsair Dominator Platinum 32 gig (1866MHz)
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    Sapphire R9-280 Vapor X
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    Soundblaster ZXR
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    NEC PA242W - 24 inch
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1200
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    Samsung 512gig 850 Pro SSD (OS), Samsung 256gig 840 Pro SSD (photo editing), Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB HD
    PSU
    EVGA Supernova 1000 G2
    Case
    Cooler Master HAF X
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    Corsair H100i Closed Loop Cooler
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wireless Wave
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance MX
    Internet Speed
    High Speed
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    IE11
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    Norton Security
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    RAM Speed: 1866MHZ @ 9-10-10-27-2T, 1.5v
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