{"id":5156,"date":"2015-04-25T15:11:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T14:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2015-04-25T15:11:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T14:11:59","slug":"fixing-fps-and-mouse-lag-for-dungeon-keeper-2-on-windows-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2015\/04\/fixing-fps-and-mouse-lag-for-dungeon-keeper-2-on-windows-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing FPS and mouse lag for Dungeon Keeper 2 on windows 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_for_the_Overworld\">War for the Overworld<\/a> (unofficial DK3), I felt that I needed to play the real version. So I downloaded a version of DK2 from <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentz.eu\/68bf89b0664fdeaad101f1cddf1560513ca01900\">here<\/a>. The game opens and the menus work fine, but once you get into a game, the FPS drops to unplayable levels. I tried various compatibility settings but it didn&#8217;t work. However, the advice given <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.ea.com\/t5\/Other-EA-Games\/Dungeon-Keeper-2\/td-p\/3089810\/page\/6\">here <\/a>works:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>HOW TO FIX THE INGAME LAGGGGS !!! &#8212;&#8212; Windows 8.1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OK, even if this is not the right post here, i say it right away.<\/p>\n<p>I have bought the game from Origin, installed it and the problems begun right at start. When i started the game the bullfrog logo freezed.<\/p>\n<p>Just tab out in windowns one time and tab back in game and it starts running.<\/p>\n<p>When i was in the menu of the game everything worked just fine. but after i started a game in the campain i had like 2 fps and horrible mouse lags.<\/p>\n<p>So here is what i did and now it runs perfectly without any problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go in the game menu in OPTIONS &#8211; GRAPHICS OPTION and change the resulution to 640 x 480. (maybe u have to deactived Hardware accelerations too)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You wont believe but it was that easy and the game runs fine now.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps a few players who bought this game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m just putting it here for future reference in case I forget or something else has the same problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After playing War for the Overworld (unofficial DK3), I felt that I needed to play the real version. So I downloaded a version of DK2 from here. The game opens and the menus work fine, but once you get into a game, the FPS drops to unplayable levels. I tried various compatibility settings but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2151,2152],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dungeon-keeper-2","tag-windows-8-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5158,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/5158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}