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Posted October 07, 2013
Today I have time Shadow Man Installs and then wanted to play it again and what do I see the game runs at 30 fps according to Fraps just normal?

on Windows 8 PRO (64BIT)
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Post edited October 07, 2013 by Mazigna2012
Posted October 07, 2013
Strange, getting 60FPS on mine in 1080 resolution according to FRAPS

Check your refresh rate on your screen, if you are using a higher resolution you could possibly be locked to 30FPS
Posted October 07, 2013
The problem is only on Shadow Man, all other games run !
I have installed it on my laptop with Win7 and it runs at 60 fps !

Can it possibly be due to Windows 8 ?
Post edited October 07, 2013 by Mazigna2012
Posted October 07, 2013
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Mazigna2012: The problem is only on Shadow Man, all other games run !
I have installed it on my laptop with Win7 and it runs at 60 fps !

Can it possibly be due to Windows 8 ?
probably, I heard people having similar issues with older titles and windows 8 like most people really need another reason to hate Windows 8.
Posted November 14, 2013
Hi Mazigna2012, i have a similar problem (W8 x64). Did you found any solution for this? Or will be better just to install a virtual xp with the oracle vm box?
Posted November 14, 2013
This is definitely a problem and I'm not saying you shouldn't try to solve this "properly".

However, I do feel I should mention that it might be a good idea to limit the game to 30 fps via other more controllable means anyway even if you do fix this.

Unfortunately after messing around with the settings for a while I've noticed some weird things happening when this game runs at 60 fps or higher.
Some menu animations speed up abnormally, and more annoyingly some enemy attacks get unusually short cool-downs.
Also on at least one of my machines the game crashes occasionally, and limiting the framerate to 30 seems to fix it.

Because of that I'm kind of getting the impression this is one of those old games that likes to assume it's running at around 30 fps and it might misbehave somewhat if it runs too much faster than that.
Post edited November 14, 2013 by paul1290
Posted November 14, 2013
Oh well, i will try to install windows xp with the oracle vm later tonight an i´ll post the behavior of the game with a different OS but with the same machine.
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