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Hey guys, Let's gather some tips regarding performance here.

-The first thing you should try, contrary to what most of you probably tried the first time, is go to Catalyst/NVIDIA control panel, go to the area where you can set program-specific settings, and add magicka.exe from your steam folder. Now that your exe is added, turn off antialiasing, force vsync off, set texture filtering to max performance. This should greatly increase your frame rate. You should experiment with other settings as well.
-Go to the options menu, and set shadows to low. You could set other settings to low aswell, and see what helps.
-Get the program called Game Booster. Using it should free up some system resources. A must have for laptop gaming, anyways.
 
ynvaser said:
Hey guys, Let's gather some tips regarding performance here.

-The first thing you should try, contrary to what most of you probably tried the first time, is go to Catalyst/NVIDIA control panel, go to the area where you can set program-specific settings, and add magicka.exe from your steam folder. Now that your exe is added, turn off antialiasing, force vsync off, set texture filtering to max performance. This should greatly increase your frame rate. You should experiment with other settings as well.
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If you're using an Nvidia mobile chip like I am (I have the 650M), Magicka won't automatically use it -- you have to do as ynvaser says and manually add the game to the list of programs in the Nvidia Control Panel list. Furthermore, you need to force the game to use the graphics processor by selecting it in the drop-down menu for the preferred graphics chip for the program. If you haven't done this, try it out -- you'll notice dramatic improvement!
 
Hi there. First off sorry for my bad english xD. so now my question. I have Magicka and it worked for windows 7 really fine. now on windows 8 it is extreme slow. is there a patch for windows 8 or something?
 
Well, Windows 8 is pretty much taking it's baby steps right now. A lot of stuff has to be optimized for it, and most abandoned games probably won't run well, unless Microsoft decides to include a good compatibility mode which allows older apps to run fine. If you want to play 90% of games out there at the moment, you should downgrade to Windows 7. Just some general advice.
Regarding the Magicka patch, I haven't encountered one myself. Perhaps a Pdox employee can tell you more.
 
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Well, Windows 8 is pretty much taking it's baby steps right now. A lot of stuff has to be optimized for it, and most abandoned games probably won't run well, unless Microsoft decides to include a good compatibility mode which allows older apps to run fine. If you want to play 90% of games out there at the moment, you should downgrade to Windows 7. Just some general advice.
Regarding the Magicka patch, I haven't encountered one myself. Perhaps a Pdox employee can tell you more.
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My win8 is no problem.
 
I'm going to try out this game booster thing.

Magicka was gifted to me by a viewer (I do livestreams, though I'm not anyone notable) and I feel pretty awful that I can't run the thing without it lagging like heck. It doesn't help that Arrowhead's official stance seems to be "get a better computer". Some of us don't have mountains of money just lying around.

edit: the game booster didn't seem to do anything except make the menus lag slightly less. The actual game is still a mess.

I have to say I'm quite disappointed with how frightfully unoptimized this game has to be. If Path of Exile--which is also a game by a small team--can run perfectly fine on my laptop, there is really no reason this shouldn't also run perfectly fine.
 
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The recording tool from gamebooster is awesome. It worked for me.
Also I optimized the system and I can now play with high res, all settings on high(lights, particles and stuff), and also record with no lag.
With fraps, I couldnt do that.

Notebook:
windows 8
dell inspiron 14r 3540
nvidia gt 630M 1gb
6g ddr3
 
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