Dead Space Zero mavity Issues

gropingmantis · 6 Feb 2011 at 15:11

With the arrival of DS2 I decided it was finally time to finish playing through DS1 (got it as present a while ago but never really played past the first chapter due to the HORRENDOUS controls, which I now realise is down to v-sync) before buying it.

WOW its great.

But I have run into a serious problem that has stopped me progressing any further.
When I jump in zero mavity sometimes, just before I land, the game freezes for 1-2 seconds then randomly decides I'm dead and I have to start again. Google hasn't been able to shed any light on this issue. Has anyone else had this problem.
It started on the bit with the asteroid-beacon and now I'm at the comms array and can only do 2 jumps before it kills me on the 3rd.

edit: also the save station at the comms array won't let me save.

Midlife Crisis · 6 Feb 2011 at 17:30

That's a new one to me, have you got v-sync enabled in your graphics control panel?
too many frames per second can sometimes cause Dead Space to miss behave

Moredhel · 6 Feb 2011 at 17:40

Yeah, to be playable the game requires vsync, but the built in vsync causes massive input lag. I found you have to force vsync and triple buffering on in the driver settings then off in-game, or there were many weird glitches and issues.

gropingmantis · 6 Feb 2011 at 18:09

Midlife Crisis said:
too many frames per second can sometimes cause Dead Space to miss behave

according to afterburner its running at between 200-600 fps

I will try forcing v-sync through CCC and hopefully that will solve the problem. Other than that issue the game is awesome.

gropingmantis · 6 Feb 2011 at 18:41

Sorted problem was with the high framerate had to max everything out to get it to run at 60FPS and it seems fine now.