Titan Quest problem

[scotty365]

A friend and I have took up playing Titan Quest recently but unfortunately he has a problem. During certain areas, usually grassy areas or with large amounts of back ground (cliffs) cause it to slow down, become jerky and generally unplayable. The CPU useage goes up but does not max out on any cores.

Q6600 @ 3.2 cpu
9600GT gfx
4GB ram

This should play this game easily and putting my GTX275 in wont solve the problem. He has tried different settings such as triple buffering on/off and different resolutions to no avail.

Any suggestions?

 

[scotty365]

Tried re-install of the game and even a fresh win 7 install on his new F4.
He has tried the patches all to no avail.
As for the shadows setting, I will have to ask - i assume he will have tried this though as he is quite clued up and he has put a lot of time into tring to fix this bug.
Also, the game is legit.

It is starting to look like some obscure hardware issue I guess.

 

[scotty365]

Hmm, I've seen a similar issue where both PCs playing where individually capable of running it smoothly but playing multiplayer gradually decreased framerates for no obvious reason.

Is it just multiplayer or does it happen in singleplayer as well?

Both - online it effects his comms, it starts to garble and break up, as soon as he walks from the area it goes fine again.