Post by ACanOfDrink in DOGMA comments

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So, this may just be a hardware issue regarding my potato laptop, but whenever I try to begin Day 2 and continue the story, my game begins to shart itself and fails to respond. Eventually after waiting a while, it fixes itself and continues the game, but no renders nor animations show up on my screen and I'm blessed with an entirely black screen and some dialogue with Amelia. I set my graphics to very low to accommodate my potato Graphics card, and am gonna experiment right now by changing the graphics mode to something higher and see if it fixes.

Edit: Changing the graphics to Medium made it load a little faster with less errors, but I found out the game itself causes my laptop to reach maximum memory usage, as I opened Task Manager to force close the game due to it being frozen, it said it was at 100%. Any advice to fix this and possibly the failed renders with Amelia's dialogue?

:DOUBLE EDIT: SCRATCH EVERYTHING ABOVE, I FIXED MY OWN PROBLEM :)

W.M181 days ago

My connection to itch.io is bad, and even a VPN doesn't help
Is this the Chaos Edition or the Compressed Edition?
In any case, this issue is fixable if you move Dogma to an SSD
In the Chaos Edition, most renders are in 2K quality, which can affect loading times if Dogma is stored on an old HDD
No long loading times were noticed in the Compressed Edition, as it doesn’t have 2K renders

ACanOfDrink181 days ago (2 edits)

I couldn't download the Chaos version even if I wanted to, because it was 14 GB which is a little much for a potato laptop that has 54 GB of total internal storage. Even then, I downloaded the RAR file onto my internal storage and unzipped it onto my External hard drive, so it shouldn't be suffering THAT badly. So it was definitely the Compressed version, seeing as how it was the 6 GB one. Regardless, everything was working fine until I got to the scene on Day 2 with Amelia. Everything just falls apart by then. It's either the renders don't load in and i can still read the dialogue, or the game completely crashes due to "failure to respond" errors. Either way, this is a *Me-problem* since my laptop is quite old and trashy. Sorry for throwing this problem onto you. 😓

:EDIT: SCRATCH EVERYTHING ABOVE, I FIXED MY OWN PROBLEMS.

ACanOfDrink9 days ago (1 edit)

I fixed my problem and have FINALLY experience the game in it's entirety (at least to my knowledge and awaiting for Rupture) Loved the game lots, the in-depth physiology and inflections on life is amazing and insightful.