[The Tingler]

I recently picked up Broken Sword: The Angel of Death for PC, but the cutscenes are very choppy and utterly unwatchable. I'm running Vista now and a pretty fast computer, but I'm sure I played the demo ages ago on my old XP computer and had the same problem - which I think is why I never bought the game when it first came out.

Does anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?

[Cathy1]

Have you tried compatibility mode with the game ?

[The Tingler]

No... do you think that might work? It should really work fine, as it's such a modern game. I'll give it a try.

[The Tingler]

Well, it worked with the video amazingly - but now all the characters are permanently in shadow!

[Cathy1]

I don't use Vista but did you try to run the shortcut for the game with run as administrater. If that dosen;t work instead of installing the game to programs install it in the user documents. It also sounds like you might have to update your video drivers.
Cathy

[tock]

I've got the same problem - pretty sure I read somewhere ages ago that the game doesn't like multi-core processors. Have you got a dual core or quad core CPU?

[The Tingler]

Dual Core.

[OneFlesh]

I have exactly the same problem with the charater animations all being in black.

Wish I could help you but I haven't found a fix

[Cathy1]

Here's a link to tell you how to disable dual core processors/hyperthreading. Scroll down and read what it says. Hope it helps.

Cathy

http://www.gameboomers.com/Members/l...rthreading.htm

[orient]

Broken Sword 4 doesn't seem to work properly with multi-core processors. Sorry dude, but the only work around I found works in XP, by creating a new partition with an 'adjusted' version of XP that has mulit-core support disabled. I'm not sure the same thing can be done with Vista.

It's a big problem and shame on THQ for ignoring the issue.

[The Tingler]

****.

I'm sure you can translate that four-letter word.