Magicka-a big fail in a great game

the game is pretty old and even older seems to be your PC. Getting the devs to make it possible to downgrade it for you would probably be an act of god.

What are your specs? Magicka is pretty slow on my computer too; I blame that on my low-end graphic card.

If Magicka is giving you issues you might need to invest in a new GPU...

I know "just upgrade" is a lame answer, but it's an old game and shouldn't put much stress on a modern setup.

Maybe if you ask nicely, they'll include the ability to lower graphic settings as a $3 DLC

/ZING

Magicka has issues in some pcs, sometimes it has nothing to do with the specs since people with i7 and a major geforce were having the slow frame rate issue as well. Look around in paradox forums.

if your friend creates a room, tell him to open up the steamUI(shift tab), right click you, and invite to game

and bam.. you found his game

Magicka is horribly optimized, and I don't think anything will ever be done about it. It's been almost 2 years already since its release, and the devs are done making significant changes, I believe.

The game sucks period. Thats my opinion.

The optimization is horrible and makes it unplayable for many people. It's surprisingly hard for many graphics cards to run despite it's graphics being average.

magicka is poorly optimized but the game is still not very demanding at all considering, any pc 1gb graphics card, 3gb ram and a triple core cpu should run it. I am guessing you are on a laptop or just an old desktop?

There's performance issues and horrible bugs, but when it works Magicka is so messy and funny :)

This is not the worst problem for Magicka, the problem is the game is very unstable online. On multiple occasion the game crashes while loading or just on random occasions.

Also there's a lightning spell that instakills another player unless they have the forcefield up. Lightning strikes on the filed purely random and it's annoying as all hell.

good value for a few $/E so stfu ya'll

Requirements are a pentium IV and 8800 gt gpu. So your gpu is most likely the problem. Id get a nvidia geforce gt630 or gt440 graphics card and those require a 300 watt or greater psu

Read PC requirements before buying stuff? I can run it on 5 year old laptop which wasn't that great when I got it, so you should upgrade your PC and not whine about game being slow.

magicka defaults to fullscreen... and doesn't work for crap in fullscreen. Often times setting it to windowed mode fixes slowdown. It's worth a shot.

Does your laptop have multiple graphics cards? I know for a fact that mine has a intel hd graphics card as well as an nvidia card. Some indie games (including magicka) automatically select to use the intel card instead of the nvidia card. Find magicka in your steam folder on your computer (program files->steam->steamapps->common->magicka) and right click on it and go to run graphics processor and click the right one, I hope this is the case for you, magicka is a great little game!

Believe it or not but Magicka is quite taking on your computer. On my old one it just wouldn't run as smooth as the other games I played back then. CPU intensive game.

Magicka had that problem always. They don't seriously give a F*** about this particular problem since they never fixed it. So yeah, I never bought the game even when it was going for $0.76 XD

they said they would rather keep adding content than optimize the game. A tip for online mode: invite your friend through steam.

To invite, use steam, open steam in game, find your friend invite to game after you create host, thats it. you can play easy now. :)

to play online whit your friend you also can use his ip adress (http://whatismyipaddress.com/)

I got Magicka and tested it a few days ago. I had to reduce the resolution to something around 1600x900 so it worked "smoothly". Seriously? I have no problems with Skyrim on highest settings but when I have Magicka at 1980x1080 it doesn't work almost at all. It laggs all the time and moves like in slow motion. Instead of downgrading it they should rather upgrade it so it works with better computers.

you can find your friend very easy...just create(host) online game press Shift+Tab then find him press the little arrow next to his name and then "Invite To Game" and he should be able to join your game...the Bug with the loading screens in online/coop mode is surely going to be fixed soon because before there wasn't such a bug so I think it from some of the new patches and is being fixed right now :) the game is not fail at all...yeah the graphics options are kinda fail but still is it all graphics?

My PC is a big piece of crap and I can run it with shadows on low.