I’ve been playing L.A. Noire this week after picking it up on the Steam Christmas sale for dirt cheap. A very interesting game and it really sets you in the mood of a detective movie. Very effect in the music, look, feel and language of the times.
Unfortunately the game is first and foremost a console game and there seems to be a few bugs that are cropping up. Here’s what I’ve seen and the solutions:
1. Poor performance. I have an i5 CPU running at 3.37GHz, 8gigs of ram and a GeForce 570GTX. There’s no reason at all this game should be performing poorly yet on my computer it was completely unplayable. I had to enable the “single threaded renderer” in order to fix it on my computer. To do so:
- Open the game launcher.
- Click Options.
- At the bottom where it says “Command Line” enter -str
- Click OK.
2. Unable to drive. I have multiple game controllers on my computer but I prefer to play this particular time of game with a keyboard and mouse. I have a Saitek AV8R-01 joystick, Saitek flight pedals and a Logitech Driving Force GT wheel. The game worked fine for me originally but tonight when I unplugged the joystick and plugged it into my USB hub instead I suspect it changed the device ID so the Wheel became my primary controller. Once that happened, the game seemed to work fine in all respects except that I was no longer able to drive a car. A and D still turned the wheel but W and S would no longer drive forward or backward. To fix it, I was able to force the game to think I had a generic controller connected instead of a wheel (I guess that’s what it does?). I’m not sure why it worked but here’s what I did:
- Open the game launcher.
- Click Options.
- At the bottom where it says “Command Line” add -joysticktype 1
- Click OK.
If you are using multiple command line entries like me make sure to leave a space between them.
Thanks to this post on the steam forums for the command line options: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2469715