Running "Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams" on a Windows 10 System with Integrated Graphics

January 24, 2023 - Reading time: 2 minutes

Several years ago I bought "Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams". It ran fine on Windows 8.1, but it crashed after I upgraded to Windows 10. I contacted the support of Black Forest Games. The person answering my email told me that the game does not run very well with the integrated graphics of my system (Intel 4600). He advised me to try some different graphics settings which fixed the issue. I basically switched from DX10 to DX9 and turned down the graphics quality.

I changed the config.ini file (in \Documents\Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams) to contain the following settings:

width=1600
height=900
bits_per_pixel=32
refresh_rate=50
fullscreen=true
vsync=true
shader_quality=medium
particle_quality=half_resolution
distortion=false
shadows=false
antialiasing=false
selected_dx=dx9
num_adapter=0
use_primary_device=true

The settings can also be changed within the game: