Completely removed the stuttering and stuff I was having. PC version, obviously. Seems like this was an issue with the jurassic park game as well, from what I can tell.

Stuttering seems to be a problem with all the Telltale games i've played. Ruins the cinematic feel they're going for. I'll try this out and see if it helps sometime later. Thanks for the info.

[Edit:] played through the opening sequence 3 times. Once with high graphics (stuttering) second time adjusted Window 7's performance options (stuttering seemed even worse) and the Last time i turned off the shadows. (seems to run fine after that)

The loss of character shadows is a trivial detail loss and the stuttering (usually in scenes with a lot of characters/action) will drive you crazy.

I had more issues with audio popping than anything else, especially towards the end of the episode.

Does limiting the framerate to 30 fps reduce the stuttering? Or would that not be an acceptable option?

@Origina1Penguin said:

I had more issues with audio popping than anything else, especially towards the end of the episode.

I had a lot of audio popping at the end too. Also every time the little girl spoke it felt like she was louder than everyone else.

@MrKlorox: TellTale's forums say the problem is specifically a driver issue with ATI video cards. I just updated my ATI drivers and can't find my performance options in the catalyst control center and the game doesnt give you any frame rate options.

I have a GTX 480 and still have plenty of audio popping.

I was disappointed by this, my PC system is pretty good and I must've been sitting there for 2 minutes waiting for the game to catch up in that opening zombie scene. Spoiler free hint for where I'm talking about: Seconds after your first bullet shot in the episode.

Turing off the shadows totally worked for me. The constant stuttering during the opening scenes was annoying.