Rome 2 : Total War

CaptainRAVE · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:31

Nevermind, was running real nice until I started getting flashing texture boxes everywhere. Now can't get rid of them!

Komedy · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:32

a lot of mixed feedback on this - downloading now so will see how it matches the comments in here

Raumarik · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:43

Get the feeling that graphics drivers are going to play a part in any fix, I'll be sticking to other games until this is sorted out !

Nice that they've got some form of Logitech G19 support, just wondering what it'll actually show during the campaign..

CaptainRAVE · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:45

The issue for me is crossfirex related. Switching to windowed mode fixes the texture flickering. Problem is that Shogun 2 had a similar issue and that was never resolved on the 6990

Jono8 · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:46

Nothing to do with the performance of my 670 in this game. It is ALL about some cpu bug. As soon as there are a lot of units or clashing units gpu usage can go as low as 36% !!!

Graphics look amazing and run amazing ....if you are just looking at a couple of units.

ReltonBFD · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:48

Downloading now , really liked the first one , but these mixed reviews even from die hard fans and making me think its a mistake i bought this . lets hope it isnt.

youdsy · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:48

Jono8 said:
Nothing to do with the performance of my 670 in this game. It is ALL about some cpu bug. As soon as there are a lot of units or clashing units gpu usage can go as low as 36% !!!

Graphics look amazing and run amazing ....if you are just looking at a couple of units.

same with every TW game using this engine.

if they havent fixed it by now then they never will.

with shogun ive seen my gpu usage go <20%!

Raumarik · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:50

Thing is most of the bugs will be sorted just frustrating that we're having them at all. To be blunt as it stands I can't get the game to look better than a really poor console port.

I'm a die hard TW fan so that's quite a difficult addmission to make

youdsy · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:55

Didn't Sega publish aliens:colonial marines .........

Jono8 · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:22

youdsy said:
same with every TW game using this engine.

if they havent fixed it by now then they never will.

with shogun ive seen my gpu usage go <20%!

I have never had it as bad as Rome 2 though. I dont understand what CPU they run their preview videos on : /. They seem to have loads of units fighting without framerates in the teens.

Also this is the first Total War that actually seems to use all 4 cores quite a lot! Yet it runs worse than any of the others!

Fulax · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:28

Jono8 said:
I have never had it as bad as Rome 2 though. I dont understand what CPU they run their preview videos on : /. They seem to have loads of units fighting without framerates in the teens.

At the Penny Arcade Expo they were giving away this spec:

Intel DX79SR Desktop Motherboard (Stormville)
Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Processor @ 3.30GHz
8GB PC3-10600 DDR3 @ 1333MHz
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 680 2GB
Intel 520 Series – 180GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD

Not sure if that was just a giveaway or if it's what they were actually using to demo Rome II.

Raumarik · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:31

Jono8 said:
I have never had it as bad as Rome 2 though. I dont understand what CPU they run their preview videos on : /. They seem to have loads of units fighting without framerates in the teens.

Also this is the first Total War that actually seems to use all 4 cores quite a lot! Yet it runs worse than any of the others!

I never had a huge issue with previous TW games, I'm not one to get hung up on graphics too much, I love MTW2 but this one seems strangely ugly, textures flickering and just generally poor which is why I have a feeling it'll be partly fixed by an Nvidia/ATI driver update rollout.

Booner! · 3 Sep 2013 at 21:23

Lads, try this. I gave it a whirl and a few other are reporting minor success.

my game looked like that (extreme): http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/3369/xt2dh3uj_jpg.htm

Now i installed the directX version from the game (go to your Rome 2 folder -->redist-->directx-->DXSETUP.EXE

and now it looks better:
http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/3369/ngybfcnt_jpg.htm

the fps increase from 25 to 45 on my AMD 7970GHz Edition.

Maybe it is useful....

sry for bad english...

this worked for me i went from 50-60fps on my custom settings, on default extreme i gained 15 more fps - GTX660

Went from 8 to 18fps on extrame. 30 to 50 in medium. Somebody, get this guy a beer. Thanks OP.

It must not be set to update auto on install.

Martini1991 · 3 Sep 2013 at 21:31

Lol the prologue last mission for me glitched and went as a close defeat, and that's messed up the prologue mission choices as I only have the first now >.<

Oh well, time to start my proper campaign anyway.

Omaeka · 3 Sep 2013 at 21:41

Booner! said:
Lads, try this. I gave it a whirl and a few other are reporting minor success.

Has it improved your fps at all?

P.S. do you actually own a Corvette irl? Niceee. Niceeeeee.

Darujhistan · 3 Sep 2013 at 22:02

iamtheoneneo said:

Dont understand why your still posting?
You havent played ANY of the games, you havent got this one, you dont know anything about it...

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iamtheoneneo said:
Dont get the point.

it was part of todays patch.

The point is easy to spot, he couldn't afford it and is now crying about a game he's never played, from a series of games he has never played. It doesn't take a lot to work out his problem.

If he could afford it, he wouldn't have the patience to learn the subtleties anyway.

I've been playing since 11 AM and have only just forced myself to switch it off.

I love it.

Martini1991 · 3 Sep 2013 at 22:02

Can anyone else with a Haswell not use DRA?

Darujhistan · 3 Sep 2013 at 22:04

bena868 said:
Don't you think you're being a little childish..... I've played the game and it really is not that bad. Sure it has faults but every game does, Rome total war did. No need to **** it off so much and then have a go at someone who actually enjoyed playing it....

Bingo!

The guy is an moron. My guess is he couldn't afford it and is jealous and is trying to make himself feel better.

Martini1991 · 3 Sep 2013 at 22:11

Nvm, Fran is for the igp, that DirectX fix has made my performance on maxed out (bar the glitch alpha vegetation) work fine.

NeilF · 3 Sep 2013 at 22:24

NeilFawcett said:
In multiplayer can 5 or more of you play against AI? (Like old Rome Total War could!)

Or is it limited to a max of 4 per side?

Can any of you owners answer this yet please?