AOE3 Lagging

Antowns · 5 Nov 2012 at 13:54

Hi all,

Giving that AOE3 is nearly a 100 year old. I'm getting a small amount of lag on max settings in game, brief lag now and again. I can play Crysis on max settings on my machine I thought that would have been a bit more intensive.

Check my sig for the link to my system, it's got a MSI 7850 2GB TwinFrozr III card.

simbady · 5 Nov 2012 at 15:02

AOE3 will lag on pretty much any machine once the armies get huge, its just the game being not so well optimised.

Antowns · 5 Nov 2012 at 15:08

It happens even when the game starts initially, ever so slightly, at which point I just turn the game off. It's a shame because it's a nice game.

Fire_fly · 5 Nov 2012 at 15:20

Has it always done it with that system or has it just started to happen?
Does it stop if you turn down the graphics settings?

My guess is that it is caused by the your processor. Bulldozer does not perform well when running single threaded applications, which due to its age AOE3 will be.

Antowns · 5 Nov 2012 at 15:23

I've not tried turning down the settings and the system is fairly new so I've not tried playing it until yesterday. I'll give it a go when I get home and let you know what happens. I heard things like water generation were quite advanced at the time and rely more on the CPU.

Fire_fly · 5 Nov 2012 at 15:36

Maybe try sticking to the land only maps.

For its age AoE 3 still looks good and plays well, but I get lag on my OCed 3570K in large games with big armies.