Rome 2: Horrendous FPS

Mak3R

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Hi all. Does anyone else experience realllllly bad FPS on the campaign map for Rome 2? I average about 20-30, then once I select a unit on the map and try to move across the world it halves. It's starting to really irritate me. Example below. 7fps!
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Below is the settings I am using. 1920x1080 resolution. Steadily lowering things seems to do nothing to help. My spec is in my sig but I have currently disabled crossfire as it offers no benefit in this game and does nothing but caues excess noise. Using 13.11 AMD drivers. Surely my spec isn't that bad. I would have thought I could run this much higher than I am currently...
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Any ideas?
 
I had a look at the 14.1 betas but it didnt suggest anything worthwhile to me apart from mantle...
 
Spangles said:
That screenshot is during the turn moves for the opponents so it will drop then, always has done for all TW games IIRC. The campaign map is still quite sluggish and slow but the latest Rome patch has upped the FPS during the battles.

Fingers crossed it is something they will look into getting sorted out in the future.
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True it was during a turn change, that's jut when I happened to take the screeny. But it hits that kind of FPS when I select an army on the map and start to scroll across the map. It makes for a really un-enjoyable experience when I try to move armies/agents etc

Is my processor really holding me back here? The game seems really single threaded, while playing I see 3/4 cores sitting pretty idle.
 
HangTime said:
Make sure you disable vsync, and turn down those unit settings you've got cranked up.
Also the Total War games typically require seriously monster CPUs if you want good performance, an i5-750 is getting on for 5 years old now and you have a fairly modest overclock. I would start pushing the envelope a bit, 3.8ghz minimum.
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Surely the unit settings only apply on the battlefield? Not the campaign map which is where I'm complaining about the major FPS problem.
I can't remember if I have VSync on or not, I'll check later.
I don't really like the idea of trying to OC more, back when I set this OC years ago this was the best I could achieve without needing silly voltages. (I was probably doing it wrong though :D)

I did have the unlimited video settings box ticked up until recently but read somewhere (can't remember where) that it can actually cause more problems. I'll try reselecting.

Crossfire is also disabled as stated in the OP.

Thanks for the responses here guys. Glad to know I'm at least not totally alone in having problems. I still enjoy the game though :)
 
Freddie1980 said:
Its hard to believe that theres still a developer producing triple A games that are still single threaded. And of all the games on the market today Total War with all those A.I calculations to do is the one game that could really benefit from extra threads.

I wonder if AMD and CA could retro fit mantle into Rome 2 which couldhelp fix anpot of performance issues?
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Agreed, it's ridiculous.

Turning off VSync and re-enabling the unlimited memory option seem to have help. Selecting an army still drops the FPS quite a bit but it's much more managable now, mid 20s-30 roughly. Can't believe I didn't think of Vsync all this time :(
 
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