Help: Low FPS problem.
 

Hi guys,

Just got a copy of the game and I love it. Game is brilliant but I am having a small problem.

I am playing on maximum @ 2048/1152 however my system specifications should easily cover it. my system spec's are bellow.

AMD Phenom II x6 running at 3.3ghz
8gig DDR3 dual channel 1600 Ram
Sapphiretech HD5850 Gfx card 2Gb DDR5 Core/765-Mem/1125

I get avg FPS of around 30-40 but if I zoom in it could drop as low as 10, however the game does not seem slow/laggy/have problems playing, I do not believe it is the card as the avg GPU load is only around 30%, it actually uses a higher load in the menu when setting a custom game up,

Help appreciated, cheers,

Is common, happen also to me: low fps also if in reality the images are fluids like in higher FPS. try to disable shadow and grass effects. I suggest also pseudo hdr disable.

The thing is I don't think I need too as the game isn't even stressing my GFX card, I will try it but my card is one of the best on the market so I do not see the issue being with the card itself!

Cheers. Just finished playing a custom battle, didn't lose a single unit :)

I think this is due to very performing programming of graphical engine, very unusual for western made games which normally request requirements heavier), so is possible the framrate appears lower respect that was real.

Try the campaign (espcially from the fifth battle).

If you want test the multi I'm always ready for a match.

I'm building a web site for the game (started yesterday), if you're interested.

http://realwarfare1242.altervista.org/

Absolutely, Bookmarked it an looking at it now, nice one, I wouldn't mind unit list, I want to try and find the country/teams with the best Archers and Pikemen but searching them all is a pain, lol

Russian factions and the arab faction; see my strategic guide

Cheers mate!

Not heard much about XIII Century, is it any good? it'd the predecessor to RW1242?

Edit to Add - I would love a game like this set in BC era, Spartans/Athenians etc with Phalanx's

THe games shares the same engine, and are fully compatible in multi. The difference is the singleplayer campaign of RW1242 which is not present in XIII. So the strategic guide concepts are valid also RW, (I created also the addendum file for fill the gap)

Oh cool, so I am not missing anything by not having XIII?

Nothing of different regarding the gameplay

Still Nothing
 

It doesn't seem to like SLI. Even with SLI running, one video card is at 40% while the other is at 0%. I tried installing SLI patches, but still nothing.

2 x 8800GTX

I just pre-ordered Real Warfare 2 Northern Crusade on Steam and downloaded the free Real Warfare 1242, however I am getting horrible FPS. I have got a i7 860 processor @3.3ghz and I have a ATI 5770 GPU with 8GB Ram. Total War looks much better and I can play on Ultra-High, but in this game, even with everything low it just doesn't run well. I average about 20-30 fps and when I get down to the infantry, that look horrible, my fps drops to about 10. Any suggestions to improve fps is greatly appreciated.

With your hardware you can set ultra, must be sufficient use a lower resolution respect that one you use (1680?).

The game has full field of view, the TW not, they have limited field. In TW if you set higher the resolution is seen the same area of map with the same angle of view, of the lower resolution one, only with different numbers of pixel. In this RW not , higher resolution ->higher portion of map and elements are displayed in, with the same camera position. This has a impact on fps performance because is not a simple pixel change.

Try to see the same map portion at the same distance with high and lower resolution, you will see the objects displayed are more in high resolution.

You can try also to set higher the pre-rendered frames value. THis will raise the performance of fps in rapport to your cpu power

Thanks for the reply Mitra. I am using 1680x1050 resolution, but I will try going lower.

That worked, thank you. Now I can enjoy the game until Northern Crusades comes out. :)

For me had success the prerendered frames setting to 8; i obtained fps of 30-50 also with 1680.

"For me had success the prerendered frames setting to 8; i obtained fps of 30-50 also with 1680."


I am unsure of how to do that with an Ati Card though. I have checked and didn't see anything.