Low FPS with a not bad computer

[True DI! [VTKE]]

Hello everyone I recently purchased a new PC with the following features: processor - intel i5 13400f + RTX 4070 ti; 32 gb ram. And specifically in the old games of the Total War series, I ran into a problem. With any graphics settings, the game cannot produce a stable 60 fps, although the computer, judging by its characteristics, is capable of producing more.

During monitoring, I noticed that in general, only one processor core is loaded in 2 Rome.

Are there any ways to achieve smooth gameplay?

[Silver]

unfortunately not. the FPS is always a roller coaster ride with TW games. One thing that helps is to reduce unit size from ultra to large before starting a campaign, not because your GPU cant handle the crowds, but because your CPU bottleneck is lessened. And these TW games cant use all cores of the CPU, so I think only the clock speed of the primary core matters.

It's really frustrating to watch your GPU usage drop to like 30% and see 38 fps because some BS (even on the campaign map) is taxing your CPU to the max, only to move the camera a bit and watch it jump to over 120.

So while you're at it, you might as well make the most of the visuals by playing at resolutions higher than your monitor's after having enabled DSR/DLSR in the nvidia control panel, and then AA on top of that if you still have some horsepower left. Because you'll notice that framerate in this game doesnt drop with the settings but with the GPU utilization percentage, which is in turn determined by the cpu being bottlenecked. Ignore the CPU utilization percentage unless you have each core show separately (and the stats take up half your screen) then I'm pretty sure you'll see Core 0 or Core 1 being maxed out. And there's no way to split the workload on the other cores, so these games rely more on clock speed than core/thread utilisation, and there's only so much more clock speed you can get from an overclock at the cost of temperature and CPU life, so it's never worth it.

[Mr.Sinister]

Originally posted by True DI!:

Hello everyone I recently purchased a new PC with the following features: processor - intel i5 13400f + RTX 4070 ti; 32 gb ram. And specifically in the old games of the Total War series, I ran into a problem. With any graphics settings, the game cannot produce a stable 60 fps, although the computer, judging by its characteristics, is capable of producing more.

During monitoring, I noticed that in general, only one processor core is loaded in 2 Rome.

Are there any ways to achieve smooth gameplay?

RTW2 is a 32-bit(x86) application wich cannot utilize more then 3.2 Gb of system RAM,most aplications and games can't/don't utilize more then one core/thread.

As for getting this (old) game to consistently run at 60fps....good luck!.

[True DI! [VTKE]]

Originally posted by Silver:

unfortunately not. the FPS is always a roller coaster ride with TW games. One thing that helps is to reduce unit size from ultra to large before starting a campaign, not because your GPU cant handle the crowds, but because your CPU bottleneck is lessened. And these TW games cant use all cores of the CPU, so I think only the clock speed of the primary core matters.

It's really frustrating to watch your GPU usage drop to like 30% and see 38 fps because some BS (even on the campaign map) is taxing your CPU to the max, only to move the camera a bit and watch it jump to over 120.

So while you're at it, you might as well make the most of the visuals by playing at resolutions higher than your monitor's after having enabled DSR/DLSR in the nvidia control panel, and then AA on top of that if you still have some horsepower left. Because you'll notice that framerate in this game doesnt drop with the settings but with the GPU utilization percentage, which is in turn determined by the cpu being bottlenecked. Ignore the CPU utilization percentage unless you have each core show separately (and the stats take up half your screen) then I'm pretty sure you'll see Core 0 or Core 1 being maxed out. And there's no way to split the workload on the other cores, so these games rely more on clock speed than core/thread utilisation, and there's only so much more clock speed you can get from an overclock at the cost of temperature and CPU life, so it's never worth it.

Thanks for the reply. Could you share links to materials that will allow you to set up the games of the total war series correctly?

[True DI! [VTKE]]

Originally posted by jacpagh:

Originally posted by True DI!:

Hello everyone I recently purchased a new PC with the following features: processor - intel i5 13400f + RTX 4070 ti; 32 gb ram. And specifically in the old games of the Total War series, I ran into a problem. With any graphics settings, the game cannot produce a stable 60 fps, although the computer, judging by its characteristics, is capable of producing more.

During monitoring, I noticed that in general, only one processor core is loaded in 2 Rome.

Are there any ways to achieve smooth gameplay?

RTW2 is a 32-bit(x86) application wich cannot utilize more then 3.2 Gb of system RAM,most aplications and games can't/don't utilize more then one core/thread.

As for getting this (old) game to consistently run at 60fps....good luck!.

Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to set up the game correctly? It is very unpleasant to observe, even before the collision, the drawdown of a couple of frames per second when scrolling the camera...

[Mr.Sinister]

Originally posted by True DI!:

Originally posted by jacpagh:

RTW2 is a 32-bit(x86) application wich cannot utilize more then 3.2 Gb of system RAM,most aplications and games can't/don't utilize more then one core/thread.

As for getting this (old) game to consistently run at 60fps....good luck!.

Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to set up the game correctly? It is very unpleasant to observe, even before the collision, the drawdown of a couple of frames per second when scrolling the camera...

You can try to stabilize FPS with Nvidia Geforce experience/Nvidia control panel.

You seem to think there's some kind of "golden bullet" to solve frame drops.....there isn't,not for this or any other game,no matter how much of a high-end machine you have,sorry.

Regards

[SvarogX]

Originally posted by True DI!:

Hello everyone I recently purchased a new PC with the following features: processor - intel i5 13400f + RTX 4070 ti; 32 gb ram. And specifically in the old games of the Total War series, I ran into a problem. With any graphics settings, the game cannot produce a stable 60 fps, although the computer, judging by its characteristics, is capable of producing more.

During monitoring, I noticed that in general, only one processor core is loaded in 2 Rome.

Are there any ways to achieve smooth gameplay?

Your hardware is great, but Rome 2 is bottlenecked by single-core CPU performance because of its outdated engine. Try setting your power plan to High Performance, disable V-Sync, reduce unit sizes, and use mods like Performance & Graphics Booster to improve FPS.

[Гетьман]

I don`t have such problem on 4060. but I lock in nvidia panel 60 fps and switch off v-sync. you can have problem with fps when you have too big armies on the battle or full open map. but again on 4060 mobile I don`t have such problem. I had on 1660ti mobile some strange things like on higher settings game give higher fps. but I don`t have problem with other older total war games

[Hector]

Had the same problem, turns out it was a mouse polling rate problem, anything above 1000hz made a stuttering mess.

[peter]

Hi - just picking up on this thread and seeing somethings to do (thank you) .My hardware is Desktop Intel Core i7-6700 , 4.0GHz Ram 32GB , Intel HD Graphics : Will it work without a graphics card ? it's for a mate and they have Rome Total War 2 - lags at battles.

[SvarogX]

Originally posted by peter:

Hi - just picking up on this thread and seeing somethings to do (thank you) .My hardware is Desktop Intel Core i7-6700 , 4.0GHz Ram 32GB , Intel HD Graphics : Will it work without a graphics card ? it's for a mate and they have Rome Total War 2 - lags at battles.

Why don't you check the storepage?
Pretty much every game on Steam has the minimum and required specs on their storepage


Minimum
OS *: XP/ Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8
Processor:2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor
Memory:2GB RAM
Graphics:512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3, vertex texture fetch support).
DirectX®:9.0c
Hard Drive:35 GB HD space
Additional:Screen Resolution - 1024x768

RECOMMENDED:
OS *:Windows 7 / Windows 8
Processor:2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor (or greater)
Memory:4GB RAM
Graphics:1024 MB DirectX 11 compatible graphics card.
DirectX®:11
Hard Drive:35 GB HD space
Additional:Screen Resolution - 1920x1080