REAL system requirements?

[BananaBob]

Hello

what rig do you need to run this game nice and smooth ( 30fps is ok for a strategy game i think) on max graphics?
I know the official systemrequierements but they are just ... ya ... bull-sh*t

[Necromancer]

Max graphics ? Do you mean extreme preset ?

Extreme Preset
i7-7700K, GTX 1070/80.

Quality Preset
i5-7500, GTX 980 or 1060 or RX480

[Sanguine]

With my ancient computer (i3 540 & HD 7770) I was playing smoothly (25 fps average) on medium. While on my new rig (i5 7500 & rx 480) most of the settings are on highest settings and it never stuttered yet even in big battles fps doesn't drop below 30.

[DarthBater]

GTX1080 runs it great maxed out on 1080p. I've gotten slight slowdown with huge seige battles where the bodies really pile up in the mosh pit. As I recall, my old 780ti ran the game well but not maxed out.

[-=IGOR=- Nikolai Jakov]

The issue with this game is not the GPU really. The issue is with the CPU usually. I have i5-6400 (not the best CPU, bet decent enough for me) and GTX 1060 6GB. I can pleasantly play it extreme at 40 fps and 40 fps in quality... so... CPU is the bottleneck.

[Metadragon]

I maxxed everything with normal unit sizes and shadows on low with a GTX 960. Just got a 1060 and it runs everything maxxed at a more than comfy 45-50 maxxed. My CPU is the I5 6600k. You could probably use other tricks to use worse cards comforatbly.

[BananaBob]

yes what keres says sounds much more realistic than the official system requirements.
I still wonder, why official requirements say:
2 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 5870
i5 secound generation

Maybe i will try to overclock my cpu, i think its underclocked right now, because every othere game i played so far didnt need much cpu power.
Thanks for the informations

[BananaBob]

do you guys know, if attila uses more than 3gb Vram?

[Metadragon]

Originally posted by BananaBob:

do you guys know, if attila uses more than 3gb Vram?

definately not. The Majority of my play time was with a 2GB vram card.

[Mile pro Libertate]

Originally posted by BananaBob:

do you guys know, if attila uses more than 3gb Vram?

It does and it doesn't 😀

If you check "Unlimited Video Memory" it will address extra RAM, but, it won't address it as efficiently as a game coded to access all of the on-card VRAM directly.

The game is running on a 32 bit architecture. This also heavily impacts the cpu usage, because the game does not take full advantage of threading.

The game is going to need 4 threads, typical of games made around 2010 and prior. This makes extra threading you may have on your cpu superfluous.

So people do best with Intel chips when running Attila, because the AMD FX series and such were designed around threading, and Intel was designed around what is on die and upper levels of cache.

Even the latest Pentiums, despite only being dual core, can run Attila well because they have 4 threads.

So the "sweet spot" seems to be a later generation i5. Past that you are getting diminishing returns, as in spending like $200 more for no architectural advantage as far as Attila is concerned.

Higher end vid cards definitely help, but remember that the vid card largely needs the cpu to "tell it" what it has to render before it can render it.

[BananaBob]

thanks alot for this detailed info, i think my AMD CPU has an option, so it uses its 8 threads as 4 threads or so, i will check that and try it.
So do you think a gtx 1060 with 6gb would perform really better than a gtx 1060 with 3gb if the CPU would not be the bottleneck?

[BananaBob]

okay i used the maibord option so my 8core is used as 4 core and it runs much better now but still not too good... i wonder why this game here needs so much more performance than rome 2