Shogun 2 Unplayable - Modern PC

[KiwiCommander]

This game is unplayable for me, awful stutters and terrible fps. I am gettng roughly 15 fps when armies collide in battle with fps all over the place out of battle, lowering graphics changes almost nothing in terms of fps ,Empire, Rome 2 and Warhammer 1 &2 run so much better than this game which I really would like to give a proper go. This is the first game I've played that has brought my pc to it's knees. I know it's only midrange but Shogun 2 is from 2011...

Drivers are most recent - 19.2.3
Low temperatures

1920x1080@60hz
Windows 10 64bit
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 6Core/12Thread overclocked @4.0GHZ 1.35V
AMD Radeon Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB
8GB DDR4 RAM (dual channel 4x2)
Samsung 860 EVO SSD

I tested with MSI Afterburner and my CPU is at 100% on 1 core, GPU 100% , I have no issues with other games. And tips or tricks to get this to run better?
Thanks in advance.

[Engineer Weierstrass]

The game runs in just one core

[waxman80014]

Make sure your drivers are all to date...

[Tiberius]

Also seems to be a windows 10 thing. Had windows 7 and things ran buttery smooth 60+ fps, upgraded to windows 10 and I am lucky to get 10-15 fps. No graphics settings makes any difference, building a more powerful PC made no difference. Even though this game is programmed to run on a single core, one single core of my current PC is faster than my old windows 7 PC dual core processor. So it seems to me it is more than the single core problem, there also seems to be an issue running it in windows 10.

[Tug Life]

Maybe its your firewall? I know the game doesn't like McAfee

[Wafflesaurus Supreme]

I recently rebuilt my spare desktop and ended up with pretty similar specs:

Windows 7 x64 Pro
1920x1080
Ryzen 5 1500X quad 3.5, air cooled
GTX 1060 3GB
16 GB DDR4 2400
Samsung 860 EVO

Shogun 2 runs wonderfully. I would venture to guess that you have a faulty video driver installation. Make sure that you're downloading and installing them clean from AMD's website directly and *not* from Windows 10's automatic updates.

I would disable the OC on the CPU for testing purposes. I also have MSI Afterburner installed mainly for monitoring and for the fan curve feature. Temps are perfectly fine. How do yours read under load?

If your GPU is struggling to get enough power (because, say, your CPU is overclocked and hogging it all...), it could choke drawing complex scenes.

By the way, go to the properties of the executable and set the Compatibility Mode to Windows 7.