Here is a few tips that will give you higher fps if you struggle with bad performance

[Wack]

I found this guide on reddit and it got me from 25-50 frames up to 60-90 frames.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eternalcrusade/comments/54xau5/how_to_drastically_improve_performances/
I also turned off indexing on my ssd i put a list here to you can see what you should do if you decide to do it. This also gave me a performance boost since i have EC on a ssd

1. Really fast CPU (i5, i7) + a regular hard drive = keep indexing on

2. Slow CPU + any type of hard drive = don’t index

3. Any type of CPU + SSD hard drive = don’t index

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[Ahriman]

sg.ResolutionQuality is very impactful parameter for performance/quality. If you set it to sg.ResolutionQuality=71 you will be given sagnificant boost of FPS, but the game will look ugly.

My suggestions about the topic:

1) C:\Users\%userdata%\AppData\Local\EternalCrusade\Saved\Config\WindowsClient\GameUserSettings.ini:

[ScalabilityGroups]
sg.ResolutionQuality=71
sg.ViewDistanceQuality=1
sg.AntiAliasingQuality=0
sg.ShadowQuality=0
sg.PostProcessQuality=0
sg.TextureQuality=2
sg.EffectsQuality=1

About sg.PostProcessQuality: if you have good CPU you can set it to 3, if CPU is quite old, then 0 will be better bcs postprocessing is related on CPU which is already heavily loaded by this game.

2)
Go to game's properties and set Launching parameters as follow:
-USEALLAVAILABLECORES -nomansky -d3d9 -soft -dxlevel 80 -high -heapsize 1572864 -refresh 60 -noipx -nojoy -NOTEXTURESTREAMING -LANPLAY

Beware of -NOTEXTURESTREAMING parameter. It will cause all textures to be loaded at the beginning wich will remove lags in the middle of the game caused by texture loading, but people with low performance PCs can experience kicking while loading to the map.So use this parameter, but keep in mind removing it if you would be kicked.

3)
Go to your GPU settings (Nvidia control panel or Radeon settings) and set anywhere possible mode to Override application settings, Antialiasing to 2x, No Vsync, No Triple buffering, Maximum performance (power), Threaded optimisation On, Texture quality - High performance. You can set it in Global tab or set it only for eternalcrusadeclient.exe (it's located in the Eternal Crusade folder in Steam library). These parameters have great impact for the performance both for AMD and Nvidia GPU's, so don't ignore them.

For example, with settings above and my poor configuration (AMD phenom II x4 3,6 GHz, 8 RAM, nvidia 750ti 2Gb) I have playable 50-60 FPS. But game looks kinda ugly :( So it's your choice - poor fps and nice (but far from best) looking or nice FPS and ugly looking.

Oh, and quit all applications like browsers and kill all unnessesary resident processes in Task manager before launching the game. This is obvious, but many people don't do that and all those stuff consumes RAM and CPU time in backgroung lowering FPS.

P.S. Sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker.

[Nameless]

just a warning this doesn't work all the time it had no effect on my performance ingame

[Merzum]

Thanks for this !

//also "Set priority" to Above normal in TaskManager solves any microstutter

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[AlienC]

where would a i7 2600 and gtx 1050ti with a hard drive go?