RTW Possible performance tweaks

[_______LANDO_____]

I dont know if this was posted on before, but here are some tips, which can may improve performance copied from tw center (Summary):

-Run vanilla through Alexander, I recommend Ahowl11's Vanilla Enhancement Mod, it ports vanilla to the alex engine and fixes 90% of RTW's bugs and balance. Alexander has much better performance than 1.5.1 http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...ment-Mod-(AVE)

-Use nvidia inspector to set up the optimal graphics settings for RTW, it will hugely increase your FPS. I do not recommend the overclocking feature unless you know what you're doing.

-Buy process lasso and set up a custom power plan for RTW and it's expansions that puts your CPU clock speed on 100% all the time when the game is running. Also If you have multiple cores, run the game on your second core only (core 1, as your first core is core 0) and set the game to run always on high priority. (only do this if your RTW has at least 2 cores!!) Put all processes you have, except your antivirus, programs that you won't run simultaneously with RTW and the most important system processes to run on all cores except core 1. (not recommended if you have less than 4 cores)

-turn off hyper threading, it will vastly increase your FPS.

-exclude the folder of RTW + the process from your antivirus (do this at your own risk).

-RTW is limited to 2GB of ram, I can't fully discuss this here because of TWC's TOS. If you want to you should do your own research and make your own decisions.

-Turn all anti-aliasing off and use FXAA instead through you NVIDIA control panel.

-Use 2x or 4x anisotropic filtering on RTW via your NVIDIA control panel, doesn't seem to affect my FPS at all because RTW uses very low resolution textures. And not having it makes RTW's texures all bery blurry. You can have better performance and graphics with this setting on and medium graphic settings than without this setting and high graphic settings.

-Make sure RTW is using your NVIDIA graphics card and not your integrated intel GPU.

-Set your vsync in rtw to adaptive and half the refresh rate.

-Set your maximum pre rendered frames to 1 on RTW and 2 for BI and Alex

-Turn on triple buffering

-Set your GPU energy management to maximum performance for RTW.

-Turn off thread optimizing in your NVIDIA settings for RTW.

-Run RTW in compatibility mode with windows XP service pack 2.

-Run RTW as admin by default.

-Install your steam outside your program files. I have installed it in a folder called games on my C drive. Install your steam on an SSD if you have one, my C drive happens to be a 512GB SSD.

-Always set your unit detail no higher than medium (never high or highest). Higher settings will not give you any additional detail, instead they only increase the LOD distances of units.

-Buy a second hand 4:3 screen, for some reason RTW has better performance on those old screens than on modern HD or 4K monitors. All the aspect ratios in red are good for RTW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displa...Standards8.svg

-Get a CPU with good single thread performance: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

-Here are some additional things you could try: https://steamcommunity.com/app/4760/...5877097056456/

[HazardHawk]

Me and one of the admins at TWCenter.net used to run a forum teaching modding for Medieval 2 Kingdoms and before. When Windows 10 was released Rome was blacklisted and would pop up a warning and only allow you to click ok saying Rome was not compatible with Windows 10. I am the tech that found the problem and had Rome removed from that blacklist so Rome could be run on Windows 10. Microsoft even took my fault list and corrected Windows 10 not just for Rome, but for many XP games which would not run on 10. I ran alpha and beta testing for XP X64 and Vista X32 and X64 writing many of the first drivers for XP64 which are still used today on some servers, use to teach writing drivers for XPX64 at AMD64 Planet and helped write Windows 7.

Running Rome and Barbarian Invasion through Alexander was always the first class in modding Total War games for which I was the designer of how through a hint from another modder now employed by CA from before he was employed.

My apologies qualifying myself as that is just so you will understand. 90% of that list is bunk and untrue.

Make sure RTW is using your NVIDIA graphics card and not your integrated intel GPU. True if you are running an INTEL laptop, but it wont stop the lag in Rome because the problem is the presence of that chip and not the use of that chip.

Set your maximum pre rendered frames to 1 on RTW and 2 for BI and Alex. That is ONLY if you have a NVIDIA card and both Rome and BI are set to 1. Do not do anything to Alexander.

Run RTW in compatibility mode with windows XP service pack 2. True.

Run RTW as admin by default. True.

All the rest of that has not applied ever or either since Windows 10's second primary patch where my fault list was repaired.

Just to note, using a Large Address Aware enabler on an exe file is NOT a problem to recommend on Steam or on the CA support site (which CA runs this forum also) when it applies like to Empire, but to use it on Rome you will lock up your computer unless you reload often because that sets the memory leak loose in Rome and BI. It will completely blockade your page file access running data back and forth because the platform engine upon which Rome and Medieval 2 were built did not have the instructions to permanently hold in page file ordering shifting as needed. It will get caught in the loop constantly writing and deleting game files to page memory. It is normally then followed by a BSOD with a memory fault when Windows cannot write a file in page it needs.