Campaign/Strategy Map Lag

[Eddboii]

I've spent my entire day looking at this problem and after trying just about everything I could find on the subject, nothing has worked.

My dxdiag says there are no problems, all my drivers are up to date, I've fiddled with just about every one of the preference options in preferences.txt, and I still get lag on the campaign map that I should not be getting.

An interesting tidbit that might help with diagnosis however, is that I noticed that I can't turn on anti-aliasing. The only option that I have in game is LOW, and when I turn that on and apply the settings I get a black screen and it will refuse to launch.

I'm trying to run it on my MSI GE60-2PL. I can run it on an older computer just fine on much higher settings.

This has been driving me crazy for the longest time. I hope someone else has experience this and had better luck than I have in solving the issue.

[76561198006416723]

has your current CPU more cores than the cpu of the older computer?

also, try lower shadow settings (but i guess you've already tried this, judging by your post)

[Pert Boioioing]

I assume the game is probably reverting to the Intel HD iGPU built into the i5 or i7 CPU. I suggest going into the nVidia control panel and manually adding Rome to the "preferred graphics processor" setting.

Also, try setting the laptop's power setting to "high performance" before playing if you haven't done so already.

[JackTheRipper]

you may want to try copy pasting this into launch options for rtw this soloution you should only have to do once

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 RomeTW.exe

this tells the game to run using only 1 cpu core and should help stop the lag
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this second soloution you have to do every time you launch rtw but im putting it up incase 1st soloution doesn't work.

open task manager after starting the game and go under the processes tab right click RomeTW.exe and set affinity to core 1 or whatever core you decide just be sure to uncheck cores you dont want it using.

[Eddboii]

First I'd like to thank you all for the replies, I haven't been on Steam for a while which explains my late reply.

Pert, I know it defaults to the integrated graphics card, this is one of the first things I changed. But what's interesting to me is that even if I change it to run with the nVidia card by default, I still don't get Anti-Aliasing options in game. All I see is "No Anti-Aliasing".

Jack, That was a creative idea, I tried it both ways and verified that the game was running only on one processor (Through the task manager) and it didn't solve the problem.

Given the above, I have strong reason to believe that my card is not communicating with the game. Any ideas on how to fix that? I'm not optimistic, since this would have something to do with the way the game was built.

Thanks Again!

[Pert Boioioing]

Too bad nothing worked yet. I didn't want to say it right off the bat but this game is literally unplayable for some system configurations. Something is just completely broken with the game, I get like 8 fps with serious input lag on the strategy map with my Intel HD and about the same with my AMD system. None of the in-game graphics settings help.

I hope you get it fixed though.

[Eddboii]

I have found a fix through another guy that posted on these forums, by the name of "Punished" You should be able to see his thread "Fix for low FPS on Optimus" or something like that. Worked like a charm. I don't know if the same will work for your AMD system but the fix is GPU non specific. Best of luck!

[Pert Boioioing]

Originally posted by Habib bin Abdulaziz:

I have found a fix through another guy that posted on these forums, by the name of "Punished" You should be able to see his thread "Fix for low FPS on Optimus" or something like that. Worked like a charm. I don't know if the same will work for your AMD system but the fix is GPU non specific. Best of luck!

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Now, I haven't played much but this actually seems to work so far. Thanks a ton for posting in this thread! I probably wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't. Now I gotta go thank the other guy

[Dango]

Originally posted by EdMan39:

I have found a fix through another guy that posted on these forums, by the name of "Punished" You should be able to see his thread "Fix for low FPS on Optimus" or something like that. Worked like a charm. I don't know if the same will work for your AMD system but the fix is GPU non specific. Best of luck!

Could you maybe link the fix?

[Pert Boioioing]

Originally posted by Damn Daniel:

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Could you maybe link the fix?

This is the thread where the aforementioned fix can be found:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/4760/discussions/0/412448792372318074/

it's the d3d8.dll linked in post #2