Empire: Total War Very bad perfonmance

but m8 if you dont know the fps how can u know sli is working or not?

nvm if its smooth and you are enjoying it cool.

 

can you attach cod w@w nHancer profile somewhere?

 

have u downloaded nhancer?

http://downloads.guru3d.com/nHancer-2.4.5--(NVIDIA-Profile-Editor)_d978.html

click on the cod w@w profile and it should work when u run the game

and add the exe file...

 

Yes, I've got nHancer, but don't have the game.
But I found the profile after showing all.
Then added empire.exe, run game and ... empire SLI still not working (flickering screen)
I use 182.08 drivers and 2xGF260 C216 cards.
I think, we have to wait for an official patch.

 

If you have downloaded nHancer and just can't find it in the list you might need to set the profile filter to show all profiles.

Besides adding the .exe's to the profile you can set the profile to allow it to be enabled manually, then click the nHancer icon in your sys tray and activate it from there.


I agree about the ranged units seem under-powered or don't seem to fire when they should if you have 'fire at will' off and are trying to get them to fire manually. The formation controls are sketchy to me, when you hold the mouse button in and try to set the direction you want them facing, could be my mouse is just set to sensitive I guess though.

I have not opened up much in the tech trees so I have not had a chance to try very many different types of units yet but the combat just does not seem that great to me. I do like the Campaign/turn-based part but in no way do I believe this game deserves the ratings it's getting from the press, PC Gamer, 94, Metascrore 94, IGN 9.5 ....

 

yeah first impressions as soon as i started playing were "omg is this finished"?

 

i agree, i do think there isn't much we can do, is there?
Wait for patch & drivers??

 

I have a GTX295 and have exactly the same problem as you guys. Only one GPU will run and needless to say, the game doesn't run particularly well.

Looks like we're all sitting waiting before we can play then!

The annoying thing is I'm 99% sure my demo from Steam runs in SLI mode on ultra settings, 4xAA with no problems?!

 

on the total war forums i guy with a 9800 gx2 said it ran smooth on 177.92.

gonna give it a quick go now..!

ok 177.92 and 178.24 fail. back on 181.22 but im close to calling it a day. tested multiple drivers n nhancer profiles with little sucess.

hey at least downclocking seems to work better with these..

 

The quality of newly released games is very poor recently. I thought Empire would be different, but it isn't. Tha game behaves like beta or earlier version and that is dissappointing.
Besides that, I have the same problems as Garcks with game hanging from time to time. I've tested all SLI modes (the only one working is with on GPU, so it's not really SLI) and PhysX on and off - no difference on game behaviour and performance. I'm running out of ideas...

 

Sea battles seem to provoke this out of video memory error. Sometimes I have slowdowns on the campaign map when a unit enters a building. But it seems independend from the playtime. Sometimes it's in the beginning, sometimes after some hours and when it happens, it's gone after it.

 

Funny thing about this is i bought a GTX295 and i have huge performance issues, FPS are really low with everything maxed. Now this could of course been because of a lot of things not just gfx... _but_

On my other computer (computer 2) that has a slower cpu (not that much but only 2 cores instead of 4), less ram, slower harddrives but a 4870x2

On that card the campaign map is _always_ at 60 fps and the sea and land battles are basiclly lag free, and this is with everything at ultra i kid you not.

So i guess we have to wait for Nvidia and CA to please fix the _DRIVER_ issue with gtx295 :0)

I primarly run my games on a 32 inch samsung 6 series so on computer on the res is 1920x1080 and on computer two its a 24 inch monitor so its 1920x1200 and as i said everything on ultra, all AA and stuff att max and no tweaking at all in either nvidia control panel or CCC except fans :0)

computer 1 specs:

q9950 @ 3,6
8gb corsair
samsung spinpoints
X38 quadGT
800 corsair PSU
gtx295 @ stock

computer 2 specs:

e6850 @ stock
4gb corsair
WD disc (an old 320gb)
asus p45
520 corsair PSU
4870x2 @ stock

 

ok have got it running @100fps 1920x1200 4xaa 4xaf and ultra settings using my warhammer 40k 2 nhancer profile which i fiddled with.

gpu temps getting up to the 80c mark now. thats more like it. had some flickering textures though

181.22.

 

Well, don't know if you guys know:

There will be a patch for Empire next week

http://kotaku.com/5165257/empire-total-war-+-fastest-patch-turnaround-time-ever

 

well i dont know if SLI is working to be fair, but if it aint thats even better

 

well i think i got it working now. before my gpu temps werent getting over 65 now they are pushing on 80c.

think ill need to get some water-cooling action on the go..

 

can you upload and post your profile?

 

ok here it is i'll type it out...i have been playing the road to independance (god knows why damm rebellious yanks)

on chap 2 quebec or montreal cant rem was very choppy. just did the defend boston and was fine @ 75fps or so. survived cos had some minutemen in a barn (thats a tip btw). oh and fire canister shot!

warhammer 40k dawn of war2



enhancements

aa = application
af =application
vsync ticked but off and force open gl triple-buffer on
colout scheme is ticked

optmisation

texture filtering = high quality
trilenear opt is off
aniso opt off
negative lod bias is off
adjust is 00
force dxt3 render is off
pre-render frames is 3

compatability

anti aliasing running in splinter cell 2 compat
next 2 arent ticked and general compat
force minimaps none
hdr off
conformant texture clamp is on
driver ext limit is 0
reported open gl is default
open gl control nothing ticked
open gl mutli display mutli display mode on
dynamic tiling 1
cpu multi cpu core mode
hybrid sli mode 1
hyrbid sli mode dxten 0

far from perfect but i at least think 2x gpus are working now!

 

what SLI mode is it?