Rome 2: Total War?

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  1. Gaizokubanou

    Gaizokubanou Maha Guru

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    Only part of the benchmark that matters is towards the end when the fight begins... that's reflective of in-game performance.
     
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    Yeah the benchmark is basically one of the historical battles and ends just moments after the game would have begun after a small intro scene. :)

    It's a good tech test though but like the above reply also stated it's not a true indicative of actual game performance, more of a stress test but it's a decent method of comparing the visual settings and their impact on performance.
    (Though it does not cover the world map performance which starts pretty well but from my testing it can quickly degrade after a couple of turns.)
     
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    I downloaded the small beta patch and only saw a small improvement from 42.2 fps to 42.7 fps on Extreme 1920x1200 settings with AA On, Vegetation Alpha On and DOF set to High. I think that might actually be because I ran the previous benchmark with v-sync on (I noticed the benchmark hit 66 fps at one point in the second run). So if this patch is supposed to improvement performance then it has done nothing for me, granted 42.7 fps is not exactly a bad framerate for such a demanding game.
     

  5. Gaizokubanou

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    If that's from the in-game benchmark then average FPS is a very misleading indicator as the first 2/3 of the benchmark bloats the FPS average up by rendering very little.

    I get average of 48 on that benchmark using lower setting but that is because it gives me 80+ fps when there are like 2 units shown, then tanks to 20 or less fps when more realistic number of units are shown towards the end... and this game's selling point isn't waging bunch of skirmish battles so yeah :(
     
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    Oh, that's just hilarious. :D
     
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    ya, on compaign map my vram usage (shown in afterburner) is ~40% max. and when ai turns its a slide show, only a few fps, lol. But that was always the problem when ai is moving.

    Edit:
    I gained a huge fps boost in campaign map and battles, really...wow...

    Changed gfx_direct_resource_access false; # gfx_direct_resource_access <bool>, Enable Direct Resource Access # to true &
    gfx_video_memory -2147483648; # gfx_video_memory <int>, Override available video memory (bytes) # (if you have more than 2gb gpu ram than you maybe need to adjust that number, im also still experimenting*)

    *gave me 150mb more gpu mem used in comparison to value 0 and also 3fps. changing to other values makes no different (make the game think you have 3gb gpu ram e.g.)

    C:\Users\###\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Rome2\scripts\preferences.script.txt


    Heres my whole config in case someone needs to know and compare. (make it read only!)
    (im using FXAA through driver, thats why i disabled MLAA, i think its a good choice and i really dont want to play without AA).

    http://pastebin.com/Hd9UnbuB
     
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    Damn Duke, you are a life saver. Thank you.
     
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  10. Gaizokubanou

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    Oh wow... everyone just go check out custom battle and how you can select your map.

    That is COOL!
     

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    We'll, I couldn't resist buying this game in the end... Hopefully any bugs are sorted, but I've always loved TW. Has any one given the new beta 13.10's a go. At work atm so can't test.
     
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    I got a few fps boost in single card, so it somewhat works.
     
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    It's supposed to bring all bunch of fps, otherwise it's still unplayable.
     
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    Not related to the performance of the game, but more with quality control, or lack of. The intro videos of the last Total War games has been very well done, High quality videos. The one in Rome II in some places you can see blocky sections (in the sky in certain sections). Like its been rendered at a lower quality.
     
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    The intro video is appalling quality IMO considering this is currently a PC-only title. It's full of macro-blocking and noticeable colour banding due to the poor compression algorithm used. A shame really because the video content itself is really good. The video is so bad in my view that it looks like it was taken from the Xbox 360 version!!! Considering the game is already 20 GB in size, you would think that a couple more gig for a higher quality video wouldn't make that much difference.

    Yeah, you'd only watch it once anyway but it does distract from the overall polish of the game and it is the first thing you see when you load the game up for the first time. As they say, first impressions last...
     

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    I've sent this back for an agreed refund today. Having been a long time fan of Total War, I've become increasingly fed up with the broken products they release. I might look at it again in the future, but from what I played of it, there were issues that I'm sure will never be fully resolved.

    Thoroughly disappointed. I'm returning to Civ V in the short term, but now also going to be looking at Europa IV and Crusader Kings II. And at times I will return to Medieval II, which imo was Total Wars finest hour.
     
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    another low gpu usage problem

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    Yeah, when you zoom it tanks.:bang:
     
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    Has anyone got the pre-order Greek States Culture Pack DLC code yet here in the UK? Amazon advertised it when I pre-ordered the game from them last week but the code did not come with the game nor have they emailed it to me.
     
  20. Gaizokubanou

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    Contact their customer support. I too ordered from Amazon (but US division) and I had to contact them to get that DLC code. It's pretty responsive for customer support, I got my live agent in like 25 seconds or less.
     

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