The TWC Total War Benchmark thread - compare your real TW performance

[Silven]

Here are my results. Apparently my resolution is fairly smaller than the current standard?

[alQamar]

Thanks I will validate them soon. Resolution doesn't matter much I will sort your results in the custom resolution section.

edit:

we have got new validated results today and they are very interesting again.

25.08.2013 added prooved results for CPU: Intel Core i7-860, AMD X4-955, (custom res), i5-2300 (custom res)
25.08.2013 added prooved results for GPU: GTX660 (custom res)

[Biggus Splenus]

For the CPU resolution doesn't matter at all (so I've noticed anyway). The GPU it does seem to matter more.

[babydoc]

MOAR AMD's

[alQamar]

For the CPU resolution doesn't matter at all (so I've noticed anyway). The GPU it does seem to matter more.

How could that be? The standard settings with 1280x1024 was nearly exactly proportional faster than 1080p.

[A Barbarian]

I found another way to squeeze out a little more CPU performance for Shogun 2. S2 uses the TBB (thread building blocks) multithreading library from Intel. That library is available as open source and you can download the latest version from the http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/ website.

If you get TBB version 4.1 you can copy the tbb.dll and tbb_malloc.dll files to your S2 main directory and replace the original files (make a backup first). You need to get the 32 bit Intel version probably from Visual Studio 11. With that version I gained 1fps average (and 2 fps in minimum fps) in the CPU benchmark. That's not much but the newer version might even make S2 more stable should there be any bug on the old TBB version which has been fixed.

Of course, there could also be some incompatibility in which case you just need to restore the original files. I played a few hours campaign and had no problem.

[Anon052]

@A Barbarian: Do you think this would work with an AMD CPU or does your method only work with Intel CPUs?

[A Barbarian]

@Anon052
That will also work for AMD CPUs since the library works for both, Intel and AMD CPUs. Since the library has been initially developed by Intel it might be better optimized for Intel CPUs but since it's open source for quiet a while now people might have added special AMD optimizations as well.

Just try it out. When you backup your tbb.. dlls there is really no risk in trying. Actually, it would be very interesting to see how the newer version performs on AMD. Although the absolute gain will most probably be still pretty small (1-2 fps maybe).

[alQamar]

interesting find.

EDIT: I've downloaded this library, made copy of my original files. And then took these
..\tbb41_20130613oss_win\tbb41_20130613oss\bin\ia32\vc11\tbb.dll
..\tbb41_20130613oss_win\tbb41_20130613oss\bin\ia32\vc11\tbbmalloc.dll

They are definetely newer than the one CA is providing but after I ran some CPU benchmarks, there is NO change on a i7-2600K at least. Maybe it helps for AMD only? Also tried if the "number of threads" bug will be fixed by this newer library , no change aswell. The number of thread optimisation is still valid.

[Anon052]

I tried it out with my AMD. The Framerate dropped from 16/17 FPS to 11/12 FPS. I tried it several times and I always got the same result. After restoring the original files I got the higher framerate back. So it did really not help me at all.
I used the alqamars settings.

[A Barbarian]

Oh, too bad! Which CPU do you have exactly? If you have some time you could try some other TBB version from the website, or version 4.1 binaries from a different compiler (visual studio 9 or 10) since each compiler has a slightly different set of optimizations.

[Anon052]

I have an AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core ~3.6GHz.

I will try out other settings later.

[Anon052]

I mean other versions of the files.

[pyj99]

Hello there

my tests for a mobile platform Alienware M18x R1 i7 2820 QM CF 6970M

Results with Crossfire
CPU test 27.0
26_08_20_39_10_benchmark1.log.txt
GPU test 49.0
26_08_20_43_02_benchmark1.log.txt

Results without Crossfire
CPU test 27.1
26_08_20_51_04_benchmark1.log.txt
GPU Test 26.4
26_08_20_47_29_benchmark1.log.txt

CPU - Z

PYJ-PC-wCF.txt

[alQamar]

Wow thanks for that effort will check them tomorrow.


Guys we are few days before release. Anyone out there who haven't run the cpu benchmark yet? This can be run on any computer. Please try it.


Just had a quick view on the logs Iam afraid you will have to make all tests again as you missed to change number of threads to 16 for your i7 CPU. Sorry for that.

[alQamar]

28.08.2013 added prooved results for CPU: Intel i5-4670K, (1866MHz DDR3), i5-3570

[Nippy]

Hi AlQamar,
I found out what was causing my high temps at stock - i had installed the back plate on the H100i cooler incorrectly don't think it was making the heat-sink have a good connection with the processor took me a couple of days to order some thermal paste and re-installed yesterday -
I overclocked to the processor to 4.3 GHz @ 1.2v with no issues ran a stability Aida64 for a couple of hours temps never spiked above 75c averaged 62-63c.
I ran the benchmarks as per the instructions but got weird numbers on some lines i.e. 392764.000,748119.000,751336.000, 420044.000 on the GPU benchmark Average FPS: 56660.3 and similar in CPU benchmark Average FPS: 122094?? and idea why that would be?
Don't think my hardware is that good ha-ha....
Thanks
best regards
Nippy

[alQamar]

It seems something is running in the background causing lags and so these results please close everything and reinstall drivers from my links if that doesn't help. Bios update done? The issue you have is very rare but you are not alone.

[Nippy]

Hi AlQamar
Closed all open items in tray -benchmarks worked fine then thanks Buddy!!
See attached
GPU Average FPS: 98.6125
CPU Average FPS: 42.1652
best regards
Nippy.

[alQamar]

God bless ok it is late will validate tomorrow