Graphic Settings & Performance Increase Recommendations

**Ganossa** · February 17, 2015, 10:34 AM

I am running Attila on an almost 4 year computer with steady 20 fps. I would like to share some of my experience on the Attila settings::

First my Specs are...
- Intel Quad Core i7 2.67 GHz
- 18 GB Memory (not needed)
- 64 bit Windows 7
- NVIDIA GTX 570
- 2 SSDs (one for OS and one for Attila)

Using SSDs is very much recommended to run R2 and Attila decent.

Here the in-game settings which give me a steady 20 fps in the benchmark.

Hope this can be of some use to you

**Totalheadache** · February 17, 2015, 10:37 AM

You def need an upgrade or two...running that cpu @stock is holding you back as well.

P.s interested to see how you do with gem..as there is no x2msaa atm.

Running x4msaa is a big hit so am on mlaa atm.

**AnthoniusII** · February 17, 2015, 11:53 AM

What are porthole quality and screen space reflections about?

**The Useless Member** · February 17, 2015, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by AnthoniusII

What are porthole quality and screen space reflections about?

Porthole is determines whether advisor portraits are 3d or 2d while space reflections improves the reflections on shiny surfaces as far as the game tells me.

**AnthoniusII** · February 17, 2015, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by The Useless Member

Porthole is determines whether advisor portraits are 3d or 2d while space reflections improves the reflections on shiny surfaces as far as the game tells me.

Thank you my friend..

**The Roman Republic** · February 17, 2015, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by The Useless Member

Porthole is determines whether advisor portraits are 3d or 2d while space reflections improves the reflections on shiny surfaces as far as the game tells me.

Also it changes the faction leaders on the faction selection page to either static or active. (2d or 3d)

**barry12** · February 17, 2015, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by LuciferHawk

I am running Attila on an almost 4 year computer with steady 20 fps. I would like to share some of my experience on the Attila settings::

First my Specs are...
- Intel Quad Core i7 2.67 GHz
- 18 GB Memory (not needed)
- 64 bit Windows 7
- NVIDIA GTX 570
- 2 SSDs (one for OS and one for Attila)

Using SSDs is very much recommended to run R2 and Attila decent.

Here the in-game settings which give me a steady 20 fps in the benchmark.

Hope this can be of some use to you

Thanks for this, a good guide for me and my card (albeit in SLI so will ramp up accordingly).

Off topic but I notice too you made the GEM graphical mod for Rome 2? That was cracking work mate, thanks. Pity it went out of action after EE edition, will you be looking at anything similar for Attila?

**SPARTAN VI** · February 17, 2015, 01:16 PM

I'd recommend bumping up "texture filtering" to 16x anisotropy. It will improve your texture image quality when viewed at angles and has little if any performance impact.

**kanzy** · February 17, 2015, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by barry12

Thanks for this, a good guide for me and my card (albeit in SLI so will ramp up accordingly).

Off topic but I notice too you made the GEM graphical mod for Rome 2? That was cracking work mate, thanks. Pity it went out of action after EE edition, will you be looking at anything similar for Attila?

I didn't go out of action, it has EVOLVED my friend and now it has its own hosted modification section on the Rome 2 forums.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...ment-Mod-GEMFX

**T-Duke** · February 17, 2015, 02:11 PM

Unlimited video memory toggled on with just 1 gb of vram?

**helmersen** · February 17, 2015, 05:43 PM

So on the campaign map I sometimes manage to get about 35-45fps, which I consider very good. However, when I move around, and I maintain this level of fps, the game sort of stutters in a way anyway! Rome 2 doesnt do this for me, so Im wondering what is wrong? Yes, I have Vsync enabled to prevent stuttering/tearing.

**Sidious** · February 17, 2015, 06:48 PM

I havent finished installing yet, but try forcing vsync with nvidia/catalyst, that might work

**Musteline** · February 17, 2015, 07:01 PM

well i personally would remove vsync entirely and get dat fps boost.(im blind to tearing though)

**Hadrien Ier** · February 17, 2015, 07:09 PM

Or try a G-sync or freesync monitor, remove the V-sync to get more FPS and no more tearing.

**Ganossa** · February 17, 2015, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by SPARTAN VI

I'd recommend bumping up "texture filtering" to 16x anisotropy. It will improve your texture image quality when viewed at angles and has little if any performance impact.

I tuned it down because it had quiet the impact for me (maybe because of the aged GPU), though it normally does not in other applications. This might also be related to high grass and texture detail in general. Trilinear does still apply decent filtering, so its not like turning it off. Maybe using a NVIDIA overwrite could help with performance but I did not try that yet.

Originally Posted by T-Duke

Unlimited video memory toggled on with just 1 gb of vram?

Running it on SSDs feels to make this a more than valid option. It basically lets you run the game on your selected settings without auto tuning it in big battles (which always degrades quality that you would not touch if you would tweak it manually).

**binarystar** · February 17, 2015, 08:27 PM

Disable SSAO. It really doesn't add all that much, you really can barely tell the difference with it on or off. Will increase FPS. Also...running the game on SSD only provides faster loading times, like all games. Has no impact on actual gameplay performance.

**craziii** · February 17, 2015, 11:23 PM

man, you really should oc that cpu, would give you alot of performance boost. is that the core 2 duo quad core? if so, requires old school oc skills

**Tyiallyradil** · February 18, 2015, 12:22 AM

Hello there,

I would need some advice how to improve the performance of Attila.

these are my specs:

Processor: Intel Core i5-3350P 3.10Ghz
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Ram: 2x 2 GB Kingston
Motherboard: Asus B75M plus
64 bit Win 7

I run the game on medium-high quality, yet pretty bad graphics overall (I can run Shogun II with max settings and it looks way way better)

I wish I could get similar graphics to shogun II.

Could you recommend me something which can boost my performance?

I would be really grateful

Thanks in advance.

**Skouser** · February 18, 2015, 06:01 AM

Atilla just about runs okay on low settings. I made the screen resolution worse and got some improvement, but are their any other tricks? It says my drivers need updating but Windows said that they're up to date.

Rome 2 ran fine for me on high settings

thanks