insane lag whilest defending citys.

[Shaio]

my specs are.
amd 4400+ dualcore.
geforce 7950 gx2
2gig ddr2 800 corsair.

settings. everything on high shadows on lowest.

i dont understand it.. during my defenses of venice it lags all the way to hell.
only 500 men on each side of the battle.. starts off with them coming up with ladders and a siege tower.

the siege tower is taken down before it gets anywhere near the wall.
and the enemy hurls all there units onto the ladders.

now thw anoying aprt if i hit start battle and there was no deployment stage.. so im running my dismounted fuedal knights across my city to defend the wall.. they manage to make it up and start killing off the enemy.

then i get minor lag.. dosent bother me and i continure managing my units to get them all in the right places.

and then suddenly the games doing 1 frame every 20-30 seconds.

i walked off and came back the best part of an hour later and the only thing tht had changed noticably was that id lost abpout 3 of my dismoutned knights.

i cant get my head around why it could possibly be lagging.
as previous siege battles where i was attacking ( namely jerusumen. ) wich involved 3 full stacks and higher settings wich ive lowerd since then, in that battle there was no lag.

does anyone know whats wrong? id like to avoid losing citys in situations where i couldnt possibly lose but auto battle will find it a chrushing defeat.

[dearmad]

I did some extensive testing (Fraps and took notes) on shadows in this game. For my rig Shadows HIGHEST to shadows LOWEST was only a difference in frame rate of 5%, typically. Shados OFF gained 20% framrate.

Now, putting aside the siege lag bug which is noted elsewhere, I suggest turning shadows off completely.

My rig:
AMD xp3200+
2 gb ram
Nvidia 7800 gs

I run it with everything maxed out (1280x1024) and shadows off- I get 20-60 fps in battles. The slowest it gets for me is when huge armies meet in cities (13-25 or so). But full stack (normal) armies clashing on the field ='s 20 fps lowest it ever gets and then only briefly- usually 24-30.

[Shaio]

okay.. encounterd bug again.
i seem to be noticing a trend.. this time the battle was a sicilian full stack vs my veneitian full stack in some random city.
no lag....
siege tower and ladders make it to wall.
still no lag.
archers shoot siege tower and it begins to burn. the ai troops leave it.. half ther army triesd to climb the one set of ladders they have. the rest charge through my open gate.

it lags to the point of unplayability.. and none of the ai troops are actully going up thr laders.. there just in a highly concentrated mob at the bottom. ( well theres 3 guys on the ladders but i think there going down.. its hard to tell.)


i think its something to do with ladders.. or just having one set of ladders.. maybe a path finding bug created by all those units trying to climb the ladder at once?

[Boik]

Hello!

I have a very similar problem with attacking/defending citys. With the diference that if i put the camera just over the walls facing attacking army the game runs fine but as soon as i turn the camera to face my units on the wall than the slideshow starts ...

No such problem when attacing/defending fortresses.

I have:
Radeon 9800PRO
AMD 2200+
1GB RAM

[DSword]

I had this problem too BOIK. Now its gone.

I fixed it by Lowering the Anisotropic setting to Trilinear, setting Textures to Medium and Shadows t oLowest

That fixed it for me. CA will probably improve on this in later patches so I consider it temporary, but it works great & still looks great!

[Gaius Livius]

I changed AGP Aperture from 64 to 256 MB and it fixed the problem. No more slideshows. I dont now if it will work with PCI-E cards? My specs:
P4 3.2 Ghz
6800 Ultra AGP
1 Gig ram

[Oddball_E8]

i actually get this in cities too... but ive noticed that i can actually lag without any troops at all basically...
it seems (for me at least) that the building textures are the culprits here... as soon as the extractiontool comes out im gonna halve the size of all city textures... i dont care if the towns look good... im gonna raze them all anyway! muahahahahahah!

on another note: ive noticed that when alot of troops bunch up in a mob the game lags for me... note that it wont lag if the same troops are in formation and moving... just if they bunch up like at city gates or town squares

[Preskinn]

I allso have this problem, I have experienced it two times in cities... this lag is out of the world...

I have
AMD 64 ~ 3.7 ghz
2048 RAM
Radeon X1900XTX

This lagg isn't lagg... it's jagg... or something, it is like cutting small slices of a cake that is Medieval 2 and only being able to watch the slices...

[kimmus]

I experienced serious lag and temporary freezes but now I've heightened my virtual memory to sbout 2500 MB and it works much better, even with high details and such. Got a 2,8 Ghz processor BTW.

[Zaar]

...hmm sounds like there is something running in the backround... antivirus or something....:hmmm:

[george kings]

...hmm sounds like there is something running in the backround... antivirus or something....:hmmm:

My specs are superb and eventhough I've faced some lags and crushes. So, I've hightened my virtual memory and works much better.... but also I strongly recommend to get nuther hard disk and leave it just for games, no antiviruses in, no internet connection, nothing but basic windows features. Up grades and patches could be copied from the "official" disk to the game's one. I've done it so and right now I can play the game without major troubles.
As you say, some softwares such as antiviruses, spywares, engines searching for up grades, etc, mostly still run on behind even if you don't call' em up.
Cheers.