Lagg (have a good pc)

hi,

I bought me napoleon total war, but i can only play without lagg when i set most things on medium and disbale everything extra. i do see i lagg in other games to,

my system is
Intel(R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.40 Ghz
RAM = 4GB
64 bits vista
GPU = Geforce EN9500GT 1GB

normally my pc should easely run napoleon i gues

so what could i do?

ps.. i even got low fps on Medieval 2
ps2 i also used new coolpast on my cpu still no fix

tx

Mmmm strange. The one thing I would say is you need to upgrade your CPU to a dual core at the very least. RAM and video card looks good.

You can also try the following things:

- try turning v-sync off and on. I sometimes find when I start a battle with v-sync on it causes a bit of lag. turning it off and on again solves the problem
- turn the 'picture in picture' feature off permanently. Go into the script file and disable this feature. Give me a shout if you don't know how
- revert to older video card drivers. There is a known problem wiuth cannon causing lag with newer drivers
- check your sound card drivers in your devices menu. Make sure there is only ONE driver installed
- tune the shadows down to a lower grade. Shadows are notoriously FPS hungry

Good luck my friend!

hi,


tx for the answer, can u just say how i do the picture in picture thing
ty

i checked my audio and i disable my realteck driver because i have some creative audio,
and ill look now for some older drivers for my gpu because i just updated em.
and btw my cpu is a dual core

tx

No prob..go into the scripts folder... document and settings/username/creativeassembly/NTW/scripts and alter the line gfx_picture_in_picture true to gfx_picture_in_picture false. For some reason it sometimes reverts back to the true setting so you might need to check it before you start a game.

The older drivers should also help

Originally Posted by stinkiepoep

hi,


tx for the answer, can u just say how i do the picture in picture thing
ty

i checked my audio and i disable my realteck driver because i have some creative audio,
and ill look now for some older drivers for my gpu because i just updated em.
and btw my cpu is a dual core

tx

Acually try to go back in and disable the creative audio instead, if that doesn't work re-enable the creative audio, and disable the realtek, then go into Napoleon and check if the sound is set to creative instead of "default"

Greetings,

You know, I thought I had a good PC, too, but I am getting a bad case of the lag. I tried disabling my ATI soundcard, but then I wind up with no sound (I have an ATI, gpu i presume, and a RealTek sound card drive). I don't know what to do. I have an i7 920 @ 3.33, 3GB RAM, ATI HD4870 1GB DDR5. I thought it would run NTW, but I am even getting lag on my campaign map. I did notice that my CPU seems to only be using one core. Is that normal? It's very frustrating.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

morrisonicus

Originally Posted by morrisonicus

Greetings,

You know, I thought I had a good PC, too, but I am getting a bad case of the lag. I tried disabling my ATI soundcard, but then I wind up with no sound (I have an ATI, gpu i presume, and a RealTek sound card drive). I don't know what to do. I have an i7 920 @ 3.33, 3GB RAM, ATI HD4870 1GB DDR5. I thought it would run NTW, but I am even getting lag on my campaign map. I did notice that my CPU seems to only be using one core. Is that normal? It's very frustrating.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

morrisonicus

You suffer the same crule fate is i, the Radeon HD4870, although i have the X2 version.

That graphics card, the GEFORCE9500G, is not the best one around, and has several more powerful 'brothers'. I would recommend updating the card to the 9800GT (or just the G). For the best performance ring your nearest computer shop, tell them your specs and ask what Graphics card would best suit your machine.

The problem really is you gpu, desktop thread is there to help you

Originally Posted by Mr MM

The problem really is you gpu, desktop thread is there to help you

k now i know what the problem is,

if just got a new monitor with 1920*1080 resolution and i see in ur guide i can only run on low settings with that screen

tx now i know what the problem is

Originally Posted by stinkiepoep

hi,

I bought me napoleon total war, but i can only play without lagg when i set most things on medium and disbale everything extra. i do see i lagg in other games to,

my system is
Intel(R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.40 Ghz
RAM = 4GB
64 bits vista
GPU = Geforce EN9500GT 1GB

normally my pc should easely run napoleon i gues

so what could i do?

ps.. i even got low fps on Medieval 2
ps2 i also used new coolpast on my cpu still no fix

tx

Pentium D is OLD , Hot (90nm) and slow (even when it first came out compared to amds X2s in 2005)

9500 gt is underpowered for a game like this.

If you were getting low fps on MTW2 then by god thats sure sign your comp needs some upgrades.


From -

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3401&p=4

"And one more time: 3850 for not that much more cash blows away the 9500 GT in price performance. Performance of the 8600 GT just trails the 9500 GT. The only twist here is that the 3650 catches up to the 9500 GT at the highest res we tested for a just-less-than-playable frame rate."

If its slow compared to the 3850.. need i say more?