System performance & Unit sizes

Hey everyone. I was wondering today about the unit size's effects on performance. I play on a laptop and even though it runs smoothly on mid to high settings i was thinking maybe i can increase it by cutting off from unit sizes. I play on huge settings at the moment but i wonder if the unit sizes have any effect on the game( for example unkeep or AI difficulty) or is it purely graphical?

thanks in advance

Im pretty sure it does. Why not give it a go yourself?

Why would you really want smaller unit sizes? The battles aren't very epic then.

The battle will be "epic" and very laggy if that's what you want General T to go for.

i play on Large but i'm looking to change it to Huge after figuring out what other settings needs lowering. so far i've sacrificed High shadows ( never really cared for their hungriness for frames )

Since unit sizes directly affect gameplay in battles, I would recommend having these set to the highest and then decreasing other settings till performance is better.

The major performance hogs are Volumetric Fog, SSAO, Shader3 High, shadows. So lower those settings.

Originally Posted by General T

Hey everyone. I was wondering today about the unit size's effects on performance. I play on a laptop and even though it runs smoothly on mid to high settings i was thinking maybe i can increase it by cutting off from unit sizes. I play on huge settings at the moment but i wonder if the unit sizes have any effect on the game( for example unkeep or AI difficulty) or is it purely graphical?

thanks in advance

Realize, the smaller the unit sizes the less effective will artillery be. The artillery efficiency is directly proportional to the unit footprint size.

I'm playing on ultra size

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=338420

If I'm not running Fraps I turn volumetric etc on.

I know it won't look as pretty, but take the grass freature off and that will make a huge difference in performance as well.

I play on 1.5x Ultra (240 men in a line infantry unit)

I could run more without hurting performance much, but I find more than 240 makes the battles awkward and the AI doesn't use the units as well as they could.

I say play it on medium. That's the size where the AI was planned, the units have less pathfinding issues, and there are not so much problems with graphics.

and this should be in the tech forums someone should really move there

Originally Posted by Mr MM

I say play it on medium. That's the size where the AI was planned, the units have less pathfinding issues, and there are not so much problems with graphics.

and this should be in the tech forums someone should really move there

Yeah, medium is what I normally use for (non-modded) TW games, mostly to prevent pathfinding issues. I don't find my full stack battles any less "epic" because of it, either, but to each his own.