Poor Custom performance

[TTRouble]

Hi Guys

I've played a couple of custom battles recently and the performance has been seriously bad (10fps) even though with the same settings the campaign battles are fine (25-40fps). Any ideas what could be causing ?

Cheers

TTrouble

[Paedric]

The type of map (forest or no), the number and kind of units used, and maybe the bloom.

[TTRouble]

Hi Paedric

The custom battles I'm fighting on flat open ground, usually the grassy or Syrian Flats. The types of units are the same as those in the campaign but I've been testing formations and combinations against the typical Polybian and pre marian Legions. All video option settings are set to medium, except unit size which is Huge. Bloom is set to off (my default setting), which is exactly the same as what Ive been using for the campaigns - Macedon, Seleucids, Free Greeks, Balgea and Carthage. In the campaign battles with lots of vegitation etc, and huge unit szes I'm getting at least 25 fps and sometimes upto 50fps. If I just have a few units on each side - 4-5 its playable and responsive but a full stack army to each faction, as soon as the battle loads you can feel the slowdown even when setting up your formations.

[dvk901]

You aren't using the Hi-Res DMB, are you?

[Timefool]

I got this error too a few weeks before RS2 was released, except it happened in my Rome campaign in the battle against Hannibal. When the game was unpaused, even with all the settings at minimum and resolution at 800x600 it was giving 5-10 fps. When the game paused it was fine though.

[TTRouble]

Went back and double checked all settings, unit detail was set to high/highest.. changig that to meduium fixed the problem. Strange as i thought id made the chnage before kick starting the battles.