Lag?

[Legio IX]

Hi guys. I just installed rs2 mod and started roman campaign. I started a battle with Hannibal and as soon as I entered the battle I noticed lag. I was like WTF... I have Radeon HD 6870 graphics card AMD PHENOM 2 X4 955 BLACK EDITION 3.2 GHZ processor and 4 gb DDR3 1600 MHZ ram. Games like Crysis and Far Cry 2 run fine with everything on max. Medieval 2 TW works also fine... Any suggestions? I have everything maxed out running on 1280 x 1024 resolution...

[Ferdiad]

7 year old game, It runs on one core and RS II pushes t to the max.Also my rig is better than yours and It lags.

[DarthLazy]

Not sure if related but worth a try

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...Solution-Found!

[the.phoenix]

512MB ram ....... 1.6GHZ duel core processor which is effectively 800 MHz ........ 128 MB Nvidia graphics card ....... works perfect for me :p ..... lol

[Ferdiad]

At....what...settings...lol...
Typing like that annoys me

[General Brittanicus]

My crappy laptop can run it on almost max settings with huge units and my desktop doesnt have any problems at all on max seetings, huge units. Some people do seem to have problems with it lagging there was another guy on here who had the saem problem, but i can't remmebr if he managed to do anything to fix it.

[the.phoenix]

At....what...settings...lol...
Typing like that annoys me

I generally prefer large unit settings and somewt higher thn normal graphics ..... not maxed ones ..... bt still never had ne problems ......

[Chris Death]

To be honest you only have 2gb ram when it comes to RTW - forget about some fancy 12/8/6/4 gigas of bytes RTW simply doesn't
support them without a fix (which is using a modified exe and thus being illegal here).

Now multiplicate your maxed everything out with considering you got only 2gb's and that all those fancy new features of your gfx
counts nuts aswell for such an old game and only one core is used which means poor 3.2 ghz only and voilla ==> lagefest.

~S~ CD

[Ferdiad]

I play huge with everything maxed out including bloom, High Res Veg, High Res Units and X8 antialising,4.2 ghz helps alot along with a 5970.

[Chris Death]

I play huge with everything maxed out including bloom, High Res Veg, High Res Units and X8 antialising,4.2 ghz helps alot along with a 5970.

Did you get any CTD's ever yet?

I think you're the first one i've seen playing RSII with such settings.
Ok usually people don't come to forums to complain about being able
to play in full scale/detail so this could be a reason that you're the first
one i've seen yet.

~S~ CD

[Ferdiad]

I get CTDs if I ALT TAB alot, but otherwise no, It's been completley stable for me.

[Deberoth]

I play on a mac OSX snow leopard.
Have an intel core 2 duo with 3.6 Ghz 4GB of ram and a Nvidea Geforce 9400 256 mb.
Runs good with me on huge unit scale, medium gras and vegetation settings.

[Brusilov]

I play RSII on a system with a pair of GTX295s at 2560x1600 - I don't use the high-res vegetation or the bloom effect but with everything else maxed out and the game runs fine with no lag.

As for CTDs - some campiagns were abandoned using the initial public release a long way into them. My Carthage campaign was halted by a CTD in the winter of 570AUC (Rome was almost dead anyway):

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I did use the fix that has already been mentioned. It made my system very stable again:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

Intel Core i7 Extreme processor 975(3.33GHz,8MB L2 cache,6.4GT/sec)
Memory : 6144MB (3 x 2048) 1067MHz DDR3 Tri-Channel
Media Card Reader : 19-in-1 Media Card Reader
Hard Drive : 2TB (2x1TB) Serial ATA Raid 0 (7200RPM) Dual HDD
Optical Drive1: 6X Blu-Ray ROM combo (Blu-ray read only, DVD, CD read & write)
Optical Drive2: DVD+/-RW (DVD,CD read/write)
Graphics : 1.8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX295
Audio : SoundBlaster Xfi Titanium Pcie card

[Head of the Heavy Chargers]

U need to test ur settings.

I've turned off the following:
- antialiasing
- smoke
- banners (yes, huge performance eater)
- shadows

I run 1900x1200 resolutoin with huge units. Most other are quite maxed out, but not all. Test out what ur system can handle. Great PC won't help u.

[Proconsul Gaius]

Hi guys. I just installed rs2 mod and started roman campaign. I started a battle with Hannibal and as soon as I entered the battle I noticed lag. I was like WTF... I have Radeon HD 6870 graphics card AMD PHENOM 2 X4 955 BLACK EDITION 3.2 GHZ processor and 4 gb DDR3 1600 MHZ ram. Games like Crysis and Far Cry 2 run fine with everything on max. Medieval 2 TW works also fine... Any suggestions? I have everything maxed out running on 1280 x 1024 resolution...

Try keeping the gamesgraphics settings no more than High, and keeping the unit scales at Large. Highest settings on things like vegetation will murder you since its only running on one core and your nice system isnt allowed to run at its best like with newer game.