Performance Issue on low graphics

**majinleoking** · August 05, 2011, 10:34 AM

hy guys, first of all let me congratulate you on this awesome mod.
Here is my boggle: I run RS2 with classic RTW engine, no bloom, vegetation set on low, no high res textures. In the actual game, I have set everything to low except terrain(high), unit size(large) and unit detail(high). No shadows, crappy vegetation, to hell with good-looking buildings, and in 800x600x16 resolution!!!!!!!!!!! and still, in a battle with just the first row filled with units, when I scroll down( I am scrolling when the units aren't even moving, maybe banging their shields from time to time) and it gets choppy, lag, fps drop, whatever but it gets lots of it! Maybe not connected but I can tun RTW vanilla on highest graphics, with 2 full huge armies and it doesn't even stutter. I check the background processes, 29 including the game, and besides the game only one that jumps 20,000K.
This is my pc :memory: 1GB DDRII, HDD: 256 GB
video card : Nvidia 7300GS
processor Intel pentium D92 3,0 Ghz
I have my drivers up to date,video card temperature doesn't jump 70*C while gaming, my paging file is 1536 mb, I'm all lost in this!

**Hellhound1** · August 05, 2011, 12:42 PM

Have you got unit shaders disabled from the launcher?

**majinleoking** · August 06, 2011, 10:27 AM

no, it's enabled

**century x** · August 06, 2011, 02:01 PM

Something is running in the background of your computer that you are unaware of that is taking away processing time for RTW.

Check to see what is running in the background and disable all non essential processes

**majinleoking** · August 07, 2011, 07:15 AM

I already said I have, only rs2 is consuming about aprox 300,000k , avast 30,000k and explorer 21,000k ,the rest (the other 25 processes) don't even jump 5,000k

**Brusilov** · August 07, 2011, 08:05 AM

You can't compare vanilla R:TW performance with RSII performance or many other mods. The skins in vanilla R:TW are very basic where on RSII they are quite detailed. Many other graphic bits are held in hgher resolution in RSII as well. It all adds up to needing a better pC.

I'd try running something like IOBIT's Game Booster software - this will flush many unwanted services in 'Gaming Mode'. With only 1GB of memory you need all of that as you can get.

**majinleoking** · August 09, 2011, 07:58 AM

ok, though I still have the graphics lowered, I have noticed that some units are proned to lag my PC. In a custom battle I usually play with Daoi Heavy infantry on my side, >10 units, and it lags heavily, but If I use Dacian elite falxmen instead, the lag is gone! and i can enjoy epic combat

. I have noticed that Daoi and Bastarnae , though nude, have a different boy texture and model, maybe this was causing lag. Thank you for your support and concern, I hope to someday buy a better PC and decapitate scythian heads with Daoi once more