Rome 2 only using 25% of my VRAM.

[Jmonstra]

I've got an MSI GTX 760 with 4MB of GDDR5 and according to after burner battles are only using 1146or so MB of VRAM.

Is this something I can expect updated drivers to fix, or...?

[hitman_8182]

fix will be released tomorrow, you have to wait and see
btw, you may need updated driver from Nvidia also

[Jmonstra]

fix will be released tomorrow, you have to wait and see
btw, you may need updated driver from Nvidia also

Presently I'm using the 326.80 beta drivers and I havent seen a noticeable increase in performance

[Tazgrent]

Video options. Check "Unlimited VRAM".

[Jmonstra]

Video options. Check "Unlimited VRAM".

Did that too.

[Jmonstra]

I got it up to 2MB playing a large city battle (In which my frame rate was terrible) but my GPU is still sitting at like 17% load . Also I thought the fix was going to eb released Friday? Or do you just live in Australia or something ?

[omzdog]

I noticed this as well.
Pretty sure they just want to incite as much trolldome as possible just after release, then go back and presto!
See, everything was just fine.

[Raining Red]

Could your CPU be bottlenecking?

[omzdog]

Could your CPU be bottlenecking?

If that were the case, all you'd need to do is reduce screen resolution to something more comfortable for the CPU.
Havn't tried doing that.

[Jasheon]

It's bad engine not cpu bottlenecking. People with haswell chips overclocked to 4.5ghz still having horrible lag.

[omzdog]

One causes the other, like playing old games on new machines.
Or it could be both.
Try adjusting settings and forgo the cosmetics.

[Jmonstra]

I've got an AMD FX 4100 overclocked to 4.3GHz.

[lampuiho]

why do you care how much video ram it is using. that's a normal figure

[Doge Domenico]

why do you care how much video ram it is using. that's a normal figure

Because no one wants to have their CPU doing 90% because the GPU is being ignored.

[omzdog]

Then wait for patch.

[catharsis]

Try this:

From: totalwar.com page 15 http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...E-READ/page15?

Have tracked down the source of the lag.
(My Rig: Nvidia GTX 460 , Core two Duo Intel E8400 , 6GB DDR2 800 RAM)
Heres how i fixed my Battle Map lag.

Step 1. If you dont own the total war: shogun 2 game skip this step.
This sets your graphics to settings that should work for you.
Go to %AppData%\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\scripts
Open the preferences.script.txt
copy all the parameters starting with gfx_
Go to %AppData%\The Creative Assembly\Rome2\scripts
Open the preferences.script.txt
delete all parameters starting with gfx_ , paste in the parameters you copies from shogun 2

Step 2.
If you skipped step 1 , i would recommend starting the game and lowering graphics setting to medium/high, disabling Alpha for vegetation.
Also note the VRAM it shows you in the graphics options advanced. (mine says 976 MB)
Exit the game.

The source of the lag is the enabled use unlimited graphics memory in graphics settings, basically causing too much swapping between Graphics RAM and system RAM.

Go to %AppData%\The Creative Assembly\Rome2\scripts
Open the preferences.script.txt
change the two lines below.

gfx_video_memory 1572864000; # gfx_video_memory <int>, Override available video memory (bytes) #
gfx_unlimited_video_memory false; # gfx_unlimited_video_memory <bool>, Enable unlimited video memory allocation #

save.
Note:you should set gfx_video_memory to 1.5*VRAM*1024*1024 , this allows you to use 50% more VRAM than what you have.
Note:In my testing setting gfx_video_memory to 2*VRAM*1024*1024 or enabling unlimited video memory brings back the lag.

Step 3.restart game . test and if your lag is gone , increase the graphics settings.

[lisbo]

Try this:

From: totalwar.com page 15 http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...E-READ/page15?

Holy cow, that fix worked out extremely well! Finally i can enjoy the game!!

[Comandante]

Try this:

From: totalwar.com page 15 http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...E-READ/page15?

not sure about the vram but this fixed a lot of my lagg issues for the most part.

[Jmonstra]

Going to try that, but for some reason it only recognizes 3MB of my cards 4MB. Any way I can disabuse Rome 2 of this notion?

[Jmonstra]

Bump because this could be a solution to our woes and I'd like to hear other people's results.