Possible Performance Increase Solution Request

[DeadInTheWater]

So as some of you may know, of the disgrace that is the newest Far Cry (from a properly made) game that's out, and the problems of stuttering/hitching that associated with it. Me being among the unfortunate ones, began scouring the net to fix said difficulties myself, eventually coming to a Reddit thread concerning 4 different solutions. Trying all but one, helped but didn't completely git rid of the problem. However a ways down the page i came across a post that at first I (seems others as well) overlooked that mentions another solution altogether. Its called "Windows System Timer Tool". Google it! Reading the creator's post, gave me the impression he was legit and knew what he was talking about. Bitdefender scan showed clean and upon using it seemed to fix the problem on its own. I haven't really tested it out well yet, so I'am not 100% sure if it works or of the downside, if any, of using it but it is supposed to increase computer performance in general.

Anyways, I get real bad lag with large armies in custom battles, probably sieges too. The frame rate doesn't drop more than around 30-35, zoomed right in at the height of battle.The camera movement is fine, the units movement however is choppy as ****. Unplayable even. A CA employee gave a reason for this, plausible as it might be, their not worthy of my trust.

Settings: all High, Side Settings-off except Blood and V-sync, AA-off, Vegetation-off, TF-trilinear, Unit Size-Ultra. Number of threads changed to 8 in the preferences file. Mods: DeI (of course)
Specs: Sabertooth Z77, i7 2600K OC @ 4.3, 16GB RAM, GTX 780 stock, SSD

So naturally i applied the tool, unfortunately i didn't notice a difference in a large army custom battle, I didn't use a FPS counter. I was Athens VS. Rome. I might be imagining things but the load times seem considerately faster with DeI and Uplay, so maybe a less strenuous trial may prove better results. Which brings me to the the main point of this post. I hereby request testers to try various scenarios with Rome 2 both modded and not, then come back and post your findings here to confer any improvements that may be achieved, or perhaps someone tech savvy or just familiar with the tool and/or its function/s good or bad could share their thoughts. Please and thank you. It seems safe so far, Iam using it now, but like i said Iam not 100%, so at your own risk. I'am headed back to do further testing of Far Cry 4 or to sleep.

[Erebius]

Greetings Deadinthewater, I tested the program (which is free of viruses or malvare) and unfortunately I have not found any improvement in the performance of rome II. the stuttering persists and slow loading screens continues

[DeadInTheWater]

Erebius: Thanks for the reply! No difference eh. Thats too bad. I forgot to mention that its supposed to be set to 0.5ms, you probably did that thou. Have you noticed a change doing any other tasks? The creator's blog's comments mention more stress on your CPU as a note. Thanks again!

Tundra98/k966: Ya, i can't play without V-sync, its annoying. I started from ultra settings then worked my way down to high, arriving at what thought was the best result. Bin wrong before. I have a post bookmarked that states the GPU CPU trade off stuff but forgot to go lower with the minor settings as k966's link touches on as well. There was another tweak in that link also. I think the biggest culprit is unit size. I"m not able to run shogun 2 too all that well moded or not. 2X unit size is not an option. Empire (besides the bugs) and Neapolitan run very well as long as i stay away from the 2X unit size. Had to do a little moding myself to the 40 unit save games. Again, thanks for the advice. I'm gonna do some more tinkering.

By the way this post is in no way shape or form knocking on DeI design decisions. It's my PC's set up. I could use a second GTX 780. Maybe someone can tell me if its possible to get the GPU to run the game on High settings?

[Tundra98]

Hmmm maybe you should turn v-sync off and put some settings from very high-extreme, that makes the game be handled by the GPU and not the CPU, that is the way the devs of DeI say its better to increase fps

[k966]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...mance-with-DeI

this post should help.

[c.ryo]

It is something called CPU bottleneck. Get a better CPU or overclock your current one. I use i7-4770k @4.5ghz and still get those. Its problem of engine.

[Dynamo11]

It is something called CPU bottleneck. Get a better CPU or overclock your current one. I use i7-4770k @4.5ghz and still get those. Its problem of engine.

Yep, 4690k here oc'd to 4.8GHz and I still get bottlenecks. Engine is starting to show its age these days