Fps woes

[o0LuNeStA0o]

I'm currently away from home so I unfortunately do not have my desktop and am forced to use my laptop. I have an Acer Aspire V17 Nitro and have been having issues with this game. Specs are:

i7-4710mq cpu
gtx 860m
1tb hdd 5400 rpm
8gb ram

The game honestly shouldn't be so bad with this. While it's not as powerful as my desktop it shouldn't be struggling so badly with the game. On campaign map I get like 35-55 fps and on the battle map I can hardly maintain 44 fps in the deployment phase with just half an army.

I have medium unit detail, most of the other settings are off or set to low like grass and trees.


Any suggestions? I've tried the fps booster or whatever was circulating around the forums for this and it was no help. I also went into the default.cfg file and changed unit detail to low but it had no effect. Shogun 2 runs fine however :o

[Deepstrike101]

I'm currently away from home so I unfortunately do not have my desktop and am forced to use my laptop. I have an Acer Aspire V17 Nitro and have been having issues with this game. Specs are:

i7-4710mq cpu
gtx 860m
1tb hdd 5400 rpm
8gb ram

The game honestly shouldn't be so bad with this. While it's not as powerful as my desktop it shouldn't be struggling so badly with the game. On campaign map I get like 35-55 fps and on the battle map I can hardly maintain 44 fps in the deployment phase with just half an army.

I have medium unit detail, most of the other settings are off or set to low like grass and trees.


Any suggestions? I've tried the fps booster or whatever was circulating around the forums for this and it was no help. I also went into the default.cfg file and changed unit detail to low but it had no effect. Shogun 2 runs fine however :o

Hah, you think you have it bad?

On my laptop, I get an average of 23 fps in battle, and it can drop to as low as 11 when zooming in on huge moshpits or dust. I have my settings set higher than yours because I prefer a beautiful game to a smooth one, especially when taking screen shots for AARs. Truth is, there's really not much you can do beyond a certain point. Best I can do is give you some suggestions as to what options impact performance.

The big ones are as follows in order of impact:
-Anti-Aliasing
-Shadows (Can be little, or big. Disabling campaign shadows really helps)
-Unit detail/size (Setting this to the highest impacts performance, as many more men become rendered)
-Vegetation detail
-Other filtering
-etc.

That having been said, you mention that most of your setting are already low. If you haven't already, turn AA lower (mine is at 4x) and shadows.

[Velstadt]

That having been said, you mention that most of your setting are already low. If you haven't already, turn AA lower (mine is at 4x) and shadows.

C'mon man! This game is from 2006, there is no way a gtx860m should have any trouble with this. Even my old gtx285 coupled with a dual core (granted, it's desktop, but still), absolutely butchered this game.

OP, sounds to me something just isn't working properly. Either it could be a mobility driver issue, or something with the CPU perhaps. I haven't used a laptop in ages and have little knowledge how their power saving functions operate in general, but it's not only once or twice they've been a culprit on my previous desktops. The C1E state etc. "intelligent" bios settings that control the clock of the CPU to save power, sometimes don't quite get it right. For example, one motherboard refused to raise the CPU core speed above the idle clock of 1.4ghz (real clock should've been 3.6ghz) when playing Crysis, resulting in 11 fps when the system could've easily managed at around 40. I usually turn them all off. If you have CPU-z or some other tracking software you could try to see how the core speed fluctuates while in game.