Performance with 6600k

[o0LuNeStA0o]

I've still been having rather meh performance with my specs on the game. Granted, I haven't overclocked yet. I was curious what fps other people with 6600ks and 970s and getting?

[KAM 2150]

I have 40-60 FPS on eveythong maxed out along with all most performance hitting options in GEM, better blood and better particles mods up to 10 000 people. Maybe I even had larger battles but it still never lagged for me.

Side note, CPU is more important. You can have even best version of GTX 980 but i5 and it will lag, whille it won't lag with inferior card but one of the top i7 like in my case.

[Lord Dakier]

It's worth noting that Rome 2's optimisation is at best sketchy. Although this has improved with patches you still find that two people with fairly identical machines have different experiences quite often.

I'm running a 970 with a i7 4790k that hasn't yet to be overclocked and I find the performance of 6k battles fine achieving 40fps at a strategic camera zoom. If I zoom into the units and look at the individual combat then it's 25fps usually.

I bought a £1000+ setup pretty much for Rome II and those other games which run poorly optimised like Arma 2 and 3 Epoch, heavily modded Skyrim. My advice is don't expect 60fps in games with these pretty bad engines.

[Cromagnon2]

It is obvious this mod doubles almost the system requirements. While I can handle vanilla with 4 armies with ease on extreme, i struggle in DEI with 2 and get an occasional black screen.
I have red hundreds of treads to find a solution, but lowering texture settings and shadows, is the only way to handle 4 armies for me. Might be I need more system RAM, to handle the high-res textures from DEI.

Geforce GTX760, i7 cpu 3.50 Ghz, 8 GB Ram, SSD drive, Win7.

[zonks40]

It is obvious this mod doubles almost the system requirements. While I can handle vanilla with 4 armies with ease on extreme, i struggle in DEI with 2 and get an occasional black screen.
I have red hundreds of treads to find a solution, but lowering texture settings and shadows, is the only way to handle 4 armies for me. Might be I need more system RAM, to handle the high-res textures from DEI.

Geforce GTX760, i7 cpu 3.50 Ghz, 8 GB Ram, SSD drive, Win7.

System RAM won't make any difference, the game will only use 4GB max per process being a 32bit game, so it will only help if you have 4GB or more being used by other applications while running Rome 2.

[Cromagnon2]

Thanks for the info zonks. I dont have any other application running that consumes more ram, i even disable virus scanner while playing.

[Lord Dakier]

Thanks for the info zonks. I dont have any other application running that consumes more ram, i even disable virus scanner while playing.

It'll all help don't get me wrong. Just not a noticeable amount. Considering the games demand for power, the engine just isn't built well-enough. Unit detail and unit size will always be the biggest factor. Less detail means more clones which if you're looking for big epic battles, but aren't really zooming in much it's not bad. If you're looking for a more cinematic experience then expect the frame hit.

[SpiderD]

hey guys, I recently brought my PC parts for my new gaming rig (just waiting for delivery ). So its basically i7 6700k, Asus Radeon 390 8GB, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz, 480GB SSD....and few other stuff, so do you guys think I can get good performance for DeI with everything maxed out and unit cards also increased I normally like increasing unit card count o 250 men/per card ? (Reminds of the good old Rome 1 Days )

[Cromagnon2]

It'll all help don't get me wrong. Just not a noticeable amount. Considering the games demand for power, the engine just isn't built well-enough. Unit detail and unit size will always be the biggest factor. Less detail means more clones which if you're looking for big epic battles, but aren't really zooming in much it's not bad. If you're looking for a more cinematic experience then expect the frame hit.

I am very much suspicious about the last time i Run windows update and downloaded the latest Nvidia drivers and other security stuff, this whole thing to force an update in compatibility mode for Windows 10, will certainly bring its issues while Rome2 was running fine in Win7 or 8. So basically I forget about the rule: When your programs are running fine, never update your drivers.

[Lord Dakier]

Yeah I updated Windows and Nvidia and had SWTOR crash every 30 minutes. It became unplayable.

Needless to say, updating your drivers isn't likely to make Rome 2 run any better or worse for that matter.