Does anyone else experience stuttering (units and often camera scroll) sometimes with bad FPS drops though not always, despite hardware not being maxed out (neither CPU nor GPU are ever at 100% usage) Medium unit sizes and most things on high/very high. (No AA) Anytime I have large battles (2v2 or more) after they start fighting I get a lot of stuttering.
Things I've done to try and resolve it that haven't worked:
-I've messed around with the graphics settings ALOT (tried every setting at every level you can imagine). Added my VRAM in preferences, ran in open window, low water, low everything etc...
-Tried drivers etc...
-Tried setting affinity for CPU cores and set priority to high no luck.
-Changed power settings in windows too.
I'm on a new PC (ryzen 5 2600 and rx 580 4GB 24 GB RAM), but even on my laptop which was an i7 4720HQ and an 970m I still had it. I've never been able to run RII without such stuttering.
(I prefer to play with Divide et Impera, but stuttering happens with or without)
I think I've concluded that it's not a hardware potential issue, ie. that there's no possibility of the "power" of my system to run it properly. Because even when I put the graphics on LOW and get a solid 60FPS when there are many units engaged (2v2 battles) there's still lots of stuttering amongst the units. Even changing the resolution doesn't help. Oddly sometimes if I pause then un-pause it will go away for a very short while. I'm about to give up....any help? I would forever be grateful.
-Also if you are or aren't experience stuttering what is your computer's specs and how are you running the game on large battles? Mine is a ryzen 2600, rx 580 4GB, 24 GB of DDR4 2200MHZ RAM, SSD.Other set up is an i7 4720hq, GTX 970m 3GB, 8GB 1600MHZ RAM, HD with same problem.
EDIT:
I found the issue!!!! This is incredible, I've spent 4 years trying to figure this out, on over 5 different setups (will have to try to see if the stuttering is still on my laptop later.
In the battle interface (which I never though to have this great of an effect) the unit flags, disabling them gives me not only a 10FPS increase! But also completely stops the unit stuttering. Unfortunate as I like to be able to see the flags to better command my troops, but still it's amazing to have finally discovered the issue. Now only if CA could resolve this without having to disable them...
I was so moved by this that I sent SEGA/CA the following letter;
"First, I'd just like to say many many many thanks. I have been a TW fan since the days of Shogun and it is hands down my favorite series of games ever made. That being said, there have of course been many issues with them throughout the years (many good mods have made them much better as well and I am equally thankful to the modders who've made this possible). Most importantly I always had an issue of units stuttering in Rome II and saw many people reported it for Atilla and Warhammer as well. There were so many possible solutions listed online, from changing CPU affinity, to graphics, drivers and the list goes on. For around 4 years I tried most everything...until today. I thought to myself, what if I mess around with all the battle interface options. Well low and behold, after turning off unit flags I got an immediate 10FPS gain, but more importantly the stuttering that I would get in any semi large engagement even when having solid FPS went away entirely. Sometimes it would still be that way with them enabled but only on mouse over, other times not (after extensive testing). All in all I think this issue should be looked into at the very least for RII as I had this issue on 5 different PC's including two laptops. It;d be preferable to play with the flags at least as an option without the stutter, so if it could be fixed that would be much appreciated. Not to mention I've seen MANY people have this issue as well, and most of them apparently never finding a solution...this could be it."
EDIT III:
As commented , I thought I'd found a solution. And it did work for 8,000 man battles whereas before I would have had stuttering, however when I tried 14,000 man battles even when I would have 40-60 FPS (even on all low graphics) I would get the stuttering once the units engaged with or without unit flags enabled. So, it does work somewhat though it is apparently not an complete solution.
Now I've even tried it on an i7 9700k with a RTX 2070 and still get the unit stuttering...that's 6 different PC setups and they all get unit stuttering.