Just bought game but pretty much unplayable as I'm only getting 5 or 6 FPS

[Smintar]

Ok I am getting 8-10fps over the battle. where its most busy. as I move away a bit It will rise and further out I get 24-26 fps. windows xp 32 4 gigs of ram HD4870 card I forget the ram on.
I am sure if I upgrade to a 64bit I could then put my 8 gigs and I should see better performance

[Jubal Early]

Davinci wrote:

Jubal Early wrote:

GShock wrote:

*If* I am not mistaken, there are ways to reduce the number of men displayed in each regiment.

Does anyone know if that be done ? and If so how please?

Options - on page one \ Custom Difficulty Settings \ AI Regiment Strength

Anything over ( 100 ) adds by a precentage of regiment

Anything under ( 100 ) minus by a precentage of regiment

Don't quote me on the ( precentage thing )!

davinci

I can’t seem to adjust that setting if unit sizes could remain the same historical size but the number of sprites representing them reduced by 50% we would get a massive FPS boost.

Found You have to click custom but It just reduces the enemy units.

[Davinci]

cav54 wrote:

Now, does that just reduce the ratio of men present to actual size (i.e. keeps the regiment at the same historical strength but represents it w/less people on screen) or does it reduce the actual historical strength of the regiment?

I think that it will reduce the actual strength of the regiments, but I'm not sure if this is for Open Play...( Sand-Box-Thing ), or Scenarios , or both of them.

Jubal Early - I'm not sure about the reducing the sprites, without the SDK , it might be possible by editing the formations file , but it may also be Hard-Coded .

davinci

[norb]

There is no option to reduce the men per sprite without the sdk.

The fastest/lowest settings are:
uniforms - low
percent trees - 10
off-map trees - off
terrain draw dist - low
map objects - low
off-map terrain - off

then you can lower the max draw distances to 1000

That is how I debug because it's the fastest for me and the debugger runs very slow

You can do a study and set all but 1 of these high, so you can see how much each effects your frame rate. But remember that a rate of 11-12 is fast for this game. The largest scenarios can go even slower on a fast machine during fighting.