I guess there are people that only rate a game on FPS.
What a genuinely shocking thing to say. (I would use a stronger word, here, but y'know - minding my language.)
I have no understanding for someone who can see a game chug along at 5 FPS and enjoy their experience. The lack of standards is mind-boggling.
My computer is no where as good as most. My frame rate is low, but graphic performance improvement is lower down on the list.
See what I said about a lack of standards.
I bought the game to recreate battles from history. Realistic maps and terrain, uniforms, units, leaders, a good AI, being surprised when my orders aren't followed properly.
All of which I'm sure would be enjoyable, if the game didn't run like a Powerpoint-slideshow.
Why not turn off the FPS counter and take the rest of the game out for a spin.
Right.
It worries me that I have to point this out to you, but I frankly assumed it would be self-evident, purely from context, that the extent of the game's performance issues goes somewhat above "occasionally slips below 120 FPS when there's a million sprites on-screen". I'm talking about how the game routinely drops into the early teens and below if enough
trees and
grass is on-screen. I can play a large scenario with multiple divisions moving and fighting that will run pleasantly with foliage disabled, but grinds to a halt as soon as those extra trees and bushes show up.
Just like in SoW: Gettysburg. We're not talking "slightly low FPS", here - we're talking about a slideshow.
Nudz, the quality of your vocabulary speaks volumes.
Thanks. I'm quite proud of it, myself.
I don't understand how these guys with much more powerful rigs are experiencing such awful performance.
Again - I suspect insufficient or incompetent optimization. That certainly was the case the last time around,
with the developer's own admission.
Nudz - what sort of FPS are you seeing. We have reports of very Poor FPS and Lag due to a conflict with some AV software, such as Webroot. Did you check the technical section before posting this?
Again - I'm not complaining about slight slowdowns, here - I'm talking grinding slideshows. With enough foliage on, screen, it looks like someone's incompetently flipping the pages of a flip book - again;
just like in SoW: Gettysburg. It's nauseating; not some mild annoyance.
From what I understand, "Webroot" is a some kind of antivirus. I do not have it on my computer. I'm using AVAST, which I've tried disabling to see if it helped performance. It didn't. In either case, the thread you linked to refers to "lag in cycles". This is no such thing - just bona fide crap FPS.