Low FPS during siege assaults

**Matty** · 05-02-2007, 13:56

Originally Posted by Richard The Tiger Heart

Runs smoothly on all settlements/castle types?

Yep, cannon towers, flaming arrows, the full shooting match

**bbeltx** · 05-02-2007, 14:20

Pay attention to the shadows quality and antialising either. When I'm in a massive battle I used to set down the units details, that really increases my perfomance besides shadow and antialiasing, however you cannot set down shadow in the game, only in main options.

**Shahed** · 05-02-2007, 17:54

I have another suggestion for you. This tweak replaces the city textures with low res (512*512) ones and it's really helped remove the lag for me:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=1103

**Richard The Tiger Heart** · 05-02-2007, 20:09

Originally Posted by Sinan

I have another suggestion for you. This tweak replaces the city textures with low res (512*512) ones and it's really helped remove the lag for me:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=1103

So the settlement lag seems to be a texture problem. Seems as if some cards dont use of its full power to process the textures. Rather weird. It may also be a problem driver...Ill need to do some testing.

But thanks for the tweak anyway. If it works then it is even better than the one FactionHeir suggested.

**Shahed** · 05-03-2007, 01:14

FactionHeir's tweaks are good too. I almost did change the look of the settlement, but then I found these textures. The originals are 2048*2048 I believe and these reduce the textures considerably. I've installed it and the lag has been reduced by about 100% at least. I still have some lag at times, but it's very infrequent. edit: ~~Also, since you run the textures from a command line, it does not affect your original installation.~~

**TevashSzat** · 05-03-2007, 01:49

One would think that having bloom on would make a pretty big difference too so if you have that on, turn it off

**FactionHeir** · 05-03-2007, 02:00

I just tried the textures that were linked to in conjunction with smaller settlements, and didn't actually notice any change in terms of battle lag when facing the settlement. Not quite sure though whether I would need to turn textures in general to a higher level (currently on lowest) to have those files have an effect or not, as the uploader mentioned playing on high texture levels.