Siege Lag, Pls need help

[Cados]

Yoo,

I always played medieval 2 without any problems.
Lately I reinstalled the game, but now i have problems with sieges.
It lags like hell.
Custom games work properly and the campaign map aswell.
You guys have any idea how this is possible?

thanks in advance

[FactionHeir]

Firstly, since you reinstalled, its likely that you may not have the same settings as before, so your first choice would be tuning down graphics.
Also, unit sizes impact the fps a lot.

If it still lags with everything disabled or on lowest, you might want to consider following one of the links in my sig which should cure your problem.

Its of course also possible that you may have (junk) programs running in the background that use processing power and memory, so its advisable to turn everything off unless you really need it. That means, even if you are using say p2p, you want to have it turned off while playing M2TW unless you have a dual core.

Defragging sometimes (although rarely) helps too.
Any other queries really should go to the apothecary.

[rebelscum]

Please post your machine specs memory, CPU, graphics card, and your current graphic settings.
Also look around on the net for a site that will give you better gaming performace, free up memory.

[Daveybaby]

Settings -> Graphics
Turn down city detail.
Helped a lot for me.

[khaos83_2000]

i remember there's a mod that provides a lower resolution of the city/castle buildings which effectively reduce the lag.
But i can't find it now.
anyone has any idea?

[FactionHeir]

i remember there's a mod that provides a lower resolution of the city/castle buildings which effectively reduce the lag.
But i can't find it now.
anyone has any idea?

That particular mod's effect is the same as turning your building details to low actually. It was intended for those who want to keep the building detail elsewhere on high but otherwise in siege battles on low. So it wouldn't really help the OP.

[Sir Clive Sinclair]

Happens with me too, fine during field battles, even with citadel seiges with full stacks on both sides is OK.

But the problem occurs when seiging cities, Im convinced its the rising smoke from buildings.

Anyone know if there's a way to turn off smoke???

Thanks

[FactionHeir]

Third link in my sig removes that and a lot of other ambient graphics for most people.