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August 25, 2010 9:18:39 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

Firstly I must take this opportunity to congratulate everyone involved in producing this game, from Mr. Frogboy to the rest of the dev. team and not forgetting the beta testers, this really is an amazing game….

 

However the shine of this brilliant game is being taken away from me, with very poor performance, I really struggle with FPS. On a busy map I average at around 4-8 fps which makes it difficult to scroll around the map. I reservered judgment until I tried the new patch, and in fairness I have not noticed any performance improvements. 

I have completely re-installed windows to get rid of any virus etc, I have internet security switched on, but this never effects other games.

Is there anything else I can do to try and improve performance? For example could I lower the screen resolution and some upscale the picture to fit the screen, im not sure how to go about that though…

I have the video settings set at low.

Anti anlising is turned off

Shadows on low res

Ground cover low

I have a low Mid range Acer Laptop which is not even a year old, my specs are:

Core2duo 2.4ghz

ATI HD 4670 1GB

4GB Mem

Windows 7

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Reply #1 August 25, 2010 9:34:50 AM
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i think in the end the game is pretty heavy

 

patch after patch there are improvements but still its heavy

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Reply #2 August 25, 2010 9:39:05 AM
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i like the art style/graphics, but to be fair its nothing that should be too demanding on the PC

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Reply #3 August 25, 2010 9:50:19 AM
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I have the same issue. I've tried all the video settings they seem to make no change at all in the FPS. Zoomed in my small city averages 15 FPS, zoomed out right before it turns into the cloth map I average 5 to 8 FPS, this is with only two small cities in view, no units on the map. This is with crossfire running, turning crossfire off made no change in FPS. I don't know if this is a driver issue (CAT 10.7) or game issue. The latest game update didn't help performance.

My laptop (more like desktop replacement) is Asus W90vp, Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 (2Ghz) overclocking makes no change, 2X ATI 4870 512MB crossfire, 6 GB memory, Windows 7 64bit.

CAT 10.8 should be out today, I hope they clear this up.

 

 

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Reply #4 August 25, 2010 10:11:33 AM
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Just because it doesn't look "realistic" doesn't mean it's light on your machine. For your information this game is very heavy on polygons compared to something like the civ series. Cities are detailed to the level of settlers, they have a lot going on. But yes I too hope we get some improvement in performance on way or another. I pretty much have to play on cloth map.

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Reply #5 August 25, 2010 11:00:15 AM
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We have a larger thread going on here related to this exact topic, come add your info to it if you like.

https://forums.elementalgame.com/391334/page/6/#2730343

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Reply #6 August 25, 2010 1:04:24 PM
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You have to understand that the games enigne is messed up. And I think it will not be better soon.

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