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How are people displaying their FPS? Fraps, steam, and RTSS are all not working for me.
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Total War: Warhammer PC Performance Thread
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Karak
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Used afterburner all the time and it worked for me.
Karak
Member
Double post sorry!
It could be but that seems odd as I have a worse CPU than many reporting issues and a better CPU than some but it doesn't seem to hammer out. I just got done running through it and like I said in the review setting 1-2 settings down and I am getting 60fps. Perhaps a stress on the memory system or, and this is far more likely, something else isn't interfering with some of us and it is with others.
It could be but that seems odd as I have a worse CPU than many reporting issues and a better CPU than some but it doesn't seem to hammer out. I just got done running through it and like I said in the review setting 1-2 settings down and I am getting 60fps. Perhaps a stress on the memory system or, and this is far more likely, something else isn't interfering with some of us and it is with others.
ISee
Member
Actually your CPU is quiet powerful and the i7 5xxx series still offers intels high end stuff (soon to be replaced by broadwell-e, starting with the 6800). Granted it's only running at 3.7ghz but ghz isn't all. You have 2 more cores (6) then the majority (4) and hyper threading. In total your CPU is able to handle 12 threads, to give you a comparison the newest skylake i7 6700k is only able to handle 8 threads (4 cores + HTT).
Skylake may have the better IPC performance (Instructions per clock) and the higher clockspeed but if they really managed to improve multithreading your i7s ability to handle even more threads than an 6700k could easily make up for that.
And sorry if I went into to many details here, but most people reporting issues seem to be on i5s with 'just' the ability to handle 4 threads. And I'm not saying that I'm okay with the game running worse on i5s! It just seems to be the repeating pattern here...
Stevey
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S
Steam works for me
A.Romero
Member
I5 3570k oced to 4.2 ghz and gtx 970 g1 here.
I'm running everything in ultra and the game goes from 45 to 30 fps in battles. Smooth enough for me for this kind of map.
Overworld is totally smooth.
Load times are very short with an ssd. It's the first total war game that I play with an ssd and it is a huge difference.
Only played about 3 or 4 hours but I'm loving it.
I'm running everything in ultra and the game goes from 45 to 30 fps in battles. Smooth enough for me for this kind of map.
Overworld is totally smooth.
Load times are very short with an ssd. It's the first total war game that I play with an ssd and it is a huge difference.
Only played about 3 or 4 hours but I'm loving it.
ISee
Member
Thx. I added your video to the op.
Karak
Member
Actually all folks I know who reported issues have better CPU's and speeds than I do. Thats what I was indicating Pretty straight forward more powerful ones for example.
But maybe some patches will get this running better
Recommended settings, mostly getting 35 to 50 FPS in battles, depending on the map. Campaign map is hit or miss but mostly around 40 to 45 FPS. I'm actually amazed this game runs better than TW:Shogun 2.
FaustsBoon
Member
Any update on the SLI situation? It seems like my SLI 680's should be doing better than they are, but one isn't getting used at all.
Seems weird for them to make multi-threading for CPU a focus, and then now ensure SLI is working GPU side.
Seems weird for them to make multi-threading for CPU a focus, and then now ensure SLI is working GPU side.
icecold1983
Member
Any update on the SLI situation? It seems like my SLI 680's should be doing better than they are, but one isn't getting used at all.
Seems weird for them to make multi-threading for CPU a focus, and then now ensure SLI is working GPU side.
i think it took around a year to get barely working, bad scaling and buggy sli support in the previous total war game
My CPU is an AMD phenom II x4 so medium plus some high settings are better for me, campaign map is good until you discover a ton of stuff than it becomes as bad as rome 2's campaign map.
ISee
Member
New DX12 (preview!) benchmarks and some infos:
- The DX12 build will use asynchronous Compute in some form.
- Multi-GPU support, so no need for SLI/Cross-Fire. You will be even able to mix NVIDIA/AMD cards.
- the dx12 build refuses to work with 'older' cards based on nvidias kepler and amds gcn 1.0 architecture. Maxwell v1 (aka 750ti) also doesn't work.
source (german)
edit: To be honest I'm more interested in CPU dx11 vs dx12 benchmarks. Just out of curiosity.
- The DX12 build will use asynchronous Compute in some form.
- Multi-GPU support, so no need for SLI/Cross-Fire. You will be even able to mix NVIDIA/AMD cards.
- the dx12 build refuses to work with 'older' cards based on nvidias kepler and amds gcn 1.0 architecture. Maxwell v1 (aka 750ti) also doesn't work.
source (german)
edit: To be honest I'm more interested in CPU dx11 vs dx12 benchmarks. Just out of curiosity.
ISee
Member
Seems so.
The 770,780,780Ti, HD 7970 = R9 280X and HD 7950 = R9 280 didn't work (according to pcgh.de). No idea if this is because of an unfinished build, driver support or because the kepler and gcn1.0 architecture is missing some stuff that is important for this particular game build.
Yeah it does
michaelius
Banned
Seems so.
The 770,780,780Ti, HD 7970 = R9 280X and HD 7950 = R9 280 didn't work (according to pcgh.de). No idea if this is because of an unfinished build, driver support or because the kepler and gcn1.0 architecture is missing some stuff that is important for this particular game build.
Yeah it does
That also means that currently sold Radeon 370 (third rebrand of 7850) will not work in AMD sponsored game.
Lister
Banned
Seems so.
The 770,780,780Ti, HD 7970 = R9 280X and HD 7950 = R9 280 didn't work (according to pcgh.de). No idea if this is because of an unfinished build, driver support or because the kepler and gcn1.0 architecture is missing some stuff that is important for this particular game build.
Yeah it does
Looks like I'll be scrambling to get one of them founder editions 1080s. Was going to wait for non reference cards or a 1070, but my 780 ti sound slike a helicopter trying to take off on the campaign map at 2560x1440.
Ragnar Blackmane
Member
Switch on "Unlimited Video Memory" and then report back, otherwise the game automatically downgrades you settings in battles.
Recommended settings, mostly getting 35 to 50 FPS in battles, depending on the map. Campaign map is hit or miss but mostly around 40 to 45 FPS. I'm actually amazed this game runs better than TW:Shogun 2.
ISee
Member
Hmm you're right, I didn't even think about this. I hope that's just a preview or driver thing.
I also never understood the whole gcn situation. The faster and more expensive 390/x is based on gcn 1.1 but the 380/x on 1.2.
Founders edition =
1070 or 1080 =
Also just take a look at the Asus gtx 1080 strix
dr_rus
Member
That's a bit strange though as they already have a working FL11_0 path in the DX11 renderer - no reason why they can't reuse it for DX12. A beta issue maybe?
Stevey
Member
Yeah, I was sure that the card is technically DX12 compatible, so maybe it will get sorted.
AndyMoogle
Member
For me it's ok with high settings. I'm guessing it's my 2500k @ 4GHz holding it back quite a bit though. It never drops below 30 fps, but it varies a lot between 30-60. Probably averages 45 fps or so.
EDIT: It depends a lot on the map as well. This map I'm on now is pretty much a locked 60 fps, but it's a fairly small battle.
dr_rus
Member
Another benchmark: Total War: Warhammer test kart graficznych
Slackbladder
Member
I have a laptop with a 970m and it's not too bad. Certainly even large battles never drop below 30fps (usually much higher 40-50) and I have the settings at High or Very High with a few off (sorry can't remember which). The Campaign map takes more of a hit but again never goes below 30 and is usually in the 40s. I don't think this game is nearly as demanding as Rome II or Attila. They've obviously worked hard on the engine and it works well.How is the performace of the game with an 970m?
Edit: I mean a 970m not a 970, forgot the m. Sorry AndyMoogle
icecold1983
Member
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Just starting out in the campaign and the only thing that bothers me is that my lowest FPS with Ultra settings and Unlimited Video Memory is around 25 fps when zoomed in close to very close. Most of the time it seems to vary from 45-65, most of the time I can tell it stays on the upper end. Mind you these were pretty good sized battles but I've seen some battles with twice or thrice as many as I have currently. So I have to wonder how everything is going to work out frame rate wise in the end.
Hmm. Maybe my 2500k @ 4.5 ghz is finally starting to show its age.
Hmm. Maybe my 2500k @ 4.5 ghz is finally starting to show its age.
CaptainSmirnov
Member
What does unlimited video memory do exactly?
RoyaleDuke
Banned
I'm not entirely sure, I've always heard it is good to enable if you have a lot of system ram and vram.
I have 12gb DDR3 system ram and 4gb Vram.
Framerate on the bottom end has improved, but so far it seems like it stays really high except for some minor instances and if you are unrealistically close to your units.
icecold1983
Member
RoyaleDuke
Banned
I got a pretty big boost to overall performance after that last patch in DX11.
My framerates across the board have improved on the top, average, and bottom end.
DX12 is terrible though. Which is expected on a 980.
My framerates across the board have improved on the top, average, and bottom end.
DX12 is terrible though. Which is expected on a 980.
Stevey
Member
If you don't have it on it automatically lowers settings on the fly to fit in your VRAM limit
dr_rus
Member
DX12 renderer in this game is essentially done by AMD again. So it's expected to run run shit on anything not from AMD.
dr_rus
Member
Total War: Warhammer - Test der DirectX-11-Version sowie erste Ergebnisse mit DirectX 12
Some DX11 vs DX12 benchmarks on a recent build. DX12 performance is still... funny.
Some DX11 vs DX12 benchmarks on a recent build. DX12 performance is still... funny.
icecold1983
Member
I think dx12 runs better on gcn gen 2