Total War: Rome 2 and the FX-8350

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I've very disappointed in this CPU, it doesn't run Rome Total War 2 very well. I guess I need to overclock it now to get my performance worth, does any one here have any experience overclocking this card with this game? Does it increase fps at all? I'm talking 15-20 fps right now zoomed in on high settings (not ultra).
 
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I've used the gtx 570 and the the R9 280x. The frame rates don't move up much, I know the game is poorly optimized but I've been told the game doesn't utilize many cores so the power of the 8350 is left untapped.
 
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Very Very very incorrect statement. While it mights seem that the FX-8350 is "untapped" the truth is that the extra cores go to smoothing out the performance of the CPU. Please study the agriculture of the processor before you can start talking bad about it....most likely it is your Graphics card your CPU would be able to run that no problem.
 
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I want to believe that because I don't want to upgrade, but when I look at my core affinity you have nearly 100% on first core and a bit on the second and third and the rest are 0%.
 
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OP needs to do a bit more homework. The fact of the matter is that Rome 2 is a pos in its current state. NOTHING runs good on it. Anyone who plays the game gets a massive cpu bottleneck seeing as it doesn't take advantage of multiple cores. You shouldn't need to upgrade anything honestly. It's 100% the games fault.

There's nothing you can do. They did let out another patch today for Rome 2 but it's been 5 patches and there has hardly been any performance increase.
 
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AMD has slower per core performance than Intel, yes.

There are people using i5-4670K and 7990's and getting roughly the performance you are getting. Even a quick google search quickly reveals that Rome 2 is hardly playable.

Yes, recent TW games have never really gotten along well with AMD processors. Though I assure you this is more of a CA/Rome 2 problem than your processor.
 
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Will over-clocking the FX-8350 help? Or does the poor single core processing mean that overclocking will do nothing?
 
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Again, nothing you can do will help as of right now. Overclocking won't help (for this specific game) because you will always have the cpu bottleneck until CA fixes Rome 2. This is not an issue caused by your cpu.

http://forums.totalwar.com/forumdisplay.php/154-Total-War-ROME-II-Patch-testing?s=de5ec60604a00e946e2a9879974eee60

That's just one subforum. You can find countless topics of people reporting the same issues with a wide variety of different cpus and gpus. As to overclocking, if you know how to do it properly it would help with over games.
 
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Do not listen to the previous post. You cannot go off of benchmarks for rome 2. The benchmark for the game isn't even stressful. Rome 2 does not work great on intel cpus. Rome 2 works great on nothing. Perhaps it will run slightly better on an intel cpu, due to higher per core performance. But in the end you still have a poorly optimized game that you just spent an extra $200 (at least) on to play with maybe a 5fps increase.
 
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Same CPU FX8350. I just reinstalled game and tested again in 1980x1080 (i got my new monitor 2 days ago), I have 30fps in hard battle with many units otherwise 40+. If I tweak couple settings I actually have much better fps and I dont see some huge differences. Unlike as some games on 30fps is pretty smooth for me.

I had fps issues but after motherboard replacement and setting cpu freq manually on 4GHz everything run smoothly so far including all recent games.
 
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Exploring CPU bottleneck in Rome II.

I think Rome can handle up to 6 threads (from my benchmark).
That is why i7-3960X @ 4.9Ghz would rule the world (benchmark from gamegpu.ru)

Test System
CPU : delidded i7-3770K replace TIM with CLP
Cooler : CM Seidon 240M with CLP
RAM : 2x4GB Avexir @ 2400Mhz CL 10-12-12-28-1T 1.65V
M/B : Asrock Z77 OC Formula
VGA : HIS 7970 IceQX2 @ 1150Mhz/6800Mhz
Storage : Plextor M5Pro 128GB
PSU : Seasonic X Series 750W
Monitor : AOC I2367FH LED 23" 1920 x 1080 @ 72Hz
OS : Windows 7 x64 SP1

Ultra Quality , Forest Benchmark
C = Core , T = Thread
From Left to Right = Ghz , Min , AVG

4C8T
5.2 52/67.7
5.0 51/68.7
4.5 47/66.2
4.0 37/62.2
3.5 26/57.6
3.0 27/50.6
2.5 23/42.8
2.0 8/32.1

Clearly from stock 3.5Ghz to 5.2Ghz Min FPS increase by 200%.

4C4T
5.0 49/69.2
3.0 31/52.9

3C6T
5.0 47/68
3.0 28/50.6

3C3T
5.0 41/64.2
3.0 23/42.5

2C4T
5.0 38/60.4
3.0 9/30.9

This is ridiculously from 3.0Ghz to 5.0Ghz Min FPS increase by 422%.

2C2T
5.0 16/30.9
3.0 8/19.6

1C2T
5.0 13/26.5
3.0 N/A

1C1T
5.0 N/A
3.0 N/A

N/A because it's too much lag , very hard to just move the mouse.



 
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Same with 8350 oc'd to 4.6 Ghz but its mostly the battle map.. really bad fps on battlemap, um upgrading to a 4770k, i'll get back to you and see if i get a performance increase, but most likley not since it's mostly the poorly, optimised game.
 
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