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Odd noise and low performance in Total War Rome 2 on an MSI GTX 770..
I just recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU (i5 4690k) and I've been able to run most anything at about max while maintaining around 60 fps.

However Rome 2 has been a problem... My graphics card (I'm assuming its coming from my graphics card) gets mad coil whine in menus when the fps gets over 1000 however this is different.

Basically it sounds like a weird fan noise like a low pitched spinning sound combined with maybe a little buzz? Its hard to describe and not like anything I've ever experienced and when pages load or I click on various things the sound changes in pitch and frequency.

The other thing, and I'm not sure if this is related but my performance seems incredibly bad. I'm talking when I put it on High (it goes high, very high, ultra, extreme) I can maintain around 35-45 most of the time except in certain situations when it drops all the way to like 15..

I just feel like it should be able to perform a lot better on my system (considering I can run Metro Last Light at basically max 60 fps)? High looks pretty crap to be honest, I would think I could run the game at least on Very High at a decent FPS...

Appreciate the help.

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a b V Motherboard
a b U Graphics card
September 28, 2014 8:43:28 PM

I have a very similar rig (look in my sig) and still defionitely struggle to get great fps. The problem is the games engine which has two issues. Issue one is that it forces the cpu to do quite a few things that really the GPU should be doing. Second is that it is essentially a single threaded game. Pull up monitoring software while playing and your core 0 will be at 100% and all other cores at around 30%. OC your CPU as much as possible to improve fps. (this cant be fixed or patched either so dont expect it to get better)
September 23, 2014 4:20:55 PM

Tried V sync and that fixes the coil whine I get in the menus but it doesn't affect the other issues. By CCC I assume you mean Catalyst Control Center? I use Afterburner since I have an Nvidia card but I'll try I guess I could try messing with the fan speed.

I think the game is just in a poorly optimized state right now since the conversion to Emperor Edition, cause apparently I'm not the only one.
a c 76 V Motherboard
a c 123 U Graphics card
September 23, 2014 1:35:51 PM

what happens if you run vsync? and what happens if you go into the CCC and set the fan speed to run at 40% constantly.

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