DoW - WA -- performance in general?

[step2ice]

I played a lot Dawn of War with my current system and I was happy with the performance overall.
Sure sometimes when the screen was stuffed, I would get a slight choppines but nothing serious.

With Winter Assault it's different.

The game seems to chew up a lot more hardware then I thought.
Right at the first imperial mission I had serious frame drops.
Which makes controling units hard and is also not very enjoyable, of course.

I thought I had the power to run this game at high settings with only Terrain Detail, Persistent bodies turned to medium.
No AA or AF enabled.

I'm currently running the CATALYST 5.6 because of the stuttering problem with newer ones.

My system:

P4 3.2 GHZ 800 FSB

1 Gig Corsair

Radeon 9800 Pro

SB Audigy 2 ZS

80 Gig Barracuda IV



So what system would I need to run this game with my custom ingame settings?

And whats your experience with performance in WA?

[Mr. Relic]

Same here. DoW ran great, everything on high (except shadows), worked like a charm. WA still stutters with everything on medium and even on low if there's a respectable amount of units on-screen.

I started a thread some time ago about WA performance, but it seems to have died. Hopefully this one'll get more attention.

Actually, performance in 1.0, 1.01, 1.2 and 1.3 was good (all versions same).
And performance in 1.4 and WA was a lot worse (all versions same).

My guess was they changed some things in the engine (so called optimizations, *wink* at Black Star), but they had negative influence on performance...

Click here to get to that other thread.

[Question]

They added persitent bodies IIRC.

[Mr. Relic]

Yes, but even if you turn those off, performance is still worse (by a significant margin).

[Rafta]

yep got the same probs, i think WA is a little bit more performance hungry than DoW.

[step2ice]

They added persitent bodies IIRC.

Yeah, but I also played DoW with that option set to medium since the 1.4 patch with no serious choppines.

To make it clear. I use the same settings in WA as in DoW. And when I compare them, WA runs a lot worse then DoW.

[Edit]

I started a thread some time ago about WA performance, but it seems to have died.

Unfortunately I can't use the search function in this forum. It's says I don't have the rights to use it. :thumb:

Similar thing with custom avatar, but regarding that I found something in the faq that you can't use a custom ava, only if the moderator grands you that.
Strange thing, I'm active at many forums and either you can select a custom ava or a preset one.
But I see the solution of "having to ask a mod" the first time.
Well, ok.

Back to your old thread.

As I said I have no problems with version 1.4 ind DoW.
Performance is good although it might be better in previous versions it's still ok.

But when the frame is around 10-15 I really can't enjoy any kind of game that way.
And thats how WA runs at my comp right now when bigger fights are going on.