Godawful FPS in Civ5

[spiritseekerpsp]

So, I've defragged. I've checked my disc. I've re-installed. I've updated, repaired, etc, and nothing works. It used to run fine, now I don't know why it doesn't. I load up Civ5, and from the very beginning, my FPS is horrendous. I've attached my DxDiag. I ran System Requirements Lab and it says I'm good for recommended settings. Any advice?

 

[Sjru]

So, it's just CiV or you have this problem with other games?

Did you verify the integrity of the files?

Any mods to declare?

Why the log doesn't recognise your monitor? I don't like that, maybe that's causing trouble.

EDIT: So you have almost 4 gb of Video ram or I'm dreaming? Are you on SLI?

 

[The_J]

EDIT: So you have almost 4 gb of Video ram or I'm dreaming?

Take a closer look at the name of the graphics card . 260M, so that thing is in a laptop, and under the 3.8 GB you can see how much is the graphics cards own RAM and how much comes from the systems RAM.


@problem: DX9 or 11? If DX11, did you try 9? Are other options, like AA, activated?

 

[spiritseekerpsp]

Hey guys, thanks for responding. To answer your questions,

Its just Civ V, all the other games I have on here work just fine.

Verified the file integrity, it said there was one file missing. It then told me it downloaded this file.

No mods.

Both Dx9 and Dx 10/11 cause this problem, I do have 8xAA activated. Turning it off doesn't help.

 

[Sjru]

And the problem is with just that save? Perhaps you updated the game and the other save became incompatible but let you play anyway and is causing trouble.

 

[spiritseekerpsp]

This happens to every game, even new games I start after updating. :/ I don't know why this happens, it was fine a couple months ago.

 

[Sjru]

Do you wait until all the graphics finish loading?
Maybe the game is still loading things up?

 

[spiritseekerpsp]

Yep, I let it run and it doesn't improve. I tried a game today, after setting my MaxSimultaneousThreads to 4, it was fine, I built a city, started to research a tech, and the FPS plummeted to the choppy, unplayable mess it always is.

I've attached my config file to the first post as well. Maybe that'll help?

 

[Sjru]

Yep, I let it run and it doesn't improve. I tried a game today, after setting my MaxSimultaneousThreads to 4, it was fine, I built a city, started to research a tech, and the FPS plummeted to the choppy, unplayable mess it always is.

I've attached my config file to the first post as well. Maybe that'll help?

Nothing is wrong with the config.ini, except that DisableHotLoading is 0 and other of the same is set to 1. Perhaps the graphicsettings.ini could help more if it's graphic-related.

Are all your drivers up-to-date?

What did you do until this started to happen?

 

[spiritseekerpsp]

Sorry, been busy getting ready for a trip.

I'm pretty sure my drivers are up to date, I'm going to run DriverEasy again to be sure. I've also attached my graphics settings for DX9 and DX11.


And I just played the game, I didn't notice this problem coming until it just stared. :/

 

[Sjru]

So you have 8xAA on dx11? Ain't that too much?

Try changin the Setting "Block on load" from 0 to 1. Number continents also change it from 2 to 4.
Also change Maxresidentscenes from -1 to 4 (Maybe that's causing trouble, -1 maybe mean that it doesn't load thing, it just keep loading 4ever.