Aoe 3: de lagging issue needs help

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I was playing aoe 3: de with 7 AIs. During late-game when every player’s population was high, the game was laggy, even at lowest graphic settings. I guess the game was CPU throttled due to too high population in the game? However, my CPU is i7-11700F, which I do not expect to struggle with such an “old” game. Is my CPU not good enough for this game or my CPU is broken?

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I wouldn’t consider the game old , but the engine itself.
The thing is, AOE runs of a single core, therefore it absolutely can be normal, that the game starts lagging with 7 AI on 1600 pop

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So there is no issue with my CPU? I guess I need to buy a CPU with better single core capability in the future to play this game with multiple players?

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Well, playing MP is no issue, usually even AI´s shouldnt be that much of an issue.
How much RAM do you have?

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Any AI playing chinese ? Those mortar dudes break your computer with all the explosion effects.

With a 4.9 Ghz processor you should be alright, I don’t think there is something wrong with your CPU.

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I have 16 G. I did not experience issues with 6 players (5 AIs), but with 8 players, the FPS was super low late game.

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I was playing Chinese. That might explain. I will try another 8-player game without Chinese and see.

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Have you tried to enable asset preloading ?

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I tried a game with 7 AIs without Chinese, but still experienced lag when both teams reached scores of about 600000. Does it mean the game/engine will just lag when there are so many units no matter what CPU is used?

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I tried with it turned on, but it did not help.

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Most probably…
If they could, they would most probably take advantage of multi core CPUs. Would make the games run much smoother, if the game could use at least 2 cores.
Simply an engine limitation… I’m sure it would take a complete overhaul of it , to enable such thing. And that’s not cost effective at all :frowning:

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Are 3v3 playable without lagg ? (5 IA). Do you use any mods ? I will try a 4v4 myself today to see how it goes on my end.

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I play in vanilla. With 6 players, I did not check the fps, but I did not experience any obvious lag. Thanks in advance! Please let me know how the game performs on your end.