Game runs well in campaign mode, but is unplayable in skirmishes/multiplayer

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Greetings,

I’ve recently finished part one of the campaign and played through it without any performance issues, but when I decided to create a skirmish game, even just the menu seemed to be capped at 6 fps and when I launched it, the game itself was also capped at 6 fps.

I’ve tried reducing the graphics to minimum and reinstalled the game, nothing worked.

I really can’t think what would be the issue, since both the campaign and skirms are played against bots and the game isn’t eating up all of my processor, RAM nor the GPU when looking at it in the task manager. I don’t think it’s my PC’s fault since like I said, the campaign was smooth.

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Ok I just found the fix, I had special characters in my steam profile name and when I removed them, the game runs fine

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what do you mean iwth special characters?

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The problem is Age3 is poor optimized, after being running for a while [20+ min] is mandatory to restart the game if you dont wanna go 2fps in the next match.

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Special characters in a sense of Indonesian , or asian letters.

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i have not those characters at my username but i have the same problem as you but with age of mythology any tips on how to fix it ? could it be something else that can ause the problem?