Total War: Attila Can't be Maxed on Current Hardware

[JE99]

If only the game devs would get off their backsides and make sure it used all the cores on my 5960X and decent SLI or CF support was available from day one.

They have only themselves to blame.

And visually the graphics look crap lets be honest.

I've not played Attila, only Rome, but for what the game is I think the graphics are pretty decent. It's very unfair to compare them to, say, an FPS. I do agree the CPU issue is a big one.

My main gripe is that I've seen a lot of people complaining because they "can't max it out", when they can max out other games. Well, if CA had just removed the top level of quality, then those people could "max it out". I just don't see the benefit of that. The term doesn't really have any meaning.

IMO, in an ideal world, games would have lots of higher quality settings so that in 4 years time you could rack it up to Ultra and it would still look good. Instead, if everyone complains about there being higher settings, then we're stuck with something inferior as the maximum, even if you've got the machine to run it.

There is a separate debate about whether the game is optimised enough, but the two arguments are routinely conflated.

 

[WYP]

TBH compared to rome II Attilla looks a lot better, especially on the campaign map, even so the R9 290X does not get anywhere near the Max settings at 1440p.

 

[NeverBackDown]

IMO, in an ideal world, games would have lots of higher quality settings so that in 4 years time you could rack it up to Ultra and it would still look good. Instead, if everyone complains about there being higher settings, then we're stuck with something inferior as the maximum, even if you've got the machine to run it.

Its unpractical and probably impossible to create a game that uses graphics that are 4 years ahead of its time with the current hardware. You also can't predict what they will look like in 4 years. It's really just not feasible. Best to get the most with what you can now.

TBH compared to rome II Attilla looks a lot better, especially on the campaign map, even so the R9 290X does not get anywhere near the Max settings at 1440p.

I would agree it looks better. This game on 1080p is a struggle. I wouldn't expect anything at all above that.

 

[The_Governour]

If this would become a new trend then its a sad day for PC gamers. Just the thought that companies could get away with this is just horrible. So even if I had a Titan Black (single gpu) then I could not max it out? LOL

 

[Dicehunter]

If this would become a new trend then its a sad day for PC gamers. Just the thought that companies could get away with this is just horrible. So even if I had a Titan Black (single gpu) then I could not max it out? LOL

Well the Titan Black would be a poor choice purely from a gaming perspective as can be seen in Anandtechs comparison HERE which as you can see the 980 even at 4K beats it albeit only by a small amount but by a rather large amount in lower resolutions.
The only place the Titan Black wins is in compute heavy tasks which have nothing to do with gaming.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Just letting everyone know. They released a new patch yesterday, man they been working hard! I gained 20fps on avg with my 7950. Patch wasn't all that big either. Also still waiting for AMD/Nvidia to release proper drivers for the game as well

 

[The Jniac]

I hope it is good, I plan this to be my first foray into the Total War series, having been put off by the bugs with Rome:II. It seems like so many developers are saying blah blah highest preset blah blah next-gen cards. With the way Unity ran, i hope that it is actually pushing the limits that makes it hard to run, not terrible optimisation.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I hope it is good, I plan this to be my first foray into the Total War series, having been put off by the bugs with Rome:II. It seems like so many developers are saying blah blah highest preset blah blah next-gen cards. With the way Unity ran, i hope that it is actually pushing the limits that makes it hard to run, not terrible optimisation.

Rome 2 is fun. Only thing about it in my opinion was the AI on the campaign map wasn't so good and the Naval battles were pointless. Attila is much more difficult.