The patch was released last Friday, didn't help much tbh  Nvidia have yet to release anything to fix SLI while ATI have release new driver that enable crossfire.

Some say the low performance is caused by poor CPU optimization, only 1 core is running 100% while the others are pretty much doing nothing. That kinda explain why some people with better CPU and weaker GPU are running the game better.

CA released another statement apologizing for the bugs.

http://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/...ca_statement_2/

TLDR: It looks like they're subtly blaming SEGA for rushing it out before they were ready.

I've been playing since the first Rome, and I have pretty much all of their games except for the original Shogun and Medieval (not sure where to get copies of those). Shogun 2 is one of their most polished games by far. The standalone expansion Fall of the Samurai is pretty epic and is their best example of how to do it right. Before that, Empire was a fluffing mess though, even Rome II isn't as game breaking as Empire was. Plenty of people have issues with graphics and fps rates (including me, stuck at my 20 fps on Ultra). Is it buggy? Hell yeah. But all of this shit can be fixed in time. It's still playable for the majority since it's one of the top 3 most played games on Steam and had a peak of over a hundred thousand gamers online at once in the first week after release. That's pretty impressive considering how niche the Total War genre is. Plenty of people are facing issues and that's not something that can be overlooked or taken lightly and CA are working their asses off, as they should, trying to fix the clusterf*** that the top dudes (coughsegacough) caused by forcing a release before it was ready.

All we can do is wait for them to release the patches that'll fix the majority of the issues and make it playable for the rest of the community that hasn't had a chance to run it. Rome II is their most ambitious title to date and has the potential to be one of the best, if not the best, Total War title to date. Right now it's sitting somewhere between the clusterf*** that Empire was and Shogun 2.

Well I for one never had issue with the game tbh. No CTD, severe lag etc. Playing on High settings mostly with unit detail and unit count on Ultra. I'm fairly comfortable with the game design though not the implementation. That's stuff can be done by modding. No problem.

Anyway, R2TR is currently looking for some good 2D/3D artist. Anyone interested ? 

I've got 34 hours logged on Rome 2. R.I.P. Finals haha
Interesting. I'm downloading it now to check if it fixes anything for me.

Edit: Fewer FPS drops, turns are waaaaaaaaay faster now. Like 30 seconds per turn for me. The AI seems to be fairly competent now. I've lost like half my battles as Athens vs Epirus on very hard. Stupid African Elephants are imba. I sent half my army and all of my javelins against them and they still won't die. Skirmishers are still stupid as hell though. They don't know when the F to run even with skirmish mode on. Now if they could just boost my FPS in the next fix and give me better graphics without having to build a gaming pc  Oh and yeah, 10 minute battles ftw! I had to micro so hard on slow motion just to get a win with my full stack vs his full stack but I still lost like 33% of my army.

I dont know, whether this just happen to me. Realize that this TW's graphic is not like previous TW series. Details is not there and to me, graphic is pretty bad this time.