Company of Heroes 2 and y580 (COH2)

Anyone playing? What's your settings? My game lags horribly if its 1080p and 100%

 

It's broken, same as Rome II.

Relic really need to fix their enigne, performance sucks on every machine.

 

I have the SLI Y510p and don't notice any issues on COH2. My son has a Y500 SLI and also does not complain of any issues. What is the problem?

Now, I'm only running on medium everything and no AA but it's perfectly playable. I personally prefer the gameplay of the original COH to this one but otherwise it's ok.

Cheers,

 

The difference is you have twice the GPU power the OP has...

 

Ok, I had my son try on his old ASUS with ATI 5870 and his newer Alienware w AMD 6990. It works better on the AW but it's playable on the 5870 if the settings are medium or lower. Is the 660m that weak? Does an SSD make a difference? All our machines use SSDs but I don't think that should be the bottleneck.

Cheers,

 

I used to have an ASUS G73Jh as well. The Mobility 5870 wasn't good enough to play modern games at 1080p with good detail settings which is why I sold it. The 660M isn't much better than that, still can't do 1080p High settings in demanding games. A single 750M is faster, and 750M SLI is twice as fast. 6990M is quite a bit faster too, it was the top-end mobile GPU from a couple generations ago.

 

OK, that makes sense. The OP is just not able to crank up all the graphics goodies or will need to play at a lower res.

Does scaling to a lower res for games look as bad as people make it out to be? I mean is med-high settings @ 1366x768 better looking than low to med settings @ 1080p? I know scaling makes text blurry and fuzzy but does it matter as much in a game?

Cheers,

 

Why don't you try it and see for yourself.

As for me, I would never sacrifice native resolution on an LCD for higher graphics settings. The blurriness is just too unbearable for me, especially on a larger 15"-17" laptop display. And it gets increasingly worse the further you move down from native resolution. 720p on a 1080p monitor is horrible. I'm nearsighted and the visual impact on the game is like me taking off my glasses or contacts in real life. Graphics settings always go first if I need better performance, resolution as a last resort, and even then only one step down from native at most (e.g. 1080p to 900p).