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Become the world’s first superpower and command the most incredible and vast war machine of the Ancient world. Dominate the enemies of your glorious empire by military, economic and political means. Your rise will bring admiration from your followers but will also attract greed and jealousy, even from your closest allies.
Will betrayal strike you down, or will you be the first to turn on old friends? How much are you ready to sacrifice for your vision of Rome? Will you fight to save the Republic, or plot to rule alone as Dictator — as Emperor?
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  • OS: XP/ Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8
  • Processor:2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor
  • Memory:2GB RAM
  • Graphics:512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3, vertex texture fetch support).
  • DirectX®:9.0c
  • Hard Drive:35 GB HD space
  • Additional:Screen Resolution - 1024x768
 

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  • OS:Windows 7 / Windows 8
  • Processor:2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor (or greater)
  • Memory:4GB RAM
  • Graphics:1024 MB DirectX 11 compatible graphics card.
  • DirectX®:11
  • Hard Drive:35 GB HD space
  • Additional:Screen Resolution - 1920x1080
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Total War: Rome II PC Release Date:

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The built-in benchmark in this game is deceptive for me lol. Had 77 FPS on Extreme settings on there but barely 35 when in realtime battles zoomed in. Lowering settings to High and turning off SSAO and Vegetation Alpha restored the framerate to -52-60 during large 4k troops battles.

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Plz help me! In large battles 2,4k vs 2,4k i start to lose animations and units are lagging, FPS is OK, is this cause of my CPU, should i get an i7?

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I managed to benchmark an average of 70 fps on Extreme (highest) setting. But realistically I only get about 50fps in game (no difference between campaign map)

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