Black and White 2 performance

Anyone else getting REALLY sluggish performance in this game? I have everything on high (except no aa) at 1680*1050 and im pretty lucky if im in the 20's range.....

What are you all getting in terms of performance?

see sig for my specs...

i have to turn the game alllll the way down, and run it at 640x480. even then it drags, and apparently my LCD has trouble with 640 res at all... half of the text boxes are only partway on the screen. running any game in 'less than native' rez on an LCD is awful enough without having to turn every option down or off.

i know the 9700 is 'oldish', but this effing sucks. it's not like i'm trying with onboard grahpics or a Geforce2. i can run WoW at good settings, and even BF2 runs smoothly with the settings selectively slimmed down... (not everything 'off' or 'low', but a few)

I havent run fraps but yeah I am running 1680x1050 with everything un high and AA at medium and have noticed at times it will slow down alot, especially after you have built a ton of crap on the island

I'm noticing this a lot as well. Can't download the latest nvidia drivers at the moment - something's wrong with their site.

Yeah, I think the FPS is capped at 30.
I ran fraps on it and for the most part it was 25-30FPS.
It's playable, of course, but I wish it would run better.

EDIT: Just peeped this at the GameFAQs boards:
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=535410&topic=23972863&page=0

I'll be testing it out in a second. Give me a minute.

EDIT2: Just tried it out... didn't work as well as I had hoped/ as had been reported by the other GameFAQers...

Hah, I'd be lucky to get 30. My processor is probably holding me back, but I won't upgrade without upping the mobo - and that'll mean the total package is ram/proc/mobo/vid card [$500+ i'd imagine] (unless they sell boards with pci-e AND agp) --- it'll be a few months+ before I can upgrade.

Sorry to bring back an old thread but hint in the llink worked great for me. Nice!

Same here but it doesn't bother me too much. There are other problems with the game however that make me want to tear out my hair and punch my pc monitor in disgust... My creature is retarded. I want to tie it to some large rock where I will never have to see it again... Also the japanese send 1000 squads of 20 men (when I'm trying to avoid war/being evil) that all stack up in the same tiny spot under a tree next to my wall and cause the game to go at 1-3 fps at most no matter which graphic setting.

its because it has nothing to do with your video card... its the strain on your processor because of the a.i. in the game.

personally I have it at 1164*768 AA and ANISO on and its totally playable, jumps between 20-30 fps but its still a good time.


AMD Athlon XP Mobile Barton 2600+ @ 2.1ghz
1gb PC3200
Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb

Anyone getting this texture problem where near your town the ground looks like plain "lava rocks" but farther away everything has like a "nicer" texture to it? The border between the two is a sharp line. Sometimes if you zoom in or out the texture will "clip" in but if you change the xoom itll revert back to the "plain lava rocks" texture? Its really annoying...

9mmx19 said:

Anyone getting this texture problem where near your town the ground looks like plain "lava rocks" but farther away everything has like a "nicer" texture to it? The border between the two is a sharp line. Sometimes if you zoom in or out the texture will "clip" in but if you change the xoom itll revert back to the "plain lava rocks" texture? Its really annoying...

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Trilinear filtering much?

pr0pensity said:

Trilinear filtering much?

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Im not sure what your reply is supposed to mean... But I fixed it by changing the settings from 3 1 3 @ 1280x1024 to 2 0 2 @ 1024x768.

I tried forcing both Anisotropic filtering and Trilinear optimization on and off with medium (1) shaders and same thing. Still get the lame textures in my area of infulence.

Works great on mine. Haven't noticed too much slowdown yet....