Men of War:AS , EXTREME Slowdown?

[Alfadan]

Hello

Firstly i want to say thank you for this great game. My first month as a PC Gamer from XBOX and loving it so far. Picked up the jem for a 5£ and loving it so far...

Secondly sorry if my first thread is a moan, but im getting some horrendous slowdown on my PC on MOWAS.?

It literally runs down to about 5-10fps and even if i turn all gfx down it still does it. My PC (sorry not a techy, my bro built pc) can run planetside2 max and chivalry max, and most games i play race07 etc. I get this on the first USA level..

It really is annoying and hard to play?!

Please help....


I did read that it could be the Fog of war causing this?

Cheers

Sorry this is a great game when it runs smoothly.

[Nike-it]

Try to find the specs of your PC. Without this info it's pretty hard to say what can cause such slowdowns. You can use the "dxdiag" command to see full specs (click "Start" button and in the search line type "dxdiag")

[Alfadan]

oh okay i have these to hand

VTX3D AMD Radeon 7850 HD 2GB PCI-Express 3.0 HDMI X-Edition

Intel Core i3-3220 3.10GHz S1155 3MB 86KM 1

Gigabyte Z77-DS3H S1155 Intel Z77 DDR3 ATX

Corsair 8GB (2 x 4GB) Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz DIMM 240-pin CL9 LP


Corsair Builder Series CX 80+ Bronze, 500 Watt, ATX, EPS12V, PS/2

Microsoft Windows 8 - 64bit

Samsung 24x SH-224BB DVD-RW SATA OEM Half Height 89GR 1

TP LINK 150Mbit-WLAN-Lite-N-PCIe x1-Adapter 7X91 1

[Nike-it]

Thanks, do you use the Steam version or the retail one?

[Alfadan]

I bought from Origin, so not sure thats steam? sorry


This is what i experience, apart from one minute it can be fine...... then it just goes like that video for a couple of mins then goes back again?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPdPhCCQuQs

[Nike-it]

Try to activate your game with GameSpy key on Steam service and use to play the game (you can download Steam client here: http://store.steampowered.com/). That should solve your issue.

[Alfadan]

Try to activate your game with GameSpy key on Steam service and use to play the game (you can download Steam client here: http://store.steampowered.com/). That should solve your issue.

Sorry but how do i do this as i bought game thru EA.

Do i reedem my Activation code through steam? BUt would i have to pay for game again?

[Sneaksie]

No, you shouldn't pay anything extra. Run Steam client (I assume you have a Steam account already), click on Games in top menu and choose 'Activate...', then enter GameSpy key (multiplayer key) you have. Please tell us if this solves the slowdown issue.

[Alfadan]

okay cheers guys ill give this a go tonight...

I got a code with MOW purchase (to activate) so i presume this is the code.

[Sneaksie]

You should have two codes, one for activation and one for multiplayer - use the multiplayer code to activate the game in Steam.

[Alfadan]

why would this slow the game down horrendously though? :(

Has this been common?

[Alfadan]

I did try putting my MP code into steam and it didn't recognise it. I didn't try Mp yet and get gamespy account.

however I did apply the rather 3 large patches unbeknownst to me, and it seems to be much smoother now...! ive played the same area which I had the problem and it hasn't done it in an hours playtime.

So think were okay now..

thanks guys for the assistance much appreciated.....:)