Hi! I have a Macbook Pro 15" 2009 model with the 9600 Nvidia graphics card and bought the Age of Empires III Complete Edition off the Steam sale during the holidays. When starting up the game on Bootcamp, I noticed that it doesn't perform as optimally as I had hoped for... especially for a game that came out like 3-4 years BEFORE my laptop.
Initially, I had a map scroll stuttering issue which I fixed by going windowed mode and lowering the shader setting slightly. Also, turning on Vertical Sync helped limit the stuttering. But I noticed in sea battles consisting of 3-4 ships as well as medium-sized land battles, I get a noticeable framerate drop. While I do realize that AoEIII was, in its time, a graphics-heavy game, I just can't help but feel a bit embarrassed to see my laptop struggle to play this game smoothly.
Is this all my laptop can pull out?
Initially, I had a map scroll stuttering issue which I fixed by going windowed mode and lowering the shader setting slightly. Also, turning on Vertical Sync helped limit the stuttering. But I noticed in sea battles consisting of 3-4 ships as well as medium-sized land battles, I get a noticeable framerate drop. While I do realize that AoEIII was, in its time, a graphics-heavy game, I just can't help but feel a bit embarrassed to see my laptop struggle to play this game smoothly.
Is this all my laptop can pull out?
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