Technical and Performance Issues

• Significant improvements to multiplayer campaign speed, which is now limited by the slowest players machine.
• Frame Rate improvements on Campaign map on low spec Core2 Duo cpu’s in windowed mode.
• Fix for lock-ups reported on loading into battle in DirectX9.
• Frame Rate improvements on Campaign map across all configurations when setting Effects Quality to Low or High.
• Fix for minor stutters & terrain rendering glitches on some gpu’s when rendering the terrain.
• Fixed a bug in the Graphics Benchmark frame rate display that reported the wrong per-frame time.
• LAN multiplayer modes are now accessible when Steam is in Offline mode.
• Fix for graphics crash caused by changing the games screen resolution shortly after loading a new Campaign.
• Fix for a crash when performing an agent action on a wounded/assassinated unit in Campaign modes.
• Further campaign map optimisations.
• Optimised fire and smoke effects on the campaign map (improving the frames per second on all graphics setting, especially during the late gameplay where all faction territories are revealed)
• Fix in Multiplayer Campaign, after Player 1 offers diplomacy to Player 2, Player 2 made a counter offer, then cancelled the offer, which caused the game to lock up for Player 1.
• Fix to prevent the games user interface from flickering when SLI is enabled.
• Improved culling on the campaign map to prevent props (e.g. the pyramids) from disappearing when the camera was set to certain angles.
• Improved the desktop icon for Total War: ROME II to support multiple resolutions.