I love the Total War series and recently got Shogun 2 which to my dismay requires steam registration. My internet connection sucks here and steam hogs my bandwidth, but even when I play in 'offline mode,' I get ridiculously laggy fps. I'm hoping there's some settings that I can tweak to get this to run because this computer is less than two years old and should still be able to run this.
dxdiag:
Time of this report: 8/13/2011, 15:55:13
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Alienware
System Model: M15x
BIOS: Ver A05 1.00
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 4020MB RAM
Page File: 3860MB used, 4178MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode
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DxDiag Notes
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Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.