Why do so many people have problems with fps?

[Elmuri]

I've heard that there are quite a many people who have fps-problems in city maps and maps with lots of trees or lots of other stuff. Many claim that they dont have bad computer. I have the same problem. First I thought it was just in one or 2 maps but I think the situation went worse a couple of patches ago. Now almost every second map in EU1 is like 35-60 fps, while open plains etc. have constant 110. Honestly I dont have shitty computer and last year I didn't have any problems. My drivers are updated etc. and other games like Batman Arkham City and Deus Ex are running perfectly with medium settings.

My processor is Intel Core i5 with 3,2 ghz, I got 4 gb ram and my graphics card is Ati HD 6700.

[Digglez]

one problem I see is even though fraps or in-game monitor says 60/70 fps, I feel like I'm playing at 15 or 20.  Certain textures at certain resolutions just seem to bog everything down horribly

[Kafein]

I really feel the difference when the map changes from some stupid town to a realistic battlefield. The game feels much smoother and more importantly, weird quantum physics things like people teleporting, blocks and attacks failing, people walking through each other etc. seem to happen a lot less.

[Nehvar]

I've lost about 40% of my FPS over the last few patches.  Still doesn't drop below 70FPS in the worst of situations but it looks and feels like, as said above, 20FPS.  I have no idea why that is.

My machine is due for an overhaul when the IB's and Z77's come out in a month.  Hopefully that will help me out.

Just for reference:
Q9650 @stock
4GB @~1010
HD6850 @1200p

70-125 FPS, 125 being what I've capped it at.

[Malaclypse]

When I run in fullscreen I get anywhere from 25-70 FPS, with probably 50 being average. When I play in windowed mode my average is 125 in the range of 70-160.

[Uumdi]

Yeah I played on an old Pentium D in the summer till January - I couldn't even load that god-forsaken city / gallows map.  If it had more than a dozen trees there was a chance I couldn't load it too, haha.

Just running a core 2 duo, E7500, and doing fine though.  That's what, an office processor for a point of sale system these days?  I saw it get worse and worse and eventually unplayable for some maps over the course of patches though, which was kind of interesting.

For the record, geforce 450 gts, 4 GB ram

[SeQuel]

I have mine capped at 60 and it rarely ever moves (sometimes it moves to 59 for a second) then back to 60. Uncapped I get like 80-120.

[wayyyyyne]

GeForce GTX 550 Ti (1 gig of memory)
intel i5-2400 (that's 4x3,10ghz)
6gig RAM of DDR3

Here

There's hardly a map I'm running below 120 fps (and even then it's something between 80 and 100 fps). That's with dx9 and everything fancy maxed out.

What I can recommend is:

Close all applications you don't need if you're low on RAM (used to have only 2 ram half a year ago and it really helped. There are several free programs that can help you to decide if this application is not worth its memory or completly necessary and needs to be booted everytime you start your computer. You can still get yourself some more RAM modules ofc. I got my 4 additional gig for 15€, sure worth the investment)

There are guides out there what options you can tick/untick if you want your game's fps to increase (some may come at the cost of visual performance ofc). Read them.

Keep your computer clean. A GPU is easily the most dust ridden part in you computer. You can really suffer a performance decrease if it gets too dirty. Clean it every now and then.

Get yourself an additional fan. Might really help if you got a small computer case. My ambient case temperature dropped by 5C° after installing a 120mm fan at the back of my PC. Cost me like 15€ again.

[Angantyr]

Doesn't matter if you can run much more graphically impressive games when the engine is the bottleneck. WB has simply never been a well-optimized game.

[Tanken]

Lots of Flickering Textures from inexperienced Map creators. That fucks with your graphics a lot.

[Jacko]

Got an old i7 920 at 2.67 Ghz (unclocked at the moment, usually around 3.8 Ghz), 12 gig okey DDR3 (it was cheap, okey?!), GTX560 and a decent SSD drive. And yet, the game sometimes lag for me. The more content, the more lag it seems. One can always hope for some spring cleaning..

[Leshma]

DX7 all lowest settings, fps from 30-120, rarely goes bellow 30
DX9 almost everything maxed, fps from 30-120, pretty much random fps all the time, drops bellow 10 at the start of each round.

Also, since I have less than 2 gigs of RAM game CTD after few hours because of memory leak.

[Leshma]

Got an old i7 920 at 2.67 Ghz (unclocked at the moment, usually around 3.8 Ghz), 12 gig okey DDR3 (it was cheap, okey?!), GTX560 and a decent SSD drive. And yet, the game sometimes lag for me. The more content, the more lag it seems. One can always hope for some spring cleaning..

That rig is pretty good imho. Should run dozen of Warbands at the same time if it was properly optimized...

Biggest problem is that town map, with underground passage. It's not optimized at all.

[Christo]

Engine is a piece of garbage.

That's it, really.

Mods that add dozens of additional models just make it even worse.

Biggest problem is that town map, with underground passage. It's not optimized at all.

Riot in swadian city..

There is another "swadia city" map like that. Those maps are ridiculous, not just from performance, but from a gameplay point of view.
Wish I'd know who made them. 

[Logen]

Biggest problem is that town map, with underground passage. It's not optimized at all.

its an awesome map. Always a lot of ways to backstab people!
Never had any fps drops on that map. But suffered a lot on that new huge map, dont remember what its called :\