Terrain Texture Quality - This setting controls the resolution of textures used to render the terrain.Footprints - When enabled, certain units will leave footprints on certain terrains.Tracer Effects - Enabling this option will cause a tracer effect to appear when various unit types fire their weapons.Particle Quality - Setting this to Low will provide the best performance, while the Normal setting provides more realistic particle effects such as smoke and splashes.Terrain Detail Objects - Enabling this option adds detail to the terrain such as small rocks and plants.Enabling this option will allow the game to display in greater detail but may reduce performance. High-poly Models - This setting controls the number of polygons used to render the in-game objects.This option has no effect on Low or Medium shader settings. Bloom Effect - Enabling this option enhances bright areas of the world with a visible bloom of light, but may reduce performance.It has no effect if you are using the Low or Medium shader settings. Disabling this option may improve performance. Water Reflections - Enabling this option will generate reflections of game objects in the water when using the High or Very High shader settings.High and Very High provide the most realistic shadows but require capable hardware and will likely reduce performance. On or Low will provide simple shadows under most units. Shadow Quality - Depending on your system capabilities and Shader Quality setting, you will have anywhere between two and four settings available for Shadow Quality.Depending on your specific hardware, the Very High setting may provide better performance than the High setting. High and Very High produce the most realistic results, but can decrease performance. Medium increases quality but may reduce performance. The low setting provides the best performance on most systems but at the lowest rendering quality. The possible settings are Low, Medium, High, and Very High, though not all of these will be available on some systems.
Lower settings will provide increased performance.
There are a variety of anti-virus and anti-spyware programs that can assist you in detecting and removing these problems. In addition to compromising the security of your system, spyware and viruses may also use your system resources, causing other applications to run more slowly than they could otherwise. These applications compete for the same system resources the game requires to run, so shutting them down may allow the game to run more smoothly. You should consider shutting down any applications you are not actively using while running the game. Upgrading your CPU is sometimes possible as well, and if possible this will improve your performance.
This may increase performance, allow more advanced effects, or both. Upgrading your video card is often possible as well. If you have only 256 megabytes of memory, adding more memory is often possible and is most likely to give you a noticeable performance improvement. You can contact your system manufacturer for assistance with this. If you wish to do so, upgrading your hardware is possible on many systems. Many components affect the performance of your hardware, but the most critical are your processor (CPU), memory (RAM), and graphics card. Here are some tips for improving performance. Performance in Age of Empires 3 is affected by both your computer's hardware and various settings you can control within the game.