AoE2DE FPS limit affects benchmark rating

bgstack15 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:24:00 GMT

For the past number of months, my Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition game would start lagging in larger ranked team games.

I re-ran the benchmark test, and I ranked 971.2, which is too low for ranked team games (1000)! So that greatly concerned me, as this is the only game with serious requirements that I run. So I spent time investigating all the graphics settings, and rebooting and running only steam and AoE2DE.

The moment I reached out to a friend who plays way more games than me, my next change solved the problem. I had set my fps limit down to 15, in the hopes of increasing game performance. Come to find out, it limits network performance when you lower the fps, and it also lowers the benchmark performance.

So that test I had run, with 65 fps, ranked nice and high (1138.2) and then I am eligible to play ranked team games again!

Here is a chart, for the curious. (This is the first time I am using the charting features in my ssg, nikola!)

The system I tested has these characteristics.

OS: Devuan GNU+Linux Ceres
RAM: 64 GB
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Voobly notes

bgstack15 — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:53:06 GMT

Voobly on Wine in Linux

For some reason, one of my voobly installations in Wine on Linux (devuan specifically) runs like a dog. While the system is indeed really old, Voobly was running smoother on it before the OS reinstall. After an strace, I learned it kept looking for a tzres.dll in C:\Program Files\Voobly\, and there wasn't one. So I copied it in from the system32 directory and re-ran Voobly. It seems to operate a little better now, although it's still not exactly a smooth experience.

cp -p ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/tzres.dll ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Voobly/

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AoE2DE FPS limit affects benchmark rating

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