s2fix mod boosts Total War: Shogun 2 by 50% in battles and 136% on campaign map
Modder Meisgoot312 released the open-source s2fix mod for Total War: Shogun 2 and its Complete Edition. Multithreaded DirectX 11 draw-call submission and caching lift battle FPS by roughly 50% and campaign-map performance from 62.6 to 148 FPS.
- One benchmark rose from 142 to 210 FPS, with GPU utilization up from 40% to 70–80%
- Campaign map gained 136%: from 62.6 to 148 FPS
- The original game's VRAM allowance was raised from ~3 GB to nearly 4 GB
- The mod is on GitHub, packaged separately for the 32-bit game and 64-bit Complete Edition
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