-Crashes when the games in fullscreen:
If you are experiencing crashes playing Ashes in full-screen mode, please go to your game options, select "video", and set "mode" to either "borderless windowed" or "windowed" to improve stability.
-Turning off SLI/Crossfire:
Turn off SLI (After clicking disable, Apply to save):
Turn off Crossfire (AMD Control Panel (Global Setting) / AMD Crimson Control Panel):
Crimson (This may need to be done for Ashes individually):
-Turn off VSYNC
Within the options menu in Ashes, under Video, you can uncheck VSync. (VSync is off by default)
-If you have a laptop with both an integrated Intel card and a discrete ATI or Nvidia graphics card:
NOTE: While the article below is intended for Dell Alienware owners, the instructions in the above mentioned sections should apply for all laptops with dual ATI/Nvidia/Intel graphics cards.
If the game is defaulting to your Intel graphics card and running slowly as a result, you may need to configure some additional settings manually.
For laptops with an Nvidia and Intel graphics cards, please see the "Manually Configure Optimus" and "Manually adding a game to the NVIDIA Control Panel" sections on the page below:
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN146534
For laptops with an ATI and Intel graphics cards, please see the "Manual Configuration" and "Set the global setting to High Performance" sections on the page below:
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN146534
-Low Settings
Ashes: Escalation
Try to set all the graphic options to a bare minimum. Please download the following settings.ini file
https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/escal_lowsettings.zip
and unzip it in the location following directory:
C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Ashes of the Singularity - Escalation