Optimised fire and smoke effects on the campaign map (improving the frames per second on all graphics setting, especially during the late gameplay where all faction territories are revealed).

Fix for a crash when performing an agent action on a wounded/assassinated unit in Campaign modes.

Fix for graphics crash caused by changing the games screen resolution shortly after loading a new Campaign.

LAN multiplayer modes are now accessible when Steam is in Offline mode.

Fixed a bug in the Graphics Benchmark frame rate display that reported the wrong per-frame time.

Fix for minor stutters & terrain rendering glitches on some gpu’s when rendering the terrain.

Frame Rate improvements on Campaign map across all configurations when setting Effects Quality to Low or High.

Fix for lock-ups reported on loading into battle in DirectX9.

Frame Rate improvements on Campaign map on low spec Core2 Duo cpu’s in windowed mode.

Significant improvements to multiplayer campaign speed, which is now limited by the slowest players machine.

Here are the patch notes for Total War: ROME II- Patch 3:

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