Overview
CA:DE is an external spectating client for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. It renders any supported game-mode you are currently spectating with a custom overlay with brand-new statistics not available in the game. CA:DE will be seeing regular updates improving performance and adding many more features in time. All common game modes are supported, including 1v1, Team Games, FFA, AI games, Battle Royale and others.
Important info
- You can use CA:DE to spectate your own live gameplay when cheats enabled in the game lobby
AoE2DE (in-game) Graphics Settings
- Disable Enhanced Graphics — Turn this off for best performance
- Minimize the game — This should happen automatically, but minimizing during or after the loading screen helps significantly. If not minimized automatically: set Display Mode to Windowed (Alt + Enter), then minimize the window
- Graphics Presets — Low
- FPS Limit — 30
- Game - Building and Aura range indicator — Never
- Game - Small Trees — Enabled (or install a small trees mod of choice)
CA:DE Settings
- Casting - Show icon name tooltips — Disabled
- Casting - Show detailed help tooltips — Disabled
- Settings - Show Range Circles for Buildings — Disabled
- Graphics - Enable Enhanced Graphics (UHD) — Disabled
- Graphics - Limit to 60FPS — Enabled
- Graphics - Small Trees — Enabled, or enable Enable Graphics Mods to use the small trees mod you have installed in-game
Additional Tips
- Try to ensure AoE2:DE is installed on an SSD, as CA:DE uses the game's files — a slow hard drive will impact its performance as well
- You can make the game and CA:DE higher priority processes by launching Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Esc) and going to Details. Right-click on the CaptureAge and AoE2DE processes and set higher-than-normal priorities for them
In Case of Performance Issues
- In CA:DE, Graphics - Advanced: drag the sliders to adjust GPU memory (higher may help)
- In CA:DE, Graphics - Advanced: disable the different filtering options
- In CA:DE, Graphics: disable Enhanced Graphics (UHD)