rtw will it work

[castle]

There are new games coming out that only work on windows xp, 2k, eg. Doom, will rtw play on older versions of windows.

[Lonewarrior]

Yeah except windows 95, and probably 98 too.

[SeveredSoul]

Rome will only work with the Windows XP.



-Soul

[Lonewarrior]

Rome will only work with the Windows XP.



-Soul

Nope it will work from 98 and up

[Oaty]

The demo could possibly be win xp only

[Medieval Assassin]

It Best Work With 98!

[Captain Fishpants]

Rome: Total War needs Windows 98SE or later; that's the official word. So none of you need fret that it's exclusive to XP. ~:) You will need DirectX 9b.

OK?

[Brighdaasa]

Rome: Total War needs Windows 98SE or later; that's the official word. So none of you need fret that it's exclusive to XP. ~:) You will need DirectX 9b.

OK?

thank you for clearing that up, but while you're at it would it be possible to elaborate a bit more on the overall required/recommended system specs. As far as i know there still isn't 'official word' on the exact specs needed? Thanks in advance.

[Stuie]

Official system requirements:

"Minimum System Requirements


* English version of Microsoft(r) Windows(r) 98SE/ME/2000/XP
* Pentium(r) III 1.0GHz (1000MHz) or Athlon(tm) 1.0GHz (1000MHz) processor or higher
* 256MB RAM
* 8x Speed CD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers
* 300MB of uncompressed free hard disk space
* 100% DirectX(r) 9.0b compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
* 100% Windows(r) 98SE/ME/2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
* DirectX(r) 9.0b
* 3D hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX(r) 9.0b compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers."

http://pc.ign.com/articles/540/540898p2.html

[Barkhorn1x]

Official system requirements:

"Minimum System Requirements"



Wanted to emphasize that key word. And it would have been nice for the reviewer to post his system specs and comment on some tech aspects like;
- installation
- options available
- how it ran on his PC at different settings
...instead of being TOTALLY (pun intended) up CA's arse.

Barkhorn.

[Degtyarev14.5]

Barkhorn1x has a point there... We may - most likely do - have very different definitions for the word minimum in this context.

My mimimum requirements: system required to play Rome: Total War at 1024x768 (maybe possibly perhaps 800x600) reasonably smoothly (circa 20-25 frames/sec) with default unit sizes.

Possible mimimum requirements: system required to install Rome: Total War. Play functionality not supported. ~:p

I'm looking forward to it all the same.

It's not illegal to mirror a demo without written consent from the publishers, is it? It is a demo after all...

A.