Creative Assembly Anyone with poor specs tried the demo? [Archive]

Blodrast

08-22-2004, 19:57

yes; on an integrated intel video card (64MB, but remember it's integrated on the motherboard).
it's fine.
the video/audio/etc stuff is highly customizable, and it runs fine in 800x600x32bpp

Medieval Assassin

08-22-2004, 20:12

I meet everything except my 500mhz processer... But I think if I turn things down and stuff, It should run, they probably tested what you need at the least to run 8 armies on one battle field, which never happens in campains

ShadesWolf

08-23-2004, 06:00

I ran the demo on my laptop first, which is a 1.4 machine with integ video and Graphics card. The demo ran fine, failry quick.

BUT I DIDNT install direct X, so if was a bit choppy with graphics, but the sped was fine and very smooth ~:cheers:

The Witch-King

08-23-2004, 07:11

played it with a PIII 1000 Mhz, 256 MB RAM and a 32 MB videocard. I finished the tutorial, though it was choppy as h*ll even at the lowest settings (I even got a message saying my HD was full, only 16 MB left out of the 600 I should've had after installing the demo!). When I tried Trebia the game crashed to desktop during the intro. I'm getting a new videocard today, so I'll send you an update when I've installed the new card. :)

DragonIce84

08-23-2004, 09:33

I tried it on this PC...

Medion Laptop ---
Pentium IV 2.0GHz
512MB Ram
32MB Graphics card (Ati Mobility M6 w/ OmegaDrivers)

The game is very playable on my computer on low settings (yay :)), goes a little choppy in the scene with the whole roman army running over the river, but a steady fps otherwise

TCon88

08-23-2004, 10:25

Anyone whit a 56k modem attempted to download it? If so how long did it take and were you successful?

Bob the Insane

08-23-2004, 11:24

Just had a go on my work machine... 2GHz P4 with 500MB RAM and an intergrated Intel(R) 82845G 64MB Graphics Controller.. Set to default 800x600 32bit and no fancy options it was just about playable, quite choppy in the big battle, but definately playable...

Can't wait to get home and get it on my AthlonXP 2600+ with 1GB RAM and my lovely new GeForce 6800GT and Audigy 2 ZS.... :jumping: :jumping: :jumping:

Medieval Assassin

08-23-2004, 18:14

Sigh...
POOR specs, not P4 2GHZ machines,
Oh well, I now need to get a new motherboard, A new processer, a gig of ram, new speakers maybe, and maybe a better video card

Alexander the Pretty Good

08-23-2004, 18:31

Is this poor enough:

Compaq Presario 1525
P4 2.4 Ghz
512MB RAM
Directx 9.0
XP Home
32MB Graphics card - ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

I ran the demo, kept getting error message:

Insufficient video memory to load requested texture set
until I cranked down the video settings REALLY low.

And it still wasn't pretty. On the tutorial, there were patches of grass that reflected the sky ( ~:dizzy: ) and some units kept dissapearing, especially the Roman archers. Sometimes either the horses or riders would disapear as well. The Roman general never appeared colored in, and sometimes the other units didn't, either.

The Trebia battle was terrible. Everything was spazzing out, and it looked like there were soldiers everywhere (was there too much detail like trees and soldiers, maybe?) and I just couldn't bring myself to play it (I did make my elephants charge suicidally; none survived).

~:mecry: I need a new graphics card. Can that be done on a laptop? ~:confused:

Azmogeddon

08-23-2004, 20:15

I'm on the lower end, but just about within specs:

Athlon 1.3GHz, GEForce3 64MB, plenty of RAM.

Ran like a dream to be honest, I'm actually playing it with all settings to maximum apart from anti-aliasing off, 1280x1024 resolution. It goes at about 10fps during the Trebia fly-over of the armies, but at least 30fps all through the battle, only really notice slowdown when moving the camera quickly over lots of units and scrolling side to side at the same time.

In conclusion, the game certainly runs fine at minimum spec, I imagine if you have less than 64MB video memory you'll need to turn down the detail, lower processor you'll need to watch unit numbers etc.

Edit: I've installed a new graphics card in a laptop before, but you probably can't do it with all models and you'll likely have to go to manufacturer (or eBay in my case) to get the part.

Medieval Assassin

08-23-2004, 21:03

Do you think a P3 500mhz can cut it with options turned down, untill I get an upgrade, Januaryish?

Sasaki Kojiro

08-23-2004, 23:29

I got it to work with my 32 mb card...800X600X32 with the details turned up...

Alexander the Pretty Good

08-23-2004, 23:32

Make sure to get the latest drivers. That is what was wrong with my computer before. Now everything is fine. :blush:

:knight:

Medieval Assassin

08-23-2004, 23:34

But does anyone thing a 500mhz can cut it?

Lord of the Isles

08-23-2004, 23:45

I have a decent spec machine except for the video card:

2.6 MHz
768 Mb memory
Geforce 4 MX 440

I was surprised how well it displayed, even with most video options turned up to medium or high (note that the default settings are pretty awful, no spears for Poeni phalanx and legs tapering to a point without any feet!). Double clicking on a unit's box caused some stuttering/jumping as the camera moved to the unit but I can live with that. A little delay when the battle was fiercest but nothing awful.

Bigger unit sizes and max 20 unit battles when the game comes out might change my mind but I think I'll stick with the Geforce 4 for now, when I was expecting to have to upgrade.

The speed of battles and "arcade feel" are damn annoying though, but that's for another thread...

Tamur

08-24-2004, 00:30

Just for fun I tried it on a Radeon 7000 (64 MB RAM). Wow, talk about ghosting! Every moment there were at least five copies of every single man in every single unit, VRAM not keeping up with the bits apparently.

Led me to the question, "Which general should I select?" ~:joker:

Tamur

Lonewarrior

08-24-2004, 00:32

Naw, my computer can handle it just fine, I played it max graphics, looks extremmenly cool.

Medieval Assassin

08-24-2004, 00:54

Can someone just answer my question!
Is it possible for 500mhz to cut it?

Jacque Schtrapp

08-24-2004, 01:00

Can someone just answer my question!
Is it possible for 500mhz to cut it?

Very unlikely. ~:(

Tamur

08-24-2004, 01:01

I'm guessing here, but I'd be extremely surprised if it ran smoothly...

That said, I really think your RAM and your video card are the more important factors. I'd give a fighting chance to a 500 mhz machine with 512 Mb of RAM and a fast card (Radeon 8500+, gForce 4 (not mx)+), but it'd be pushing your luck.

Tamur

Medieval Assassin

08-24-2004, 01:13

Radeon 9000. 64 mb,

USMCNJ

08-24-2004, 04:08

Make sure to get the latest drivers. That is what was wrong with my computer before. Now everything is fine. :blush:

:knight:
we have the same notebook. i have the same problem, where did you get your driver? ati site doesn't have it

Gaius Julius

08-24-2004, 05:18

My computer specs:

-P3 750Mhz
-Geforce 2, 32 Mb
-SoundBlaster Live Value
-512 Mb Ram

I turned down all video settings to low, or the lowest; anti-aliasing off.

All things considered, it wasn't too bad at all.
I've only played the first part of the Tutorial so far.
Sure, the graphics weren't as crisp as they could be, but the "choppiness" wasn't as bad as I expected.
Things seemed to move along pretty smoothly; sound was good too.
The loading time was abit long, but not a "game-breaker".

chilliwilli

08-24-2004, 05:26

I have a 1.5ghz P4
256 ram
and a GeforceMX200

it ran smooth on the highest graphic settings :smoking:

good job CA!!

KukriKhan

08-24-2004, 14:30

3 year old HP laptop
1G Athlon
256 MB SDRAM
8 MB integrated vid (not a typo: 8 MB)

Game works. 500MHz might be a stretch, but I'd be interested to see M.Assassin's results.

Alexander the Pretty Good

08-24-2004, 14:36

we have the same notebook. i have the same problem, where did you get your driver? ati site doesn't have it

My computer is a laptop. I got my driver from the manufacturer (Compaq). I know for a fact that ATI does not offer drivers for laptop cards (Mobility type). If you have a laptop, go to the manufacturer. I have no idea what to do if you have a PC but can't get a driver for your ATI card. Maybe it is too old? If so, you could look for "Omega drivers" - heard about them but couldn't find them. Supposedly they are drivers for cards without recent drivers made by the manufacturer and are optimized for games. But I don't know for sure.

~:cheers:

The Witch-King

08-24-2004, 19:15

Part 2 of my demo experience, this time with a shiny new Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB videocard and with another 256 MB of RAM added (making a grand total of 512 MB).

Demo ran smooth as a babies' bottom during the tutorial. I experienced some minor choppyness during Trebia when the camera panned in on the Roman army crossing the river. All in all I can say the game is quite playable with these settings.

JeromeGrasdyke

08-24-2004, 20:16

If you're experimenting with running the demo at below minimum spec, you'll want to make sure your AGP aperture is set high enough - at least 64 mb and more if you have enough RAM and your motherboard allows it. This can make a surprisingly large difference ;)

Medieval Assassin

08-24-2004, 22:16

AGP... I know this has something to do with ram, I have no idea how to change it...
Shine some light on this please?
Also do you know how you tested the specs, did you see what the minimum was to have 8 armies on the field?
Will the specs be the same for the full game?
And did you turn everything down to low to test this out?
Did you test what you need to be zoomed in so far to see the soliers teeth and eyes?

All these questions would be greatly apprciated :)

"3 year old HP laptop
1G Athlon
256 MB SDRAM
8 MB integrated vid (not a typo: 8 MB)"

This gives me hope, although I don't know how much ram you have, I have a 64 MB video card, and 200 ram...

"
-P3 750Mhz
-Geforce 2, 32 Mb
-SoundBlaster Live Value
-512 Mb Ram

I turned down all video settings to low, or the lowest; anti-aliasing off."

This also makes me a happy panda,
I just relized, MTW it was recomended to have a 1.2GHZ... I can have 8 people with everything on High and only have the rare low FPS...

KukriKhan

08-24-2004, 23:15

Some 'how to' info on AGP aperture settings:

http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/aperture-size/

Medieval Assassin

08-25-2004, 00:06

Reading into it now, thanks for link...

Its telling me to fiddle faddle with my mother board, and that it could own my computer...

USMCNJ

08-25-2004, 10:35

is there anyway to change the AGP apeerture other then using bios?
(dell doesn't have that option in it;s bios)

Marshal Murat

08-25-2004, 12:33

I got everything except a advised 3-D Card, so I can't see the menu, mouse etc.

Stuie

08-25-2004, 12:47

is there anyway to change the AGP apeerture other then using bios?
(dell doesn't have that option in it;s bios)

Not that I'm aware of. Depending on the motherboard in your laptop, it may have a default AGP setting that cannot be changed.

Sasaki Kojiro

09-12-2004, 04:38

Will this pc run RTW? I'm a little worried about it's capabilities.

http://picture.funnyjunk.com/pics/ghettocomp.jpg

Doug-Thompson

09-13-2004, 02:36

LOL, Sasaki Kojiro.

The demo runs fine on mine, but I checked into a upgrade anyway because I want to get "Pacific Fighters" when it comes out. I was pretty shocked to learn that I could upgrade from a 1.3 Mhz processer to a 2+ Mhz for about $100, plus labor. Adding 512 Kb of decent memory would be more expensive.

Aymar de Bois Mauri

09-13-2004, 03:26

Specs:

Celeron 466
512MB RAM
GeForce 4 MX440 64MB

Low enough? :inquisitive:

Trebia battle unmoded:

Initial results (minimum settings): Average 3-5fps - Highest 9fps
Final results (after tweaking): Average 7-8fps - Highest 14fps

Not really playable with anything above 4 units in the field.

Does that answer your question? :smoking:

Red Harvest

09-13-2004, 05:36

we have the same notebook. i have the same problem, where did you get your driver? ati site doesn't have it

I believe he used the Omega drivers. ATi isn't responsible for the laptop drivers, manufacturer of the laptop is, unfortunately, and they probably won't have any updates after they sell it. You could probably still get the ATi drivers to work, as long as the driver detects what family the card is in. (The driver inf files have definitions for the mobile chipsets built in.)

USMCNJ

09-13-2004, 05:47

thanks Red Harvest
for those who might need the info you can get these drivers at
http://www.omegadrivers.net/

now my sad, sad story.
After the demo came out i tried everything, to make it run normal. However it simply would not, the picture looked like some thing you see after doing too much acid.
so i went out and spend $1100 on a pc (parts build my self). $300 back in rebates but i have to wait 6-8 weeks to get them.
The game runs jaw droppingly good on the new pc, but i'm $1100 in the whole. I was so happy with my pc i showed my girlfriend how nicely the demo played. She was like "did you build this pc just for the game?" She's been mad ever since. (her birthday is coming up in a few months)
And now i see this post from Red Harvest, so i download the driver.
What happens? everything works great on my old labtop.
so i'm happy that i can play RTW on the old labtop, but i do miss my $1100 and other things (girlfriend has been mad for a week, so you know what i mean). What a sad and happy day.

Stuie

09-13-2004, 11:22

I was so happy with my pc i showed my girlfriend how nicely the demo played. She was like "did you build this pc just for the game?" She's been mad ever since. (her birthday is coming up in a few months)

~:joker: ~:joker: ~:joker: ~:joker: ~:joker:

Tell her you've got priorities and she should get used to it. My wife's birthday is October 18. All I talk about is RTW, and she keeps asking if I'm remembering that someone has a birthday coming up and maybe I should start thinking about what to get her. Uh, yeah. Sure... ~;)

SwordsMaster

09-13-2004, 19:40

Kraxis

09-14-2004, 23:58

I think I have the lowest end computer in general...

1.2 GHz
128MB SDRAM (with XP in the background this is very much too little)
64MB Graphics card

When I tried out with the lowest settings it ran like hell... It was choppy to the extreme, no fun.
Then I cranked up the graphics to a normal low spec (1024*768 up from 800*600 and shadows and quite detailed troops). Now the game ran almost perfectly... If I kept away from closeups that is. Spears vanished as soon as I neared the fight and it looked a little bland, but other than that it was good. I was impressed, but at te same time I cincerely want to get a new computer.

Doug-Thompson

09-15-2004, 04:53

USMCNJ

09-15-2004, 05:11

A few months?!

She must be expecting quite a gift.

she bought me a LCD TV last year as a Xmas + Bday gift. Plus i've got plans to spend a year planning in a sand (you can guess by my username what i mean). So she's kind of expecting a ring.

jas

09-17-2004, 17:53

Anyone with specs under minimum played the demo yet? how did it turn out?

I'll share my experience as well: I have a Pentium 733 MHz with 256MB RAM. The demo would start, but not run a battlefield scene at all. After some investigation I realized that although I had installed the latest DirectX, my graphics card did not support it. I went a bit overboard buying a new graphics card (GeForce 5200 256MB) and it now runs fine. If anything, its smoother than M:TW was on the old graphics card. I'm very happy that I've managed to probably get another couple of years grace before upgrading, especially since I'm starting to only really use my Windows machine for games, and R:TW is the only graphics-heavy game I've been interested in lately. I'm also amused by the fact that the graphics card is almost as smart as the CPU, so my PC is like a brontosaurus with a second brain in its backside.

I got the demo on the front of PC Gamer here in the UK. I did start downloading it on my 512K modem, but the download time would have been about 7-8 hours.

- jas.

zayanm

09-19-2004, 05:24

2.60 Ghz CPU
256 MB RAM
Intel Intergrated Video

Demo runs well, not at highest but runs well.

theadept

09-20-2004, 20:39

i have an 500 processor with old Intergrated graphics
i could just about get mtw to work and would try the demo but i also have a 56k modem
i hope to get it upgraded soon

Jihad2Death

09-21-2004, 03:05

I hava an emachine, 2.50 GHz,60GB hard drive, 256MB ram, 3D Intel Extreme graphics APG. I should be OK right? I don`t want to download the demo and have it not work.

Teutonic Knight

09-21-2004, 13:28

I tried it on my 730mhz HP AMD Athlon and I had to turn everything down pretty low to get it to run just smooth enough to command the troops...

Imperial Buffoon

09-22-2004, 14:22

My laptop:
1,3GHz Athlon
512MB RAM
Integrated video card (Twister-K) with 32Mb allocated

Believe me, this IS low enough...With minimum settings the framerate would allow me to play the demo if I could actually see the units. Tried changing drivers and stuff but there's very little choice of drivers that will support even part of DirectX 9 for this card...Not surprising after Activision told me it wouldn't run MTW (yes, that's M) 'cause it "lacks functionality". The last VI patch made it work. Can I hope CA will make RTW work :-)))))) (please???)

IB

theadept

10-01-2004, 19:43

i managed to run the demo on celeron 485 wit intel intergrated graphics 810
it ran wit settings right down but slowly and the cutscenes very slowly
still managed to score a brilliant victory at battle of trebia

Medieval Assassin

10-01-2004, 20:05

Well, Rome has got better since the demo, my computer runs it alot smoother. I can now have no pegg-legged units, at 60 a piece... Not bad.

192RAM
64 RADEON 9000
P3 500mhz

Littlemanx23

04-19-2005, 22:54

I was wondering if these system requirements were good enough:

27.2 gigs of free hard drive space
DirectX 9.0
Intel(R)82845G graphics chipset (64MB shared)
512MB of RAM
2.4GHz of processer speed
XP home
dial-up connection (I h8 it too)

If they are email me at littlemanx23@yahoo.com

Nelson

04-20-2005, 03:21

Nice dredge job, Littleman! You could have blown in here and started a new thread but no sir you found an oldie but goody and put it there.

Very commendable. Welcome to the Org.

Your rig sounds OK except for the graphics chipset. Rome really prefers a powerful video card and your Intel would struggle mightily. Might work on the lowest settings with small units. Video is definitely your bottleneck.

Try the demo and see how it looks.