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Ghost of Rom
10-11-2004, 07:23
I've got a 1.8 ghz, 512 ram, system with a integrated below recommended spec vid card. My family won't let me get a nice modern card, they seem to want food and shelter first!!! So post what older video cards you have that have done an excellent job for you. I'm thinking Radeon 9000 or maybe geo 5200mx or something in their price range. Cheers! ~:cheers:
Boudicca
10-11-2004, 08:17
My PC:
- Pentium IV, 2, 0 GHZ
- 512 MB DDR Ram
- ATI Mobility Radeon M6-P (32 MB)
Rome total war works fine with my Mobility Radeon Card, although landscape textures are very simple in combat (unit and building detail is highest).
A GeForce ti 4200 is cheap and good. Can run most games perfectly expect for Doom III and a few others.
Colovion
10-11-2004, 09:36
A GeForce ti 4200 is cheap and good. Can run most games perfectly expect for Doom III and a few others.
I had it and it ran Rome perfectly on high or highest settings - and only overclocked a little.
bigredlemon
10-11-2004, 10:05
Radeon 9000 isn't fast enough to take advantage of DX9... you're better off getting a fast DX8 card given how much their prices have plumeted lately. The geforce 4200ti and radeon 9200 or 8500 series should be about the same price as the r9000 and much much faster
Divine Wind
10-11-2004, 10:11
Stay well clear of any integrated S3 Graphics chips. They have horrible problems with Rome and most games. Needless to say im upgrading soon!
Moosehead115
10-11-2004, 10:36
I can vouch that a TI series card is a very good choice. my system specs are Athlon 2700+ 512 ram GF4 TI4600 (the same as a 4200, just clocked a lil higher)
the only game i can think of that it really has trouble with would be doom 3, not that i've tried it on my system, i just know how well my card responded to trying to run direct-X 9 intensive shaders and such in benchmarks. i'm sure it would be playable though. just not as beautiful as a more modern card. every other game in existence is beautiful though. bought the card brand new ... bah, cant remember when exactly.... when it was top of the line, and its still competitive. I love it :)
Anything with a "XT" or "MX" in it is a bad idea.
GF4 MX440 is not even half the card GF4 Ti series is - was a major ripoff when I got it couple of years ago when the commercial stated "as powerful as a Ti, but half the price".
Radeon 9000 isn't fast enough to take advantage of DX9... you're better off getting a fast DX8 card given how much their prices have plumeted lately. The geforce 4200ti and radeon 9200 or 8500 series should be about the same price as the r9000 and much much faster
an ATI 9000 card is confusingly not a DX9 vid-card, it is just a rebadged 8500 which is a DX8 card.
Stay well clear of any integrated S3 Graphics chips. They have horrible problems with Rome and most games. Needless to say im upgrading soon!
my laptop has a via chipset with integrated S3 Unichrome Pro graphics and the textures are completely torn and borked, shame, as it actually plays the game ok.
Zatoichi
10-11-2004, 12:32
Until recently, I had a 9200SE card in my PC, and it played the Demo fine (only a few weird 'special effects' on the mountains in the background - a couple had coloured lines down them, but this could have been the drivers or even the demo), so I'm sure it'd be fine for the full game too - you can pick one up from Dabs.com for £32.99 (they're good - that's where I got my 9800Pro from *plug mode off*).
I am running on a fx5200 128mb and its fine.
HopAlongBunny
10-11-2004, 14:08
Runs just fine on my Ti4400.
I've been meaning to upgrade this card for quite some time, but it just seems to keep going ~:)
Ja'chyra
10-11-2004, 14:57
It runs fine on my Radeon 7500, admittedly I've only been playing on normal unit size and not tried huge yet.
I have a GeForce 2 Ti 3600 and it runs well enough*i.e. ive got the high end stuff turned off* ~:cheers:
The Sword of Cao Cao
10-11-2004, 23:06
Any PCI cards that will run Rome?
Mine is running fine on an xp 1800 + 4200 ti
Dosn't run as well as my buddy's x800 pro . . . but my whole computer cost less than his video card haha. ~D
Parmenio
10-13-2004, 01:50
The Demo is playable on my system:
Pentium III 800
Geforce 2 MX
256 Ram
Settings set to low. Framerate choppy but functional.
The Sword of Cao Cao
10-13-2004, 01:51
Hello? Will any PCI cards run Rome's battles?
Sid_Quibley
10-13-2004, 02:18
Hello? Will any PCI cards run Rome's battles?
Yep, Im running it on a 9200 pci.Runs adequately on medium to low settings even though the rest of my comp is minimum specs.
1.3 gig celeron
256 ram
ChaosLord
10-13-2004, 02:36
I run RTW with a P4 1.6ghz, 512mb of ram, and a GF2MX200. Play it mostly on low stats and only siege battles get any slowdown, but its all still playable. If you've got the cash i'd recommend a Ti4200, its a good all around card that can run most things good or decently.
Medieval Assassin
10-13-2004, 03:12
*is Useing Radeon 9000 _fine As Kind_*
TopHatJones
10-13-2004, 04:27
I am using an Nvida Geforce 2 Ultra.
Its two or three years old, so a new one will probably be pretty cheap.
Most of settings are on low and I've never had any slowdown.
I tend to think that the game is more CPU demanding than the video card, any one think this as well?
hotingzilla
10-13-2004, 12:40
I have friend running on Geforce 2 MMX 400. He can play the game, though lower settings.
My sytem is quite ancient at the moment, a P3 450 with a geforce 2 mx and 224 meg of ram (a 128, a 64 and a 32 meg stick all in together). My housemate tried it on his system and a tnt 2 doesn't work at all. So they weren't fibbing about that bit of the minimum requirements.
It plays fine at both the strategic and tactical levels, although my res's are turned down to 800 for tactical and 1024 for strategic, all the other bells and whistles turned right down and unit size on small. Ah well, upgrading very shortly, and it is due to this darn game that I will be doing so!
Oh, and this is my first post so hello to all!
anyone getting Rome started with Kyro card (4500 64mb) ? So far no luck, please if You have any clues please heeeeeeeeeelp ....
cheers
i only have a geforce ti 2 and it works find for me on medium/high mode
*laughs for a while*
I'm using the integrated Intel Extreme graphics 64mb piece of rubbish that came with my PC to play RTW, as I'm a poor student and can't afford to buy a graphics card. RTW works just fine for me! (I have a 2.53 Ghz CPU but only that rubbish "card" and 256mb RAM)
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