Hardware requirements for EB 1.0 ??

[Temistokles]

Hello everyone, sorry for my English first of all.

I have very big troubles in playing EB 1.0, not in the beginning, when I deal with small armies and few territories, but, when the campaign goes harder it's very difficult because many CTD happen.
CTD when loading the savegame,
CTD before fighting a manual battle, it's indifferent that the battle it's a siege or not (no problems with automatic results)
CTD after a battle

Apart the ctd there is the problem of a consistent lag when fighting battles.

I've red many interesting and very detailed posts about lag

But my question is:
Do you think that upgrading hardware would permit a better play ?
My system is the following:

OS: XP professional SP2
Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor 4600+ 2.41 Ghz
RAM 2 Gb
video card: Geforce 8500 GT 516 MB DDR2
DirectX 9.0c

Some told me that Athlon 64 X2 is good for 64 bit OS
Some told me that the video card is crap and the Ram is too few

What do you think about ATI chipset in comparison of Nvidia ?
And for now every card is, as they say, ready for direct x 10, do you think that can be problems for EB 1.0 ??

Thank you

[bovi]

Your hardware should definitely be enough to run EB. 2 GB RAM could in very rare cases be a cause of lack of performance, but most who have problems have only between 512 and 1024 MB.

Your video card should also be enough. I prefer ATI due to some unstable NVidia drivers I was the victim of, but again yours should be enough to run it if you have a good driver. You could try lower video settings and see if it makes any difference.

I think the problem is your CPU. I've got the same one, and my game also was really choppy after a while. To fix it, you need to download the latest drivers. And done.

[Temistokles]

THANKS

Now it's much better !!!

[Diamondj]

Your hardware should definitely be enough to run EB. 2 GB RAM could in very rare cases be a cause of lack of performance, but most who have problems have only between 512 and 1024 MB.

Your video card should also be enough. I prefer ATI due to some unstable NVidia drivers I was the victim of, but again yours should be enough to run it if you have a good driver. You could try lower video settings and see if it makes any difference.

I think the problem is your CPU. I've got the same one, and my game also was really choppy after a while. To fix it, you need to download the latest drivers. And done.
Where do you download these drivers?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Where do you download these drivers?
Should be at the website of the hardware manufactuer.

[AngryAngelDD]

the CPU WinXP - drivers can be found on the AMD website

they should resolve stuttering issues or slow performance on X2-CPUs

[Diamondj]

I just have the regular AMD athlon 64. Should I download everything? A lot of the downloads just say stuff about power maintenence or something will they improve performance as well?

[AngryAngelDD]

for Athlon 64 single core no driver is necessary

and you don´t need to download other drivers.
they don´t improve performance.



those following are more important:
new graphic card drivers might help anyway if you have stability/ performance/image quality issues:

for Nvidia cards up to Geforce 7 - series the 163.71/75 are quite good (i use them)
for Nvidia Geforce 8 - series 169.xx could be better.

for ATI i don´t know..... 7.10/7.11 is fine i think (older Radeon 7xxx - series are not support beyond 6.8? i think)


sometimes a new (or simply other) soundcard driver might improve stability as well (and even performance)