Stress testing your system?

Well anyways I though I should bring this up. As my first plans would be to jump into a campaign with full unit sizes. Then I realized if I was in the middle of the campaign and at the point where armies have become huge and found I could not fight the battles because of lag.

Well I figure what I'll do is pick 4 factions and take them into a custom battle and see if all handles well. For single player I do'nt think it will be common to have more than 4 armies on the battlefield. But if that works fine I will then take 8 armies at full unit sizes. Another thing that has to be done is to pick as many different units as possible because it easier for the comp to process 160 of the same units than for the comp to process 160 completely different units.

I do'nt mind at all turning the graphic quality down to have big battles, because huge armies being my main selling point and graphics come in second

So is anyone else going to stress test there system with a custom battle or are you just going jump right in the campaign

Ever ascending custom test....has to be, for a number of reasons

To see how it's going to run [ cross fingers ]

Just to see what it looks like :smart:

...And of course, to try out another faction :sneaky:

.....Orda

I'll try a two army 20 on 20 fight with the largest unit sizes and hope I won't need to scale back.

Hmm thats actually a pretty good point.
I'm pretty much assuming that I'll be fine at max settings, but I guess I should check...
Plus it will be cool having a huge battle straight away :duel: