I'll be buying a £1,350 PC b4 E:TW comes out so that I can actually play
it. With M2TW then most PC's I used with it were made around 2004 Dell
XP's & a last years laptop worth £600, all worked M2TW but lagged a bloody
lot with 1 unit highlandrs on the screen
So I got at what the time was a graphics card worth £100 & then it worked
pretty well, able to fit 2 & a 1/2 armies on a screen on the original M2TW
& about 4 armies in the Kingdoms X pack which seemed to be able to hold
more units with less lag strangely
RTW it far smoother but with the upgraded PC when putting the graphics to
max then I could only get 3 full armies on a map without lag. The M2TW
graphics are a lot sharper than RTW's smooth graphics, but normally smooth
graphics work better than sharp, e.g WoW to Guild Wars. WoW has smoother
graphics & therefore works better. E:TW screenshots look quite smooth so
they might be trying to keep the graphics high with lag down. Though it's
almost a next generation like game & graphics & it's unlikely u'd be able to
at most 4 armies with a £1,350 PC I hope.. All I can really advise is get
one of the £3,500 PC's. It's currently the best purchasable PC atm apparently