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    Default What are the requirements for running EB flawlessly?

    My computer is about a year old, and when I bought it (somebody custom made it for me) and played vanilla everything ran perfect on the highest settings.

    With EB however I experience lagging when I have two maxed out huge armies meeting on the field. This is not a big problem on normal battle speed, but when I up it to 3x it's barely playable.

    I payed almost 2,500$ for the system, so I feel it should run smooth, but what do I know? It got 2gb ram and geforce 8600gt graphics card, with a pretty fast athlon dual core.

    Have I been ripped off, are my settings wrong or should I simply upgrade some hardware? Should I even expect it to run smooth on 3x?

    Cash is not an issue, I just want to play my favorite game in the smoothest possible way. Can't go back to large now.

    Appreciate all help.
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    Default Re: What are the requirements for running EB flawlessly?

    Um, either someone lied to you when they told you you have all that stuff in your computer, or something is really wrong. Battles should lag no more than RTW battles, we haven't increased model complexity or texture size beyond what RTW originally had. There is definately a bottleneck somewhere. The 8600 shouldnt be too much of a problem, though I would prefer a 7800 over a 8600.

    In other words, no idea.

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    Default Re: What are the requirements for running EB flawlessly?

    Well, I know I have it. I'm not exactly a nerd, but I know what the packaging says.

    But yeah, something feels wrong.

    It takes about 1-3 seconds after I push 'p' on 3x mode before it actually pauses.

    Anyone?
    Last edited by polluxlm; 06-14-2008 at 17:17.
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    Default Re: What are the requirements for running EB flawlessly?

    Quote Originally Posted by polluxlm View Post
    Well, I know I have it. I'm not exactly a nerd, but I know what the packaging says.

    But yeah, something feels wrong.

    It takes about 1-3 seconds after I push 'p' on 3x mode before it actually pauses.

    Anyone?
    for 2500 it was a rip off in my book, sorry

    Try www.nvidia.com, they are likely to have new software updates that might help.

    If are going to invest such large sums into something, take some time reading about it. Trust me, knowing what to buy is easy once you know what is what... which does not take long at all, a friend of mine taught me how to build a computer in theory (knowing what to buy) in less than a day.


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    Default Re: What are the requirements for running EB flawlessly?

    My advice: Turn grass off completely. You'll be amazed at how much lag that gets rid of.

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    Default Re: What are the requirements for running EB flawlessly?

    Well, I live in Norway, so I don't think I got ripped off (fooled a bit perhaps). Prices here are steep to say the least.

    So what's the conclusion? Should my system handle it (i.e. I gotta check things) or should I just invest in better/more suitable stuff?
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    Default Re: What are the requirements for running EB flawlessly?

    Quote Originally Posted by polluxlm View Post
    It takes about 1-3 seconds after I push 'p' on 3x mode before it actually pauses.

    Anyone?
    http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=WCEQa2vhP7w

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    Default Re: What are the requirements for running EB flawlessly?

    Alright. Thanks for all help. Gonna try out a few things, see how it goes.

    Much appreciated.
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    Default Re: What are the requirements for running EB flawlessly?

    You could also try to disable shadows and/or antialiasing. Your system should work better than that.

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    Default Re: What are the requirements for running EB flawlessly?

    u got ripped mah friend
    $2500 for 2gb ram and 8600gt? and a anthlon?
    EB does kinda have higher texture quality than vanilla but it would only cost u a few hundred troops till lag

    rip off u got...

    (2500? i'll get myself a intel core 2 e6800, geforce 8800gtx sli, 3gb corsair terminator @ 800mhz)
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