Demo Discussion Thread

[Patricius]

Well, I played it on my notebook with the following specs:

Core 2 Duo 2GHz
2GB DDR2
256MB 8600M GT
1920*1200 24"

and it works, on medium without AA or anything like that.
It looks a bit worse than M2TW does on the same machine IIRC and it's not completely fluid on these settings, but it works. May buy a new desktop PC sometime this year but we will see.

I wasn't too impressed by the americans, they kept sending single units to intercept my forces so I easily overwhelmed them, they got my artillery but then I didn't really need it anyway.
Got a bit confused by the two fronts(I scroll around less when the game lags a little bit) so that helped them. In the end they had only a few units around that farmhouse while I had not lost much more than most of the light infantry, most of my hussars and some dragoons, then I just went there and shot them dead with half my infantry, not really needing the rest.
Well, it was just one battle, I'd expect a bit more in the campaign though.

The sea battle I lost the first time around, then won the second time, I'm sort of missing a follow feature that makes one ship follow the other in the same path, similar to the convoy they start out in.
That ships can almost turn on the spot is also quite weird, you cannot even plan a course around another ship or anything like that and the curved direction arrows are useless because the ships never follow the curve, they turn really tight and the curve becomes straight...
Doesn't mean it can't be fun, but it could be better, if ships actually followed those nice curves for example.

Oh and what I really like is the detail on the ships and how they sink, they seem to sink more realistic than they move.

Mine has those specs, so some hope for me.

[Polemists]

Those are my settings and I run it on medium sometimes and low other times.

I find that on low generally the animations seem to work better, and look more fluid. The downside of course it the zoomed in graphics look different. Still zooming out looks the same on medium and low so as campaign goes on i'll probably just stay on low.

It does work though, but like others have said, your better off with a 512 graphics card and a quad if you can afford it.

Laptops just arn't made for gaming.

[quadalpha]

Did anyone notice that the shortcut keys for wheel right and move forward overlap?