The demo plays on my computer, but I have the settings at medium and the game isn't smooth. I can play smoothly, but on low. It's a sad day. I knew my 7800 card and 3.06 ghz processor wasn't going to cut it much, but it's almost worse being able to play but not in full glory. Is Empire the last hurrah for anyone else's computer?

(I built this machine around the time Medieval Total War 1 came out and have upgraded it a bunch since. MTW2 was the first time it started having hiccups, but I could play in High.)