Rome 2 Patches, Hotfixes, Betas and Such (patch 17 live!)

**Myth** · 09-23-2013, 21:23

Originally Posted by komnenos

I'm going to buy a laptop (with Ram: 8GB and Graphic: 2GB), so by these patches can I play the game in high quality without any problems or bugs?

Laptops will always perform more poorly than desktop PCs.

For a 2 GB graphics card and a good processor you need a 1 KW power inlet, which you probably will not have. If you do, then you will have heat issues. Especially running graphics intensive games.

Also laptop processors are always weaker than PC processors, for heating and power consumption issues. Even if it says dual quad core, it will be worse than a PC counterpart performance wise. Laptops also have slower HDD RPM speeds due to the noise a 7200 or 10000 SATA drive makes.

My advice is to spend the budget you have on the best PC you can assemble, unless you plan on using that laptop as an actual laptop, as in move around constantly. If you are going to need it outside your room just once per month, just stick with a PC instead.

**Bramborough** · 09-24-2013, 07:17

Here's an observation which may (or may not) be useful to those of you who've mentioned Patch3beta performance issues (as I did).

I completed first campaign earlier today, soon after loading the patch (3rd try). Interestingly, as soon as I started a new campaign, game ran smooth as silk on campaign map. I wonder if something in the earlier save files was somehow conflicting with the patch, whereas a campaign started running Patch3beta doesn't have the same issues.

I suppose it could be simply because there's far fewer units and other complexities in a new game...which might help explain why some of us were having problems with Patch3beta while others were not.

**Myth** · 09-24-2013, 08:21

I started a new campaign as i got Patch 3. 120 turns in i have zero issues. I only had two CTDs which were easily fixed with just resuming my campaign as Legendary does its own saving.