performance question

[charlieh]

hello there, i was just wondering how demanding this mod will be when compared to that of, say, stainless steel?

on a more personal note, how would the game likely to play on these specs: i7 4770, 8gb, NVidia gtx 770 (4gb). i ask only as i have had problems in the past with performance when playing old total war games. i could never work out why these specs could never handle rome 1, but were fine with rome 2.

thank you very much, would love one day to get involved with the mod, am an avid reader of history, could focus on a specific area if you guys need any assistance.

[Tux]

Hi,

Welcome to the forums!

It'll be quite demanding since for units we won't have any LODs like many mods out there. We also use higher resolution textures in many areas.
However seeing your specs it should be fine, but check the vanilla game and see that it runs fine to see if your drivers are ok.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Isn't it the case that for the MTW2 engine, single-core performance is more important than multi-core performance?

So an i3 with dual 3.60 Ghz cores will run MTW2 faster than an i7 with quad 3.0 Ghz cores?

A NVidia gtx 770 graphics card should be far more than MTW2 needs graphically.

[Tux]

Isn't it the case that for the MTW2 engine, single-core performance is more important than multi-core performance?

So an i3 with dual 3.60 Ghz cores will run MTW2 faster than an i7 with quad 3.0 Ghz cores?

Yes, but the graphics overhead can also be quite important too.
I don't think so, core i7 cores are also powerful(larger caches) so the performance should be similar.

A NVidia gtx 770 graphics card should be far more than MTW2 needs graphically.

That would be true for MTW2 but not a mod for it, it's good enough though.

[clone]

what about a 9400 gt nvidia card.( i can play all mods on max settings)

[I_damian]

Yes, but the graphics overhead can also be quite important too.
I don't think so, core i7 cores are also powerful(larger caches) so the performance should be similar.

That would be true for MTW2 but not a mod for it, it's good enough though.

What do you mean "good enough"? My specs are almost the same as his - GTX 770 (4GB), i5-4760 quad core @ 3.4 GHz, 8 GB RAM and there's not a single game on the market that I can't play with every single graphics setting maxed out at between 40-60 FPS. It handles Rome 2 with max settings and max unit sizes like a dream.

[Tux]

As in you won't get 40-60fps most of the time and it can be a bit laggy sometimes, that on max settings of course.