To add to Barocca's quotes...

This is from Dutch, one of the developers, over at the official forum...

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Quote[/b] ]Dutch
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(1/17/03 4:39:29 am)
Reply Re: What video card
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Currently it runs on just about anything; we've have had it running on 4mb Voodoo1 cards. The look starts to degrade with less than 16 mb of texture memory though, so a TNT2-type card with at least that will probably end up being the listed minimum.

This is still early days, so keep in mind that it could all still change without warning. Forward looking statements and all that...

dutch ~ CA
Taken from this thread...

http://pub24.ezboard.com/fshoguntotalwar...

It looks like CA put together an exceptionally capable 3D engine for future iterations of the Total War series. I'll still feel better about things when I upgrade to a Radeon 9700 this Spring...