RTW running in low spec machine

[Imperial Buffoon]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out whether to buy RTW. I'm a big fan so I will if I can run it, but I can't afford a new machine now and upgrading is OFOQ since it's a laptop. So, I thought it could help if we try to find the *real* min config.

So if you have a crappy machine like me (especially the 32MB integreated graphics) or anything worse than min specs and can play (not only run, it has to actually be decently playable) RTW, post here!



the B

[The Shadow One]

Maybe you'll have better luck that I did (especially with your 32 mg grapics card) but my experience is no way.

I downloaded the demo and it didn't run well. My machine is: Pentium III 1.7, 640 RAM, 16 MG grapics card (Raedon 7500), Direct X 9.03. The tutorial was kinda okay, but the game itself ran poorly.

Then, like an idiot, I actually bought the game yesterday. I suppose I was hoping the game would run better than the tutoria. Fat chance. That's right, spent the 50 bucks and tried to run it. No way. Ghosting is terrible -- horrible, in fact -- and when you move the camera, line run across the screen (See my other note).

Like you, I have an integrated video card on laptop. So I'll just have to wait until I can afford a new machine . . .

Good luck but be careful!

The Shadow One

[maestro]

Dude - the ghosting is entirely the result of your screen, not your machine spec..

[Medieval Assassin]

Game runs, OKAY on my 500mhz 290mb 64mb machine, with 60 man units.
Well, its better for nothing, And I will be getting a new system in two months.

[Despayre]

Well that gives me hope for my poor P3/733 256Ram TI4200/128Ram system

I havent picked it up yet, and havent tried the demo, but judging by other posts I've seen, the demo isnt a great indicator of game speed.

Oh well, at least i can live vicariously through reading other people post about their campaigns. I wish people would post more AAR's for this game like people used to do with Dominions 2. Those were a lot of fun to read and really helped increase the community knowledge about the game.

[Marko Kloos]

RTW is running decently on my machine, an Inspiron 8100 PIII 1.0GHz with 512MB RAM and a GeForce2 Go with a paltry 16MB VRAM.

My battle screen runs fluidly at 1024x768, although I did turn down the unit/terrain/building details down to medium or low.

[Morindin]

Just tried it on a laptop 32MB onboard radeon 7500, 1.8ghz p4, and 256mb of ram.

Ran reasonably well in 1024x768 campaign / 800x600 battle medium settings.

Didnt look very pretty though :)

[Morindin]

Oh btw I have a GeForce 4 Ti4200 128mb in my PC and a GeForce 4 5800 Ultra FX 256mb sitting in it's case, because my GeForce4 Ti42000 has not had any problems with any game so far, INCLUDING Doom3.

RTW runs fine on it everything ultra high 1280x986x32(or whatever), the main thing which gave me a performance hit was Desyncronised movement, which I guess is a CPU bottleneck (P4 2.8GHZ)

[Inuyasha12]

My specs are

2.80 Ghz intel celeron processor
80gb hard drive
512 mb ram

And my real worrie is my graphics card
Intel extreme graphics 3d,. everyone says it sucks!
Anyone has it? And has played rome on it? How does it run?

Either way im going to buy it though, nothing wil stop me!!

[pdoan8]

I have an AMD 950, 768 Mb RAM, 64 Mb GF4 Ti. Rome run fine with some of the details turn down to low and others set at medium.

[HicRic]

I'd also like to know if anyone's played RTW with an integrated graphics system.

If it can run decently on low detail settings on a 64mb integrated graphics system I'm going ot buy it.

[JR-]

i'll be able to tell you next week:

Acer Aspire 1360-
# Mobile AMD Sempron® 2800+ (1.6GHz) (K8 core)
# 15.4" WXGA TFT display (1200x800)
# 512MB DDR (2 x 256)
# 40GB HDD
# CD-RW & DVD Combo
# 64MB Shared Graphics (UnichromeII chipset)
# Via K8N800 chipset

On-board graphics
Integrated UniChrome™ Pro IGP
- Dual pixel pipelines
- 128-bit 2D/3D engine
- 200MHz engine clock speed
- 16-64MB shared memory
Optional external AGP 8X/4X port
MPEG-2 hardware acceleration

[pdoan8]

HP notebook: P4 2.3, 512 Mb RAM, Radeon 7200 IGP with 64 Mb share memory. Rome runs OK at 1024x768x16 with details set to low and medium. The intro movie didn't run well at all. So, I would expect some problem in larger battles.

[theadept]

celeron 485
intergrated graphics intel 810
the demo played OK but slow cutscenes

[JR-]

i'll be able to tell you next week:

Acer Aspire 1360-
# Mobile AMD Sempron® 2800+ (1.6GHz) (K8 core)
# 15.4" WXGA TFT display (1200x800)
# 512MB DDR (2 x 256)
# 40GB HDD
# CD-RW & DVD Combo
# 64MB Shared Graphics (UnichromeII chipset)
# Via K8N800 chipset

On-board graphics
Integrated UniChrome™ Pro IGP
- Dual pixel pipelines
- 128-bit 2D/3D engine
- 200MHz engine clock speed
- 16-64MB shared memory
Optional external AGP 8X/4X port
MPEG-2 hardware acceleration

it has enough power to run the game fine, yes, even the graphics, but the fact that it is a Via graphics chip seems to be a killer as the textures are all ripped and hacked up making the game look awful.

either:
1) Via vga drivers are pants
2) CA weren't kidding when they said they only supported ATI and nVidia
3) both of the above

fortunately it runs great on my desktop.