Anyone with poor specs tried the demo?

[KukriKhan]

Some 'how to' info on AGP aperture settings:

http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/aperture-size/

[Medieval Assassin]

Reading into it now, thanks for link...


Its telling me to fiddle faddle with my mother board, and that it could own my computer...

[USMCNJ]

is there anyway to change the AGP apeerture other then using bios?
(dell doesn't have that option in it;s bios)

[Marshal Murat]

I got everything except a advised 3-D Card, so I can't see the menu, mouse etc.

[Stuie]

is there anyway to change the AGP apeerture other then using bios?
(dell doesn't have that option in it;s bios)

Not that I'm aware of. Depending on the motherboard in your laptop, it may have a default AGP setting that cannot be changed.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Will this pc run RTW? I'm a little worried about it's capabilities.

[Doug-Thompson]

LOL, Sasaki Kojiro.

The demo runs fine on mine, but I checked into a upgrade anyway because I want to get "Pacific Fighters" when it comes out. I was pretty shocked to learn that I could upgrade from a 1.3 Mhz processer to a 2+ Mhz for about $100, plus labor. Adding 512 Kb of decent memory would be more expensive.

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

Specs:

Celeron 466
512MB RAM
GeForce 4 MX440 64MB

Low enough?

Trebia battle unmoded:

Initial results (minimum settings): Average 3-5fps - Highest 9fps
Final results (after tweaking): Average 7-8fps - Highest 14fps

Not really playable with anything above 4 units in the field.

Does that answer your question?

[Red Harvest]

we have the same notebook. i have the same problem, where did you get your driver? ati site doesn't have it

I believe he used the Omega drivers. ATi isn't responsible for the laptop drivers, manufacturer of the laptop is, unfortunately, and they probably won't have any updates after they sell it. You could probably still get the ATi drivers to work, as long as the driver detects what family the card is in. (The driver inf files have definitions for the mobile chipsets built in.)

[USMCNJ]

thanks Red Harvest
for those who might need the info you can get these drivers at
http://www.omegadrivers.net/

now my sad, sad story.
After the demo came out i tried everything, to make it run normal. However it simply would not, the picture looked like some thing you see after doing too much acid.
so i went out and spend $1100 on a pc (parts build my self). $300 back in rebates but i have to wait 6-8 weeks to get them.
The game runs jaw droppingly good on the new pc, but i'm $1100 in the whole. I was so happy with my pc i showed my girlfriend how nicely the demo played. She was like "did you build this pc just for the game?" She's been mad ever since. (her birthday is coming up in a few months)
And now i see this post from Red Harvest, so i download the driver.
What happens? everything works great on my old labtop.
so i'm happy that i can play RTW on the old labtop, but i do miss my $1100 and other things (girlfriend has been mad for a week, so you know what i mean). What a sad and happy day.

[Stuie]

I was so happy with my pc i showed my girlfriend how nicely the demo played. She was like "did you build this pc just for the game?" She's been mad ever since. (her birthday is coming up in a few months)

Tell her you've got priorities and she should get used to it. My wife's birthday is October 18. All I talk about is RTW, and she keeps asking if I'm remembering that someone has a birthday coming up and maybe I should start thinking about what to get her. Uh, yeah. Sure...

[SwordsMaster]

My computer specs:

-P3 750Mhz
-Geforce 2, 32 Mb
-SoundBlaster Live Value
-512 Mb Ram

I turned down all video settings to low, or the lowest; anti-aliasing off.

All things considered, it wasn't too bad at all.
I've only played the first part of the Tutorial so far.
Sure, the graphics weren't as crisp as they could be, but the "choppiness" wasn't as bad as I expected.
Things seemed to move along pretty smoothly; sound was good too.
The loading time was abit long, but not a "game-breaker".

Thats just great, it should work for me as well then.

PIII 866
GeForce 2 MX (32 mb)
SB live 2.1
512 mb RAM

[Kraxis]

I think I have the lowest end computer in general...

1.2 GHz
128MB SDRAM (with XP in the background this is very much too little)
64MB Graphics card

When I tried out with the lowest settings it ran like hell... It was choppy to the extreme, no fun.
Then I cranked up the graphics to a normal low spec (1024*768 up from 800*600 and shadows and quite detailed troops). Now the game ran almost perfectly... If I kept away from closeups that is. Spears vanished as soon as I neared the fight and it looked a little bland, but other than that it was good. I was impressed, but at te same time I cincerely want to get a new computer.

[Doug-Thompson]

I was so happy with my pc i showed my girlfriend how nicely the demo played. She was like "did you build this pc just for the game?" She's been mad ever since. (her birthday is coming up in a few months)

A few months?!

She must be expecting quite a gift.

[USMCNJ]

A few months?!

She must be expecting quite a gift.

she bought me a LCD TV last year as a Xmas + Bday gift. Plus i've got plans to spend a year planning in a sand (you can guess by my username what i mean). So she's kind of expecting a ring.

[jas]

Anyone with specs under minimum played the demo yet? how did it turn out?

I'll share my experience as well: I have a Pentium 733 MHz with 256MB RAM. The demo would start, but not run a battlefield scene at all. After some investigation I realized that although I had installed the latest DirectX, my graphics card did not support it. I went a bit overboard buying a new graphics card (GeForce 5200 256MB) and it now runs fine. If anything, its smoother than M:TW was on the old graphics card. I'm very happy that I've managed to probably get another couple of years grace before upgrading, especially since I'm starting to only really use my Windows machine for games, and R:TW is the only graphics-heavy game I've been interested in lately. I'm also amused by the fact that the graphics card is almost as smart as the CPU, so my PC is like a brontosaurus with a second brain in its backside.

I got the demo on the front of PC Gamer here in the UK. I did start downloading it on my 512K modem, but the download time would have been about 7-8 hours.

- jas.

[zayanm]

2.60 Ghz CPU
256 MB RAM
Intel Intergrated Video

Demo runs well, not at highest but runs well.

[theadept]

i have an 500 processor with old Intergrated graphics
i could just about get mtw to work and would try the demo but i also have a 56k modem
i hope to get it upgraded soon

[Jihad2Death]

I hava an emachine, 2.50 GHz,60GB hard drive, 256MB ram, 3D Intel Extreme graphics APG. I should be OK right? I don`t want to download the demo and have it not work.

[Teutonic Knight]

I tried it on my 730mhz HP AMD Athlon and I had to turn everything down pretty low to get it to run just smooth enough to command the troops...

[Imperial Buffoon]

My laptop:
1,3GHz Athlon
512MB RAM
Integrated video card (Twister-K) with 32Mb allocated

Believe me, this IS low enough...With minimum settings the framerate would allow me to play the demo if I could actually see the units. Tried changing drivers and stuff but there's very little choice of drivers that will support even part of DirectX 9 for this card...Not surprising after Activision told me it wouldn't run MTW (yes, that's M) 'cause it "lacks functionality". The last VI patch made it work. Can I hope CA will make RTW work :-)))))) (please???)


IB

[theadept]

i managed to run the demo on celeron 485 wit intel intergrated graphics 810
it ran wit settings right down but slowly and the cutscenes very slowly
still managed to score a brilliant victory at battle of trebia

[Medieval Assassin]

Well, Rome has got better since the demo, my computer runs it alot smoother. I can now have no pegg-legged units, at 60 a piece... Not bad.

192RAM
64 RADEON 9000
P3 500mhz

[Littlemanx23]

I was wondering if these system requirements were good enough:

27.2 gigs of free hard drive space
DirectX 9.0
Intel(R)82845G graphics chipset (64MB shared)
512MB of RAM
2.4GHz of processer speed
XP home
dial-up connection (I h8 it too)

If they are email me at littlemanx23@yahoo.com

[Nelson]

Nice dredge job, Littleman! You could have blown in here and started a new thread but no sir you found an oldie but goody and put it there.

Very commendable. Welcome to the Org.

Your rig sounds OK except for the graphics chipset. Rome really prefers a powerful video card and your Intel would struggle mightily. Might work on the lowest settings with small units. Video is definitely your bottleneck.

Try the demo and see how it looks.