Demo Performance

**Katana** · 08-26-2004, 04:04

(Note: I realize that this should be posted in the Colloseum, but due to circumstances beyond my control, I am once again a junior patron. After the forum switch, the site simply refused to give me my 'new' password, and I can't start a new account under the same email and blah blah blah... anyways, The Peach is gone and Katana has taken his place.)

Everyone else seems to be raving about how great the demo performs, but I have not had a similar experiance, sadly. After reading a couple forum posts, I was convinced that I was in for a graphical feast. I was sadly dissapointed. My specs:

AMD 2500+ Proc
512 MB DDR Ram
Radeon 9800 Pro (256)
Windows XP

I run the demo at 800x600 with medium-low settings and small unit size, and it still runs at like 10 fps during a major (i.e. around 500 fighter) infantry engament, plus it always chugs during cav and elephant charges. I have also experianced some strange, strange effects with fire arrows, where is someone dies from one parts of the entire screen take on the 'fire' look for a couple seconds.

Do you need a RadeonX to run this game well, or is my system just underperforming? Is there anyway to fix this fire bug?

Thanks,
Katana

**Balistica** · 08-26-2004, 04:18

I know that MTW would not run well unless you had the latest version of Direct X. Did you install it? The very latest version, not just a very recent one.

**Katana** · 08-26-2004, 04:19

I have DirectX 9.0c I believe, though I will re-install just in case. Is that still the latest version?

**Tamur** · 08-26-2004, 06:55

Originally Posted by Katana

Do you need a RadeonX to run this game well, or is my system just underperforming?

Your system is definitely underperforming, assuming things like you've got a motherboard appropriate to your CPU/AGP-8x/etc. I'm running on an Athlon XP 2200, 9700 Pro, and am running 60 FPS at 1280x1024, 2x Antialiasing.

I'd get the latest Catalyst drivers, and DX 9.0c, and give it another go.

The weird red triangles on arrows (doesn't need to be fire arrows, regular arrows hitting a target do the same thing) is still an unsolved issue, though some have gotten it to go away by raising or lowering their quality (pixel dimensions).

**exarchi** · 08-26-2004, 10:56

Before putting down the game (any game), realize that the problem most likely is between the screen and the chair. Get the newest drivers for your vcard, motherboard and other apparatuses (:P), newest Direct X, clear your spy/adware and check for viruses. If this doesn't do it, start tweaking the game settings. If you don't know how, now is a good time to learn; you'll have to do this sometime in the future either way. Open preferences.txt after you've tried all the afromentioned fixes. Only then ask other people for help; better yet, try searching if the forum has this feature enabled.

**Sardukar** · 08-26-2004, 11:49

ive got everything on medium settings at 800x600

my pc is

AMD2600+
512ram
nForce2 MOBO
Geforce4 MX440 128mb

I've got xp home, with dx9.c and sometimes the game runs well, other times it doesn't. I'm pretty learned when it comes to system performance so my pc is running optimal. My card is fairly crap, but still should run well judging from what other people have been saying (gforce2 runs it so well!)

Maybe its a directX problem, or just the demo is running some weirdo video rendering etc etc.

Hopefully it's the demo...