Performance of the new RTW engine is Awesome!

[maestro]

Wow.

I know I'm a bit late on this one, but I've been in the middle of a campaign on MTW and didnt want to ruin it by playing RTW

I've just played the demo and WOW! I thought, just for a laugh, I'd see what setting it will run at and it runs sweeeeeet at 2048x1538x32 !!!!! I don't need FSAA at that resolution and just max every detail possible. Man, it looks good! MTW chugs like a chugging chugger at that res, how the hell did they make this one soooo much nicer and yet faster than the last one? Top marks to the developers!

Needless to say, I've just pre-ordered it from play.com - looking forward to receiving it on the 1st October

[kchickenlord]

The boys at the local dixons were playing the demo on a projection screen (HUGE screen, kicks the @ss out of a plasma any day, and for a fraction of the cost)

[Ldvs]

Needless to say, I've just pre-ordered it from play.com - looking forward to receiving it on the 1st October

I bet it'll be postponed again, they formerly predicted its release on Sept 24. They don't have a clue when it's out.

[Feanor]

I bet it'll be postponed again, they formerly predicted its release on Sept 24. They don't have a clue when it's out.

I've got it pre-ordered on Play which originally quoted release as 10th Spetember.

I'm impressed with the speed too. I couldn't detect slow down with max detail on 1600*1200 and my machine's quite average. I've seen it on a decent laptop though, higher specs than my pc, and it was a bit jerky, is this something to do with laptop graphics cards?

[Ldvs]

No idea but even though I have high specs (amd 2500+, ati radeon 9800 pro, 1MB ram) my game isn't really what we call smooth, the same happen to me in MTW. Not really low fps, but definitely not smooth...

[maestro]

No idea but even though I have high specs (amd 2500+, ati radeon 9800 pro, 1MB ram) my game isn't really what we call smooth, the same happen to me in MTW. Not really low fps, but definitely not smooth...

I hope you mean 1Gb of RAM

You've got the same specs as me and it runs well smooth at max settings. Mebbe you got "issues"

2048x1538x32, no AA, everything else on max. It runs lovely. Of course, you need a good monitor to display those kind of resolutions at a good refresh rate. I'm fortunate enough to have an Iiyama 454 Pro which does 2048x1538 @85Hz

[MonkeyMan]

I'm fortunate enough to have an Iiyama 454 Pro which does 2048x1538 @85Hz

:) same here, unfortunatly i've had 2 go bang (and i mean bang) on me in less than 2 years, giving their warranty department a call early next week. Lovely monitor when it works.

Unfortunatly its put my home pc out of action until Iiyama cough up a new one so no RTW demo for me

[Ldvs]

I hope you mean 1Gb of RAM

Of course, but you understood me anyway
In fact I have very good fps, but it's when I move the camera (either just rotate or move forward) it becomes jerky, otherwise I can set to high everything and my fps won't collapse.

[maestro]

I think that's just the nature of a huge scene rendered in frames. There's no motion blurring so your eye can detect anything below 50 fps and will register it as a flicker. In order to get a proper, smooth appearance when scrolling across the map you'd have to have V-Sync on and be running at over 100fps/100Hz.

[Ldvs]

I'll try it, thanks for your help maestro, even though it wouldn't work.