Mass Battle in RTW?

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Quote: Lars 537
You have to under stand that professional devolopers computers are probably 3 times more powerful than ours. I've seen it allueded to in print that the video cards that someone who works for CA would have are twice as beefie as anything we could get our hands on.


Not quite. See Rome is not very graphics intensive, Rome mainly taxes the cpu and RAM, it does not use advanced lighting effects and such so even though your card is a part of it is not extremely important. Much more important is the processor and RAM. If you got a good Athlon 64 like a 3800 or FX-53 and some fast RAM, cas latency 2 or so and a competent video card you would be fine for the bigger battles, maybe not for 29k men but definately for 10k. On my relatively old machine with a 2.8HTIntel, a 9600 PRO, 1024 of Kingston DDR 3200 (400mhz) RAM cas latency 3 and a decent motherboard I can get tolerable frame rates with 6000 men in the field most of whom are being AI controlled. Once I upgrade to an FX-55 and 6800 GT with 1024 of cas latency 2 RAM I will be quite well off indeed!

[Uesugi Kenshin]

P.S. The game engine could theoretically support many more soldiers than the current limit however if the coding is not optimized for battles that large there could be stability issues, for example multiplayer on SNES emulators over the internet, they are not coded well even though a 56k modem can easily handle the iformation for more complex and demanding games, that are optimized for online play to some extent.

[RZST]

Quote: Lars 537
You have to under stand that professional devolopers computers are probably 3 times more powerful than ours. I've seen it allueded to in print that the video cards that someone who works for CA would have are twice as beefie as anything we could get our hands on.

sorry for offtopic but i just had to ask this. do pro devs take these uber video cards home for personal use? or are they just uhm, office use? very curious.

imagine the doom 3 (hell even half life 2) engine on this game. oh god, id have orgasms every time i play

[bmolsson]

What is the point with a huge amount of men in field ??

More important would be to have a feature so that you could watch a auto-resolved battle. You would of course be able to zoom your camera where ever you wanted... That would make me more inspired than the screen filled with ants......

[Oaty]

What is the point with a huge amount of men in field ??

More important would be to have a feature so that you could watch a auto-resolved battle. You would of course be able to zoom your camera where ever you wanted... That would make me more inspired than the screen filled with ants......

Because Napolean drooledover his big armies so why ca'nt we