What Specification are peoples PCs?

[Spartakus]

Lotsa fine machinery here, hehe.

I have a 2,2 GHZ P4, with 512 MB RAM, 64 MB Geforce 4 MX 440 display card, and SB Live! Wave Device for sound. Package delivered by Hewlett Packard.

I'm able to run both MTW and RTW just fine, though I can't use any settings above medium when playing RTW. Lag can also occur during the huge showdowns, but this happens to just about everyone from what I've learned.

[mcveigh]

Got an Dell inspiron laptop.
2 Ghz
512 Mb
64 Mb Radeon mobility 9000.
It runs fine except for the flaming arrows and i cant watch the intro.

[hellenes]

2.8 Ghz Intel P4
512 DDR RAM
ATI 9200 128 mb

Have tried 6 armies of 4800 men~30000 on everything on low still some irkiness but playable...
For the people with big rigs try this:

Mod the archers to 60 men base x4=240 make 3v3 custom battle with all settings maxed now when the 30000 archers start shooting flaming arrows the pwoer of you pc will be tested...

ROME TOTAL WAR TOP SPECS ARE HIGHER THAN DOOM3 TOP SPECS!!!

Hellenes

[HopAlongBunny]

3.0 Ghz P4
Audigy 2
2x512 DDR RAM (Corsair matched pair)
128 Mb Ti-44000
Win XP Pro

I have been promising myself to replace the vid card for 4 yrs but it still works with everything I do

[Grumfoss]

Wow my little Athlon 700 seems to be the lowest spec. here!
I see that on some for the higher end machines people are still getting the slowdown of the cursor on the strategy map, I wonder why?

Happy gaming

[LestaT]

P4 1.7
64 MB GeForce 2
256 MB SDRam (just bought a stick of 512 MB but haven't been able to install yet)
Soundblaster Live

Games runs just fine on medium setting. Units on medium(?-80 for Hastati)

The only thing that *&*^ is the long loading time. Going to upgrade to 256MB display card this coming christmas/new year sale...

[Daveybaby]

@ Grumfoss:
That 700MHz CPU looks like a bottleneck in your system to me. If your motherboard is compatible you could probably upgrade that to something 3 times as fast for VERY little money, which would give a pretty big performance boost to your whole system.

I just built a new system last month for RTW and HL2.
AthlonXP 3000+
1 Gig 400MHz memory (in dual channel mode)
200 Gig HDD
ATI X800 Pro
Its my baby and i love it.

[The Tuffen]

I just built a new system last month for RTW and HL2.
AthlonXP 3000+
1 Gig 400MHz memory (in dual channel mode)
200 Gig HDD
ATI X800 Pro
Its my baby and i love it.

Wish i had a x800 graphics card..

Mine is:
Athlon 1,900 xp
512 DDR RAM
Sapphire Radeon 9550 256mb
40gb Hard drive
Win XP (was forced into upgrading to XP which i was not happy with)

Runs R:TW quite well, has a bit of slowdown when there is a lot of units on screen and i zoom out.

[Grumfoss]

@ Grumfoss:
That 700MHz CPU looks like a bottleneck in your system to me. If your motherboard is compatible you could probably upgrade that to something 3 times as fast for VERY little money, which would give a pretty big performance boost to your whole system.

I have just upgraded my Athlon 700 to an Athlon 2400 XP with 512 DDR ram and a a GF Ti 4200 x8 128MB graphics. That has really speeded up the game. I can now have all the graphic settings cranked up and it looks very nice
And the cursor speed on the strategy map has increased which inproves gameplay no end. (It used to be a nightmare trying to get the cursor over a city or army.)

[ToranagaSama]

Wow my little Athlon 700 seems to be the lowest spec. here!
I see that on some for the higher end machines people are still getting the slowdown of the cursor on the strategy map, I wonder why?

Because they only look "higher end" compared to yours. Most of the people posting have low- to mid-level CPU power coupled with even lower level graphics cards, and their systems appear to be untweaked.

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Abit IC7-G
Pentium 2.4c (12x250 1:1)
Thermalright XP-94 (Vantec Tornardo 92mm ~3000rpm)
ATI Radeon 9700 pro (357/343.5)
2x512 MB Corsair XMS 3200XL (2.5-3-3-5)
Addtronics 7890A (modified by www.coolcases.com)
Cornerstone p1700 (21")
Win2000pro SP4

I play at 1600x1200x32 with all graphic settings maxed no issues whatsover, save during experimentation, I noticed very slight slowing with an insane number of units. I plan on upgrading the GPU (depending on how HL2 plays) and changing over to water-cooling at some point (hoping to push the 2.4c up to 3.4 or better).

BTW, how much $US did you pay for that GF Ti 4200???

[Grumfoss]

BTW, how much $US did you pay for that GF Ti 4200???

I bought the motherboard, processor 2400xp, 512 DDR ram and GF Ti 4200 for £150 ( about $290 ). All were second hand, but they all work fine.