Quote Originally Posted by ColdKnight
I was growing tired of the small little 40 man units, but I thought my computer couldn't handel anything larger due to its only 64 mb Nvidia g-force4. I was promised spectacular battles that would make your eyes pop out, but instead I was playing normal less than better than MTW battles. Finally I got tired of it, and threw away the advice that my computer counldn't handle the huge settings and play a real battle. Going to the custom battle, I played as the Juli, with 100,000 money, selected all early leginary first chorts, and prayed as I started the battle my computer wouldn't blow up.

I started the game and to my surprise, it ran perfect, and WOW what a battle. 16 minutes later I barely beat a valored up Chartharage army of Iberian Infantry. Now this is why I bought the game!

My first question is why does the game tell me I can't handle a battle I can. Sure the unit detail was low, but I don't play TW for the graphics, I play it for the battles.

My second question, How in the world do u handle that large of a roman army?

But my piece of advice, If your thinking about going to a larger size, and afraid to do so because of the games warnings. Just give it a try, and I saw no downgraded performance at all, even with flaming arrows in later test.
There are tons of variables that affect graphics performance on PCs.

Memory speed, speed of AGP settings, level/manufacturer of BIOS, graphics processor and graphics board memory amount/speed, main board CPU speed, chipset used by motherboard.. all these contribute in one way or another to whether something looks good or looks like a slideshow on your computer.

The best way to find out what settings work for you is to start out with 'best' settings and back them off until things look good/perform well for what you want.

Normally the 'readme' files for most games will give you the settings that most affect performance in cases where you want to start off as 'best looking' and back off features that give you more performance. Normally shadows, blending and filtering options take the most away in terms of performance.. but I find that I start out with them all on and then experiment until I get the trade off I like for looks vs. performance.
Just some thoughts, and hope this helps.