Yeah, I am going to wait for a (dont laugh) 512 MB video card.

I grossly underestimated the full demand of Rome: Total War: Graphically you could say Rome asks more than Far Cry or Doom 3 does, if you set all the settings on Highest. On lowest or medium settings i still maintain Rome:TW is CPU intensive, not graphics intensive. At high detail, those texture memory accesses are a plenty on huge...

But by then its dual core upgrade time anyway, some new 2-2-2-5 DDR2 system memory, yummie... :) then Rome should be brought to her knees once more...