Unit size

**xemitg** · 07-27-2005, 03:54

I use Huge units but scale back the graphics to make everything run smoothly. I have a 128MB ATI video card

**AntiochusIII** · 07-27-2005, 05:26

Huge

Reason: Grandeur effects of the battles, depleting population challenges, slowed growth rate, etc.

Graphic card: Geforce FX 5200, though weirdly unstable. Rome:TW is the only game so far that has no problem at all with the card, for me.

**LestaT** · 07-27-2005, 09:06

Huge with unit detail fullest.

Others tune down to minimal.

RAM 512 , FX 5200

**Coldfish** · 07-27-2005, 09:15

Large Unit - most realistic...with all details Highest except grass, wich is low or none...i hate grass looking

ATi RADEON 9600

**Cheater** · 07-27-2005, 09:28

I perfer large unit sizes, but occasionally have huge when I want to make free-for-all custom battles. More fun that way.

As for my video card... well, surprisinly, I forgot!

But all I know is, it kicks ass. My brother said so because he was the one who gave it to me!

**Taurus** · 07-27-2005, 09:47

I use Huge units in my campaigns and custom battles, and I use Large and Normal unit sizes in mp.

**KSEG** · 07-27-2005, 10:36

Huge.
Also changed Roman infantry unit size to 60 from 40.
This way 1 full stack army will have about 4000 men, which is close the the historical number of 1 legion.

**Volstag** · 07-27-2005, 20:24

GeForce 6800GT, all graphical settings cranked to max, resolution set to 1024x768 (I think). Been playing w/ large unit sizes, but very tempted to step up to huge. I notice the occassional slowdown in engagements featuring large armies next to large cities.

**Siris** · 07-28-2005, 05:13

I use Huge units with maximum settings on my good PC, it has 1GB of RAM, & an ATI Radeon X700 Pro 256MB PCI Express video card.

On the slower PC, I use large units with every detail set to minimal & I still get bad frame rates no matter what, it has 512MB of RAM & a 64MB Intel Integrated video card.

If you have an AGP or PCI Express motherboard, the 6800 or the 7800 GTX video cards are you best bet; particularly the 7800.

**Ciaran** · 07-28-2005, 09:23

The one where I get 80 soldiers per unit, I don´t know what´s it called right now. That works all right for about 90% of the battles, the only time I had performance problems was when three complete Bruti armies attacked one of mine and they all marched onto the battlefield.

But wasn´t the Roman cohort about 600 men strong, divided into 100-man centuries (that´s where the word century comes from, after all, the number one hundred)?

**[DnC]** · 07-28-2005, 09:42

Large sizes. Huge sizes tend to slow my computer down more then I'd like with the big battles and cranking my mediocre options even more down is not what I want. So I just keep playing on large unit sizes until I get a new PC.

I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB.

**Zatoichi** · 07-28-2005, 09:51

I edited the preferences.txt and changed the unit size to 100 (so larger than large but less huge than huge). This gives a good balance in my opinion. Oh, I have a Radeon 9800 Pro which does OK up to about 5000 troops. On a slight tangent, I believe the amount RAM your PC has is actually more of a contribution to the speed of this game than just the graphics card. When I went from 512 to 1024mb RAM, it certainly improved my frame rate.