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    Default Cool tips to make your PC run faster

    I just recently stumbled upon this thread in the RTR forums. I gave it a try and it does improve your game!


    By Spurius
    Link to former topic

    Just found out that you can GREATLY improve RTW/RTR/BI gameplay, allowing you to up your settings by at LEAST one notch, all for free, and without any risk, by doing the following.

    Start RTW

    Alt-Tab to Windows

    Press Ctrl-Alt-Del for the Windows Task Manager

    go to the Processes tab

    Select Rome-TW.exe or Rome-TW-BI.exe (so the gray bar moves to it)

    Rightclick your mouse to get the options and choose Set Priority

    Set Priority to High

    [EXPLICITLY NOT to Realtime, that's NOT what you want, it will cause trouble]

    That's it.

    Expect to be amazed on some setups, pleased on just about all.

    You have to set this one manually every time, only drawback, but I'll see what it does in the registry and make a permanent fix for this.

    Later.
    The rest of the tips are at this link ----------> http://forums.rometotalrealism.org//...howtopic=12828

    I've been watching RTW forums for some time now, and just found this one! So if this is news to you, give it a try!

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    Default Re: Cool tips to make your PC run faster

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



    HOLY SMOKES!!!




    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    It's like I have a new computer!!!!!!
    Last edited by Divinus Arma; 01-02-2006 at 09:40.
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    Default Re: Cool tips to make your PC run faster

    LOL, are you being sarcastic?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chester
    LOL, are you being sarcastic?
    Not at all!!!


    This is GREAT!

    (But it WOULD be funny if I were being sarcastic.)
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    VOXIFEX MAXIMVS Member Shigawire's Avatar
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    Default Re: Cool tips to make your PC run faster

    you don't have to set this manually each time, you can in fact set it up in the shortcut that starts rtw..


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    Default Re: Cool tips to make your PC run faster

    Quote Originally Posted by Shigawire
    you don't have to set this manually each time, you can in fact set it up in the shortcut that starts rtw..
    Really?

    How? Where? I honestly can't find that
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    Can't wait to try this....
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    Default Re: Cool tips to make your PC run faster

    I think it's something like "start /<priority> <application>" e.g. start /high rometw.exe

    Don't remember exactly, but that's what I had set up in my RTW on my last computer. Haven't had RTW installed in quite a while now.
    Last edited by Shigawire; 01-02-2006 at 14:56.


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    Default Re: Cool tips to make your PC run faster

    In Chesters' 1st post there is a link to the RomeTotalRealism.org post where he obtained his information. If you go there you will see that Spurius who wrote it also has a link to a former topic. If you go to that link, you will find a post at the very end which explains the easiest way to enable this in your icon target line. Basically, you can change it to the following for just playing the game(you can skip the "-enable_editor" part). Make sure that you have the game directly in the Activision folder and not some other one you have created.
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "start /HIGH RomeTW.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9"

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    Default Re: Cool tips to make your PC run faster

    It works REALLY well..I cut my waiting time between turns to half

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    Very nice tip...

    Thanks a bunch .

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