Quote Originally Posted by econ21
There's a nice online site that will tell you how well your computer will run Total war:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com

There are two difficulty settings: one for the campaign and one for the battle.

The battle difficulty basically alters the AIs stats - I like medium, as then the match ups are historic. Others prefer hard or very hard for tougher battles.

The campaign difficulty basically alters the AIs resources - on very hard, they get big lump sums that allow them to keep fielding large armies. I like that setting, but others find it tedious.

Make sure you patch the game and it is probably worthwhile reducing the bandit spawn rate - I find it very tiresome to keep fighting tiny stacks. (Edit a text file descr_strat.txt and change the bandit_spawn parameter to 100 or so).

Thanks for the advice. I'm not clear on how the system requirements lab work. Do I run it while playing R:TW?