CPU power more important than Video Card when running Total War Engine?

**Oaty** · 08-20-2006, 19:27

For the most part the CPU is most important. You did sya what you had or what you were looking at buying.

If your buying a new computer, dont even worry about what video card it has because typically they dont put a good video card in

**Matheis** · 08-21-2006, 03:51

Hmmm I got 2 gigs of ram the best graphics card geforce 7800 but I got a shit processor a 2400 AMD so I guess thats why my game still lags.

**CBR** · 08-21-2006, 12:43

Originally Posted by Matheis

Hmmm I got 2 gigs of ram the best graphics card geforce 7800 but I got a shit processor a 2400 AMD so I guess thats why my game still lags.

Yes your CPU is certainly a bottleneck in your system for a game like RTW. The game also likes fast ram. I think with lower end cpu's you start seeing low fps and lag at around 6k soldiers or so. High end CPU's is more like 14k+

CBR

**Mr Durian** · 08-21-2006, 14:08

I have the Intel® CoreTM Duo Processor T2400 (Processor speed 1.83GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB). How much units you can I play with this?

**CBR** · 08-22-2006, 00:34

Hm yes interesting question. It seems to be a very powerful cpu. If I was to do a pure guess I would say at least 16k or more. Im not sure how much fast ram plays a part in it though. But you should be able to play with huge unit setting and not worry about having 4-5 armies in one battle.

Edit: ah damn I didnt see it was older core duo. Well it should be I dont know...10-11K

CBR

**Quillan** · 08-22-2006, 04:20

Core Duo? Is that on a laptop, Durian? I don't know enough about those processors to compare them with others, and I haven't started up RTW since I dropped the monster X2 4800+ into my system a couple of weeks back, so I can't say how well it handles the game.

**grapedog** · 08-22-2006, 16:21

A core duo with that clock speed can only be a laptop, slowest core duo for desktops is 2.66, slowest core duo for laptops is 1.60.

Sadly, RTW is not optimized to take advantage of both cores from what I've seen, though I could be wrong. If you start up RTW and get into the game, then minimize it, hit Ctrl+Alt+del, go to your processes list I think you'll see a column called processor affinity, or maybe just affinity...that shows you what processor the game is currently using. I guess you could try setting both processors to checked...don't know what, if any, affect that would have. Guess I would check the tech support forum first...probably some information in there if you search for it.