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

[CBR]

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


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[Quillan]

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]

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.

[CBR]

On my dualcore Opteron I have not noticed any difference using either one or two cores.


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