What are the system requirements for M2TW?

[fallen851]

I have a laptop with a 2.4ghz pentium 4, 1024megs of ram and a ATI Radeon 7500 64meg card.

I don't plan on buying M2TW because of the requirements. I think my system is ok, but my video card blows chunks.

[MSB]

Hmm. Double your RAM at the least. Triple or quadruple would be better. And get rid of that card. It's actually a Geforce 2 over-clocked and given more modern VRAM.

Oh so thats why when I got my computer upgraded (128MB RAM to 256 and 32MB intigrated graphics to 128MB) the graphics card was so cheap (£12)!

[Stig]

I have a laptop with a 2.4ghz pentium 4, 1024megs of ram and a ATI Radeon 7500 64meg card.

I don't plan on buying M2TW because of the requirements. I think my system is ok, but my video card blows chunks.

Yeah but then you also have a laptop, which can be pretty irritating while gaming, atleast in my experience.

[King Ragnar]

lol my rig:
1Gb Ram
AMD Athlon 2700+ 2.17 GHz
ATI radeon 9200SE

Me doubts ill be able to run

[King Noob the Stupid]

Well I think you're right unless you change your graphics card.

[Stig]

lol my rig:
1Gb Ram
AMD Athlon 2700+ 2.17 GHz
ATI radeon 9200SE

Me doubts ill be able to run

Nah what I know of it you're safe, unless you want big graphics

[King Ragnar]

Well it my graphics card that always lets me down, but hopefully will have a new one by release...

[Stig]

Yeah I don't know lots about graphic cards, apart from the fact that everyone who wants one should buy the 7600GT, as I have it and it's both damned good and cheap

[SpencerH]

Wasnt there a big problem with certain graphics cards and RTW (ie didnt work at all)? I took a quick look but couldnt find the info.

[Dracula(Romanian Vlad Tepes)]

I have a AMD sempron 2800+ 2 GHz 256 mb ram G-Force fx 5200 .I don't think that i will be able to play m2tw at all.What do you think?

[JR-]

i would advise a 512MB stick of memory and a Geforce 7600GS as a minimum upgrade.

[Stig]

Wasnt there a big problem with certain graphics cards and RTW (ie didnt work at all)? I took a quick look but couldnt find the info.

No it has problem with the new 9 nVidea drivers

I have a AMD sempron 2800+ 2 GHz 256 mb ram G-Force fx 5200 .I don't think that i will be able to play m2tw at all.What do you think?

I would get 512 or 1028 ram (since your processor isn't that great 512 might even be better)
And the 7600GT card, it's 120 euros, about 80 ponds or 150 dollars

[hoetje]

Yeah I don't know lots about graphic cards, apart from the fact that everyone who wants one should buy the 7600GT, as I have it and it's both damned good and cheap

I have that one too and it's verryyyyyy good indeed + cheap.
It is the best card if we're talking about price/performance ^^

[Little Legioner]

My config: A64 3000, 2gb ram + 7800 GT ( 460 / 1150 ) . Can i play the game with überhigh settings?

[Quickening]

I have a 1.7 Celeron, with 768MB of RAM and a GeForce FX 5200. Im going to take the risk and buy Medieval 2.
Im getting Total War Eras for my birthday next month and Medieval 2 for Christmas. YAY!

[MSB]

I have a 1.7 Celeron, with 768MB of RAM and a GeForce FX 5200. Im going to take the risk and buy Medieval 2.
Im getting Total War Eras for my birthday next month and Medieval 2 for Christmas. YAY!

Destroy the Celeron! From what I have seen they are rubbish.

[Quickening]

Destroy the Celeron! From what I have seen they are rubbish.

Aye. That they are. Although this PC has been good to me over the years. Im confident it will run Medieval 2 to a decent degree.

[Stig]

My config: A64 3000, 2gb ram + 7800 GT ( 460 / 1150 ) . Can i play the game with überhigh settings?

Well atleast on normal high settings. Maybe not in MP tho, if you play that.

I have a 1.7 Celeron, with 768MB of RAM and a GeForce FX 5200. Im going to take the risk and buy Medieval 2.
Im getting Total War Eras for my birthday next month and Medieval 2 for Christmas. YAY!

Yeah it's a Celeron and that's the bad part. From what we heard 1.7 might just be good. Just switch everything to lowest and try to avoid long games (don't game for too long, 1 hour max I think, maybe 2)

[Ice]

Well some of us actually go to school instead of working....(money=>down)

Some of us do both?

[Ice]

I have a 1.7 Celeron, with 768MB of RAM and a GeForce FX 5200. Im going to take the risk and buy Medieval 2.
Im getting Total War Eras for my birthday next month and Medieval 2 for Christmas. YAY!

No offense, but that isn't going to run MTW II very good...

[Quickening]

No offense, but that isn't going to run MTW II very good...

Well stranger things have happened. I am saving my money for an upgrade and if MTW 2 doesn't work then Ive still got the other three games to play in the meantime

[MSB]

I'm going to get my new laptop after Windows Vista brings in shader modle 4.0 with Directx 10. I just want to know if what I want to get will be OK. The graphics card will probably be slightly better when I get it (faster clock speed than the one listed e.c.t), but it will probably still have the same ammount of memory.

Intel Core Duo 1.8Ghz
Nvidia Quadro FX 120M 512MB (256MB of graphics memory, 256MB shared)
2GB RAM (2x1024)

Ok would this work (and yes I do know that laptops are not meant for gaming!).

[Underdog687]

Ive got ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 series
59.7 Gb of free space
Pentuim 4 CPu 3.06 Ghz
768 Mb of RAM

I have no idea when it comes to hardware/systems, so could a be able to play M2TW?

[gardibolt]

Yeah I have a FX 5200 and I have no hope it can run MTWII, since it can barely handle RTW on medium. I expect I'll have to upgrade at least to a 6800GT (I have an AGP motherboard rather than PCI-E, so I am pretty limited in what I can do for video cards). But I'm at 3.0 and 2GB RAM so otherwise good to go.

[DukeofSerbia]

I have 1024 RAM,3.0 ghz and geforce 7600 gt 256 mb.Will I be able to play the game on lets say med/med-high settings?

That will be enough for 1024x768 on high settings. At least I hope. GeForce 7600GT is the best mid range graphics card.

[DukeofSerbia]

Ha ha! Someone just stole my computer so I built a new one with plenty of guts for M2:TW. Core 2 Duo 6600 with 2 gig ram and Nvidia 7900GT w/512 Mb of ram. If the game is any good it is gonna rock on this bad boy.

For the same money Radeon X1900XT 256MB is faster than 7900GT 256MB. Plus can HDR and AA.

This is probably a silly question, since I bought a fairly nice computer a few days ago that should be fine. Still, given my ignorance of all things computer related(except that higher numbers usually=good). Is this one ok? A friend says I may need to replace the video card but he only plays first person shooters that I'm told suck up memory.

Processor: AMD Athlon(TM) 64 X2 4200+ dual-core - 2.2GHz

Memory: 2GB DDR2-533MHz dual channel SDRAM (2x1024)

Hard Drive: Some gigantic number of gigabites.

Video card: Either NVIDIA GeForce 7300LE, w/ TurboCache, or NVIDIA GeForce 7500LE, TV-Out, DVI, VGA, I think.

I'm pulling this numbers from the hp website, I'm actually on a different comp at the office.

Both video card are terrible for playing. Buy at least Radeon X1600XT or GeForce 7600GT. As you have pretty powerfull machine go on stronger video card (and you will need very good PSU).

Also, what does a dual core processor do? The salesguy said it effectively means my processor runs programs at double the stated speed. In this case I guess that would be 4.4 GHz.

Not true.

[Maizel]

Well, yopu don't need a very good one, just go for the proper manufacturers.

Zalman, Thermaltake, and Coolermasters are always good choices

450Watt, will be enough for years (if not, i pitty your energybill) Butb you might want to have a 550W if you're thinking of SLI/Crossfire


And AVOID Antec PSU's, the new rig i ordered got delivered last week

A Sonata Lifestyle II, Great case, But the PSU is as fragile as fuck. They break down so often. I wish i'd known sooner.

Mine wors fine, But it emits a high pitched noise constantly, cause of a defect condensator. ArghhH!

[Satyr]

So, if you have enough computer to play M2:TW, what sort of monitor are you playing on?

I just got a new Dell 24" widescreen to go with my new computer. It's pretty easy to get fully involved in the game, it takes up my entire vision. I've been playing Galactic Civilizations 2 on my new system and it screams!

[Dracula(Romanian Vlad Tepes)]

Hey if you know what are the system requirement for m2tw don't ask others just to ask.Post something that is useful.

[Maizel]

Samsung SyncMaster 205BW 20'' LCD 16.2M collors, 6ms g>g