What are the system requirements for M2TW?

[MSB]

The subject of the post explains it all really. What are the system requirements for M2TW? I am eagerly anticipating this game (after all it says on amazon that it wil be historically accurate) yet I do have a low spec PC (256MB RAM, 128MB Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 4000, 1.5 Ghz AMD Athlon Processer). So I really need to knbow whether I can play it before I pre-order it.
Thankyou

[Dutch_guy]

Well judging from Soulflame's post in this thread I understand the minimum specs are:

System
1. The only real number I got were 1.8 Ghz Gf4 128 for minimum specs

Does that mean you can run it ? I personally have no idea...

[King Noob the Stupid]

Well I'd say the CPU could perhaps be strong enough but AFAIK the 4MX is not really a good card (can it handle directX 9 at all?) and I'm almost sure 256 MB of RAM won't be enough, I recommend you buy another 512 MB (even if you need a new machine anyway, you could simply continue using the ram)

PS: Of course, you could also ignore what people tell you here and simply try to run the demo ;)

[Stig]

I don't know the exact specs but Shoggy (.com) simply said this:
If you can play RTW on high, you can play MTW2 on medium.

That's where my knowledge of PCs ends, but I think you will know now ... hopefully

[highlanddave]

hey, Stig, check out Soulflames thread on this page ....the answers. he asked in an interview last week for the minimums. as was mentioned above it was:

Dutch_guy said

System
1. The only real number I got were 1.8 Ghz Gf4 128 for minimum specs

soulflame asked alot of questions you will be interested in reading. i thought i might make a thread at the .com to link them, but i never did it.

edit: i made a thread in the .com medieval tw2 forum to link the interview with soulflame

[Stig]

Well what Shoggy told me was ages ago, early this year, when the MTW2 forums where spammed, this was to keep them silent, but I believe it's correct. Which means what Dutch Guy said is correct, as that can play RTW on medium.

[Dr_Who_Regen#4]

I bet 512MB of Ram will be the minimum...MTW was 128MB, RTW was 256MB, so probably M2TW will be 512MB of RAM requred...

For MTW my PC was basically at the minimum across the board (I had 350MHz, 128 MB of RAM and a 32MB PCI video card). I could play single player, but at times I would get some lag) I think I was able to play on large units but I am sure I turned down(off) many of the graphics settings.

so as long as you have the minimum you will probably be able to play but I think your 1.5Ghz processer is below the 1.8Ghz required..

I think if you don't play multi player you could get a bottom end computer and it will be fine. I think the main thing is to make sure you have 128MB of video memory. Of course the better card you have the more units you can have on the screen and the higher the graphics settings.

[MSB]

If you can play RTW on high, you can play MTW2 on medium.

Well I can play RTW on medium, does that mean I can play M2TW on low?

[monkian]

The subject of the post explains it all really. What are the system requirements for M2TW? I am eagerly anticipating this game (after all it says on amazon that it wil be historically accurate) yet I do have a low spec PC (256MB RAM, 128MB Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 4000, 1.5 Ghz AMD Athlon Processer). So I really need to knbow whether I can play it before I pre-order it.
Thankyou

Dude - I'd at least get more RAM - I've got 768mb of RAM,, 1.5 processor and 128mb radeon card and it chugs on decent settings on Rome - let alone Medieval.

[Kourutsu]

Pentium R 4 CPU 3.60 GHz
2.00 GB
ATI 256

Now, I need to know if my ATI is good enough.

[Martinaz]

ATI what? 9600? 9300?? you have variations on that you know.

[hoetje]

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?

[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.

[lars573]

The subject of the post explains it all really. What are the system requirements for M2TW? I am eagerly anticipating this game (after all it says on amazon that it wil be historically accurate) yet I do have a low spec PC (256MB RAM, 128MB Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 4000, 1.5 Ghz AMD Athlon Processer). So I really need to knbow whether I can play it before I pre-order it.
Thankyou

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.

[Wishazu]

In response to Mathius, the simple answer is no unfortunately mate. If by some miracle you managed to get the game to run on your current system I doubt it would be playable.

[King Noob the Stupid]

As we already got a thread for it and people are apparently answering I'll also ask:
Dou you think it's gonna be playable ( to me that means battles with absolutely no bells&whistles and everything on low run without lags) on a Athlon XP 2400+ (1826MHz), 512 Mb RAM (perhaps gonna double it if I find some ram that suits the board) and a Geforce 6200 /w 256 MB VRAM (the AGP version)?

[azraeltheFallen]

Matthius Julius
Yep you wil be able to run it on mininmum req. But i would defiantly get my self a bit more Ram and pehabs as well a new Processor, but you a going to run it with a little lack

[Satyr]

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.

[hoetje]

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.

OMG a 7900 gt ^^

If you had more money,you should have gone for the 7900 GTX :)

But a 7900 gt will play the game very good ;-)

[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.

[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)!

[A jezy]

my pc is running at .AMD Sempron(tm)processor 3100+ 1.81GHz,512mb of ram ..well i be able to play ?

[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.

[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?

[SirGrotius]

The subject of the post explains it all really. What are the system requirements for M2TW? I am eagerly anticipating this game (after all it says on amazon that it wil be historically accurate) yet I do have a low spec PC (256MB RAM, 128MB Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 4000, 1.5 Ghz AMD Athlon Processer). So I really need to knbow whether I can play it before I pre-order it.
Thankyou

You'll need to upgrade for any new game these days.