The "Would my PC be able to run M2TW?" thread (all such queries here pls)

[bome99]

Does any one know witch graphic cards are supported?

[LegioScythia]

Does any one know witch graphic cards are supported?

- 128MB Hardware Accelerated video card with Shader 1 support
and the latest drivers. Must be 100% DirectX® 9.0c
compatible*. Nvidia® GeForce 4 Ti 4400 or ATI Radeon® 9800
are the recommended minimum hardware.
as long as it meets these requirements i think it should work

[ProudNerd]

*sigh*
The last time I upgraded my PC for a specific game was for Black&White (talk about a letdown...). For the TW-series this was never necessary...

So, please tell me, how good will it get for me? I have nor problem with "normal" unit sizes, I never actually played huge sizes, even in Shogun back in the day.

Processor Intel Pentium 4 2424MHz
Display Card NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Memory 1024MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Free Disk Space 27.11GB
Display Card Memory 128MB
Display Driver Version 9.1.4.7
DirectX Version 9.0c
Optical Drive DVD
Sound Card SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [B400]

And be gentle... :)

Thanks and cheers from Vienna,
S.

Should be fine for med settings. @ 1024x768.

[Pindar]

You could always look in device manager.

Right-Click on "My Computer"
Select "Properties"
Click on "Hardware" tab
Click on "Device Manager"
Click the little plus simbol next to Display Adaptor.

Should tell you there

Thank you, I have a Radeon 9600 it says.

[Fate]

- 128MB Hardware Accelerated video card with Shader 1 support
and the latest drivers. Must be 100% DirectX® 9.0c
compatible*. Nvidia® GeForce 4 Ti 4400 or ATI Radeon® 9800
are the recommended minimum hardware.
as long as it meets these requirements i think it should work

I know youve listed the card types above, but i suck with things like this! I guess a GeForce 4 MX 440 nVida 64mb AGP wouldnt work?

[maestro]

I have big trouble running the demo my spec's are:

Intel pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz

RAM 2GB

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 256 MB

What am I doing wrong, I've updated all drivers as well??

You're doing nothing wrong, you just have a very low-end and antiquated video card.

My specs are:
Pentinum(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
1024 MB of RAM
HP d330 DT (DC580AV)
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

I have no idea what any of that means, any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Likewise - you're gonna really struggle to play any decent games with that kind of card.

I know youve listed the card types above, but i suck with things like this! I guess a GeForce 4 MX 440 nVida 64mb AGP wouldnt work?

I'd be very surprised if that card runs any game written since 1974


I don't wish to be the harbinger of bad news to y'all, but people really shouldn't expect to be able to play a game released at the and of 2006 on hardware designed for 2002. Really. Gaming hardware has a maximum lifespan of about 2 years before it needs upgrading. Playing games on a PC is the best gaming experience there is, but it's also the most expensive!

[maestro]

Thank you, I have a Radeon 9600 it says.

Which is an "OK" card, so medium settings should be OK. Stay clear of shadows and FSAA ~)

[Ferret]

You're doing nothing wrong, you just have a very low-end and antiquated video card.



Likewise - you're gonna really struggle to play any decent games with that kind of card.



I'd be very surprised if that card runs any game written since 1974


I don't wish to be the harbinger of bad news to y'all, but people really shouldn't expect to be able to play a game released at the and of 2006 on hardware designed for 2002. Really. Gaming hardware has a maximum lifespan of about 2 years before it needs upgrading. Playing games on a PC is the best gaming experience there is, but it's also the most expensive!

I can run the gold demo on medium settings with bloom alrite though.

[dcd111]

After doing a little upgrading based on some recommendations I received earlier in this thread, I've got the following:

Pentium 4 2.4 (512 L2 cache, 800 FSB)
1.5 GB pc3200 RAM
PNY Verto GeForce 6800GT AGP (overclocking at Ultra levels without any artifacts or other problems)

The demo runs well enough with this setup, I'm not particularly obsessed with framerate and can live without shadows (shadows on low look worse than no shadows in my opinion anyway).

However, at this point, I recognize that the processor is probably my biggest remaining limitation. There's no way I'm getting a new motherboard right now, and the upper limit on my particular socket 478 motherboard is a Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz (512 L2 cache). They can be had for somewhere between $100-$130 on ebay, maybe less, but I'm not sure such an upgrade would even be worthwhile.

How much does a game like this depend on processor speed, and would an increase from 2.4 to 3.4 make a noticeable difference considering my other components? I don't play MP, so I'm not expecting massive numbers of men on the field at once.

Thanks in advance.

[Pindar]

Which is an "OK" card, so medium settings should be OK. Stay clear of shadows and FSAA ~)

Thanks maestro,

Just to confirm, based on what I put forward:

"Processor: AMD Ahtlon(tm) XP 1900+, MMX, 3D now, 1.5Ghz
Memory: 512MB RAM
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBios v6.00PG
Direct X: Direct X 9.0c
video card: Radeon 9600"

You think my system will be OK to run things then?

[doc_bean]

I just want to point out that I just played the demo in 1280x960 with everything maxed out, without slowdowns.

My new rig kicks ****.

[Phalaxar]

Mfberg, that's weird - I thought I remembered reading that the lowest that could run MTWII is a 9800?

Steinfeld, B&W or B&W2? :P

[bome99]

You're doing nothing wrong, you just have a very low-end and antiquated video card.



Likewise - you're gonna really struggle to play any decent games with that kind of card.



I'd be very surprised if that card runs any game written since 1974


I don't wish to be the harbinger of bad news to y'all, but people really shouldn't expect to be able to play a game released at the and of 2006 on hardware designed for 2002. Really. Gaming hardware has a maximum lifespan of about 2 years before it needs upgrading. Playing games on a PC is the best gaming experience there is, but it's also the most expensive!

Dang! guess I'll have to buy a new card then..
can you recommend any cheep ones ?

[hoetje]

How cheap should it be?

[Ferret]

I was thinking of getting the GeForce 7300 GS OC
Will this improve my system sufficiently?
Cheers,
Bob

[bome99]

How cheap should it be?

mm about a 100 £

[Ferret]

mm about a 100 £

The one i might get is only around £50 and seems to me like it will be good enough.

[ProudNerd]

I was thinking of getting the GeForce 7300 GS OC
Will this improve my system sufficiently?
Cheers,
Bob

if you can find a distributer for your country get one of these even the non special price is great!

[Ferret]

I'm afraid my budget is a bit smaller than that
cheers anyway

[Burakius]

So would my stuff let me play this game on med? It does in the demo I have



2.66 GHz pentium 4
Radeon 9800 pro 128mb
1.5gb ram

[Fate]

Thanks for the feedback Maestro, though you may be pleasently suprised to find that i can paly all the previous total war games and many other with tat card, odd eh?

[Incongruous]

Hi guys!

I was wondering if anyone knew If there are any new drivers for the x 800xt agp platinum ed?
If there are it would so good of one of you to direct me to them.

Bopa.

[Dr_Who_Regen#4]

I know my PC will run M2TW as I can run the demo and it is pretty new. My real question is whether I should get more RAM (I asked in the hardware section and got limited replies so I thought I would ask here).

I have
CPU = Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (overclocked to 2.43 GHz)
GPU = XFX GeForce 7600 GT XXX 256 MB
RAM = 2x512 MB Corsair DDR2 running at slightly over 800 MHz with 4-4-4-12 timing

On the demo I get 12 to 18 FPS at 1280x1024 with most settings in the high range (but not all and nothing on highest).

I have 2 more slots open where I could add another 2 sticks of 512 MB RAM, but I am not sure this will help much as I do not have much running in the background other then internet security and was wondering if anyone thinks M2TW would ever put me into Virtual Memory on Windows XP as I assume this would be the only reason to get more RAM.

Also is MP more RAM intensive? I will probably do mainly SP Campaign, but just curious if MP (due to larger battle size) would be helped by the added RAM.

Thanks in advance for everyone's expertise.

[ProudNerd]

So would my stuff let me play this game on med? It does in the demo I have



2.66 GHz pentium 4
Radeon 9800 pro 128mb
1.5gb ram

try the gold demo you shoudl get idencle performance sicne the gold ed demo is the optimized code. Id guess med/low btu i dont know much abotu Ati cards. I perfer Nivida myself

[Incongruous]

Yeah, I mean I admire the 9800 soo much. It's been ATI's Workhorse for so long. I'm guessing med settings with that card.

[ProudNerd]

I know my PC will run M2TW as I can run the demo and it is pretty new. My real question is whether I should get more RAM (I asked in the hardware section and got limited replies so I thought I would ask here).

I have
CPU = Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (overclocked to 2.43 GHz)
GPU = XFX GeForce 7600 GT XXX 256 MB
RAM = 2x512 MB Corsair DDR2 running at slightly over 800 MHz with 4-4-4-12 timing

On the demo I get 12 to 18 FPS at 1280x1024 with most settings in the high range (but not all and nothing on highest).

I have 2 more slots open where I could add another 2 sticks of 512 MB RAM, but I am not sure this will help much as I do not have much running in the background other then internet security and was wondering if anyone thinks M2TW would ever put me into Virtual Memory on Windows XP as I assume this would be the only reason to get more RAM.

Also is MP more RAM intensive? I will probably do mainly SP Campaign, but just curious if MP (due to larger battle size) would be helped by the added RAM.

Thanks in advance for everyone's expertise.

while 1gb is usialsy fine ram is cheap and I'm sure 2gb would make a difference but anything above that really isn't worth the money. The huge amount of ram is rendered useless by a fsb too slow to address all of it memory and you may experance slower performance. Your also better off getting 1gb sticks they are often faster.

[Belgolas]

Hi guys!

I was wondering if anyone knew If there are any new drivers for the x 800xt agp platinum ed?
If there are it would so good of one of you to direct me to them.

Bopa.

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...e&folderID=293

It is the latest Catalyst 6.10 Windows XP driver.

It can run
Products Supported:

* Radeon® X1950 XTX
* Radeon® X1900 series
* Radeon® X1800 series
* Radeon® X1600 series
* Radeon® X1300 series
* Radeon® X850 series
* Radeon® X800 series
* Radeon® X700 series
* Radeon® X600 series

* Radeon® X550 series
* Radeon® X300 series
* Radeon® 9800 series
* Radeon® 9700 series
* Radeon® 9600 series
* Radeon® 9650 series
* Radeon® 9550 series
* Radeon® 9500 series

I was wondering if I should buy a new GPU or wait til Dx10

I have a X700. It can run Battlefield 2 Max, CS:S MAX and can run M2TW decently. One that is cheaper than $200 Canadian.
I have a 3.2 Ghz Pentium 4 800mhz FSB 1mb L2cache
3gigs of ram.

[Irish Soldier]

I am dying to play Medieval 2 but I dont know if my Pc is strong enough for it. I was hoping If i give out my details someone could tell me if it will play the game or not. Thanks






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[Monarch]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...=70318&page=10

Welcome to the Org.

[Dutch_guy]

Well, what type of videocard do have. The rest of your system seems good enough, although you could maybe do with some more RAM - not a necessity mind you, but it could come in handy.

Now, if you do not know what you currently have. You're going to need to open your dxdiag. Go to start > run > dxdiag > screen [ one of the tabs in the dxdiag ]. That should tell you that you're running.

And it would help us answer your question.