Game specs and performance: all M2TW owners post here

[Dave1984]

Hey D Wilson,

Sorry about the oversight. RAM is 2 GIGs at 667Hz.

In my first attempt in which I got the camera effect I had shadows on "Extreme". I took that down to High and the performance is still choppy.

I don't have FRAPS loaded but it seems I need to do this. I was so shocked that I am going to do some 3DMark 06 tests this evening to check that I am benchmarking around the correct numbers.

But do you think I should have to remove shadows on such a machine!!? If so then I'm a bit disappointed.

When you say everything on max, do you mean absolutely everything!!?? Because some settings are labelled as "Highest" or other levels above just "High".

Econ,

Thanks for the correction.

Yes, I mean everything up at high or highest, whichever is max for that particular option, even grass which I expected to be a killer. But my shadows are at none, and when I have them on, even at lowest, it has a really noticeable effect, and I think pretty much everyone has found roughly the same thing. I haven't missed them, though!

The only reason I can really think of to have them on now is in the case of a -movie_cam kind of thing appearing, so's I can get some really stunning screenshots.

[AussieGiant]

Yes, I mean everything up at high or highest, whichever is max for that particular option, even grass which I expected to be a killer. But my shadows are at none, and when I have them on, even at lowest, it has a really noticeable effect, and I think pretty much everyone has found roughly the same thing. I haven't missed them, though!

The only reason I can really think of to have them on now is in the case of a -movie_cam kind of thing appearing, so's I can get some really stunning screenshots.

Ok thanks for the details D Wilson. I'll now have to check this shadow killer setting.

[Caesar_julii]

i'm hoping i can play with medium high settings. These are my specs:
1 gig ram
2.0 ati processor
256 mb video card radeon 9550 or 9600

[Haudegen]

I have a laptop:

Pentium M 725 (1.6 GHz)
512 MB RAM
Radeon Mobility 9700 / 64 MB

Resolution 1024 x 768

All settings are lowest, I play with normal unit scale. The performance is not great, field battles run mostly ok. In siege battles the game lags frequently.

Any tips on increasing the performance (other than upgrading the hardware) are highly appreciated

[AussieGiant]

I have a laptop:

Pentium M 725 (1.6 GHz)
512 MB RAM
Radeon Mobility 9700 / 64 MB

Resolution 1024 x 768

All settings are lowest, I play with normal unit scale. The performance is not great, field battles run mostly ok. In siege battles the game lags frequently.

Any tips on increasing the performance (other than upgrading the hardware) are highly appreciated

Well Haudegen it is well below even minimum specs. Make sure all the AA etc is off as well as everything at the lowest. I'm not sure but if you can lower the resolution you shuold try.

[Throumbaris]

Athlon XP 3000
2gb RAM
Geforce6800GT

No Shadows, everything else at high, antialiasing and anisotropy at 2x. Normal unit sizes and at 1280x1024, havent dropped below 20fps so far.

[AussieGiant]

On the .COM M2TW tech area there seems to be a number of battle performance issues using Dual Core 2.

[Haudegen]

Well Haudegen it is well below even minimum specs. Make sure all the AA etc is off as well as everything at the lowest. I'm not sure but if you can lower the resolution you shuold try.

Yes I would be very interested in lowering the resolution to 800 x 600. But I don´t know if how it can be done. Manually changing the preferences file doesn´t work.

BTW: As far as I remember in the first demo of M2TW 800 x 600 was possible, wasn´t it?

[Steinfeld]

One thing I am still trying to figure out:
Is it better to play with a higher resolution and lower details or with a lower resolution and higher details?

Discuss!
(Or even better, just help me) :)

[AussieGiant]

Yes I would be very interested in lowering the resolution to 800 x 600. But I don´t know if how it can be done. Manually changing the preferences file doesn´t work.

BTW: As far as I remember in the first demo of M2TW 800 x 600 was possible, wasn´t it?

That is what I was worried about. I think 1024x768 is the lowest. You could be out of luck Haudegen.

[Slammer]

I just sent off for a`new computer with these specs a Overdrive compter with the new 691 board with the new quad core overclocked to 3.4 also with the new nvidia 8800 gtx vid cards in SLI 4 meg ram 2 150 10000 hard drive in raid O with the 750 meg in 7200.10 and a dell 24in wide screen

[unknown_user]

I'm running a:

p4 1.8 Ghz
768 MB RAM
ATI X800 256MB

I've got it running things on medium, for the most part. I put effects up to high, and shadows turned off in battle. The only thing I get lag on that's noticible are huge siege battles and the campaign map.

I was pleasantly surprised to see how well it ran.

[AussieGiant]

Well fella's I'm slightly annoyed...that's an understatement.

I posted this in the Apothecary section and of course no one is there so I'm going to put it here.

This is the minimum specs for maximum performance as detailed on the official sites technical section.

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DarK
Moderator
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Intel Core 2 Duo processor / Intel PentiumD 3.2ghz / AMD X2 4200+ /
2GB of RAM /
NVIDIA Geforce 7600GT \ ATI Radeon 1950 Pro

These are simply equivalent specs to those Sega ran on Gold day that had no problem playing maxed out.

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No I don't mean to be rude but...............BS!!

I am running a brand new Dell XPS 700
with:

E6700 Core 2 Duo 2.66 Ghz
2 Gigs of ram
Nvidia 7950 GX2 with 1 gig of ram

and I can not max out this game at 1248*1024. In fact I can't even get close!!!

Anyone else go opinions or tips!!

Whacker you're depressing me!!

[castle]

aussiegiant have you updated grahics driver as i think there has been one to add support for your card.

[AussieGiant]

aussiegiant have you updated grahics driver as i think there has been one to add support for your card.

Checking now castle!!

Cheers!!

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Checked...I'm up to date castle... :(

[jon-tom]

Hey im new round here so i thought i'd start somewhere and try an be helpfull
my PC specs are
3.2 pentium4
2 gig memory
radeon x700 with 256mb onboard mem
and one quality soundcard THX certified.

i can run medieval on full whack so long as im not using shader version 2 in the graphics setup..................i know im missin out on some ace water visuals but it still looks impressive

[Reapz]

System Specs

P4 3.0 GHz
2 x 1024 Corsair RAM
GeForce 6800 Ultra

1024 x 768
Video options:

4x AA
Unit/building/vegetation/grass detail: High
Effects detail: Highest
Texture quality: High
Shadow quality: None
Bloom: disabled
Reflections: disabled
Campaign shadows: disabled

I'm using fraps to show fps

30 to 40 fps on the campaign map
15 to 25 fps in battles (lower end when there are a lot of trees)

[AussieGiant]

I've got to get fraps loaded up when I get home!!

You guy's are posting better performance than I have

To think I just handed my old rig over to my house mate and that was a:

3.4 Ghz P4

2 gigs of 533 Hz ram

Nvidia 6800 GTO 256ram

140Gig 10,000 rpm RAID 0.

Damn, what a bad move!!