Your computer is not good enough message in battles

[espjo]

Has anyone else got this message:

Reinforcements has been delayed. Your computer cannot handle this, you must upgrade your computer(not exactly the message but close).

It seems like the game has a builtin protection against low framrates. I have set everything on max(even shadows), huge settings, and in every battle i keep over 30 frames/s until i attacked a city with one full stack, and 1 full stack as reinforcements(defenders). I attacked with 2 full stacks. The game just locked out the enemy reinforcements. I won the battle, but felt robbed for a gigantic 4 stack battle. Sucks!

The question is, what part of my system is not good enough?

I have a Core 2 E6600 clocked to 3 Ghz, 2Gb of PC 8500 memory running at 834Mhz, and a ATI 850 XT graphics card. The only thing i can upgrade is the video card, and i am gonna upgrade it when the ATI R600 chip based cards is ready.

Does anybody with a top of the line, ATI 1950XTX or Nvidia 7950GTX, 8800GTX, cards tried a 4 stack battle with everything on max?

Espjo

[Vlad Tzepes]

I've noticed the same message and felt frustrated (after all that pre-battle planning ) - but after reducing some part of the opposition, AI reinforcements finally showed up!

[geala]

It is probably a bug? I received the same and questioned myself what pc I should have bought instead (I have a C2D 6600 with GF 7950 GX2 and 2 MB RAM).

In my case reinforcements arrived later also but I blamed that to the greater distance they have had on the campaign map.

[espjo]

Thanks. Then it's not a hardware issue. When you get that message with a top of line video card, it can't be anything else than a bug.

Espjo

[Werner]

Thanks. Then it's not a hardware issue. When you get that message with a top of line video card, it can't be anything else than a bug.

Espjo

Yeah but thats still a sorry set up you have if its the video card I'm thinking it is, I'm surprised you can run the game at all at anything over medium. I run Nvidia 7800 BFG at high/very high and I only notice a drop in FPS when defending cities but I'm pretty sure its a bottle necking issue with my CPU. Never seen that message though, but sounds funny.

[hoom]

I have a C2D 6600 with GF 7950 GX2 and 2 MB RAM

Dunno how you managed to get anything to run on that but clearly the RAM is the issue :p

[giskard]

Turn of shadows in the prefs, its on by default and causes major lag.

Worked like a charm for me.

Giskard

[buckZor]

You just need to set a 1 for unlimited men on battlefield in your preferences cfg file. Root of game directory.