The patch is here

[Husar]

You can also experiment with angling the camera inside the city....in certain directions the graphics slowdown goes away. Something inside the city apparently causes the slowdown, but I can't work out what.

Shader Model 2....

[big_boss120]

I just fought several battles where i would have expected the passive AI bug to kick in. In one, my force was positioned on a hill, my missile troops were deployed at the front, with spearmen and heavy infantry behind, some horsies on the flanks. the enemy advanced towards me, their missile troops leading. i was able to cause heavy casualties before they got into range. we traded shots for a few volleys, but it was obvious that i had the upper hand (casualties of 10-1 in my favour) at which point the bulk of the enemy infantry advanced up the hill and engaged my main line. my missile troops still managed to play a part, whittling down his cavalry reserve somewhat, but the AI just pushed its troops forward.

I observed the same in the next battle. similar situation, similar reaction from the AI, push its missile troops forward, try to cause damage with them, when that didn't work the main line advanced and engaged my up close

Sounds good enough to me....if that doesnt work we can always go back to mod the battle_ai behavior.

Hate to say this, but this patch is being murdered over at the Trivium/TWC.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=73576

Already many have gone several dozen turns into the game. Lots of things have been discovered. Some of you have already seen or are now figuring it out. Oh, well. I have had some great battles. It seems sieges are not at all changes, armies just stand there. I would like to see my army run by the AI conduct a siege like the AI puts one over on me.

To be honest the ppl @ TWC are pretty much gunning for the patch & fans (NOT fanboys) when MTW2 is released. It's not much surprise to see so much hate there, but despite that, some ppl will probably do a good job and report the additional issues post-patch without any critic demeaners + @ss responses, but it's becoming harder to find that kind of ppl in TWC...

[Satyr]

Past disappointments are hard to overcome. Now when everyone knows that it is at least another 2 months before we get another patch who is going to still be playing M2TW if this patch isn't any good?

[Koval]

Is there any other place I can download the patch? GamersHell doesn't seem to be too dial-up/download manager friendly.

[zandor]

Personally I think they need a severe grilling for not fixing the 2-handed bug. It basically breaks fighting battles any time either side has a bugged unit. Of all the things not to fix, how could they ignore the single worst bug in the game?
They could have at least just swapped in animations from working units and adjusted the unit's attack strengths to maintain balance.

[Heledir]

Ive got the patch downloaded. Can somebody help walk me through the installation?

[Jagger]

Tactical battlefield AI much, much improved... ..

[Heledir]

Sorry I found it