The M2TW hardware thread: please post all hardware queries here

[Theodotos I]

Thank you very much. I may try that.

[Amir al Amin]

Hi, I don't know whether this is the appopriate thread to ask about this or not(because it might need modding) but I have a problem.

I play this game on a laptop which is not particularly high-end to say the least.
I have low FPS rates at battles, but FactionHeir's tuturial helped make make battles bearable. (yeah.. thanks for that FactionHeir )

I would appreciate any further advice to make battles go smoother.
But now I need to tackle the next problem which is the Campaign Map. I don't know why but the units move very slowly on the map and scrolling around the map is also kinda slow to an annoying degree.

How would I be able to make the Campaign game run more fast-paced and smooth?

[FactionHeir]

Campaign map is a tough one. Its really the heights (mountain peaks) and moving trees which slow it down a lot. To fix that, you need to modify the cas animation files, though I'm not sure how much exactly this will help, but every little should I suppose.
For the program to work on cas files, you want to be contacting KnightErrant as I hear he has released a new version of that tool since I last worked on it.

[Amir al Amin]

oh well.. I don't have ANY experience with modding or with animations
So if there is nothing else to do I guess I'll have to live with it
Do you know a way to scroll faster at the campaign map?

[FactionHeir]

Not outside of increasing scrolling speed, but that will lag depending on your hardware.

[Amir al Amin]

I see..

Well the road ends here I guess thanks a bunch FactionHeir

I'll be looking forward to your future ideas for increasing performance

[cassu]

do you have the shadows off from the campagin map? i have a low end laptop and it runs it pretty well, only problems are northern italy and around the holy lands (map lagging that is). check in the main menu in the options to put the graphics lower and especially shadows because the cause to most lag for me. i put the graphics on a acceptable level and it runs pretty nicely for a laptop and remember to check for any processes that would hog alot of memory (windows vista hogs a lot of memory so it woad probably run better in XP).

[Nelson]

It's unlikely that MTW2 is optimized for the multicore processors currently in vogue. Or to exploit DX10 or 11. Plus you are playing a mod so all performance bets are off just for that if the unit sizes are expanded much. I haven't played Third Age on my current I5 rig but I did get lousy frame rates with multiple Mongol stacks on the field at the same time. Shogun2 runs great with 6000 men in combat but MTW2 becomes a slide show with that many.

And welcome to the Org!