The M2TW hardware thread: please post all hardware queries here

[Cecil XIX]

I'm planning on buying a new computer in the near future, and was wondering if someone could give me a general idea of what I'd need in order to run MII:TW on it's highest settings, so I could get an idea of what the most I'd want is. Thanks in advance.

[Bilgediver]

A lot of the most basic gaming computers nowadays could probably run it on its highest settings. Can you tell of us of your price range? Normally I'd just max everything out I could but that ran me up quite a bit (probably well out of your price range, heh). I personally can run E:TW and N:TW on their highest settings so its prob a bit overkill for you, if all you want is M2:TW


My own computer is a laptop and its basic specs are in my sig (ordered from www.avadirect.com). Avadirect has newer models of Clevos, as well as MSI's, ASUS's, Compals and others online.

[Risasi]

Reporting in...

I bought one of the new 13" Macbook Pro laptops, and have it set up with a dual boot of OSX and Windows 7. It has the new Sandy Bridge Intel chipset (HD 3000 GPU). I installed Medieval 2 a few days ago. It defaulted all video setting to everything on high. It runs pretty smooth with those settings. I wasn't testing for high framerate, but instead trying to produce choppiness. It ran pretty good, but hot. I'll likely end up turning down some of the settings in an attempt to keep it a little cooler.

[totalwar123]

I have a HP 14"Notebook andwanted to know if I could run M2TW and if it does what settings would you recommend?

Specs:

Windows 64 Bit
AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M Processor
4GB DDR3 RAM
AMD Radeon 6520M GPU

Thanks

[calder]

I just wanted to know if my computer has enough power to run the game. I don't need the best graphics possible but it can't be so laggy that battles just don't work in single player.

Operating System: Win XP Home
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 GHz
Memory: 1014MB RAM

I have an on board Video card and I know I will need to upgrade it inorder to play this game but was unsure of what type of video card to buy. Would love some advice.

[rickinator9]

Try this website: http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx

[the_eye_of_sauron]

Hi all.

Just took delivery of my new PC - Alienware X51 (I know...) - first gaming PC I've owned, couldn't afford a beefier model and couldn't be bothered to make my own, just want to play games like Medieval 2, Empire & Napoleon on higher settings.

The spec I have should be more than capable of maxing out all of the settings (with AA, grass & shadows off - don't care about them), but when I play M2TW (Third Age mod) on even medium settings it's laggy like on the PC I replaced! Empire & Napoleon work well on High/Ultra settings, but not Medieval 2?!?!?! WTF?

I have (according to systemrequirementslab.com):

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU 3.4 GHz Performance Rated at: 11.90 GHz
8GB RAM
nVidia GeForce GTX 555
DirectX 11.0

All of these spank the minimum and even recommended settings, so why is Medieval 2 still lagging badly on medium when newer games work fine?

I have a 23" monitor capable of 1080p or HD or whatever - could it be the resolution I'm trying to use (1920 x 1200 or something...)? Any recommendations?