Better graphics and still good performance

[Derfasciti]

Errr I run the game on the only resolution available: Both battles and campaigns are run on 1024 x 768

[HoreTore]

Perhaps a little off topic, but how do you get the best performance on the game?

My graphics card sucks, but I've got a good duo cpu and lots of ram, so The only thing making the game lag is the graphics.. Anyone know if you can get the game lower than "low" in the graphics options? Like buy-your-self-a-new-card-you-cheap-bastard low..

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Perhaps a little off topic, but how do you get the best performance on the game?

My graphics card sucks, but I've got a good duo cpu and lots of ram, so The only thing making the game lag is the graphics.. Anyone know if you can get the game lower than "low" in the graphics options? Like buy-your-self-a-new-card-you-cheap-bastard low..

You sound like me.

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Only I'm so cheap I haven't even bought the game...

[Laconic]

Perhaps a little off topic, but how do you get the best performance on the game?

My graphics card sucks, but I've got a good duo cpu and lots of ram, so The only thing making the game lag is the graphics.. Anyone know if you can get the game lower than "low" in the graphics options? Like buy-your-self-a-new-card-you-cheap-bastard low..

Eh, good luck. I did that with Oblivion when I first got it, had to download hacks for the shaders to get it to run on an GeForce 5600 (I've since upgraded), but I don't know if that would work with Medieval and I certainly don't know how to go about doing it.

Edit: Here's a screenshot of what Oblivion looked like when I first "fixed" it to work with my card, purple water and all:

[sapi]

@laconic - you should have used oldblivion

[Laconic]

Oh, I was. That was when it was very first released, and it was truly hideous. They smoothed it out eventually and made it look better.

[PaulTa]

With the recent release of DX10 GPU's, the cost of a decent mid-ranged GPU is very very low. I picked up a 7900 GS for about 170 bucks, to tide me over until the next best is released from Nvidia (at which time I will by the latest 8800 series... The bleedin' edge is too damned expensive to ride)

[sapi]

It's definitely worth waiting for ati and nvidia's dx10 cards atm

[Foz]

With the recent release of DX10 GPU's, the cost of a decent mid-ranged GPU is very very low. I picked up a 7900 GS for about 170 bucks, to tide me over until the next best is released from Nvidia (at which time I will by the latest 8800 series... The bleedin' edge is too damned expensive to ride)

I heartily agree. To upgrade frequently enough to have a top of the line graphics card all the time requires huge expenditures. A lot of people who can't afford to do that would figure they should just save up and then buy the best card around... but that tends to mean you go a while between upgrades, which can really start to hurt as the card falls more and more out of date. I think in general it's better to upgrade more frequently but do so with cards that are just off the cutting edge - you can spend the same amount, but have a card that consistently performs in the midrange instead of buying a top-end card that becomes midrange and then low-end before you can afford to upgrade it again.

[Laconic]

With the recent release of DX10 GPU's, the cost of a decent mid-ranged GPU is very very low. I picked up a 7900 GS for about 170 bucks, to tide me over until the next best is released from Nvidia (at which time I will by the latest 8800 series... The bleedin' edge is too damned expensive to ride)

I picked up a 7900 last summer...when it was still $350 American

[SoxSexSax]

Errr I run the game on the only resolution available: Both battles and campaigns are run on 1024 x 768

If that's the only available resolution then either A) your monitor drivers aren't installed (or your using the Windows default crappy ones), or B) your monitor is awful.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

i would either get a >4ghz single processor gaming computer with room for up to 4 gigs of memory at least.

otherwise i would hold off until the dual cores get up to near 3.0 ghz before i buy. that should happen sometime near this years end i think.

But the Core 2 Duos out perform those 4 ghz single core cpus already. You cant judge them 1 on 1 just by the ghz rating. Besides that I can crank my E6600 up to 4ghz np.

Someone mentioned Oblivion, where you could change almost any graphical variable, like the density of the flowers on a bush, etc, these commands went much futher than the options in the menu.

I just set it for highest graphics and set my 8800 to HDR

Neat graphics.