Hello everybody, this is my first post on here and I'm hoping one of you can help me out. I have bought my son a copy of Medieval 2: Total War. Unfortunately that has proved to be a self inflicted wound on my part because the damned thing won't play very well. He can play the game but the graphics are not good and it's a bit jerky and jumpy which is spoiling the whole experience for him. There is nothing worse than wanting to get immersed in a game and not being able to because you have to wait for it to respond or you miss bits because it's so jerky, so my question is simple, "Why is this happening?". I believe our machine is capable of running this game, it's a Packard Bell with a Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80Ghz, 1Gb RAM and a Radeon X600 series video card. Maybe some of the settings on my machine are incorrect, I don't know. Hopefully someone out there does know and can help me out, so please, if anyone has had similar problems and has managed to resolve them, could you let me know how you did it.

Thanks