How to speed up the game?

[fallen851]

....but I am willing to do that to field large armies.

If anyone is wondering my specs are as follows....

Intel P4 3.0 GHz with HT (prescott core), ASUS P4P-800E Deluxe mobo, 1 gb cosair ram (ddr 400, pc 3200), SATA 300 gb hd, 500 watt power supply, and 9800 SE ATI Radeon 128mb video card (source of my graphical woes).

I have a P4 2.6 ghz, 1gb of ram, and an ATI Radeon 9000 64 meg mobility card, and I run on large unit settings, with lots of graphics on and it runs great. This is on a laptop too... How can yours be running slow on the battlefield?

I suggest you get yourself some Omega Drivers, they work wonders: http://www.omegadrivers.net/

[Tellos Athenaios]

Two possibilities:
either laptop users define lag a bit different (being used to less performance);
you could have different page file or RAM processing speed specs.