Rome & Alexander - engine differences?

[Shieldmaiden]

Just out of curiousity - does somebody know the engine differences between Rome and Alexander (1.5 and 1.9 respectively)? I notice it doesn't use BI features, and its performance on my PC feels a mite slower...

[Warmaster Horus]

I think there might be something about units... Either unit amount, or... Something related to modding, perhaps?

Honestly, I don't know.

[Aradan]

All known answers are here: GUIDE: Specifics of Modding Alexander - TW

[econ21]

Just out of curiousity - does somebody know the engine differences between Rome and Alexander (1.5 and 1.9 respectively)? I notice it doesn't use BI features, and its performance on my PC feels a mite slower...

Yes, it was (is) dramatically slower on my computer. In fact, it seemed to be perform worse than M2TW.

I did not notice any favourable differences in the engine and there was one unfavourable one (I forget the details - something like the camera being reverting back to an old view point if you made an action while switching to another unit).

[Shieldmaiden]

Thank you all

Yes, it was (is) dramatically slower on my computer.

Hmm, I'm using a crap GeForce 7300 LE myself, but its perfectably playable . I tried the MTW2 Demo and its certainly better FPS than that

[econ21]

Hmm, I'm using a crap GeForce 7300 LE myself, but its perfectably playable . I tried the MTW2 Demo and its certainly better FPS than that

You could be right - I am talking about my general impression, not a careful comparison.

Off topic, the M2TW demo performance varies very much with the settings (my performance improved dramatically with shadows off, shader 1 or some such). The full game plays much better than the demo too.