Rome & Alexander - engine differences?

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...

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

Honestly, I don't know.

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

Originally Posted by 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...

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).

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

Originally Posted by Shieldmaiden

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.