minimum requirements for EB

[Jacob Debroedere]

I finally downloaded EB and succesfully installed it. My disapointment was great when I noticed EB was running very laggy, even on the campaign map.

I started the Roman campaign,and I decided to attack those greek looking guys south of me. It took ages to load my first battle(way longer then loading vanilla rtw battles), and when I claimed my victory, it again took ages to return to the campaign map. The music (which is definitely better then vanilla's) also lagged. After 4 or 5 lagging,annoying turns Windows said it hadn't enough virtual memory,and I decided to just quit the game.

I never had lag when playing vanilla rtw, even on large unit size with everything on high detail. I have a pentium 4 computer so I thought there should be no problem runnning EB.

Does EB require a faster computer then vanilla rtw? Or do I have a problem with my pc?

[Warmaster Horus]

It's normal, EB does require a faster computer, due to all the scripting involved.

For more information, check this out.

[Haedarmkm]

Hello I have same this problim with my EB my RTW vanilla is work fine as good as MIITW but for truth I think its your computer RAM my is 256 mb and the required for EB Maybe mor than 512 mb so if you have that ram your Eb should work fine.
Haedar From Iraq

[Bootsiuv]

Processor speed, while important, probably isn't a factor in your problem. Anything over 1.5GHZ will play EB soundly.

It sounds more like a ram problem. If you're trying to play EB with 256 MB you're going to run into some serious lag. I would recommend updating to a gig, barring that, at least stick a 512 MB card in there to give yourself 768 MB.

You also might consider increasing your pagefile size...