2 questions

[jhhowell]

(if not, does anybody know of a good BI mod?)

If you're at all interested in Tolkien, Fourth Age Total War is very good. Version 1.9 "Forth Eorlingas" was a blast, and the 2.0 "New Shadow" version should be even better (I had some sort of problem with my install, I think).

[abou]

Hey, Cheexsta is back!

[pseudocaesar]

Invasio Barbarorum is pretty much the best late era Roman mod

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=113

[I of the Storm]

Agreed.
As for the stuttering: upgrading RAM as the cheapest possible upgrade method can do alot for loading and processing times.

[tynnmahn]

Thanks for you replies. I will check out the Invasio Barbarorum.

I currently have 1gig of ram installed. The battle maps work fine for the most part. Sometimes there is a little bit of stutter when two large hosts engage but nothing too severe.

It's the campaign map that sometimes slows down, but I get what you are saying about how the EB packed so many goodies into the script that the engine gets bogged down.

I tried to play RTR because it is just a "cleaned" up version of vanilla and loads quicker and doesn't stutter at all. Don't get me wrong, I think those guys did a pretty decent job cleaning up vanilla, but...I'd rather deal with the longer load times and stutter and play EB. (hopefully MTW2's engine is more robust and can handle the EB's teams improvements better than this engine.)

Is there a way to add the vanilla music for Romani into campaign and battle map rotations; I like the vanilla music as well as the EB music and would like to have them both in the music rotation. Even though I'm fairly certain that "Divinitus" is nothing but babble, I like the "feel" of the *cough* quasi-latin lyric song in rotation on the campaign map.