Another Next Total War Poll

[gardibolt]

Well, this part is kind of ridiculous:

Well, I guess we need to face it.

Once upon a time hard-core gamers were a force in the market. They bought the high-end machines and the games that ran on them.

My computer is dual core, blah blah blah, about a year and a half old, runs M2TW on all the highest settings, Can You Run It insists I more than meet all minimum specs, but it's actually too poor to run E:TW, at all. I figured, maybe low settings, but nothing, at all, zippo. With this game, CA has moved way beyond what the casual gamer is capable of, unless your idea of the casual gamer is buying the latest Alienware Deluxe every three months. It's clearly intended ONLY for the hardcorest of the hardcore gamers because no one with a casual computer rig can play it.

[Braden]

Well, this part is kind of ridiculous:




My computer is dual core, blah blah blah, about a year and a half old, runs M2TW on all the highest settings, Can You Run It insists I more than meet all minimum specs, but it's actually too poor to run E:TW, at all. I figured, maybe low settings, but nothing, at all, zippo. With this game, CA has moved way beyond what the casual gamer is capable of, unless your idea of the casual gamer is buying the latest Alienware Deluxe every three months. It's clearly intended ONLY for the hardcorest of the hardcore gamers because no one with a casual computer rig can play it.

Not so sure with that. Seems the 1.5 patch has significantly effected the performance of the game on systems that were happily running it on 1.4.

My PC is by No means top flight and built on a shoe-string budget and it, like yours, runs M2 at the highest settings on everything BUT judders and stutters with ver.1.5 of Empire. Fortunately, it does this mainly on the campaign screen when a turn is started or on the battle map if I zoom in for a close up.

My spec is only:

AMD X2 5000 processor
ATi 4650 512mb GFX card
2Gb Corsair 800mhz CL4 RAM

Hardly a “hard core” PC.