MTW Steam version performance, 64mb AGP memory may cause low texture quality

[BlackJack]

Hi everyone, I'm an old player from shogun age. MTW1, in my opinion, is the top one among all series. Steam version gave us an update MTW. It has good compatibility with new Win, support widescreen, etc. I give my best regards to their team.

But, as I also had the original MTW1 gold version. Compare with it, I found the main shortcoming in steam ver. is the limit of AGP memory locked in 64mb. Nowadays our video cards, our system memory are far beyond than that ages. Before Steam release this version, The TWCenter website’s member Sepheus, has made a ddraw_fix. It is a ddraw.dll. After put it in MTW folder, it could make original MTW set higher resolution 1024*768 on new graphic cards, and could set AGP memory between 0~4Gb(my computer has 6GB system memory) in performance. In this situation, I found the troops texture quality are subtly, clearly than 64mb AGP memory. I give some pics to compare them.

I used XL mod, these is original MTW+ Sepheus ddraw_fix, 1024*768, you could see the AGP set 1600mb. Every Halberdier is clear and subtle.



I found Steam ver F2 key could not get exact screenshot, It has blank. Like these, 1366*768 AGP only can set 64mb, Halberdiers are blurred, rough.



I think the blurred is not the resolution’s result. Because when I set 1024*768 at Steam version It still blurred. So I supposed that maybe lower AGP memory’s fault.

At last, I think is a great renewal to MTW. Maybe the Steam team could think the relationship between AGP memory and Texture quality. To release more memory to AGP, this great MTW1 could be better and better. Best Wishes!

This is my hypothesis. I'm not sure it's right or not. Please give you valuable helo or opinions. THX