slowness of M2TW on my laptop

[timmyc20]

hi all,

i bought a new laptop last week that has a 120GB hard drive with 2GB of RAM. I've installed M2TW and Kingdoms and had no problem installing them.

The campaign map runs smoothly. The problem is when i am playing a battle. It is never free flowing and causes major problems when i'm trying to control the army.

I have turned the resolution down low but the problem is still there. Do any of ye have any ideas how i can speed up the battle map?

[Evolution]

Whats your graphics card like?

[FuriousSpurius]

While the campaign map takes a lot of computational power to calculate all the moves and stuff, battles are very taxing on your graphics card. Your PC needs to manage all of those individual 3d models, despite what the setting is. Laptops aren't necessarily known for their graphics power, so a lot of people run into gaming problems.

Though it's not a solution, I echo concern here, it's likely your graphics card can't handle the load.

I'd suggest auto-resolve your battles. Heh, could add a new layer of difficulty as you get perpetually raped by the AI decisions.

[timmyc20]

sorry for asking a dumb question like this but............how could i check the spec's of my graphics card?

[Kalos]

Moved to Tech Support.

[Captain Spanky]

Well, while my PC spec has always been able to handle the game, for some reason I used to lag quite badly in battles. When I click the auto-detect button in the graphics options it turns everything on and at high level, apart from the anti-aliasing. I found that the easiest way to combat lag is to switch bloom and reflections off. After I did that the battles ran totally smooth, with all high settings.

Hope it works, and best of luck trying to fix it.

[timmyc20]

heres a link to the complete specs of my laptop. could someone have a look at it please and tell me if M2TW will run effectively on it. tanx in advance.......
http://www.microanvika.com/product.asp?PNO=TOS14458

[Rex Invictus]

Try turning off the shadows, it was a HUGE difference by me.

[timmyc20]

thanks for your suggestions but they dont seem to be making any difference for it. could someone have a look at the specs of my laptop nd tell me if M2TW is capable of running effectively on it. thanks in advance....
http://www.microanvika.com/product.asp?PNO=TOS14458

[Garnier]

That's a crappy computer for M2TW. The processor is too slow to run smoothly (unless perhaps on small unit size) and there is no graphics card (you have integrated graphics) so in other words, you'll probably be stuck with lag problems with this game.