How many armies can you have on the battlefield screen?

[NS-NightStalker]

I attacked an Apache settlement that is garrisoned by a large army (1066 men) and surrounded by six other large armies with the smallest army consisting of 976 men. When I started the battle it said "Enemy Reinforcements Delayed?". The explanation said my system could not handle that number of units. I had all the settings maxed out at the time, and I thought minimizing all the setting would allow the battle to take place w/o any delayed units. I was wrong. I still got the same message.

My system specs:
chipset: nVidia 680i
CPU: Intel Core 2 DUO E6700 2.66GHz
RAM: 2GB
GPU: Geforce 8800 GTX 768MB

[Monsieur Alphonse]

I attacked an Apache settlement that is garrisoned by a large army (1066 men) and surrounded by six other large armies with the smallest army consisting of 976 men. When I started the battle it said "Enemy Reinforcements Delayed?". The explanation said my system could not handle that number of units. I had all the settings maxed out at the time, and I thought minimizing all the setting would allow the battle to take place w/o any delayed units. I was wrong. I still got the same message.

My system specs:
chipset: nVidia 680i
CPU: Intel Core 2 DUO E6700 2.66GHz
RAM: 2GB
GPU: Geforce 8800 GTX 768MB

Open your medieval2.preference.cfg file with a text editor and set the value "unlimited_men_on_battlefield = 1" so that it looks like mine. You have to change the value from 0 to 1. Now all the stacks will appear on the battlefield.

[NS-NightStalker]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I was just curious if anyone else encountered the same problem.

Is anyone able to see a battle where a large army defends a large city against at least six full stacks without using the "trick" mentioned above?

[Swagger]

like monsieur alphonse said that ''trick'' will make you support an infinit number of soldiers/armies..


beware becouse your computer might get alot laggy if you have duzens of armies fighting

[Swagger]

of course


a good example (and applicable) are the mongols..


try fight 3500 mongols soldier...and you'll see

[homefry]

What settings do you play at and what res?

[Monsieur Alphonse]

I play ever thing on full settings; huge units, etc. My largest battle was the siege of Rome where 5 stacks besieged me. There were more than 13,000 men on the battlefield. There was some lag but it was playable. Lowering the graphic settings had no effect. The CPU is the limiting factor. My second largest battle was between 3 stacks of mine, all cavalry, against 3 Mongol stacks. This time there were 9,622 men on the battlefield. The lag was the same as with the other battle.

I won both battles, the first one because the time did run out for the AI.

[avesta]

I play ever thing on full settings; huge units, etc. My largest battle was the siege of Rome where 5 stacks besieged me. There were more than 13,000 men on the battlefield. There was some lag but it was playable. Lowering the graphic settings had no effect. The CPU is the limiting factor. My second largest battle was between 3 stacks of mine, all cavalry, against 3 Mongol stacks. This time there were 9,622 men on the battlefield. The lag was the same as with the other battle.

I won both battles, the first one because the time did run out for the AI.

That's amazing man. Your system is a beast but when you say playable, how many frames per seconds are we talking about here. Also what resolution and AA/AF settings do you have?

[Monsieur Alphonse]

Its no beast. E6600, 2 gig of RAM and a GTS 9800 (640MB).
AA = 8 and AF = 4. Resolution = 1280 - 1024. Here are some pictures:



Six armies on a battlefield


The Kahn bites the dust.


Thousands of dead bodies littering the battlefield


Victory


Cavalry rules

[Korvash]

My computer would fry with so many troops

[avesta]

nice!!

how many FPS did u get during the start of that battle?

[Monsieur Alphonse]

I didn't use fraps so I really haven't an exact idea but my best guess would be that I had some 10 - 15 frames most of the time. I had sometimes a drop to maybe 5 to 10 but most of the tiume the battle was playable. I have seen heavier lag during sieges.

[Pyrebound]

Thats sick man! My comp starts lagging when i get 2 full stacks on my screen.. i should buy a new one..

[edders]

Christ, you must be right about the cpu being the main issue. I have an Athlon 64 4000 (the old FX53 'gamer' cpu), 2 gb ram and a geforce 8800 GT 512mb and just two full stacks on huge is kinda laggy, esp. during a siege. I run everything on high except shadows (off), AS (bilinear) and vsync off.

[-Traiano-]

uhm strange...i have got an AMD 3500+ with 3Gb RAM and ATI Radeon 2600 XT 256MB/500W powered; I play on Huge units with highest settings, i keep lowered onli textures (medium) buildings (low) anysotropic X2 and bilinear off and i get no lag with 2 full stacks...the largest battle i've made was a siege with 5 full stacks (3 attacking me+2 allyies) and 2 defending and i got very few lag...it was fully playable...

[Guyus Caesar]

Monsieur,
That's one piece of monster you got there.
I'm running a dual-core 3.4GHz, GeForce 8600 GT 256 and 4 GB RAM,
running almost smooth as yours....but now you turned me on over that massive groups of armies there....looks like there's a lot to expect on that game.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

Monsieur,
That's one piece of monster you got there.
I'm running a dual-core 3.4GHz, GeForce 8600 GT 256 and 4 GB RAM,
running almost smooth as yours....but now you turned me on over that massive groups of armies there....looks like there's a lot to expect on that game.

I have a computer that is one year old. Specs are: E6600 (2,4 Ghz), 8800 GTS 640 MB and 2GB of ram.

To have huge armies on the battlefield and still run the game smoothly you need a fast Core 2 Duo and a decent GFX card.

[edders]

I need a new processor - and a motherboard for it, I guess...*sniff*

[Tiberius Claymore]

I've had a battle in the Americas campaign with two of my Spanish stacks against four full Tlaxcallan stacks. 13,000 (approx., can't remember) total on map, only 2,400 hundred of which were mine.

I won that battle, for those wondering. The only reason- Tlaxcalla had nearly exclusive archers. Conquistadores earned their pay that day.

[Laconian]

The amount of bodies is just CRAZY!!! I've never seen that many.