optimizing my computer for MedII

[andreas]

I think my computer is a little bit to slow in battels in MedII total war. If i shall upgrade my comp, shall i buy, lets say a AMD 3.0Ghz x2 or shall i buy a better grafikcard first?

I have a AMD 2.1Ghz x2

and
GeForce 8600GT 256 grafikcard

3Gb RAM

[Jerk]

Lol. Your components are good. But if you want to change something i would advise you to see what your Ram is. It's important to know what Mhz is. That's important because your processor might not work at 100%. But your Motherboard is the most important of all. So i suggest you to see your motherboard first, then your ram and compare what mhz are supporting both. And then think what to replace. Your graphic card is perfect, don't change it.

[Lysimachus]

Set the graphics card high on your priorities. The game relies on it enormously. You could have a 30GHz computer, but with a lousy integrated card, you won't be able to play jack . By the way, get an NVidia Geforce 8800, 7600 or 7900. Not enough games use Dx10 to make the 8500/8600 worth buying and the fact that they aren't exactly much better than the 7600 besides Dx10 support. Then go for your RAM. 2-4GB should be good. By the way, just be sure your computer has PCI-E slots in the motherboard! If not, you will be royally screwed.

[D|major]

What Jerk said: your computer is good enough, at least the components you've told. Have you already tried to play M2 yet? Was it laggy? With that settings (even with 400Mhz RAM) you should be able to play with up to 5000 men on highest graphic settings (exept for AA - put it to 4xAA maybe) with little to no lag!

I'm pretty sure that you have PCI-e since you use a video card from the 8000 series and I havn't heard that there is an AGP version of them released. Your card is ok, you don't want to spend 150 bucks for a new card if you don't need to, huh? Just make sure your graphics card driver is up-to-date.

It's rather your processor. Since M2 doesn't support multi-core cpu's it'll use one of your cores only. I don't know much about CPU's and I don't know what series your CPU is from, so maybe it is a bit too slow. The processor consumption explodes with many units on the battlefield.

Regards,
D|need

P.s.: this belongs to the technical help section of the forum...
Next time, yeah?