What graphic setting are you playing the game in?

[Xstar]

I personally believe that Total War always deserves to be rendered with all settings on highest - no matter WHAT! This is important folks!

So, what settings do you use? Not low, I hope Now I wanna see some percentages!

[booker]

all high

[Jaketh]

ULTRA

[General A. Skywalker]

All ultra

[Xstar]

Now let's see if this becomes a normal distribution, or maybe an exponential?

[Black Prince IV]

I'm medium/high. I can only play small battles on ultra. If I put the unit sizes on medium I would be able to play on ultra but I'd rather have ultra unit size.

[Jingles]

Well, I'm in the somewhat interesting position whereby my PC is bottlenecked by its rubbish CPU. So wether I run it on low or high, it makes no difference to the performance. Which isn't great.

[eskrogh]

medium all...
cant get it to anything higher... would like high water detail and some few other things but they are locked.. any ideas?

[Xstar]

medium all...
cant get it to anything higher... would like high water detail and some few other things but they are locked.. any ideas?

Yes, I have a great one. New graphics card!

[Jingles]

Yes, I have a great one. New graphics card!

Well it can be weird like that. Until recently I had a really old graphics card, but it still let me run it on ultra... even if it could only really run it on low lol.

[mrhenrik]

All ultra. My CPU is a slight bottleneck, getting 15-20FPS when zooming all in on my firing units with smoke mod, but damn - is it worth it? Sure is. ^^

[Alkarin]

play on all ultra but ive had to lower some of the other settings (like shadows and suck) down or off due to slight lag in 4v4 battles in multiplayer

[Lupu]

I can't set higher than medium, don't know why

[Xstar]

I can't set higher than medium, don't know why

Well, let me tell you. It is because Empire: Total War detects that your current graphics card cannot handle the higher settings.

[Lupu]

Well, let me tell you. It is because Empire: Total War detects that your current graphics card cannot handle the higher settings.

Wierd, because I could select and use them in the demo

l33tl4m3r, thanks, but I don't know the graphic memory of my video card, how do I find it out?
I'm a noob at scripts, so what does this mean?
gfx_video_memory 0; # gfx_video_memory <int>, Override available video memory (bytes) #

[Jingles]

Um, while we're on the subject of locked settings, can anyone tell me why my PC is forcing me to have particle effects on high? I want to put them down to medium, but the game just reverts back to high afterwards...

[l33tl4m3r]

I play on all high, but I turn off AA and HDR and a few other things because I'm not a fan of the effects.

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[COJOT]Alpha-Lupus;

You should check your ..\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts\preferences.empire_script.txt

If you can't set past medium you most likely need to check gfx_video_memory, I bet it is blank or set to a number that is not correct for the amount of video memory on your card. This happened to me, and once I set my video memory manually in this file, I was able to correctly set my video levels.

512mb = 536870912
256mb = 268435456

Let me know if this helps or if you need another byte amount for a different memory amount.

[l33tl4m3r]

Yep, that's your problem... It does not correctly see your video memory amount, happened on my sli'ed 8800gts's.

We need to find out your memory amount;

Click start, then run, then dxdiag.

On the second tab, tell me what kind of video card it says you have. Listed under "Name:"

Or;

Download GPU-Z and run it.

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

[ocelot397]

Depends, I can run on full ultra for low/mid scale battles, but large battles are a different story....

[klesh]

Once again, I cannot vote (that is really lame) but I play with all settings on medium ( the highest available for me), with the exception of shadows and grass which are off.