RS II: Post your pictures here!

[stackero]

Parthian 1-turn campaign. Seleucids are real badasses. Not only they have shrinked the kingdom of Armenia, but they are also giving a hard time to Ptolemaics. Parthian Kingdom is on the defensive stance, repelling invasion stack after stack. Some recent victories gave some breath and replenished main Parthian army made invasion on their own into Seleucid's teritorry.

Expedition near the Rhagae (Media region) lead into an underpowered offensive battle 1 vs 2 stacks. Brave parthians, even when outnumbered 1:2,5, due to nearly endless volleys of arrows and roliing tanks-cataphracts achieved desicive victory.

But celebrations where short. Travelling merchants informed about another enemy stack closing into parthians positions. Desperate in situation and not fully recovered after previous battle parthians ralied a defence on a hilly terrain. Cavalry was deployed on a flat surface and archers took positions in the hill. „They will never reach us and we will give them a warm welcome“ – said parthian general.

Here's some pics of how pre-battle looked like:












Plan didn't go so well, because of game mechanics archers had a hard time shooting from above: some arrows were absorbed by the edge of the hill, so when enemy closed in, archers had to manouver to a lower ground.


Aftermath. Though parthians were expecting only to tear down enemy forces and then retreat back to the hills, massive seleucid forces were crushed and another victory was achieved!

Unfortunately, after this battle parthians were attacked by another small stack of Seleucids. Though I could have won easily, I was afraid of CTD if I might play this battle, so I used autoresolve and remainings of parthian army were crushed like bugs. The saddest part was that my hero general was killed .

Nice. Awesome fight, but as I read you were fighting multiple armies I fear you too would end your battle with CTD. With My older PC I always had to play with "unlimited men on battlefield off" for about 1 in 5 of those type of battles ended with CTD.

Bummer about having to end that way. But let us know on occasion how's the campaign progressing. Pictures would be nice when possible. Some of us are junkies for such.

Good gaming.

[tone]

What settings and what rig?

[TuCoT]

Let's continue with some Romans:

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[Vardan the Great]

Guys who can send pics(or a pic) of recruitable units of Armenian faction in RSII.You can just send me unit card of all the units in one pic.

[LegioXGemina]

Hey Tone.

Have i7 920
6gb corsair Tri-channel memory
Ati 5780 grahics card
everything on high/huge units

i have been able to get up to 60k but lag city until alot of men die.

[tylerman29]

Hey Tone.

Have i7 920
6gb corsair Tri-channel memory
Ati 5780 grahics card
everything on high/huge units

i have been able to get up to 60k but lag city until alot of men die.

How? I have:
I7-930
6GB DDR3 Tri=Channel
GTX480
everything maxed except for unit detail on high.

And i get EXTREME lag with only 5k units on the field....the game is unplayable for me...

[Praetorian121]

How? I have:
I7-930
6GB DDR3 Tri=Channel
GTX480
everything maxed except for unit detail on high.

And i get EXTREME lag with only 5k units on the field....the game is unplayable for me...

In launcher turn of high res units, i also have lagg, when i turn of this, games runs great.

[carbonem vestigium]

In launcher turn of high res units, i also have lagg, when i turn of this, games runs great.

I kept the units high res but lowered the vegetation to medium and it runs perfect. Helps to have 4 gigs of RAM

[tone]

You're doing something wrong then. There are people with much worse systems than yours who are getting way better performance.

Have you got units on highest or something like that?
Background tasks?
What settings are you using? Did you set vegetation to highest in the launcher? If so then that might be the problem.
If antialiasing is on in the game then switch it off and use your video control panel's override.

[Tony83]

I have an i7-965, with 4 GB RAM, and 2 x GTX 295's in SLI, and my performance witt both RTR and RS is very similar. With everything maxed out my FPS can vary between 6 and the high teens, which results in a fair bit of lag.

However, setting the units to High, instead of Very High, and antialiasing to Low, it goes up to between 30 and 45 fps. As the eye, in theory cannot differentiate above 25 fps, no problems or lag are perceived.

It's not the fault of your PC or RS, it's more to do with RTW itself. It's an old game and not particulalrly designed to cope with the high resolutions that we are throwing at it, so it causes a bit of a log jam when processing all the data. This is why moving to the MedII engine is such an attractive proposition. It, at least, can cope with and process the data stream better than RTW, even if it doesn't support multi-core processing.

[tylerman29]

You're doing something wrong then. There are people with much worse systems than yours who are getting way better performance.

Have you got units on highest or something like that?
Background tasks?
What settings are you using? Did you set vegetation to highest in the launcher? If so then that might be the problem.
If antialiasing is on in the game then switch it off and use your video control panel's override.

1.It's set to high unit detail
2.nope
3.I will try doing that
4.Tried this...no fps difference from the in-game or control panel really.

[Musashi]

1.It's set to high unit detail
2.nope
3.I will try doing that
4.Tried this...no fps difference from the in-game or control panel really.

What is your resolution? I have found that usign smaller resolution that I have on my desktop has a slowing effect on the grafics. I personally have 1680-1050 on my desktop and at that resolution the game also works better.
I had the same proplem on my laptop when I whas using that to play RTW and it too got worked out better with higher resolution.
Try it out.

[tone]

Although it's not entirely about the engine......it's more about the difference in processing requirements between:

1) thousands of 3D unit models, which having units on highest detail requires since no sprites are used
OR
2) thousands of 2D pictures and maybe a few hundred 3D unit models when unit detail is set to high.

I'm talking about the in-game video settings here. Using hi-res unit models in the launcher should only have a relatively small effect on performance as all you're changing is the distance at which the 3D models become rendered as 2D sprites - still in most battles, the vast majority of units will be seen as sprites from a distance if you have the video settings set on high for units.

[Enasteron]

A few shots from my Spartan Campaign (siege of Olympia)

(Dark Bloom On, Everything on High, Antialiasing X2 on i7 860 overclocked to 3.2 4gb ram, nvidia gt 240 1gb, ) H/H ALEX

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PS: The battles are phenomenal! Smarter AI, Longer times, balanced units, a real charm.

[tone]

Great shots. Have you edited them at all? They look like some sort of filter has been used. If not then the bloom setting is looking way better than I thought it would.

[Enasteron]

No No editing at all, apart from auto contrast in photoshop. It really looks wonderful in my setup. I turn it off only in the campaign map to see the scrolls

[Leeham991]

From the siege of Genoa. Unfortunately I kept getting immersed in this new, stupidly brilliant RS2 and forgot to take many screens. xD
This is the second deployment of the battle. I'd been fighting for about 20 minute the Carthaginian intercept party which was about 2000 men strong, I'd beaten them and sent 800-1000 of them running back to the rest of the army.
I used my standard battle tactic which is to hit them with missiles where possible and basically engage the enemy on a standing front while keeping most of my army in reserve roles while I put my cavalry and end cohorts around to hit the flanks. I found that Roman cohorts are very good at holding a line, even if my line is only 6 men thick and the enemy has piled their whole army onto it

On an artistic note: I like how the grass only just fails to cover up the dead as my army straightens out and deploys the artillery to administer the counter-attack. :3

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Also another note: The army I used had already defeated Hannibal and repelled a Carthaginian raiding force from a Bridge in northern Italy, the low unit numbers are not from this battle (ya, I know. This is turning into my wonder legion :o)

Also @ Thoas: + rep for having a PC made of OWN and a talent for artistic photography x3

[Enasteron]

Also @ Thoas: + rep for having a PC made of OWN and a talent for artistic photography x3

Thank you so much for the kind words and the rep. I will return the favor asap (when I'll be allowed to give rep -I'm new here)

[Taelok]

Playing on H/H:



Doh! Thoroughly trounced. Great fun though

Also, I have Dark bloom enabled, but it seems as though it's not as dark as ive seen here on the forums?

Another also, pressing the edit preferences file on the launcher brings up an error saying it can't find the file, where should it be? I'm running ALX.exe

[Taelok]

Also, I have Dark bloom enabled, but it seems as though it's not as dark as ive seen here on the forums?

Another also, pressing the edit preferences file on the launcher brings up an error saying it can't find the file, where should it be? I'm running ALX.exe

Bumping my own post as it seems to have been lost at the end of the page