My game isn't running that well!

Hiya everyone, first of all a massively delayed thank you for helping me out last time on NapoleonTotal War with the problems I was having but unfortunatley I am still having problems. Everything runs but quite slowly like constant lag and even though I've been assured that my graphics card can run the game even on its highest settings , it doesn't look like it and I would like to know what I can do to help it run more smoothly and still look nice and shiny, cheers!

what grafics card do you use? and have u tried this http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=347970
also i think youre cpu might be it and having only 2gb of ram for vista is to little should have atleast 4

Post your dxdiag. The screenshot says the computer is minimum at best but how minimum.

I have an NVIDIA GeForce9400 GT and this is my dxdiag

Uninstall the RealTek sound drivers in Device Manager, reboot, then try it.

cool cheers brb in 5

err now I have no sound on my computer....after the reboot...



hang on after opening a song and trying to play it, it came up with installing RealTek and then the sound worked again, but surely thats just got rid of the stage of uninstalling it?

Did you try the game before trying the song?

hah no.....should i uninstall it again then give it a go?if it does work better when its uninstalled how on earth am i meant to hear anything on my pc?

You can see if they have newer drivers here http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/

Some are having better luck.

Can't update the drivers from that link for some reason, also during the week I'm going to buy about 2GB of RAM should that help my performance more?what else would I need to do to get my game running a lot better i.e like saiedz youtube commentary

More ram will help the game but not the sound.

Advice when Empire was released and may want to try it. In the preferences_script.txt, set sound channels to 64 or 128 and the sound cache to 300mb.

How do I get to there?sorry!

http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic...mpire-Napoleon

no items match my search?errr dont worry was being stupid hang on.sound channels was already 128 and cant find sound cache unless you mean audio memory size presumably?

I'd say that's what it is, just going from memory.

See if the new memory cures part of it, first.

Cool ok just about to see what will happen

Nothing changed at all, I tried to search napoleon on my computer but nothing showed up at all which made me wonder if the game had installed properly as it wasnt even in my steam appsdata cache, so i installed my game through the cd's and nothing still came up so im now installing through steam without the cds which is going to take about 16 hours because i only have 0.58 mb/s of download speed which is pretty shoddy but im hoping that maybe something will change and work?? also another thing i realised when trying to make my game run is that I cannot play any multiplayer matches what so ever but my internet is normally able to cope extrmely easily when playing online games including my xbox without lag so im not sure if that is the sole cause for my game not to work online....

Your internet speed is still three times faster than mine. Good luck.

wow i feel very sorry for you!! my service provider apparently guarantees up to 20 but noone i know who has the same provider has anywhere near that much with the highest being 3!!!but anyway thank you for the help and I will no doubt post back here with what happens and probably my impending failure