Smooth as Butter

[dgard20]

I hope someone can help answer this. I just found the demo for Medieval II and it is AWESOME. My question is about frame rate. Why does this run fantastic and American Blue & Gray and others not as good. Blue & Gray is very choppy and yes I've adjusted graphics.

They is alot more going on in Medieval than the others. Especially Blue & Gray. I hope this is just the way it is for all so I dont think it's me alone.

[Ishan]

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Apples & Oranges my friend. Medieval 2 is an old game while Blue and Gray i presume is an ETW mod you are talking about is based on advanced 3D-Engine that sucks more from your graphics card.

[dgard20]

wheres that

sorry I found

Ok but that doesn't make sense to me. If Medieval II is older I would think it would look like crap. Why wouldn't the new 3d engine work

[irishron]

Graphics card and ingame settings have a lot to do with it.
The 3d engine used for RTW/BI/Alex and updated for Medieval2/Kingdoms was developed about 2003. The Warscape engine for ETW/NTW and now updated for Shogun2 was developed in 2008.

I have a XFX 9800GT 512mb at 1280 x 1024 resolution. I can run Medieval2 and Rome maxxed smooth in huge battles. I can run Empire high, maybe some ultra but not have tried with some real nice stuff disabled becaus of being fps killers for this card, and reading the updated graphics specs for Shogun2, anything above low maybe medium, I'm buying a new card.

This s the difference of what Ishan calls apples and oranges.

[sapped]

irishron

whats the max amount of troops on the field u can have while having a smooth gameplay?
since u have been here a long time and all

my rig is pretty new but always have horrible performance when having more than 5000 on the field
also whats the average max troop people on this forum usually have when having smooth frames

[irishron]

I never have counted troops on the battlefield but that's being me. I do play with huge units if that helps. I have been able to fight in a snowstorm smoothly. I also don't worry about the eyecandy even though I have it turned up.

AMD Phenom II Black 3GHZ.
4gb OZC 1066 ram.
XFX 9800GT 512mb graphics card.
19'" monitor = 1280 x 1024 resolution.
Win 7, 64bit, UAC diabled, login with ownership rights on everything on C: drive.

[sapped]

how many stacks do u fight with?
i usually get lag if its more than 3 stacks (my force plus enemy's) on huge.
but i have my graphics really down.

i am using vista 64bit, uac disabled as well, will upgrading to win7 give improvement?

also i forgot to mention before, i currently use 6gb ram. i purchased them separately, (2 1gb slot together and 2 2gb slot together)
they are different brands as well, i don't know whether their frequency is different or not but will this give me negative performance?
will i be better off with just 4gb ram?

[irishron]

Tbh honest, the most I've had was 8 full units plus General versus 20 full units of rebels. I don't fight many battles. Most of mine have been to test units to what or what not needs to be done.

[Ishan]

Stacks depends upon GPU\CPU. They need to be buffed not the RAM to overkill the game.