Need an Honest no-BS Opinion on Napoleon TW

This game is $29.99 on Steam and I'm trying to resist buying it due to a bad experience with the Napoleon demo in terms of frame rate issues and my current frame rate issues with Shogun 2, which I own.

The Napoleon Demo ran pretty poorly for me on my HD 4850 1GB, Phenom 2 X3 triple core @ 3.8GHz and 4GB DDR3. Shogun 2 is running terribly for me. Barely playable during battles.

It appears the Warscape engine does not like my computer.

So I am hesitant to buy Napoleon right now.

Also I heard the game had a problem with ATI drivers 10.6 and up, any truth to that?

The game is for me the best opus of the Total War serie. The graphics are very nice and the gameplay smooth.

If you have a hard time running the game, i suggest improving your computer or staying up to date with your graphic card drivers.
I have an ATI card with the latests drivers and no problems so far. In the past i got few issues with Napoleon Total War but the latest drivers are just fine and solves the problems.

The game actually needs a good computer to work with maximum details setting. I have a decent computer and can only run it with enough fps at medium level of graphical quality. I put the game on ultra details only for screenshots taking.

If you are going to buy the game, i could only suggest to not buy it on Steam, the price is too expensive. And as the game is a "steam" game, you can enter your boxed cd keys in Steam anytime without problem.
I suggest Amazon or retailers like for low prices.

Hey Blom89,

I was in the same situation, debating whether or not to purchase it. What ended up convincing me was that I found it for $9.99 on ebay. (A Steam "Game Code"). So, I figured, hell, ten bucks to try it:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Napoleon-Total-Wa...item1c19b8a9c9

(P.S. This is my first post on TWcenter, so if by posting this link I'm in violation of forum rules, please forgive me, I'll remove it. I'm not the seller.)

It's a digital download, so I bought the game code, then I downloaded the game via steam.

I've got an old warhorse, 3.0Ghz, Geforce 7600GT, 2 Gig RAM, so, as expected, the game limits me to medium settings, which is cool.

It's not graphical extravagance that keeps me interested in total war anyways, it's the system of play, the uniqueness of merging campaign+battle, the epicness of battles, that decisive moment where you kill the enemy general and his army start to crumble... ;-)

I've only played for a couple hours, the tutorials+a battle or two and I'm really excited about it. I just played through a battle (Agricole i think) where after a scant 60 seconds or so my general, Napoleon himself was wounded by a longrange Austrian cannonball while crossing a marshy chokepoint ... Needless to say, his bodyguard routed, my morale was shaken, and my army would push forward only to melt to withering Austrian rifle fire.

Buy it dude.

Originally Posted by Michael Clarke

Hey Blom89,

I was in the same situation, debating whether or not to purchase it. What ended up convincing me was that I found it for $9.99 on ebay. (A Steam "Game Code"). So, I figured, hell, ten bucks to try it:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Napoleon-Total-Wa...item1c19b8a9c9

(P.S. This is my first post on TWcenter, so if by posting this link I'm in violation of forum rules, please forgive me, I'll remove it. I'm not the seller.)

It's a digital download, so I bought the game code, then I downloaded the game via steam.

I've got an old warhorse, 3.0Ghz, Geforce 7600GT, 2 Gig RAM, so, as expected, the game limits me to medium settings, which is cool.

It's not graphical extravagance that keeps me interested in total war anyways, it's the system of play, the uniqueness of merging campaign+battle, the epicness of battles, that decisive moment where you kill the enemy general and his army start to crumble... ;-)

I've only played for a couple hours, the tutorials+a battle or two and I'm really excited about it. I just played through a battle (Agricole i think) where after a scant 60 seconds or so my general, Napoleon himself was wounded by a longrange Austrian cannonball while crossing a marshy chokepoint ... Needless to say, his bodyguard routed, my morale was shaken, and my army would push forward only to melt to withering Austrian rifle fire.

Buy it dude.

I'll be honest with you, but buying a PC game off e-bay was something you should never have done and you're very very lucky.

Anyway Blom, I'm surprised a 4850 can't play Napoleon, even on lowest settings? Maybe you can try overclocking it. Reinstall your drivers or something. I'm running Catalyst 10.6 and no problems here.

Originally Posted by Blom89

This game is $29.99 on Steam and I'm trying to resist buying it due to a bad experience with the Napoleon demo in terms of frame rate issues and my current frame rate issues with Shogun 2, which I own.

The Napoleon Demo ran pretty poorly for me on my HD 4850 1GB, Phenom 2 X3 triple core @ 3.8GHz and 4GB DDR3. Shogun 2 is running terribly for me. Barely playable during battles.

It appears the Warscape engine does not like my computer.

So I am hesitant to buy Napoleon right now.

Also I heard the game had a problem with ATI drivers 10.6 and up, any truth to that?

I'm running an Athlon II 5600+ 2.9ghz
2gb 800mhz DDR2
Asus Nvidia 7800 GTX + 512

i can run Napoleon on shader model 3, unit settings to ultra, no shadows and medium buildings, grass etc.
mine runs big battles fine, only really slowing when the smoke gets really thick and i'm zoomed right in.
how is my pc faster then yours? are you running everything on ultra?
Napleon does eat pc's but if your willing to sacrifice some settings you'll honestly be fine with it, your pc should eat mine alive.

I bought it for £5 in a sale, figured I couldn't go wrong. As far as Vanilla goes I can't comment, but I've been playing with the Europe in Conflict Mod and it's the best TW experience I've had, I think, and I've been playing since release day of the first Shogun.

Battles are more tactical than ever given the manner of warfare; the diplomacy, at least with the EIC mod, works; there's plenty unit variety; the nature of the campaigns are structured so that the AI has a clear goal rather than "stop player" or "win slowly" and as a result the challenge is far greater; the grand campaign map is plenty big, still allows for trade/naval empires of a sort though trade nodes-this is the best compromise between this and the extra theatres, which the AI just couldn't "get" and as a result were easily exploited-to win the seas on this map requires a lot of hard work for a change and is not just an easy, instant win option; the General unit makes sense for the first time in any TW game, and the replenishment and attrition mechanics make well planned wars worthwhile and strategic; and the research/government type stuff is all there and plenty fun. It's a very polished, working version of Empire, basically, and, with the EIC mod at least, frequently delivers.

I can run the game on everything on Ultra, highest shaders, with a Core 2 Duo 2.3, 4 gigs of Ram and a Radeon 4890 1024. Looks beautiful. My drivers are up to date, and while I'll happily concede there might be issues there, as testified by folk, I honestly don't notice them.

Pull the trigger dude. Its a great game for $30, god knows I have spent more money on worst pieces of crap.

Well, NTW run fine with my computer (quad core 3.2gh, Nvidia gtx 275, 4 gg ram DDR3) but i love epic battle... so i changed unit size (398 men for line infanterie with all in one mod)... At the beggining when i tried it, the battles were lagging... I didn t want to change the setting and i tryed this :

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=347970

I tryed several patch and found my happiness... Now i can play with very huge army, in HD, ultra texture, all the other setting in high, except the AA (because with AA i ve got a lot of lagg).

similar setup here, but DDR2 and X3@3.1, 4850.

NTW plays the best by far out of the warscape stuff here, though I only tried the demo of S2 (it didn't work very well compared to Nap.)

vanilla NTW is not worth the money, but i tried some mods and i had to this time cca150 hours of FUN with it(so steam says),
occasional CTDs and bugs are not gamebreaking for me