PC for Medieval 2 (call of warhammer mod)

**Vilihelm** · February 29, 2012, 04:14 AM

Hi,

really tired from lags during allied battles and sieges and decided to buy a new pc. Any tips about hardware? I want no lag in battles with 10 000 - 15 000 soldiers. No jerking of cammera movement on battle map..Anyone could help with complectation? dont have much knowledge about pc hardware things..

**Ybbon** · February 29, 2012, 04:43 AM

Never mind the knowledge, that is here, the bit you need is $$$ - so what is your budget... What do you currently have too and do you want to upgrade if possible (cheaper obviously) or just buy a new PC?

**irishron** · February 29, 2012, 08:40 AM

Odds are you're going to have some lag in huge battles just because how old the game engine is. As ybbon66 said, what is your budget?

**Vilihelm** · February 29, 2012, 09:52 AM

budget is about 700 - 800 eur. i will post my pc settings soon. well, my screen is up to date, hard disk is ok, so thinking about motherboard, procs, rams, v-card - the main things to influence game rate, or at least to improove it

because no matter to old game engine, i suppose it shouldnt lag when fighting 1 vs 1 with enemy, which has about 3000 soldiers (you have the same amount).

ok, so my current pc:

v- card: ATI radeon 3870
proc: AMD athalon 64 x2 dual core 5600+
rams: 4000

**irishron** · February 29, 2012, 05:27 PM

Price/performance,any upgrade wuold be for ETW, NTW, TWS2, methinks.

**Totalheadache** · February 29, 2012, 06:31 PM

can you wait a bit for new cards coming out? might be worth seeing what nvidia have to offer.

where exactly are you from so we can list parts...

something built around the i7-3820 if poss but could be tight with that budget we'll see.

ahh whats your screen size? (resolution).

**Vilihelm** · March 01, 2012, 12:59 AM

im from Lithuania, middle europe. Playing now on resolution 1024/1024 (dont really sure about second part, bu its must be close to it). WAR, wow, aion, even age of conan were almost without any lag even in big battles..
Well i think i dont need the best or newest equipment, just a higher lvl of these what i have now

**angus young** · March 01, 2012, 07:47 AM

Did you try Game Booster ? It s a free software, you launch it before playing, it shuts the applications who are not essentials for playing, and by god, you win 42% of power !

**Vilihelm** · March 01, 2012, 07:57 AM

hmm, tried, it was offered with mod Call of warhammer, but didnt noticed real changes..

**Totalheadache** · March 01, 2012, 08:57 AM

well it it were me i'd think about getting a 22inch screen and playing at a higher res...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...tid=949&subcat=

something like this. am not sure what your current screen is you'd have to link it....

then you want something like this and this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=6&subcat=1275

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...14&subcat=1341

dont know any lith sites but over @ www.guru.com/forums there's bound to be some lithuanian guru's that could help you out with advice etc...

**Vilihelm** · March 10, 2012, 05:31 AM

bought completly new pc, according your recommendations, no lag, best graphic, but faced new problem - the game streches horizontaly, all unit models are "fat"

checked widescreen in options, tried some other stuff - nothing changes

how to force the game look normaly?

**Totalheadache** · March 10, 2012, 09:28 AM

which monitor and gpu?

congrats btw hope you are liking it! interested to know which new parts you got...

p.s other games are working well? only things that i can think of are either in nvidia cp or catalyst. or in your pc control panel and screen options. or the game itself.

knowing the actual screen and gpu will help i hope.