The New Laptop & MTW2

**z3n** · July 02, 2012, 04:05 PM

thoughts about mtw2 and these specs? Or experiences? I definitely know I will be getting this and I'm curious about the compatibility with mtw2. if it doesn't work well, I have skyrim and the witcher 2 ready to rumble.

3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3920XM processor (8MB Cache, up to 4.1GHz Overclocked*)

8GB Dual Channel XMP DDR3 at 1866MHz

Dual 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - SLI® Enabled

768GB SSD RAID 0 (3x 256GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD)

(if this is the wrong area, my bad. haven't seen any other forums dedicated to this sort of question)

**Sitalkes** · July 02, 2012, 06:29 PM

The Medieval 2 Total War Technical Help forum is the fourth line down from the top of the screen in this forum. There is a sticky devoted to new computer recommendations at http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=107263 A friend of mine has a relatively new computer with 8 Gb RAM and 64 bit Windows 7 and M2TW runs fine on it.

**Delvecchio1975** · July 03, 2012, 05:21 AM

my laptop is much weaker than yours, and it runs MTW2 fine ....

**Duncan III** · July 03, 2012, 06:56 AM

You should be able to run MIITW at the highest settings with that hardware- my desktop is relatively low powered,

( core i3-530, 4Gb ddr3 RAM, no graphics processor or SSD) yet it runs the game smoothly at high settings and large unit sizes using the processor's integrated graphics.

**z3n** · July 03, 2012, 09:16 AM

The problem is an factory overclocked i7-3920XM may be too good for an older game like MTW2. Can MTW2 multi-thread and take full advantage of that many processors?? From what I hear in RTW only has single core capability but MTW2 can take advantage of dual-core. So my real question is do I have to many for it?

@duncan III do you know if mtw2 is taking advantage all your processor or just two cores?

If you or anyone else could tell me that, it would solve my dilemma.

**Delvecchio1975** · July 03, 2012, 10:08 AM

last i heard MTW2 does NOT use dual core, and sits entirely on one core ... Empire is the first total war game to use dual core!

**z3n** · July 03, 2012, 10:42 AM

hmm, I can say for my dual core (upgraded) dell d820 there is a 10-25 percent increase in performance compared to using one core. I've been using that poor laptop for a long,long time! hence me buying a new one.

interesting information though.

**Delvecchio1975** · July 04, 2012, 10:50 AM

You might get a slight increase in performance because your laptop uses the second core for other backup processes, freeing more on your one core to dedicate to MTW2?