Build a PC for Rome 2 / Hardware Recommendations and Advice Thread

[BlueSan]

So what have your heard and from which cliff would you suggest I throw myself ?

[alQamar]

I am not allowed to publish details yet.

[BlueSan]

Too far away, gladius and gravity will suffice. But on a serious note, this was a good punch in the face

[BlueSan]

Than at least name the cliff

[alQamar]

I'd suggest the Kreidefelsen on Rügen island. Heard about some people executed themselves successful.

[alQamar]

Sorry unlikely to CA I am honest and don't give much on marketing.

[BlueSan]

In that case nice bunch of guys those CA - probably from the Iceni tribe, they were known for such atrocities

[alQamar]

hi everyone who else got an account on totalwar.com aswell please support my thread

Why we do not get official information about the announced hardware optimisations?

[Odium]

i7 860
250 ssd
7950
8 gb RAM
Win 7
650 Corsair power supply
Asus P7P55-M

I just got the SSD and 7950 but I am now worried about the CPU. I thought that the 860 was fine and I have had no problems running games at all since I have had it. A couple times when I have to turn down the graphics I had just thought it was my old 5850 slowing me down.

So you are saying my 860 might be the thing holding me back? That is very sad. I just spent $400 on the GPU and SSD and I don't think that the wife would be happy about dropping another $400 on CPU, mobo, and RAM.

I play at 1600 x 1080 or whatever that is so 720p or something. Should I upgrade the CPU, mobo, and RAM now also. I don't want to do the upgrade only for Rome but I also want to have a good gaming experiece with Rome since I already spent money for it.

[alQamar]

Can you please run the benchmarks with your config would be great odium. Thanks a lot. The results would also give a better base if a cpu upgrade is giving you a huge leap.

Recently I was able to prevent an upgrade for another community member. Not all "old" cpus are slow.

[Odium]

posted my results in your thread. Thank you.

[Biggus Splenus]

That's a beastly GPU, but the CPU is fairly average, and less than average for TW.

[Jmonstra]

That's a beastly GPU, but the CPU is fairly average, and less than average for TW.

In what way? Minimun reqs put the CPU speed at 2.6 MHz and mine goes far beyond that.

[Aruberikku]

In what way? Minimun reqs put the CPU speed at 2.6 MHz and mine goes far beyond that.

AMD processors perform poorly in TW games.
You can check the performance of some AMD CPUs here.

[Jmonstra]

AMD processors perform poorly in TW games.
You can check the performance of some AMD CPUs here.

Oh. Good to know. Luckily (I think?) my monitor doesn't support that kind of resolution, so hopefully it will be a little kinder on my apparently handicapped CPU.

[alQamar]

Oh. Good to know. Luckily (I think?) my monitor doesn't support that kind of resolution, so hopefully it will be a little kinder on my apparently handicapped CPU.

Yes that should help of course.

[Irishman]

My new Comp pieces arrived today (just in time). My build:

Rosewill Challenger Case
AsRock Z87 Extreme6
Intel 4670k
GTX 770 (evga superclocked)
16G Ram
850w Power
250G Samsung ssd
2TB Seagate HD

I've been saving for a while for it lol.

[ahowl11]

Thank you everyone for the help, I'll look to upgrade my PSU as well as GPU after testing the game out

[AussieWolf]

Hey Guys,

Would love your input on the below specs in how my system will run RTW2. I built this rig soley for this game

CPU - Intel Core i7-4770k 3.50ghz

GPU - 2 nvidia geforce GTX 770 4gig gaming eddition OC MSI

Mobo -

MSI z87

RAM - Kingston 16gig 1600 ram

SSD - 250 Sata SSD

HDD - SATA 3 TB 7200 rpm

PSU - 80+ gold 850w

Case - CM Storm Trooper gaming chassis

Would love your input

[Manuel I Komnenos]

Hey Guys,

Would love your input on the below specs in how my system will run RTW2. I built this rig soley for this game

CPU - Intel Core i7-4770k 3.50ghz

GPU - 2 nvidia geforce GTX 770 4gig gaming eddition OC MSI

Mobo -

MSI z87

RAM - Kingston 16gig 1600 ram

SSD - 250 Sata SSD

HDD - SATA 3 TB 7200 rpm

PSU - 80+ gold 850w

Case - CM Storm Trooper gaming chassis

Would love your input

Why 2 GTX 770s and not one GTX 780? I've heard there are some issues with SLI and in most sites I've been, people are recommending one powerful GPU, rather than two medium ones (if you could call GTX 770 medium anyway!).