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

[Comte Regnault de Blois]

I paid £200 for my computer and it runs on Extreme with little to no lag

Apparently I saved £1800.

[alQamar]

Well your statements are very vague Cornte. If you would give me an overview of your hardware setup for 200 pounds and a result of the forest benchmark on extreme this would be worth. Otherwise it is just not an useable statement.

[Keiji99]

I can't seem to find the i5-3475S, they may only be available in Europe it seems. I might just end up going with a 3470.

[alQamar]

ok that would be a good price / performance aswell. Have fun.

[John-Paul-Jones]

Okay. So I have a laptop that runs Shogun great on High and was wondering how it would work with Rome2. I'm not optimistic but thought I'd get some confirmation anyway. I'm not very tech savvy so please be kind.

HP Pavilion dv6
OS 64 Bit Windows 8
Intel Core i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz
RAM- 8.00 GB
Radeon HD 6770M

I'm not sure what other specs are needed so if I'm missing anything let me know.

Thanks guys. It's my first post so I hope to stick around.

[alQamar]

It will work ok. I guess on medium-high settings in campaign because your slow Intel CPU

[John-Paul-Jones]

It will work ok. I guess on medium-high settings in campaign because your slow Intel CPU

This was directed at me? I'm actually pleasantly surprised if I could run on medium-high. I was kind of expecting to have to run on low. Like I mentioned, Shogun2 runs very well on High with lag only coming when there are 4 full stack armies on the field at once. So you're saying my 'rig' will handle Rome2?

[panzerschreck]

hello; I am thinking in buying a new pc (destop), I know that we have to wait the end of all the patches, I want to play with the biggest armies possible, without lags.

What kind of rig, should I buy to play with 20 000 men and more on the battlefield?
For the CPU I was thinking in a i7 4570 and for the GPU nvidia 770. What kind of memory should I have?

thanks

[alQamar]

8GB memory 1866 cl9 fits enough. Rome 2 cannot handle more than 4 anyway as it is 32bit limited.

[Keiji99]

Hey, should I get a single 4GB stick or 2x2 sticks? I was thinking about getting the 4GB stick in case I wanted to upgrade, not sure I will or not. I will mostly be playing RTS games, like Total War, Starcraft, Planetary Annihilation, etc... Would it be worth upgrading to 8GB?

[alQamar]

Hey, should I get a single 4GB stick or 2x2 sticks? I was thinking about getting the 4GB stick in case I wanted to upgrade, not sure I will or not. I will mostly be playing RTS games, like Total War, Starcraft, Planetary Annihilation, etc... Would it be worth upgrading to 8GB?

Be sure to have always 2 same RAM (same specs and likely vendor) so you gain a lot performance (dual channel)

[Keiji99]

Just found something worth noting. The SeaSonic 520W PSU is NOT Compatible with Haswell. That means the 4670 will not work with that PSU.

[alQamar]

Just found something worth noting. The SeaSonic 520W PSU is NOT Compatible with Haswell. That means the 4670 will not work with that PSU.

No but it means you cannot use the latest standby mode from Haswell and deactivate it in the uefi

[alQamar]

Yes^^ but you should avoid taking extraordinary cpu loads like big stacks and blood pack

[Keiji99]

Wow, RAM is really getting expensive.

[Dynamo11]

Wow, RAM is really getting expensive.

The factory that made a lot of the chips got flooded so the market had to push prices up to make up for it.

[Velho]

What i can expect from this rig?

Asus M5A78L/USB3 760G AM3+ ATX Motherboard
AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz 8-core AM3+ Processor
G.Skill RipjawsZ DDR3 1600 MHZ 4x 4GB = 16GB RAM
Asus GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5 Nvidia GeForce. GPU
Windows 7 64-Bit
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 64MB 7200RPM Harddisk
Corsair CX600W V2 CX-series 600W Powersupply
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 1366/1156/11 Cooler
Antec Eleven Hundred ATX-case
And DVD+/RW Drive

[alQamar]

Hi, you should be able to run extreme preset easily and enable all additional features aswell as Antialiasing. If you encounter lags you need to downgrade unit detail to high.

[Velho]

Hi, you should be able to run extreme preset easily and enable all additional features aswell as Antialiasing. If you encounter lags you need to downgrade unit detail to high.

At this setup what is the bottleneck part that i should change after sometime in future?

[alQamar]

there is no hardware available that can run Rome 2 without a bottleneck. CPU is the bottleneck for everyone. The game is horribly made compared to Shogun 2.