Which CPU do i use?

[madking321]

I have both an fx8120, and an AMD Athlon X4 860K Black edition.

*Gasp* yes i use AMD, shame on me.

But, still, which CPU is the best for medieval 2 when over clocked?

[Spear Dog]

Either of these chips is capable of handling anything MTW2 can throw at you and there shouldn't be any need to overclock. MTW2, graphically, is 2 generations old by now (in Total War terms), in fact, I was having CTD problems with MTW2 on my i7-4790 which resolved when I stopped overclocking.

[madking321]

Either of these chips is capable of handling anything MTW2 can throw at you and there shouldn't be any need to overclock. MTW2, graphically, is 2 generations old by now (in Total War terms), in fact, I was having CTD problems with MTW2 on my i7-4790 which resolved when I stopped overclocking.

Well, i'm working with a gtx 660ti as a graphics card yet i get some serious slowdown on larger battles, so my thoughts are that it has to do with total wars poor multicore support which is why i'm asking.

[Frunk]

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[madking321]

Hello?

[Spear Dog]

^ I've never had slowdown with MTW2 and I first played it on a single core Pentium processor, irrc there's a thread around somewhere (mostly likely here in MTW2 tech forum) that explains how the dual cores are utilised how it relates to Total War engines and I don't think there was any performance issue pertaining to such. So, I can't really help you, I run FRAPS in the background of my game with no issue so it's not likely to be that, could heat build up be an issue?. All I can suggest is fiddle around with your graphics settings.