Atraveller
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I've heard Total War games scale pretty well with lower end machines, don't know if that's true.
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Total War: Rome 2 |OT| I Came, I Saw, I Came
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It is actually pretty true. I played a good chunk of Shogun 2 on a pretty crappy ASUS UL80VT laptop and it ran okay. The frame rate wasn't great in the battles but it ran well enough for me to get the jist of it. Obviously not the ideal way to play it, but CA aren't lying when they say their engine scales well.
They said that if you could handle Shogun 2 then Rome 2 should be no problem. Not on highest settings of course, but should still be decent.
I hope that is true, because my PC is towards the lower end of the specs they have listed and won't be able to upgrade until some time late next year.
I hope that is true, because my PC is towards the lower end of the specs they have listed and won't be able to upgrade until some time late next year.
It probably will be one year summer, the next winter. Would be really surprised if they have cut that out altogether.
Hope they have the guy who voiced Minsc in Baldur's Gate back doing the Eastern nations!
Atraveller
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So I can definitely run this with my laptop, I want to build myself a desktop PC next year.
If your laptop has a decent CPU and dedicated graphics card, then yeah likely on low settings. Of course no one can say anything definitive yet since they've made some big improvements to the engine and the game isn't out.
Atraveller
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i7 3610QM + GTX660m, I think I'm doing fine.
Atraveller
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You don't need to upgrade.
mcfishstick
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So close! I'm really liking the differences between factions' units. They really seem to have nailed the looks of each faction.
Can't wait!
Can't wait!
Decent? You'll crush this game. Overclocking would help of course. I plan to finally OC my new 4670K once I've had some time with the game.
NeoGeoOwner
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I need this game in my life. Should run just fine on my Alienware.
bamboobimbo
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Dude, I have a 2500k and a 6870 and i'm pretty confident on running it at high with some max and not dropping below 30 all that often. NTW and Shogun 2 run like butter.
lastplayed
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doubleplusgood
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I came, I saw, I subscribed. Great looking OP. Been looking forward to this game for a while now.
freezamite
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What about a Core i7 920 and an ATI HD5870? How do you thing it will perform???
You will definitely have to lower some settings, but you should be able to get it to run well. I would strongly consider overclocking your i7 920 if you haven't already though.
freezamite
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Thanks!!! Do you think that the CPU may act as a bottleneck? I thought that the GPU would be more troublesome!!!
I'll do as you say.
Yes, I think a CPU clock increase would be the biggest improvement you can make (for this game), especially if it's still at the 2.6 GHz stock. Ideally reaching 3.8 or 4.0 GHz would be great, and it isn't hard to do on air.
http://www.overclock.net/t/538439/guide-to-overclocking-the-core-i7-920-or-930-to-4-0ghz
This is a decent guide to walk you through some of it if you're unfamiliar with the process. Make sure everything is stable after you're done.
freezamite
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Thank you very much!!! It still runs at the stock 2.6 Ghz, and I will try to overclock it but I don't think I will go for 4 Ghz. 3-3.2 Ghz will be my goal.
Jonathan28
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I am currently replaying the first RTW in an attempt to invoke some nostalgia and I am having a ball. Using the House of Scipii I have destroyed the Numidians, Spanish and Carthigians, helped in the destruction of the Greeks by taking their last big city on Rhodes(the Brutii ROFLstomped them), drove the dirty Gauls out of central Spain so that the entire Iberian region and it's wealth belonged to me and at the moment, am about to perfectly coordinate a 6 legion invasion into Egypt against the orders of the Senate.
My Faction Leader holds the highest position in the Senate, so I don't care, especially since I can take the Egyptian cities in the Nile Delta, Cyprus and Central Egypt in one turn whilst also killing the Faction Heir who has stationed his army outside Alexandria. For 20 years my diplomats have bribed Egyptian armies into disbanding and bribed Family Members into joining my side, I have spent too long planning this, the Senate is NOT taking Egypt away from me like they did with Macedonia.
My Faction Leader holds the highest position in the Senate, so I don't care, especially since I can take the Egyptian cities in the Nile Delta, Cyprus and Central Egypt in one turn whilst also killing the Faction Heir who has stationed his army outside Alexandria. For 20 years my diplomats have bribed Egyptian armies into disbanding and bribed Family Members into joining my side, I have spent too long planning this, the Senate is NOT taking Egypt away from me like they did with Macedonia.
It's going to have a hard time beating Europa Universalis IV
Harry_Tequila
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Is it just me or has there been a distinct lack of media released for this? It seems like there are only one or two actual gameplay videos. It's making me a bit wary... :-\
They've released a few Let's Play videos in the past couple of months, take a look at CA's youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/thecreativeassembly
Well kinda just jumped on the hype train, bought it for 28 pounds / 34 euro's at gameplanet:
http://uk.gamesplanet.com/
Got a steamcode from it so pretty good deal!
http://uk.gamesplanet.com/
Got a steamcode from it so pretty good deal!
There have been loads of vidoes of the game, a few had a thread in Gaming. Its not like the game is super high profile (AKA FPS shooter style) so it doesn't get that much attention. I remember little from the Shogun 2 release, and that turned out great
Rome 2 is a steamworks title so you'll always get a Steam code.
Felix Lighter
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I am so pumped for this game. I'm just worried about my sleep schedule.
Ahh I thought there we boxed versions as well?
Which will need Steam to work, just like Shogun 2 and Empire(I think).
And Dota but God damn what a great year!
Canis lupus
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I got the TW games up until Shogun 2 at a steam sale but its so hard to get into. What I particularly disliked was that my troops in full muster just flee the battlefield. I'll give it another try, and september is one hell of a month.
I'll wait for the reviews this time. I love CA&Sega for keeping this unique RTS alive, but they just can't get the AI right. I had high hopes for Shogun 2 but was disappointed by the cheating and unchallenging AI(most of the challenge came from them cheating as well).
Hoping they'll get it right this time.
Hoping they'll get it right this time.
Atraveller
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I must admit, I'm new to the franchise, anything a newcomer should know?
Legato.Reborn-
Member
Maybe watch the beginner videos that CA made, should sorta get you up to speed.
Atraveller
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What's a doomstack?
RibbedHero
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Great thread title, though I've always preferred the more subtle "Veni, Vidi, Veni".
I was gonna go with that, but this one was too much of a headturner to ignore. Definitely want to get more people checking out the franchise.
GAF seems to have a disproportionate amount of Total War players relative to the actual fanbase/amount of people playing it.