Playing Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots

[Kadarin]

My system is a 2-3 year old Athlon XP 1800+/A7V266E (1GB PC2100) system running an original GeForce 3. It runs RON just fine (unless I've got lots of units moving around on the screen), but it's having serious trouble with the expansion pack. So the question is, would I benefit most right now from just a videocard upgrade, or from a CPU/MB upgrade? I have a suspicion that dropping a 9800pro would probably solve the problem, but not sure I want to spend the money. What would be a good alternative that would still provide vastly improved performance over the GF3?

Thanks!

 

[dwendel]

Hi,
If you have framerate turned on what does it show and do you have vsync turned off under video properties? IU run a old Ti 4200 and get framerates of over 100.

 

[Khyron320]

Well rise of nations is entirely 2D if you dont believe me check the system specs it doesnt even ask for "geforce2 and up" or anything simply 16mb of video ram. This means your video card isnt doing very much at all.

Upgrade your CPU

Direct from M$:
Retail version of Rise of Nations
Microsoft® Windows® 98/Me/XP/2000
PC with 500 MHz equivalent or higher processor
128 MB of system RAM
750 MB available hard disk space
8x speed or faster CD-ROM drive
16 MB video card required
Sound card, speakers or headphones required for audio
Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
56 Kbps modem or LAN for online/multiplayer