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Rome: Total War with 9800 Pro

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blacktankofhopelessness

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Hi,

Just got Rome: Total War and it seems a fantastic game like all the reviews have said. I am a bit disappointed with my graphics performance though. On highest detail AA off I am experiencing choppy graphics when a battle commences. My systems specs are listed below, am I severely CPU-bottlenecked?

I expect a fps like Half-Life 2 to run more smoothly, but does CPU and memory play a bigger role when it comes to Realtime-strategy titles like Rome where big landscapes and hundreds, if not thousands little troops have to be rendered?
 
the demo ran without glitches on my system, see sig. I'm thinking its your cpu. You should be running at 1024x768 though, anything higher and it may be your gpu. You are also going to need a lot of available memory. The AI is handled by the cpu, and the shear number of units is going to bring it to its knees.
 
The AI is handled by the cpu, and the shear number of units is going to bring it to its knees.
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I figured that. I'm running the game at 1024x768 32bit. I'm going to try and lower some of the texture-detail settings, but I don't want to! This game is too beautiful!!!
 
I've been looking at an upgrade for a couple of months now so I'm probably going for the 2400+ Mobile as soon as I'm sitting on a little pile of money... which should be soon. I just wanted to know if the game is as CPU intensive as I suspected.

I need to pick this game up. Is there a steep learning curve?
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Have you played Medieval: Total War? If not, no big issue. This game is a lot different even though you will find the main elements similar to previous Total War titles. Rome is just so much better on all levels! The learning curve is not as steep as it could have been, the tutorial helps a lot here. It's excellent!
 
see if you can sell the motherboard and cpu for $50 to a friend or something.

Then you could step up to A64 2800 and a cheap 754 mobo.

Although Mobile at 2500mhz is probably the best bang for the buck for cheap. The problem is that I dont think your motherboard goes higher than 220FSB and it might not allow you to adjust higher multipliers....so check that out.
 
The problem is that I dont think your motherboard goes higher than 220FSB
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I'm not even trying to raise it to that. The ASUS A7V8X lacks a PCI/AGP Bus master freq. lock so raising the FSB is out of the question right now. This is not an overclocking mobo ;-)

None of my friends would buy my crap for 50$ so no there too. But don't worry, I've figured out weeks ago which system I want when I get the money.

 
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