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Please,can you give me the minimum requirements for WIA??
I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite with Intel Celeron M CPU 1,4Ghz and 512 MB Ram and with an ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series graphic chipset with 64 MB Ram.I have a virtual memory with 2GB and a page file with 2GB.
With this system I could even play EU III and EU:Rome,but I cannot play AACW because I got graphical problems with the map performance.So I think that WIA would have the same problems like AACW.But there is still some hope.

heartly greetings

Hohenlohe

Hohenlohe wrote:Please,can you give me the minimum requirements for WIA??
I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite with Intel Celeron M CPU 1,4Ghz and 512 MB Ram and with an ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series graphic chipset with 64 MB Ram.I have a virtual memory with 2GB and a page file with 2GB.
With this system I could even play EU III and EU:Rome,but I cannot play AACW because I got graphical problems with the map performance.So I think that WIA would have the same problems like AACW.But there is still some hope.

heartly greetings

Hohenlohe

Hohenlohe, do you have me on the ignore list at si-games? I already posted the minimum requirements there... http://www.si-games.com/forums/showpost.php?p=440637&postcount=34

O Lord! Dear dooya,I would never set you on an ignore list anywhere,but it seems that I have overseen that post,sorry...*duckandcover*

thank you

Hohenlohe,who is ashamed...*sigh*

And for those who don't do german forums...

Minimum Requirements
Processor: Intel Pentium or AMD, 1500 MHz
RAM: 1024 MB
Graphic Card: 128 MB vRAM, DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound Card: 16-bits, DirectX 9.0c compatible (DirectMusic compliant)
CD Rom: x 8
Peripherals: Microsoft compatible keyboard and mouse
Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, Vista
Hard Disk: 2000 MB free disk space
DirectX: Version 9.0c

Recommended Requirements
Processor: Intel Pentium IV or AMD Athlon, 2000 MHz
RAM: 1024 MB (1536 Mb of RAM for Vista)
Graphic Card: 128 Mb vRAM, DirectX 9.0c compatible 256 Mb
Sound Card: 16-bits, DirectX 9.0c compatible (DirectMusic compliant)
CD Rom: x 8
Peripherals: Microsoft compatible keyboard and mouse
Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, Vista (2048 Mb of RAM for Vista)
Hard Disk: 2000 MB free disk space
DirectX: Version 9.0c


And don't forget to test the demo when it'll be available!

Hohenlohe, since I imagine getting things rubbed in is fun and interesting; you can also find the information on AGEOD's official website, more specifically on WIA's requirements-page: http://www.birth-of-america2.com/ageod/eu/wia2.php

I guess that the requirements for WIA are roughtly the same than those for AACW ?

Korrigan wrote:And for those who don't do german forums... [...]

Uh, you spoiled my plot to bait all users to our forums. leure:

Woody wrote:I guess that the requirements for WIA are roughtly the same than those for AACW ?

I did not check, but WIA has been reported to scroll much more smoothly than AAXW. Apparently it comes from a new pre-cache system.

You could try with the demo, I would like to get more feedbacks about this.

I wasn't able to wait any longer... I just bought it

And yes, it seems roughly as AACW, perhaps a little faster

After few weeks using this game, I can confirm it run faster than previous AGEOD games... at least on my computer.

Could you please update ACW with the same pre-cache system ? It's scheduled in the next AACW patch ?

The demo runs fine with this three year old machine I have. The reason I did not buy it yet, was because I don't have a 128vram card. I'm just wondering if I did buy it would it put undo stress; shall we say, on the machine when I go through the whole game.
Otherwise; I hope you are not loosing out on sales due to minimum specs.

Can anyone advise me on the best options for the best performance in the settings? the game is overall performing well as always, but the momentarily lag at times i wish to reduce as much as possible

Settings are...

Regions precaching

memory usage

Max texture size

Textures initialised

cpu sleep mode

At a glance my laptop is...

Vista 32x

2ghz intel core 2 duo processor
1024mb geforce 8600m gs turbocache graphics
2gb ddr2 RAM
250GB HDD

Hi!
You could try removing the region precaching and see if it improves the performance.

The lagging i have occurs always when moving to a new part of the map never seen/loaded before on my game. I guess its becaus the game has to load on memory all the new regions graphic at onces.
But once i have been on all the map areas i will use for the scenario i don't get lagging or map scrolling low speed.
It's that what you experiment?
Sometimes just after loading the game i do a full zoom out and move aroudn a little (experimenting big lagging) just to get all the important map areas loaded. After that i can zoom in and move aroudn without any hiccups.
It just take 1 minute to make this "trick"
Regards!

I have found something that removes the performance issues entirely for me, remove all the texture pre loading. Now scrolling etc works smooth and theres no lag whatsoever.

Do you mean the regions pre caching (i have this OFF) or the textures loaded at game initialization??
or both??
Cheers!

I removed both of those, and it does seem better (loading during game use RAM more probably) i think preloading it all was eating up processor power even with the slight performance issue, as usual THUMBS UP