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What is the minimum system required to play this game?
Thanks

Minimum and definitively playable on a 1 ghz with 512 mb of main memory and a 128 mb video card.

To get less lag when scrolling the (huge) map, 1 gb of main memory is advised though.

To have a mouse cursor which reacts faster, a 1.5 to 2 ghz and a video card from 2 years of less is advised.

Great. Thanks for the fast reply.

that the spec requirements might be relaxed? I really want to play the game already but I'm nowhere near a PC with 128MB video card for at least another year. That means I have to play it on my ever so transportable IBM x40. I can do that with BOA. From what you've just written I'm not sure I'll be able to do it with ACW.

How much can your customers demand in any one day...? With your commitment to your fan base it seems that you have everything covered. I have a feeling though that this one will be just too difficult to fulfill what with your lovely looking map and counters.

I can hope though can't I?

If I have to wait then that's what I will do whilst I look enviously at all your AARs!

BTW HAPPY NEW YEAR.

When it comes to fast replies, Pocus is a god among men

miller41 wrote:When it comes to fast replies, Pocus is a god among men

Beeing a member for a day I can second that

mcf wrote:that the spec requirements might be relaxed? I really want to play the game already but I'm nowhere near a PC with 128MB video card for at least another year. That means I have to play it on my ever so transportable IBM x40. I can do that with BOA. From what you've just written I'm not sure I'll be able to do it with ACW.

How much can your customers demand in any one day...? With your commitment to your fan base it seems that you have everything covered. I have a feeling though that this one will be just too difficult to fulfill what with your lovely looking map and counters.

I can hope though can't I?

If I have to wait then that's what I will do whilst I look enviously at all your AARs!

BTW HAPPY NEW YEAR.

If you can play BOA, then you will be able to run AACW. Now I can't tell you if the game will be too slow for you, as it depends of your exacts specs and how you as a player supports some lag.

If you have 512 Mb of RAM, then you will get from time to time some lag when you jump from a corner of the map to another.

If you have an old video card (or a laptop one not meant for games), you can check how fit is your video card for the BOA serie.

1. In BOA, Options window, system tab check errors logging. You should see a red writing to the left with something like 25 FPS written.
2. Open BOA 75, campaign, click on the center mouse button to zoom out to maximum.
3. Be sure to be at maximum zoom-out. Select the continental army, and wait 2 seconds.

If you still have 25 FPS, then its perfect.
If you have between 15 and 24, you can play AACW with a slight slowness.
If between 10 and 14, the game will be slow.
Under 10, AACW will be too slow for comfortable play (but milleage may vary, with Hardware Mouse Cursor option I can play at 5 FPS ).

I have a P4 with 1.8 ghz processor, 1 gb memory, and a 256 mb graphics card. I'm pretty sure I could handle this fine for the most part.

So if you can run the demo you will be also able to run the whole game? Or the sheer size of a campaign game in i.e 1863 will choke the CPU of a low-end computer which can run the demo well with the demo's fewer units and less AI proceessing?

you won't get a crash but processing will be slow.

Thank you, Pocus. That is comforting.