Medieval Ii: Total War

jalf, that didn't work.

and i don't think i want to edit the text file.

I started a new one as england, whipped some scottish butt, and now just have to finish of the french. Ahhh i'm going to keep this thread alive

 

Just do the long campaign, well worth it

 

i generally get slaughtered by the mongols or the timurids and don't have jeruselam by the end.

 

Since this is the only game I really really want to run on my laptop when I get it, how do you guys think itll run with
Intel 7300 2.0ghz 4mb
2gb ram
and either 8400gs or 8600gt
I really want to be able to run smoothly on high settings, since my crappy desktop had trouble running rome on high, i figured getting a laptop for college would finally be my chance to enjoy these games....is this near what I need or am I going to want to wait for something better.

 

8600 gt will be your best bet, doubt the 8400 will max out the settings though.
i'd imagine u would play on all high with an 8600 at high resolution.

 

i play on high at 1440 x 900 with 4 x AA on my G1 - T7200, 2gb ram, go7700, with only a bit of lag on massive battles.

 

and what about the XPS m1330??

Maybe 1024x768, mid-high graphics quality, no AA and no AF¿

thanks!

 

i'd say mid if you have big battles or high with puny ones.

 

but puny battles=lame

 

My VAIO runs fine with Maxed out settings on Shader 1 (no AA but 16x AF), it has a bit of trouble in Shader 2 though, especially in big battles, just to give you an aiming point

 

WHATTT!!!!!!
hey man! maxed quality?!?!?!?!?!?!?! and 16AF!!!!!

thanks!!... what happens with Shader 1? what is the difference between setting the game at different Shaders?... BTW, do you have bloom on?

thanks again!

 

Shader 1 disables all the lighting effects (blooms, shadows, reflections) When I run it on shader 2 I enable bloom and reflections, at a large battle (1500+ peeps total) it starts to lag, and since I'm a big battle kinda guy I switched to shader 1 for ease and convenience

 

Awww, but i love slaughtering rebels with scottish noble swords men and knights templar.

 

who doesnt? I did that this weekend.

 

yep, its soo fun slaughtering peasants, but it isn't any challange. playing multiplaer seiges is what i enjoy doing best.

 

hey guys, just wanted to know if medival 2 would download and work on windows vista. I've heard that some games don't work on the new windows and the requirements on the game say windows 2000/XP.

Will my laptop that I'm getting be able to run at max settings too?
Asus F3SV-A1

Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHZ

2 GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce G8600M GS built-in 256MB VRAM
Turbo Cache 512M with 1G Memory
Turbo Cache 1G with 2G Memory
(DX10 support)

120 GB 7200RPM SATA 300

Windows VISTA

 

If it wasn't for the graphics, this game would be crap. There is no unit variation compared to the previous Total War game - ROME Total War in comparison.

 

not sure what your native resolution is, but you should be able to run it pretty much maxed out no AA.

if you're talking 1680x1050, might make it sweat maxed out, anything lower it should handle quite well.

 

Heh, I feel the opposite way.
There seemed to be no variation in units in Rome.
If you played as Rome, you had heavily armored short-sword guys with a few javelins, you had dedicated javelin throwers, you had cavalry and archers.
And then you had the barbarians which were all big weapons and no armor.
Greeks? Phalanx units and... more phalanx units.
Egyptians? See above, with added chariots.

MTW has so much more variation in its infantry types and how they should be used.
Gameplay-wise, I still think the original MTW is the best of the series though. But MTW2 comes in at the second place. Both ahead of Rome precisely because they have more varied units.

 

i don't know if the origonal Medieval is better. i don't like how naval transport works. the crapness of spes and assassins due to border forts. plus army movement.....and a few more things. otherwise its awesome, but i think its on the same level as M2.

 

I agree, I think the best one in so far all aspects is Med 2. Although I still agree that Med 1 is better than Rome. Or maybe its just cuz I have nice memories of my first Total War experience back in 2003 lol