any help appreciated.

[cbird]

great game guys! problem i have mostly with detailed battles. they run very sluggish even with nosound and low animation fix. updated drivers for graphic card(geforce 6800), and defraged. i have hp windows xp home, p4 3.2ghz, 2gigs of ram. not much of a tech guy just wondering if any suggestions.

thanks,

charles

System Information
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Time of this report: 12/13/2006, 20:05:36
Machine name: CBIRD
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Dimension 8400
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A02
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Page File: 286MB used, 3653MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

[ericbabe]

You can try turning off shadows and turning on the no-slide options in detailed battle (from the Advanced Menu), or else use "chit mode" (also from the Advanced Menu).  The shadows really take a lot of processor power to draw, and the no-slide option speeds things up considerably.

Your system specs are better than my best test machine, and it runs with good performance in most circumstances on that machine -- it does slow down somewhat in big battles with lots of trees when there are weather effects and smoke being drawn, but normally on that machine it has no problem keeping up with the 10 frames per second that it tries to draw.