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ORIGINAL: mc3744

I play WitP on two different PCs.

One is two years old notebook. A Pentium IV, 2.2GHz, 1MB Ram.
On that, it takes from 15 (when real lucky) to 30-35 min [:(]

Do I take it that an AMD 1800 notebook with 256 megs and integrated video memory (i.e. none whateverm as I understand it) will not run the game? FWIW it runs DX9.0b with no trouble.

I really need the wife in the right mood before I buy $1500 games

1) My notebook can/should not be taken as a benchmark. Maybe I'm just unlucky in the HW combination. Or maybe, since it's the work PC, it's a healty way to decide to dedicate some time to work too [:D]

2) I'd play WitP even if a turn took 1 hour. It's just the best game ever [;)]

Mine takes any where between 15-25min to run a 2 day turn.I escape through bombing of ground forces, and maybe a few ground attacks. The recon ops reports tend to go faster if I defrag regularly. But who cares if it takes a few min longer. You spend 1-2hrs doing turns sometimes and then send it off to you PBEM opponent, wait sometimes till next day to run turn and then you blow through the turn[&:][&:][&:]. I enjoy the turn resolution part. Yes the graphics sometimes get boring and 55th iNf bombards message on land attacks are not exciting, but this is why you make all the moves to have a resolution.

By the way I have an HP with 3.2GHz processor, 512MB, ATI Radeon9200MCE AGP 8X graphics card with 128MB.

Sadja