Just ordered Medieval II

DarkShadow · 9 Jan 2007 at 15:26

After battling it out between this and COH, I absolutely loved COH. I wanted a old school based RTS (AOE style) so I've now ordered this.

Can't wait as I have the following kit arriving tomorrow to build:

E6300
Asus P5B Deluxe
2GB Crucial Anniversary
Sapphire X1950XT
Also Dual Dell 2007WFP's

This game does support widescreen right?

What patch should I be getting? What's the online aspect like?

Cheers

BlairH · 9 Jan 2007 at 15:29

Don't expect an old school style AOE esque RTS. It's oh so much more than that. You will enjoy it.

fastwunz · 9 Jan 2007 at 15:31

just get gameshadow mate - all your patching needs will fulfilled from then on - its an awesome peice of sofware

Nieldo · 9 Jan 2007 at 20:15

Ive been waiting to try it out on my new system that arrived yesterday (In my sig).

Get some screens after you have pushed everything to max settings will ya

Lolcb · 9 Jan 2007 at 20:33

Max settings with large unit scale ( 150 infantry, 75 cavalry etc ) will bring your comp to its knees especially when it has multiple faction in one battlemap.

DarkShadow · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:53

Lolcb said:
Max settings with large unit scale ( 150 infantry, 75 cavalry etc ) will bring your comp to its knees especially when it has multiple faction in one battlemap.

Blimey

I know it runs at 20-30fps or there abouts but woah! How does your system keep up with it?

What's the online aspect like?

Lolcb · 9 Jan 2007 at 22:17

Haven't played online yet, way too noob for online atm.

My comp plays it great. Just that in certain scenarios, fps does huge drops.

simisker · 9 Jan 2007 at 22:36

dark_shadow said:
[...]This game does support widescreen right? [...]

Er... in a way.

Anything that uses polygons is properly supported [a wider viewport, more stuff on screen, all the usual widescreen benefits].

However, all 2D stuff [that's the interface, the buttons, the unit cards, the pop-up info panels etc] will be stretched. Yes, including text. Ugliness ensues.

It's not exactly proper widescreen support. This is why I play normal aspect ratio despite having the Dell 24".

As for patches...

There's only one official patch available at the moment. Definitely download and apply it.

Then there are the mods. It's still early days, but there are some promising mod 'packages' out there: LandsToConquer, Road To Jerusalem, WinningCombo etc. All provide different gameplay experiences to the standard ['vanilla'] MII:TW game, and in most cases will also fix issues that even the patched standard game hasn't resolved yet.

www.twcenter.net is your friend

philstanbridge · 10 Jan 2007 at 08:51

Yep patch it to 1.1 official and then install Lands to Conquer 2.0 you will not look back! The vanilla game is not as refined as it should be.

eracer2006 · 10 Jan 2007 at 09:00

Lolcb said:
Max settings with large unit scale ( 150 infantry, 75 cavalry etc ) will bring your comp to its knees especially when it has multiple faction in one battlemap.

bad coding ?

Frosti · 10 Jan 2007 at 09:19

Lolcb said:
Max settings with large unit scale ( 150 infantry, 75 cavalry etc ) will bring your comp to its knees especially when it has multiple faction in one battlemap.

hmm my 64 3700+ (clawhammer), 2GB of Ram and X800XT runs everything at mid or max with large unit scales at 1280 X1024 and it runs pretty well, I don't see why his machine shouldn't be able to run it at max aslong as it's not a stupid resolution.