AOE III

Vicoden · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject: AOE III

I bought AOE 3 about a month ago, and when I played the first time a message came up saying it might not play right cuz something about my cpu was insufficent. Anyways, I can still play the game but during battle scenes especially if its a naval fight everything moves ULTRA slow. I usually have to click on someother area of the screen until the fight is over...which makes it alittle harder to win when you can't watch the fight. My CPU is brand new and all the specs are more then what the game said was required. They updated all the drivers when I bought it, and I tried to check for updates but it didn't seem like I needed any. If any of you have run into this and have any ideas what I'm doing wrong please let me know.

My system specs:

Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00 GHz
2.79 GHz, 0.99 GB of RAM

rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:23 pm Post subject:

Make sure you dont have Antialiasing on. That owns most computers. Whats your gfx card?
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Vicoden · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:

Ok....I'm pretty much the dumbest person that uses computers so I don't even know if that is on and if it is I don't know how to turn it off.

I dunno what of card I have, lol...how do I find out?

LJ · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject:

right click "my computer" and select properties.
go to hardware tab and select device manager
uncheck Display Adapters to see the video card adapter.

Post here what's listed under Display Adapters

Vicoden · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject:

Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Familly

Rebel_Rouser · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject:

What type of graphics card do you have?

I found out with the demo my old graphics card could not handle AOEIII very well even though it was a direct x 9 like it said. So now I have the 6800GT and I have no problems. And my CPU is 2.8ghz
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Vicoden · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject:

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900, with 128 MB shared video memory.

Rebel_Rouser · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject:

squidly · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:49 pm Post subject:

Vicoden · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info, so can I just get a better video card then and the problem will be fixed? You said a new comp....thats kinda outta the question.

Rebel_Rouser · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:23 pm Post subject:

Vicoden · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject:

so whats the best card I can buy? I want to make sure I get a good one.

Simpleman · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject:

That video card is on the MB it's self so the thing you need to find out is if you have a AGP slot on your MB then go from there. There are alot of cards out there just depends on how much $$$ you want to spend.

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Rebel_Rouser · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:16 am Post subject:

Make sure you check your MB first so you know you can take the old one out. As far as buying a card, I would suggest getting a Nvidia 6800 or 6800GT. I think you can get them for less the 300 dollars now on newegg.com
(thats if of course you are willing to spend that much)
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squidly · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:32 am Post subject:

Have you read the conclusion of the benchmark!!!