Illuminating!

If you're having performance issues and an ATI card, here's what I did (and sorry for the lack of detail - I'm going on memory of last week):

1. Move everything video related to their lowest settings
2. THEN, if it's still a problem:
   
   • Open your Nvidia Graphics Control Panel
   • Go to CUSTOM settings for specific applications (probably an intermediary tab in this step)
   • Select your Elemental executable(s?) for the application in question
   • Go through the list and anything related to "performance" should be switched to whatever maximizes performance. 
     I ended up forcing about eight settings to bare minimums or Off or High Performance.

It's a sad thing to do to a game so pretty, but ... i like strategy games so, among other reasons, I can keep my computer cheap.  Action games are the ones that should demand big money in hardware.

My rig:

• Windows XP SP2 (so I can keep playing MoM natively)
• P4 2.4Ghz 512KB L2 cache
• 4 G DDR (ie: PC3200)
• Old, slow, mostly-full harddrives (in serial - no raid here)
• Some BFG Tech Nvidia-based 6?00 ? that I can't upgrade because it's an AGP mobo.
• Have not yet messed with the memory allocation limits due to the 32bit system.

The thing that chokes my system the most is moving large stacks of units into or out of other stacks.  I'd guess a memory algorithm, but, not my job.

The computer was fancy when I built it. The disk is barely the current bottleneck.  I'm seeing 90% utilization on one of the cores and a number of IOs, though the graphing options there aren't very extensive.  Seems I need to fix that with some rrdtool for... wait.

So.  That's what you do to make it run on a minimal system.

The possibility that I'm not an english speaker never passed trough your mind ?

I'm Italian and english is my 3rd language

Why don't you guys get a cozy little room in your PM box?

I'd actually say it's the other way around.

You popped in wanting them to avoid fixing the broken mechanics,  bugs,  and imbalances,  and instead focus on adding female models for no apparent reason.

You then fail to establish a dialogue when asked why you think this should take precedence,  and diverge to some attempt at speaking for everyone claiming "No one wants to hear what Div says".

I'm sorry,  but at this point,  I'd be happier if there were less of your posts in this thread.  At least Div attempts to establish dialogue instead of acting like a highschooler.

If you are, you are bad at your job, among other things, like shpeelings and gramars.

And now, for no reason at all, a picture of my cat when she was 5 weeks old.