The game even takes advantage of dual displays and widescreen displays by allowing you multiple views of the battlefield at different altitudes. Saves time and it’s much more accurate than panning. I barely pan or use the minimap at all … the mouse wheel takes up that role by allowing you to zoom all the way out to reorient your view.
Chris Taylor’s entire objective in developing the game was to be able to view things on a grand scale like a real general would, as opposed to having your view restricted to a “sandbox” which forces you to pan the camera around or click on a minimap. The point is to zoom way out to coordinate your forces, and then zoom in to enjoy the visual fireworks. I thought about upgrading to a 2.4 GHz with 4MB cache just for this game and after playing it, it’s probably not a bad idea because I know my graphics card is no slouch and could handle all the rendering quite well.Īs far as gameplay goes, I can’t think of any RTS that lets you strategize on such a grand scale like this. All this detail chokes the processor more than anything else in the system. Even the trajectories of your units’ projectiles have real paths that can miss their targets if the targets move fast enough to get out of the way. My graphics card is an nVidia 7950GT and I’ve got 2GB of 800MHz Corsair XMS2 memory as well as dual 10,000rpm Western Digital Raptors in a striped array, so my system’s up to snuff for even the most current games, but the unit control, physics, and AI demand significant juice from the processor and anything less than a dual core just won’t cut it.
It’s only 1.8 GHz and it’s definitely the bottleneck in my system so far as this game is concerned. My CPU’s a bit lacking in the horsepower department … it’s about the cheapest Core 2 Duo around and I knew this game would bring it to its knees. less than $700).Ĭan’t argue it isn’t a resource hog. Well, the processors exist, but by that I mean, it’ll be some time before they’re reasonably affordable (i.e. It’ll be some time before the processors catch up to the level required to really get this game to play smoothly. It’s certainly one of those rare games where the demands from the software exceed the current threshold of most computer hardware … kinda like Windows Vista.
Been playing since the day it went into public beta and brought the game home this afternoon. Beta tester, demo player, and retail purchaser here.
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