New Minimum Specs Needed for LH?

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I have been playing with the LH beta. My machine is 32-bit Windows 7 with 3GB of memory and a 2.93 Ghz dual-core Intel processor. Fallen Enchantress was kind of slow on this machine, but Legendary Heroes is painfully slow. Movement isn't smooth, the units stutter from place to place. It's really bad in the tactical combat screen. It appears that a more powerful minimum machine will be needed to play LH. Is that the case, or is this an issue with the beta?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

What kind of video card?

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm noticing a performance reduction on my older laptop, though it's fine on my newer one.  I assumed it was debug code slowing the game down.

 

 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top


Steam is the only new requirement.

:typo:

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

My video card is a GeForce GT 220.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm noticing periodic slowdowns, that happen with no consistent cause. Some sessions are free of them. Others get the in ten minutes. I quit, reload, and everything is fine.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting dacty4491, reply 4

My video card is a GeForce GT 220.
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That's a pretty old and low-end card. Interesting it was fine on FE but you have problems in LH. They did do a lot of engine optimizations, though, so I imagine that might be the cause.

Interestingly, the FE Minimum specs don't say much about the minimum card needed:

Windows XP SP2 / Windows Vista / 7 / 8, 2.2 GHZ Dual Core or better processor, 2 GB or more of total system memory, 512 MB or more of video memory

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A couple questions:

1. Does the GT 220 have 512 MB of video memory?

2. Are you running the latest video drivers from nVidia's website? http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting dacty4491, reply 4
My video card is a GeForce GT 220.
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LOL ^

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Lord Reliant, my video card does have 512MB of memory. I downloaded the latest driver and that helped. However, the game is still awfully sluggish, and edge scroll is unusable, even though I set the delay to zero. It takes about a second to scroll when I move to the edge and it overshoots. If I have to buy a new video card, I would be willing to do that, provided it's not too expensive. I don't play that many games, and I'm unwilling to pay a couple hundred dollars or more for the latest and greatest in video cards.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Seriously you can upgrade to an ATI 5770 HD with 1gb ram for a song these days and it's still highly rated as one of the best low end cards now. There was a time it was the best middle of the road card out there. I'd bet you can find one for under $100 now easily.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting dacty4491, reply 8

Lord Reliant, my video card does have 512MB of memory. I downloaded the latest driver and that helped. However, the game is still awfully sluggish, and edge scroll is unusable, even though I set the delay to zero. It takes about a second to scroll when I move to the edge and it overshoots. If I have to buy a new video card, I would be willing to do that, provided it's not too expensive. I don't play that many games, and I'm unwilling to pay a couple hundred dollars or more for the latest and greatest in video cards.
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You'd get a much better gaming experience going to a more modern card. Thankfully you can get them for relatively cheap, too:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-2.html

Glad that updating the drivers helped a bit. It would be helpful if Stardock posted a minimum GPU config.

As a work around, you could change the zoom level to take you to the cloth map view more quickly, as well as disable some other graphic options (if they aren't disabled currently). Turning off outlines, shadows, lowering textures, etc. should help significantly.