Santeri said:
Despite the crappy graphics, M&B is still quite demanding for your graphics card?
Crappy graphics? You high?
Maybe... if you're comparing it to the games out there with what might be referred to as "best graphics on the market"....
But labeling this game as having "crappy graphics" is hardly just. I think the game has rather good graphics.
Yea, you crank the graphics down to minimum (as you stated)... and I would think they might look "crappy", but with a modern video card with everything turned up all the way full (default textures mind you), the game looks Very nice indeed.
Your problem is your video card cannot process the poly's this game renders.
A) You're in very large outdoor settings, with a lot of foilage... a LOT in some cases.
B) ~50 mobs on the screen at once, double that if they are all on horse... THAT ALONE is probably more polygons than the games you mentioned render on the screen at once.
Plus, the CPU comes into play
- YOUR cpu has to run the AI for every mob on the screen - at once - on top of everything else going on.
Your CPU and video card are WAY outdated.
Modern video cards are about 30 times more powerful that a 9550.
A modern CPU running at 2.4GHz is probably twice as powerful as your P4 at same clock speed. I know a C2D is.
However, it's not
likely a new video card would work in your current system. Not even low end cards. So you're only option would be to get a new computer outright.
Just my .02