Hi!
Sorry for such a mundane question but I would love an answer from you people.
I've got:
E4500 2.2ghz
2gb of Kingston Value Ram
GeForce 8600gt
Pretty low range machine but I'd be curious to know if there's any particular bottleneck. Is the processor "too good" for the rest...
My friend has a P4 3.0ghz with a 9550 and 512mb ram and plays it perfectly. Same for me with my t-bred 2400+, 9600 pro and 512mb ram. You should have no problem :) (but if you want to play online you should definitely purchase Zero Hour, not much people playing vanilla gens these days...)
lol, it probably won't help you much but I had the exact same problem... 7 years ago, on my k6-2 450mhz rig :)
Reinstalling the mobo drivers solved it...
And your current rig reeeaaally deserves a new video card :)
It's always like that with new RTSs with kickass graphics, you have to settle with a lower graphics quality than you are used to with other games. There is just so much going on that you can't directly see, IA calculations, routines etc. etc.
Personally I saw the biggest improvements when...
Computer gaming is expensive only if you always strive to play the latest games at the highest settings... I'm an avid Warcraft 3 fan so gaming is very cheap for me :)