GeForce Fx5500 Fix.

Roadxkill

Chieftain
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I got this game a few days ago poped it in and find out its unplayable even through i meet requirement.I was probabley running 10 fps on a normal map.:mad: I find this really odd when i can run other games AoE3(High settings),Doom(High settings but not super high),and Call of Duty 2(Close to high settings).But i really wanted to play this game so i tried Rivatuner,change the pixel and vertex shader to 1.1 like most said in these forums.I also download latest driver for the card.So i go to play and the game seem faster but now the game crashes when you click on a unit.:mad: So i went back to the old driver and now the game is fine but plays alittle slower then what it seemed like with the newer drive but the game would still crash offen,so i downloaded the omega driver,which completely took the crashing away and has speeded up the game alot along with setting the shaders to 1.1.Sofar i tested it on standard maps with no problems,i havn't tested large or huge maps yet.

This isnt new ways and have been posted by many forum mats but i hope this will help for people with the same type of card on what exact thing to do to make the game atlest playable on standard maps(dunno about large or huge maps).
 
Hi I have a GF 5500FX card and i too found it better to turn down shading to 1.1 ... it turned down the graphical detail of the leaders somewhat but it made them run at 100% smoothness. The thing that gets me now that I am really into my current game (huge map, 1220AD) is that when you move to a new part of the map everything is removed from the map and the CPU goes ape**** and it takes 3-4 mins to load.

My specs:
AMD athlon XP 2600 + running at ~2Gig
GF 5500FX 256 MB
512 DDR 400 Ram
80 gig 7200 RPM HD (which doesnt seem NEAR fast enough because of all the caching this f(&*&#@@ game does!!
Running latest Nvidia drivers 8.1.8.5

Will be switching over to the omega drivers soon, and then my manufacturer drivers after that if it doesnt work.

Will also be getting an extra gig of ram...

The thing about this game is that the page file usage steadily goes up and up and up as you play longer and longer...this is a buggy game :(
 
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