Age of Empires III announced

[Solver]

PC Gamer February issue, lotsa info.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Solver
Time period is not 13th century by any means. It's from the discovery of America up until the US Civil War (yes, the game does have railroads).

And yes, those screenshots are actual in-game graphics, not renders/cinemeatics. The trick here is that they're taken from a very good computer with a top-of-the-line video card and best settings, so people with older hardware shouldn't expect it to look that good. But yeah, it looks pretty amazing .

Yeah, I've been meaning to replace my video card... it's a Radeon X300, a PCI chip, and back when we got the computer they didn't have any of the good cards in PCI. They should by now. The rest of the computer is set, though - 2 gigs ram, 3.4 ghz P4.

[Grandpa Troll]

good pc Kuci

[Solver]

Sounds like a great rig, Kuci . As for video cards, I personally prefer nVidia cards by far, but it really varies from person to person.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Solver
As for video cards, I personally prefer nVidia cards by far, but it really varies from person to person.

I'm a graphics card slut, whoever is giving best bang for the buck in my price range gets my business

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by reds4ever


I'm a graphics card slut, whoever is giving best bang for the buck in my price range gets my business

Wel.my wifey sez Im a pc junkie so with bonus time comes a fix and thats just what I did...

Gramps

[Tassadar500]

Since were talking about computers, I should be getting a 3.6 GHz P4, X850 XT, 20" LCD, 2 GB of RAM.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
Since were talking about computers, I should be getting a 3.6 GHz P4, X850 XT, 20" LCD, 2 GB of RAM.

x850xt..graphics card?..Radeon..?..NVIDIA?

sounds great my friend sounds great


Gramps

[Tassadar500]

ATI Radeon. The top, for now.

[Solver]

nVidia GeForce, definitely the top. Also, it's better for OpenGL, which is the real platform, not DirectX.

[DrSpike]

Actually Lord N is closer. Of course there are more subjective areas but if you have to pick one then the ATI cards are top.

[Adagio]

It really depends on what games you want to play... Ati is great for fps games and such, while Nvidia is best for non-fps games... at least that's from my experience... while I had an Ati card 50% of my games became unplayable (constantly freezing my computer), but those games I could play (of 3D games) ran much better...


Back to topic:

I've never been that interested in AoE games, but I'll probably try this game when it'll be released... the graphics looks great

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
ATI Radeon. The top, for now.

must be the one above mine..

pcie or agp?


i heard pcie is the way to go..but my motherboard is set up for agp

gt

[DrSpike]

PCI graphics cards are what was used 5+ years ago. Even the most basic of cards these days are AGP cards.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by DrSpike
PCI graphics cards are what was used 5+ years ago. Even the most basic of cards these days are AGP cards.

well..let me inform you that I was referring to PCIE not PCI

I just got me new computer and the latest and greatest motherboard setup has the PCIE with some the AGP (which my Radeon X800PRO is)

I aint saying that its the way to go..actually I am checking to see if anyone here has any input

Gramps