Empire Total War

Looking at the information you have in your sig, you will be able to play the game with your current config however, based on the minimum specs for the game (see below), you may not get the best overall performance. This game is going to be resource intensive and you may have to dial down the game settings in order to have the game run smoothly on your system as it is. The 7900 may have some issues with displaying a lot of details and at 256MB of video RAM, you're at the minimum of what the game requires. Creative Assembly has kept most of the recommended specs close to the vest so far while they finalize things but's the minimum specs needed to play thus far:

Operating System: Windows XP 32(service pack 2), Windows Vista 32 OS.
Processor: 2.4 GHz Single Core Intel or AMD equivalent processor.
System Memory: 1GB RAM (XP) 2GB RAM (Vista).
Graphics Card: 256MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (shader 2.0 or higher). (No onboard video cards appear to be supported here - Nvidia and ATI cards only)
Sound Card: Directx9.0c compatible sound card.
Windows compatible mouse & keyboard.
15 GB free uncompressed hard drive space.

Good luck!

Did they release recommended yet? Ive seen the minimums but they were keeping hush about what you need for a good game


EDIT: nevermind, can see my answer above...

Empire Total War has been coded to take full advantage of quad core CPU's, that should give you some idea on the sort of demand the game will place on your hardware. I would wait until the demo comes out and give that a spin first and you can see if your system is up to the task.

BTW I have a C2D E6400 @ 3.04Ghz, 2Gb DDR2, 8800 GT and I can't play M2TW on huge units, high settings @ 1920x1200. A playable frame rate for a Total War game is a lot lower then other games in this case 15 FPS (according to FRAPS) gives you a smooth gameplay experience. On my rig I was settings around 9-12 FPS I had to lower the graphics settings to get higher frame rates. What I learn't from this was that RTS games like Total War which use 3D engines to play real time battles require just as much GPU power to render the display as it does CPU power to calcualte all the battle A.I.

Empire Total War uses a brand new engine (M2TW used an upgraded engine of RTW), has all the latest technologies built into it. In fact it's the first TW game to have multi-threading (previous games only used a single thread/core), PhysX, Xfire, SLI, etc etc I just know it's going to be demanding, all previous TW games have brought mid-high systems to there knees. But as I said wait for the demo, it's just around the corner.