[quote who="Lord Cobol" reply="14" id="2913912"] my old MoM CD There's a CD ? My copy is on floppies. Fortunately there is no copy protection, so when I get a new PC I can just copy it over from HD to HD without hunting for my old usb floppy drive. [/quote] I used to work at Microprose (which is neither here or there really) and yes there was a CD-ROM version of MoM produced at least in the UK. I believe it had the 1.31 patch on it. T
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[quote who="charon2112" reply="9" id="2912327"]Something's wrong here for sure. My PC pales in comparison to yours and runs EWoM flawlessly. quoting post Because frankly, it runs pretty poorly. The game slows down so quickly as to become very unplayable in a short period of time. This has become a deal-breaker for me and I finally uninstalled it today. From reading the forums, it seems like performance is pretty dire across many systems. 
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="2912013"]I have a suggestion that might help given your specs. Turn OFF the outlining in the graphics options. Some people with that card have reported massive performance hit due to that cosmetic option.[/quote] I'll give that a try thanks! I am patched to the latest version via Impulse so I hope 1.2 Will be the answer to my problems.
Because frankly, it runs pretty poorly. The game slows down so quickly as to become very unplayable in a short period of time. This has become a deal-breaker for me and I finally uninstalled it today. From reading the forums, it seems like performance is pretty dire across many systems. My PC has a Windows experience rating of 7.5. (8-core i960, Radeon 5970, 8GB ram, 64 bit Win 7 on an SSD etc. )It gobbles up CIV5 at that games highest settings and yet Elemental makes it run lik