Koden, it's totally not because you have an AMD CPU. They're just as capable as Intel Some Northbridge overclocking would help over-all system speed. I would bet it's your 9600GT though.
Yeah i'm not that cpu racist yet to underestimate my little 620. Still i was expecting RO to run a little better. Anyway, i've tried to bump speeds a little and on medium it is fairly decent in smaller maps. The 9600 struggles but keeps rocking - i'm trying several graphics settings to see what fits best. Oh, and i've overclocked here both Cpu and northbridge, i set the Athlon to run between 3.3 @ 1.375 (for a daily use - kept a setting like this for some months in the past, it's stable and works just fine - on the stock cooler). I don't overclock the poor 9600 because she's already short on memory (at least one memory chip seems to have at least a small kind of damage). To my defence i gotta say that i've bought it used at 35 euros
it was a decent bargain back then. And it works pretty much fine when not overclocked.
About the game, i've started learning something, coming from games that are short-ranged action based it feels wierd but after you get that there's a truly different pace it makes some sense. I agree about the need for communicating because in a team where there's no coordinating having a tactic is going to be pretty hard - unless you have a smaller map where you're going to be able to cover a good part of it by your own (e.g. something like Hospital, the Bridge or even Pipeline from AA2). Something i miss in fact is recognizing key ways/places that are important to control for both tactics and mission completing.
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