Mr whipple gets roaminized

Ok, so it's just the greatist game ever made, but Rome Total War is driving me nuts. Us game geeks have been waiting over two years for RTW to come out and now that it is here, my system is too cheep to make it run. I downloaded the demo and got it to run after a fashion, kinda jerky and lousy res, but i got it up. So my logic went something like this. If the demo cranks ok then the real game just might work. (don't wory, it's just the mania working!) Well after Sandy Claws put a box of RTW in my socks I ran to the computer and fired it up. I sat shivering as the install proceded. It didn't come right an say that my box was too scukey to realy run the game so my hopes were up. I started the game and the frist part started working. The intro ran fine. Then it hit a wall. When it started the battle, the whole thing just bailed to windows. I desperately tried to change the video and audio settings trying to suck just a bit more performance out of my antique system. All to no avail.

Its Ebay time!!!!!! after crusing Ebay for a couple of days, i found a nice guy that had an adaquite processor that should make it possible for me to imerse myself in the world of 200 BC.