System Requirements

**This article is dedicated to helping you run Movie Battles II with several tips and tools to improve your overall performance.**

The *minimum* system requirements to run Movie Battles 2 are:

**OS: XP, Vista, Windows 7 or higher**

* Processor: Pentium II or Athlon 450 MHz
* Memory: 128 MB RAM
* Graphics: 32 MB OpenGL compatible
* DirectX: 9.0a
* Sound: 16 bit Direct x 9.0a
* Hard Drive: 25 GB available space

**For Mac OS X**

* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core), 2.2 GHz
* Memory: 4 GB RAM
* Graphics: 256 MB, (NVidia): Geforce 8800, (ATI): Radeon HD 2600, (Intel): HD 3000
* Hard Drive: 25 GB available space
* Peripherals: Macintosh mouse and keyboard

If you know your computer's specifications and would like to test your PC to see how well it would run Movie Battles II, please visit the following:

* PC System Analysis for Movie Battles II

If you do not know your computer's specifications, you may use the following tool to find out:

* Speccy - System Information

If you are still unsure about your computer's specifications, click on the link below and search for MBII. Select automatic detection of hardware and accept the applet run request by your browser.

* System Requirements Lab • *Can You RUN It*.

Please be reminded that these published system requirements (and subsequently, the test above) are only **theoretical minimum requirements**. Your system may be able to run Movie Battles II with playable frames per second (FPS) outside of these requirements. RtlCaptureContext is required by MBII to work and this process exists only since Windows XP so this Modification won't run on Windows 2000!

## Tools

A range of tools and utilities you might find useful, all freeware: *no trials or payware*!

* **3DP Chip**: Little program that checks what hardware is on your rig and then find the proper drivers.
	+ Note: this program contains a PUP (OpenCandy). Here's a VirusTotal scan.
* **DiskMax**: Keep your hard drive clean and remove any unwanted files. A range of scanning profiles for novice to expert users, comes with disk defrag.
	+ Note: never defrag a SSD (Solid State Drives).
* **CoreTemp**: Keep an eye on your core(s) temperature. Works with System Monitor.
* **System Monitor II**: Live stats of about your rig, CPU coreloads, RAM/Page File and more.
* **Speccy**: It is an advanced System Information tool for your PC from Piriform. It indicates several information (like speed, temperature) on your processor, hard drive, memory (RAM) and graphics card.
* **MSI Afterburner**: Can be used to monitor Nvidia based GPUs. May only work with MSI products.
* **Ping Monitor**: Ping any server/website with live stats.
* **CCleaner**: Registry cleaner.
	+ **CCEnhancer**: improves the cleaning ability of CCleaner by adding more programs to the list, including Movie Battles II.
* **Leatrix Latency Fix**: Online gaming latency issue fix. No longer supported by author, but the download is still available: Mega mirror.
* **Advanced SystemCare**: (Slow site, try reloading if it fails!) Advanced program that contains a multitude of tools, much of the tools listed above, all in one package. Includes a RAM Booster to free up extra RAM and a turbo-boost tool to keep unnecessary programs from running and using up space as you play. Basic free version contains most of the features, and upgrading is not necessary.

## Tricks & Settings

Some minor adjustments in your Windows OS could improve your overall performance.
Here are some listed, but take into account that this is for the advanced users.
It is strongly advised to not to attempt the below tricks unless you have some experience.
Before proceeding, make sure to do a full backup (system image, registry back up, etc.) in case if anything messes up.

~~QoS 100% bandwidth trick~~
This tip made people believe that Microsoft always allocates 20% of your bandwidth for Windows Update or other Windows processes but the claim is false since 100% of the bandwidth is shared across all programs unless a program needs priority bandwidth. Disabling the QoS will only cause problem to streaming media like YouTube and to VoIP applications. Thus is not recommended. Source: Microsoft Support
Cool GPU & CPU
Always be sure to keep your graphics card and CPU cool when running, the cooler you run the better the game will run and the less chance of crashes.
Experimental multi-threaded rendering
Certain update introduced an experimental Multi-threaded rendering setting, which has been claimed to have nearly doubling framerate on some multi-core computers. This can be toggled by clicking the settings (gear) button in the top corner of the launcher, before the game itself is started. Note that your graphics card has a set limit of how many frames per second that Movie Battles II can run on your computer, and for some enabling this feature will have no effect due to the graphic card's limit already being reached. Overclocking can push past this issue but this should only be attempted by users who are experienced in this sort of thing as it can cause multiple crashes or hardware problems.
* **NOTE:** This setting has the undesirable side effect of often increasing load times into missions, as well as start-up time for the game itself. On weaker laptops, having this option on can much more than double the load times.
* Framerate Drops? High Cpu Loads? Cpu Overheating? This Might Fix It! (Cpu Core Unparking) – An official post on Movie Battles II forum to fix performance issues with the game.