Recommended system requirements?

[zim5354]

I have two PCs the one I use for gaming and an one that we have had for some time and all its really used for is browsing the internet and other basic stuff, anyway my dad wanted to play Medieval Total War 2 so I let him use my PC and I went and got on the older one. The older PC meets Graal's recommended system requirements but when I upgraded to v.4 (I had a old version of the client on it) the menu didnt work correctly (The blue buttons were surrounded with red boxes) but the buttons still worked so I clicked them and logged onto a server. I could berly move because of the lag when more then a few people were on screen. I went to UN's OSL and the thing almost seemed to freeze, hell on Era I couldent even move because of the lag let alone PK. (3D lights and all other eye candy features were off.)

Anyway in short do you think Graals system requirements need to be upped? I do because currently I don't see how its possible to actually play and enjoy the game on a system with those requirements I am no expert but I would say they need to at least be

256 MB Ram, 500 MB hard drive space, Direct X 9 compatible video card, Pentium 4 processor and at least DSL. Nearly every computer made now exceeds those requirements, and if anyone is running a PC below those they arnt/should not be playing games on it anyway so I really don't see how upping the requirements would be a problem.