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The eagerly anticipated playable demo for Rome: Total War is now available, allowing you to try out the upcoming 3D turn-based and real-time strategy sequel that is nearing completion at Creative Assembly. This demo contains a tutorial playable as the Roman Julii Family, and the historical Battle of Trebia map playable as the Carthaginians.

Minimum System Requirements

• Pentium® III 1.0GHz (1000MHz) or Athlon 1.0GHz (1000MHz) processor or higher
  
• 256MB RAM
  
• 8x Speed CD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers
  
• 300MB of uncompressed free hard disk space
  
• 100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
  
• 100% Windows® 98SE/ME/2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
  
• DirectX® 9.0b

Download: Rome: Total War Demo
News source: 3D Gamers

What's New in This Release:

· - New JPG option: Auto-rotate image according to EXIF info (Properties->JPG)
· - New advanced batch resize options: Set long/short side, load/save settings
· - New options for DigiCam RAW formats (Properties->PlugIns)
· - New options for multipage extract (View->Multipage images)
· - Option to use eBay search in the toolbar (Properties->Misc 3)
· - Option to show common shell folders in Thumbnail directory tree
· - Support for CR2/X3F formats (Properties->PlugIns, see also i_plugins.txt)
· - Option to sort files using the XP sort order (for names with digits)
· - New PlugIn for DXF/DWG/HPGL formats : CADImage.DLL (Shareware, see i_plugins.txt)
· - New hotkey: Shift+L = Lock/Unlock Zoom (fullscreen mode too)
· - New/changed hotkeys: CTRL+P = print, CTRL+PageUp = previous multi-page, CTRL+PageDown = next multi page, Shift+T = toolbar edit field, Shift+M = send by email, CTRL+Shift+B = Batch scanning; (removed: CTRL+N)
· - New options for toolbar edit field (file filter, see help file)
· - New options for batch IPTC mode
· - Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
· - Some minor bugs/features fixed/added