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Yeah it's the engine, I've been around since CMBO playing and modding since the beginning. The last several years though the CM engine has become dreadfully outdated and broken. It's not my system, believe me, and yes I can do the tweaks to get more fps. But it's still crazy low fps and you have to give up bad shaders and bad shadows for an even worse looking game running still super bad. I would love CM on any kind of even semi-recent engine, it's absurd at this point.
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It's the CM engine, my system runs games just amazing, they look fantastic with super smooth high fps, it's dreamy. But CM is engine locked, it's not the hardware. Sure I can do the CM "tweaks", like the display.txt edit, turning off shaders/shadows... reducing draw distance, etc. Then my fps will be higher, but why? Why is this necessary to get over 20-30fps? Engine failure, is why.
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purpheart23 reacted to a post in a topic: Still insane low FPS
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Yeah for sure, I play all kinds of games. Back into Stellaris for a bit here and before that I played all through Dying Light 1. But I have a soft spot for CM, it's just such a shame it's basically unplayable for me, and has been for years. I spent so much time playing and modding it early on.
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Bulletpoint reacted to a post in a topic: Still insane low FPS
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Yeah the standalone and Steam versions both seem equally bad for me. In very, extreme low fps ranges no matter what. Sure you can tweak out a few fps this way or that but really on a 10700k 4090 this game should be hard locked at 144hz not to fry my system at <1000fps!
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Haha... I know the engine history of CM but I'm still floored when I try it out again just how terrible it runs on high end hardware. I know it's opengl, and all the in my opinion bad engine choices (remember no Speed tree?) back in pre CM2 days but you'd think through the years some kind of improvements would have been made.
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CBMN on Steam to check it out. FPS: 20 !!!! Look at my perfectly tuned system in the specs. 10700k, 32GB, 4090... lol. Come on this is insane even for old CM. So laggy it was insane, as soon as I zoomed up to a higher view I was seeing literally at times 1fps!!!! AHAHahahahaha Seriously?! Medium map with a Tiny battle.
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How to get your CMBN game on Steam
AstroCat replied to BFCElvis's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
Where do I find my serial numbers in my orders? I only see activation codes. Thanks. n/m the activation codes seem to be working. -
AstroCat reacted to a post in a topic: I don't think I can go back to playing against the AI
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AstroCat reacted to a post in a topic: Time to ask about vehicle number-etc decals again
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AstroCat reacted to a post in a topic: If this can be our awaiting CM3...!!
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Exciting news about Battlefront and Slitherine
AstroCat replied to BFCElvis's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
I just can't resist...Steam... I can't even.... just, lol. I know what will be said... don't care. ITYS, what seems like eons ago. Now out of bubble the legit criticism is coming, be ready. Oh and cool, BF on Steam, awesome. Now a modern engine and we are set for the future. -
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Here is What I Dont Understand about BF?
AstroCat replied to weapon2010's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
We played some CMBO and CMBB together... I remember the last game was a snowy quick battle. She ran her guys into a house and then I blew the house up. That was the last game we played. But she was cool about it, it was all for research, she was doing a game review (for CNN of all places) of the CM series way back when she worked the game industry. -
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Here is What I Dont Understand about BF?
AstroCat replied to weapon2010's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
HAhaha! The funny part is the only actual girl/friend or otherwise who I've known to play or try CM games is my wife! -
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Here is What I Dont Understand about BF?
AstroCat replied to weapon2010's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
I used to love playing and modding the CM games (gen1 and 2) and still check in once and a while. I still have them installed even but I just can't bring myself to play them any more, for years now. My "criticism" is enshrined in the forums so need to rehash. Needless to say I still have a sadness about how I see the "death" or near death of the series. It's like a gaming relationship breakup, I probably shouldn't even be here, it's like checking in on an old girlfriend from years past, creepy! lol Now, "IF" we ever get a proper version 3 maybe we can rekindle the lost relations! -
Horrible frames. Getting frustrated.
AstroCat replied to tavichh's topic in CM2 General Tech Support
Yeah it's the full ground extension of the really great flight sim IL2. -
Horrible frames. Getting frustrated.
AstroCat replied to tavichh's topic in CM2 General Tech Support
Thanks for the reply, I've done so much testing and tweaking through the years it's nuts. One thing though, and it can at times make a big fps difference but I can not play these games without SS/AA, otherwise it becomes a shimmering texture crawl mess that legit hurts my eyes to look at. -
Horrible frames. Getting frustrated.
AstroCat replied to tavichh's topic in CM2 General Tech Support
We can only hope one day, we get a graphics engine even at this level. I've upgraded to a i7-9700K@4.9GHz and an EVGA RTX 2080 Ti XC Ultra and still get terrible fps! Talking hitting 20fps and below on just a simple medium hills quick battle, not even with many trees. Super sluggish and laggy camera movement. lol! IL-2 Sturmovik - Tank Crew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwkTxyh21-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tQVifFTGKY https://www.facebook.com/il2sturmovik/posts/2026223027455545?__tn__=K-R