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  1. Awww great just awaiting delivery of a new comp with core 2 quad and an 8800 next week, and now I discover it's going to ruin CMBB. But it does work with multi core processors right?
  2. Forgive me but isn't anisotropic different again? in that rather than sampling textures on a linear plane along line of sight it samples zones at various angles to the view and filters that way. Basically all of them are designed to reduce an effect you used to get in FPS's when you'd move in a box of perfectly drawn textures with a visible line where the textures became less defined, in CM terms they're largely redundant, and in fact in some recent FPS's they can turn into a slide show on max settings on even the biggest and bestest cards. As redwolf says though, despite the fact that most recent cards can max out filter settings on the CM engine, the effect can be unpredictable, ranging from unnoticable to unplayable.
  3. Essentially a mipmap is a series of 2d texture maps filtered and sized to improve appearance at different draw distances, bilinear and trilinear are just different levels, crudely speaking giving 2 or 3 levels of texture redrawing. The performance hit would be dependent on the complexity of the original texture.
  4. I don't think there'd be a huge backlash against Zhukov being portrayed as a hero, after all wasn't his rising popularity in the West one of the reasons Stalin used to ostracize him after the war?, didn't Eisenhower actually invite him to the US? I agree Stalin would be a stretch though, but frankly to ask what seperates him from Patton and Montgomery is faintly ludicrous.
  5. Playing Battle in the Shadow, had a Challenger taken out by a front upper hull penetration from a 50mm AT from 850 yards, I had no LOS to the gun that killed me, which at least suggests a difficult angle, and all the armor penetration data I can find suggest that a 50mm would at best struggle to penetrate a Challenger frontally at that distance even dead on straight with tungsten ammo. Does CMBO model variable quality armor?
  6. I thought it was definitely live, but I suppose I may have missed the gun damaged info, thanks for the replies.
  7. It probably helps if like me you'd been royally hammered by the AI a few times at other scenarios, thus engendered with a slowly slowly check all the corners approach I managed to beat this first go (Although I did manage to lose half my PzIV's to a lone anti tank rifle a few turns in). But I still think it's one of the best I've played.
  8. Get the last set of Omega drivers, the last catalysts ran rough with mine.
  9. Playing Carentan last night, turn 20 one of my Stugs was moving out of the way of an artillery barrage, it was still live at battles end, but when the next battle started it had disappeared, so my question is, can you suffer casualties between battles?
  10. But thats the rub isn't it, Russians and satellite Countries were only too happy to be freed from Soviet control, until they found that Nazi control was even worse in most cases, one of the biggest mistakes the Germans made was so heinously mistreating the inhabitants of the Eastern countries they occupied thus sowing the seeds of a partisan movement that posed all sorts of problems for supplies. They were also unlucky to cop particularly harsh winters in 41 and 42. As for the Russians as I believe somebody else pointed out, didn't Stalin wipe out most of the smart officers himself before they even got started? Giving up France wouldn't have worked unless it was combined with a similar move on Poland.
  11. I have to say I played Carentan as the Axis after reading this thread and I had to knock out 3 tanks in the first battle as well as a fair few infantry skirmishes, and then stumbled into a full on firefight while withdrawing my troops to what I thought was safe ground in the second. I thought it was great. It got me interested in playing operations again after being put off by the heinous calculation times on Stalingrad in CMBB. I think the AI must have had a particularly off day when you played it, I'd give it another go.
  12. If you've got XP can't you just rollback the duff driver?
  13. The truth is actually somewhere in between the two. It's definitely the Volkssturm that were the bottom of the barrel personnel wise, the Volksgrenadier were depleted standard infantry divisions brought back up to strength with substandard troops. Confusingly both programs started life labelled Volksgrenadier.
  14. Agree that P4's are poor value compared to AMD, I don't know how they sell any topline p4's at the price. HDD's are much of a muchness as long as you don't end up with IBM/Hitachi, those things chew themselves up with alarming regularity. TFT's are still overpriced despite supply massively outstripping demand, outside of space saving there's absolutely no reason to pick one. SLI Graphics just seems a pointless gimmick to me, why not just make one great card rather than having 2 decent ones? Either of the systems in the original postings will play CM (and probably CMX2) without breathing hard. All in all I'd plump for the AMD, although I'd build it meself and dump the SLI.
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