herr_oberst
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On 2/27/2024 at 11:10 PM, herr_oberst said:
Initial review:
Time Machine backup the old iMac, boot the new Studio, use Time Machine to move everything to the new machine, short fiddling with the MX Master 2S mouse, then launch Red Thunder.Swapped the resolution to Desktop (2560x1440), up the models to best, textures to best, exit, restart, and like the comment on the Mini above, just a few minutes toying around, but very nice. No reactivation, nothing.
Different monitor, 3008x1692 is usable in 27", now to see how it plays in CMFI.
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Initial review:
Time Machine backup the old iMac, boot the new Studio, use Time Machine to move everything to the new machine, short fiddling with the MX Master 2S mouse, then launch Red Thunder.Swapped the resolution to Desktop (2560x1440), up the models to best, textures to best, exit, restart, and like the comment on the Mini above, just a few minutes toying around, but very nice. No reactivation, nothing.
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From 2017 iMac to... not a Mac Mini, but opted for the Mac Studio as my update. Still a week or so before delivery, but I hope the M2 Max and memory bandwidth are worth the expense.
Mini: 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, 10-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, 100GB/s memory bandwidth
Studio: 12-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, 30-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, 400GB/s memory bandwidth
For CM, cores probably won't make a diff, GPU cores might, RAM and memory bandwidth hopefully.
(CM wasn't the only contributing factor to Studio vs Mini)
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On 6/24/2023 at 7:43 PM, Stimo said:
I'll look into razer in the next few days.
My new Inspiron 16 xplus is still nice and clean and very much updated. I used to play on an upgraded Alienware M17R3. It was the best but I killed it. With a bottle of sparkling wine. I don't want to talk about it. I loved you. I still do. Please forgive me.
My new Inspiron feels the same but looks younger and sexier. She can't take 140mb ema files yet, but she's working on it and I'm patient.
I once lost a keyboard to a very nice Scotch. Changed to a "roly-poly" crystal glass *very bottom heavy), and the keyboard and it are far apart.
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On 1/28/2024 at 9:29 AM, Centurian52 said:
So yes, you can have almost all the formations you want in Combat Mission. You just have to arrange them manually. There is no button for automatically getting your units into formation.
Yup, it's definitely a more manual operation, and you might need to break your planned long movement into stages to account for terrain et al, and adjust, but its possible. Not always fun, or as simple as click-click, now its echelon right, click-click, now its one-up-triangle.
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Yeah... but when the GPU visual graphics 'effects' render a cannon fire hitting given 'reasonable' results, how does that translate from the graphical rendering of [position a, fires at b] translate to (I'm sure greatly simplified)
[firing position a, mass of shell b, muzzle velocity c, shot fall function(b, c, d: distance to target, e: time to target, f: motion of target), g: position of d when shot arrives], determine impact point and effects on d work out? Non-trivial. Who (cpu or gpu) does the math? Does cpu 'trust' gpu, and how do you code for differential gpu capabilities?
That's why I pay BFC to figure it out. They know better than I what the engine can do, and what moving from 'it can do X" to "it can do Y" will cost and the expected revenue stream. I hope that the consumer version will see some trickle down economics for improvements, but the consumer base likely has very different 'min architecture/hardware reqs' than their more 'advanced' clients.<opinion>All in all, its still the one game I go to for entertainment and 'deep thought' gaming. From good scenario builders, shallow thought will get you punished... Graphics are dessert, plans, tactics, and execution are the meal.</opinion> And I realize it as such. Just my $0.02.
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On 2/2/2024 at 9:55 AM, Vacillator said:
Okay so this is Downfall not Red Thunder (sorry) and I hope my opponent @Ultradave won't mind. I suggested it must class as a KO and he should do the right thing and bail out
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Feh, that's an Uber-Tiger that carries its own camoflage.
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? Do other folks link to images on other sites? (those are awful small)...
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Looking the other direction... up the river/stream
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The beginnings of a scenario/campaign around Gerassimova, from period mps and "Decision in the Ukraine". Loooong time coming.
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17 hours ago, Duckman said:
It's Kursk.
That would be an awesome mug picture... $10,000 quatloos!
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On 2/2/2024 at 9:36 PM, Battlefront.com said:
Hah, only 2 posts before Space Lobsters showed up. Followed by the first ever tactical butter reference I've ever seen. Well done, and from a member with a low post count. Bonus points for you!
Steve
Space Lobsters for the win!!!
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Sometimes 'success' just means you suck less than historical results. Maybe you don't have to 'win', just do better.
Or perhaps a win is a combination of exceptional skill AND good luck, and rare as hen's teeth.
Journey before destination.
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Very nice to hear the inspiration for a scenario.
On my 'playlist'.
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Coolio... just in time for the weekend!!!
Post note: Success using the patch.
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1 hour ago, liamb said:
Yeah I am one of those tickets that Elvis is helping with.
When I click on the activate products it runs the terminal script and then CMFB doesn't open.
When I try and open CMFB by itself it bounces in the dock twice and then doesn't open.
I've just tried doing a fresh complete install and same thing is happening.
Thanks, you just saved me a full install.
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“Moi aussi”… or perhaps more appropriately “Ich auch”
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For WWII titles, linear is a decent guess, point (counting on some spread) is the other option I usually use with the intent to eliminate.
Unless I'm just trying to disincentivize someone (person or AI) away from a particular area with harassing fire.
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On 1/22/2024 at 7:32 AM, JM Stuff said:
Well, guys, nice to read, exist happy guys, with happy macos, with happy Time Machine, or whatever... hope very much that Windows users will be also happy to have this interresting system and make also happy guys soon working on last cry with ssd HD, and not archeology HD almost DOS prehistoric system, like me !
Thanks to yours interresting comments, this let me think slowly to Mac Win PC or Linux ?
If you really want to blow your mind, go visit https://www.tonymacx86.com... build a macos compatible machine from parts at a fraction of the price. (outta change my sig... I gave up on the hackintosh as they're called (a purpose bought case, power supply, motherboard, ram, cpu, ssd, and video card) that runs macos. VERY fiddly work if you want to keep up with OS updates. Enough to make me give it up after 3 years. Given the new change to Apple chips, I haven't paid attention. But at the time, it was 1/3-1/2 the price of a comparable Apple machine. All depends on where you want to spend your time. I'd rather play, so it's a for-reals Apple machine now.
But there's still the lure of taking my son's XBox case and sticking a macos machine inside it for fun... -
For any macos users, Time Machine is an excellent tool.
Has saved me numerous times from bad/broken installs of many things.
"Oh, there's a new update of X."
Run Time Machine to backup.
Install update X.
"WTF? Things are totally broken."
Time Machine restore back to just before the install of the rogue update, and all is well.
I've used it to back out a CM install also -- I forget which patch misbehaved on my machine for CMRT, but having a 'Undo' button is awesome. -
On 1/16/2024 at 11:54 PM, Artkin said:
That's Nipe's book? It's on the reading list
Affirmative.
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I've always wanted (and failed miserably at making) a campaign around "Decision in the Ukraine, Summer 1943 II SS and III Panzerkorps".
Read the book (more than once). The part about Regiment "Eicke" and Gerassimova and nearby encounters is interesting in that I have copies of 1:50000 Library of Congress Truppenausgabe maps for L-37-6-A, B, and C (Bol.-Meschkowa, Dmitrijewka,and Uspenskaja). Just no time (or seemingly talent) for creating a good map.
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Pre-ordered (as usual)... looking forward to the new content.
Would love early war, but I get it. Small ROI, and BFC is running a business after all.
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Title says it all... very curious about what might be coming to fruition in 2024 from BFC...
Firing a small "panzerfaust on tank
in Combat Mission Red Thunder
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Your pixeltruppen are soldiers, not robots, so yeah, sometimes they think "That order? That's nuts," and do what the Tac AI thinks is the best choice.
Same reason they'll break and run, or go to ground when receiving incoming.