Jim Soubra

I'm sure this has been brought up recently, but I wasn't able to find the answer in a search, so forgive the redundancy. I found this old post from Big Time: "We plan on having an option that will save out each turn's resolution playback to a single file so you can watch the whole battle. However, this is in CM format..." Is this still true? I sincerely hope so. I have to admit that watching the replays might be my favorite part of the game. I was a board wargamer many years ago and for some reason was never able to get into the PC version of the genre, so I've been focused on sims and FPS games. But this game has really hooked me. This may sound silly, but this game gives me the same feeling of immersion (especially during the replays) I had when I played an old SPI game called Highway to the Reich. When I would look down at that long, narrow map spread over my ping pong table, the scale of the game, the design of the map and gameplay gave me a real feeling of "you are there." This game has taken that feeling of immersion one step further, as if I had been sucked down into those cardboard units on that paper map. This is what sims are about and CM has beaten them at their own game. Needless to say, I've been alerting my old wargaming buddies about CM. Nice job Big Time. Thanks for rekindling my interest. Bring on the full length replays.

With respect to sound driver problems, I got my sound to work by disabling DirectSound hardware acceleration. My card is a Diamond Sonic Impact S90 which uses the Aureal Vortex 1 chip. I'm currently using the 4.06.1187 Aureal reference drivers and DX 6.1. I see now that the 4.06.1189 driver version is available (not sure if this version also requires that DS be disabled). DirectSound can be disabled in the A3D control panel.