Wally's World

Great AAR, Krautman! Fun to read! But I think you will be hardpressed to grab the flag on the north-eastern edge of the town.

I could be wrong, but I thought I read once that XP almost always causes your CPU to run at almost 100% usage even when not doing much on the machine. Am I remembering correctly?

A good read, athlete. But a question, what are those "armour-supported APCs" that you saw moving at the extreme north end of the map?

Welcome hornpiper! The only advice I can really give you is to read up on the many topics here in this forum. Check out the CM Tips and Tricks forum for more direct info about tactics. There probably are a couple of guides hanging around on this forum. Maybe do a search for 'guide' or 'manual'. However if you're like me, you will probably enjoy developing your own tactical style. Playing against the AI at first will help develop your tactics, but eventually you will probably play against humans and that is when you'll really will see your tactics develop. Humans opponents are unpredictable. Myself, I don't read much on tip and tricks here on this forum as I would rather learn myself through 'hit and miss'. Enjoy developing your own sense of tactics. I did and I think that's the thing that is the most fun about Combat Mission.

When I get home, I'm going to try this trilinear setting on my Ti4200-8X. Excellent thread!

Admittedly being no expert, I think that going to 2 Gigs of RAM would be overkill.

Ha! Ha! Good thread!

Not gamey. But I still consider it a waste of expensive artillery.

Just finished playing by email the operation "Beginning of the End" by Boots and Tracks' Jeff "Jwxspoon" Weatherspoon. An excellent mid-war operation with lots of different armor and infantry options. The game actually started to feel like a chess game with either player trying to position their forces better. Get it here: Beginning of the End Operation

I thought they were hardcoded.

I agree as I've only used it once during a Stalingrad scenario. I found that it takes too long and the risk of losing the squad is too high compared to the normal fashion of moving.

NS, Weclome aboard! You sound just like I did when I first discovered this new game (CMBO) back in last 1999. At that time, I couldn't believe that someone was creating a game with such detail to tactics, morale and the new WEGO system. I couldn't wait for CMBO to be released. Anyway, I like the system that CM has. The only two things that I would change is to set scenario parameters to enable or disable the following: 1) Allow units to choose targets themselves instead of allowing the user to choose the target for the unit. I think it is more realistic to allow the unit AI to choose the unit instead of a company or battalion CO to tell each unit what to fire at. 2) Allow either the Detailed Armor Hits Off or On. I know that there is a HotKey for this, but it should have been a scenario parameter set for both sides and cannot be changed once the battle begins. I always play with the detailed hits OFF in my PBEM games and I trust that the guys I fight against also have it off. It's way more fun and realistic not knowing where the sheel hit the target and if it actually penetrated and caused any type of damage. Instead, you should have to judge the way the target reacts to the hit to see if there was any damage done. This allows the user to bluff his opponent by using armor that has sustained, let's say, a gun hit. The opponent won't know this if he has the Detailed Armor Hits OFF. Just my two cents...

Since I just bought a new LCD monitor two days ago for my machine, you may want to think about getting a lower response time LCD for option #2. My LCD has a 12ms time and I do see a tiny bit of blur when I play NHL2004 on it. Depending on what games you play on your PC, maybe a 16ms or faster response time might be better. Just my uninformed opinion though...

Thanks to all who replied. Very interesting to read. I bit the bullet and bought a 17inch Samsung SyncMaster 712N LCD with 12ms response rate for $380 CAN ($70 off on a sale). I have a two week full return and refund period to try it out. If I don't like the new monitor, I'll return it and get a CRT. Thanks again! [ February 17, 2005, 08:33 PM: Message edited by: Wally's World ]

Looking at replacing my old trusty Samsung SyncMaster 15GLe 15 inch CRT monitor. I was figuring on buying a LCD monitor with a response time at 12ms, but I've also read some comments that sticking with a CRT monitor is better for gaming. That the increased refresh rate (75-85MHz) of a CRT will be better than a 12ms response time (ghosting problems). Not withstanding the price and the physical space savings, is an LCD worth paying the extra cost over a same size CRT monitor? Game wise, I play all sorts of games (RTS, sports, wargames, strategy). Like I wrote before I was looking to buy a LCD, but some of these anti-LCD comments may be scaring me off a LCD and I might just get a 19 inch CRT instead. My current video card is a GeForce4 Ti4200-8x. Any opinions on LCD versus CRT? Many thanks to any and all who reply.

On nVidia's website, they do have older versions of the drivers available. Just navigate to the page with the current driver and along the left side of the page should be a link to the driver archive. A lot of the previous drivers are still there. Here's the nVidia XP driver Archive: nVidia XP Driver Archive

Treeburst155: The setup you mentioned is exactly like mine including the overclocked Ti4200. However, I installed SP2. Sweated over SP2, but it installed fine and I haven't had any problems since. Are you going to stick with SP1? Glad to also hear the latest nVidia drivers worked well for you.

Here's a great video card comparison with a lot of cards being tested. Unfortunately this thing is from December of 2003, but it does show how the early FX cards stack up against the GeForce 3 and 4 cards. Warning: Sometimes it takes a little bit of time to load due to so many pics. Video Card Comparison - December 2003

Krazy Canuck: I'm with ya also in regards to being a nVidia fan.

Krazy Canuck: Regarding your thinking of the 5900XT, here's a quote from Tom's Hardware Guide website regarding that card. I have no opinion of this card but maybe Redwolf does. GeForce FX5900 SE/XT, GeForce PCX 5900 Pros- DX9 support, excellent DX8 performance, good AA/AF peformance Cons- poor DX9 performance, and you can get a Radeon 9800 Pro for little more, which is a better card in every area. Radeon X700 Pro (and of course faster GeForce 6600GT, Radeon X700XY) is a much better choice in PCI express segment. Tom's Hardware Video Card Guide Post

Krazy Canuck: Here is where I bought my Ti4200-8x card. Price is more expensive, but it is in Canadian dollars and the card is brand new. Card arrived in about 8 days and runs perfectly, even overclocked! No problems with these guys at all. When I ordered one last month, they had one card left after my order so I would phone them first to see if they have any left. Or better yet, use the LiveHelp function on the right side of the page. http://www.bytewizecomputers.com/products/7/21/617/1539 [ November 30, 2004, 12:14 PM: Message edited by: Wally's World ]

Corrupted or missing altogether. Probably missing since the StuG's in your snapshot are white.

Dam*! mike8g beat me to it and he knows the bmp file numbers even. leakyD: If you can't find the bmp files anywhere, just go to the mod database I listed in my previous post and download a StuGIV mod. But mike8g is correct!

Hmmm! Looks like your image (BMP) files got corrupted or mixed up. If you made a backup of your original BMP folder, I would jusy copy the original files over the ones in your CMBB bmp folder. Or else go to the Combat Mission Mods Database site (www.cmmods.com) and download a new StugIV mod. I don't think the problem is with your system.

I agree! I just bought myself a Ti4200-8x to replace my old GeForce3 Ti200. Got a nice 34% increase in my 3DMark score. Ti4200's should be able to overclock to just about a Ti4600's speed.