CoolColJ

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Does your V3000 have a heatsink and fan on the chip? If it doesn't I suspect an overheated chip. especially since it works ok for a few minutes then freezes. Typical signs of inadequate system and video card ventilation and cooling. Try running the game with the cover on you PC off, with a portable fan blowing on the V3000 if possible, and see if that fixes it. If it does, I suggest you go buy a heatsink and fan for your v3000, and/or make sure you PC case has enough holes for air to flow through ccj [This message has been edited by CoolColJ (edited 06-15-2000).]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by oddball: [b Cool, That's rousing stuff, sir. Well done! Say....any chance of you making up a "soundtrack" of various pieces and then converting 'em to MP3s for easy download by the masses? Regards, Oddball<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Errr I'm not quite sure what you mean? When I said 2 hours, I meant it took me 2 hours to write and record the piece, and not how long the piece is. Is that what you meant? ccj

Ok its up on my site now Its not CD quality - 22khtz (cd=44.1khtz), but that's because the Gold demo doesn't support it. ANyway I'll do a new one for the full game. Anyway I also put a Lo Fi 200k mp3 preview. Let me know what ya think, took about 2 hours from start to finish ccj www.geocities.com/coolcolj

I made a military drums style song for the CM title page - if anyone is interested I'll put it up on my website ------------------ Check out my CM mods, Music and artwork www.geocities.com/coolcolj

I system is good, the card isn't I'd avoid that card, horribly drivers. ccj

It won't be long now before we can see authentic AFVs using digital graphic technology Just look how realistic Dinosaurs looks. Wouldn't be too hard, Just drive T-34 around, and composite a CG ontop of it Then we can have King Tigers, Jagpanthers etc all cruising round on the screen Or how about a 100% CG WW2 movie? That I'd like to see. ccj

WOW! FInally I didn't get any reply from BTS, in the 2 times I asked for this fixed point camera rotation, so I thought it was never gonna be in CM. Ha I was wrong damn, I owe ya one Charles Panoramic screenshots here we come! ------------------ Check out my CM mods, Music and artwork www.geocities.com/coolcolj [This message has been edited by CoolColJ (edited 06-14-2000).]

I'm not 100% into CM yet. I thought CM could have been better in a few areas. But I'll wait for the full game to arrive on my doorstep, before I comment in full detail. Its still the best game of its genre, but that doesn't necessarily mean its a very good game. I have extremely high standards. For example I think Unreal Tournanment is pretty crap. and a missed opportunity ccj

I'm still waiting on a hardcore WW2 with full on Armour action I wanna see King Tigers, Panthers etc. I've never seen a Panther in a movie yet . I've seen Mark IV H. How about a hardcore eastern Front movie, set in summer 1943. I've yet to see a German tank with Ambush cammo in a movie too! ------------------ Check out my CM mods, Music and artwork www.geocities.com/coolcolj [This message has been edited by CoolColJ (edited 06-13-2000).]

Webshots is better www.webshots.ciom ccj

Is BTS gonna update the gold demo with the new patch after the game ships? It would be wise ------------------ Check out my CM mods, Music and artwork www.geocities.com/coolcolj

JUJU here is one thing you can try - reintsall the old drivers, go resgistry searhcing, find the entries for AA, then copy them down. Re-install new drivers, renter the old keys into the new registry Might work Kingtiger - geforce? I personally set mipmaps to 0 (default and keeps CM roads nice and straight in the distance), set everything to max quality, keep V-blank sync on. ccj

Echo, its probably due to the extra 16 megs of Vram Becuase the V3000 makes a lot shortcuts to get extra speed, at the expense of image quality. ccj

They're just tetxure pics, he can change them if he wants to, get some B+W WW2 pics and subsitute ccj

Do you think I would pirate CM.....I'm even too lazy to break the wrapping on my CDRs ------------------ Check out my CM mods, Music and artwork www.geocities.com/coolcolj

You may have to go back to your last stable driver and lose all the FSAA And wait till Guillemot release drivers for your card. ccj

Oh ok I think it maybe just a Leadtek TNt2 specific key entry ccj

Well ya could have right clicked on desktop and change the res Well 5.22 is way more stable for me with CM and everything else, wow ANyway I looked into th registry, and found an entry for FSAA = off For OpengGL I changed it to on, didn't notice anything, looked a bit smoother, maybe....I think I'm imagining it Also with the Tetxure AA, if you goto the registry, in Software / Nvidia corporation, there should be a AA= 0 change that to 1 to turn it on. Change mode from 0 to whatever AA quality you want 1-3 ccj

Ok the old TNT drivers had Texture AA, which has been been removed from the newer Nvidia drivers control panel, but its still there, and it does work If you hack the registry a bit OK FSAA , anti-aliases every single pixel on the screen. And it does this by rendering the screen a few times and combining them, slightly offset, depending on the driver and system used. So any jagged lines are minimised. 2xFSAA, means 2 passes, and 4xFSSA - 4 screens are rendered. So you can see why its such a framerate hit Texture AA (TNT2), will smooth out just the textures, but the edges of the object will still remain jaggy ccj

Yeap - changing the display driver to VGA first is the key! Its amazing how many people skip that step ccj

Only in D3D, The GF2 beats the V5500 in OpenGl Turn of FSAA , and the GF2 spanks the V5500 plus its T&L as well Gf has had FSAA in opengl for a while now, D3d FSAA is quite new, so its a driver issue as well. All Nvidia crads get faster within a few months from release, so it will catch up to the V5500, pretty soon. ccj [This message has been edited by CoolColJ (edited 06-11-2000).]

There is only one DET 2 driver there, just download the win95/98.zip version. Then manually unzip the file. * read the readme in the zip! Its there its for a reason. It outlines in full detail how to install it. Ok basicly this is what you do 1)Right click on desktop, go into Settings>Advanced>Adaptor >Change - then change your driver to a standard VGA driver (select next, display a list of drivers). Reboot windows when it asks you after you select OK. 2)You should be in 640x480 - 16 colours. Ok repeat the above steps, except instead of choosing VGA, select have disk, and go to the folder you unpacked the driver to. select Nvidia TNT2, select Finish>Ok, then reboot. It will reboot to a new res and refresh rate. Right click and go setup up the screen resolutions and refresh rates to taste. Also goto to Nvidia tab and select additional properties, and configure the graphics quality you desire Now that asn't hard was it??? ccj [This message has been edited by CoolColJ (edited 06-11-2000).]

Don't compare GF FSAA to a V5500 The GF 2 GTS is what you should compare it too, and the fps are very similar. Also the GF 2 also has a 9x FSAA mode too The distant tetxure swimming is cause by CM using tetxures that are too large for the object, so its switching between 2 or more pixels that could occupy that space, since the tetxure is several times larger than the actual pixel size of the object. If the pixels that are being switched are of different colours you get the twinkling effect. The only way to get rip of that is to recode the CM graphic engine to use mimapping. This would require, several copies of each texture at various sizes. Turning on mipmapping in your GFX card options, is similar, but its a brutal approach and doesn't look anywhere as good as it would look if it were done within the Game engine. Mipmapping does lose detail though, so its a trade off. ------------------ Check out my CM mods, Music and artwork www.geocities.com/coolcolj

I don't get that problem Infact its better now! I used to get heaps of graphics corruption, It seems to have lessened ccj