Cuchulainn

Thanks for looking at this for me. Gateway are as much use as a chocolate fireguard! Their best suggestion was that the hard drive had gotr knocked en-route to me and that the pre-installed windows was somehow damaged and that I should reinstall windows. Well, I did, after backing up, and the problem remains. All drivers are fully up-to-date as far as I can tell. Everything else does seem to work on the card. Perhaps i should speak to Gateway about the possible heatsink/fan problem and ask if they will swap it. Is there any definitive way to test this without swapping cards? Thanks again, CuChulainn <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Schrullenhaft: Since you got this computer from Gateway, maybe you should contact them about this problem. The Radeon 8500 should be able to handle CM without lockup. Perhaps there is something wrong with the heatsink/fan on your video card. Sometimes a video card will only get 'stressed' by playing a game with a lot of 3D, since this 'exercises' a lot of additional circuitry in most modern video chips (that a standard 2D app like a word processor wouldn't do). If Gateway has heard enough problems, maybe they found a bad batch of video cards or something else. What other 3D games do you play that run into the same problem ? On thing to be wary of when dealing with the tech support for large PC companies - they tend to suggest that you perform a 'restore' from their CD to get the computer to the state it was at when you purchased it. This is a big problem since it will wipe out anything you've installed or created since you purchased the computer.<hr></blockquote>

Hi. Thanks for the advice but no joy so far. I have tried updating the Radeon Drivers but I still get a guaranteed hang/freeze 3-10 minutes into any 3D game, requiring a hard reboot. I'm not really technical enough to answer your other questions. I'm running a new gateway 700X LTD with a 1.8GHz card and 512Mb of ram, (64Mb set for AGP aperture size on CMOS) It's wonderful for about everything but on 3D games it ends up with a hard reboot which can't be good for the computer. Any thoughts? (Explained in small words for a bear of very little brain please.) CuChulainn <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Schrullenhaft: I've run both the official 3286 and the recent 6011 beta and I haven't had a problem with CM and the Radeon 8500 (other than the lack of fog). My setup is a Gigabyte board based on the VIA 694X. You can get the 6011's from here. They are beta, so there could be problems, but I've been able to play a full game of CM without a lockup. What version of the drivers do you have loaded and what motherboard/chipset do you have ? Do you have certain DirectX settings set (my test with the betas was with the default settings).<hr></blockquote> [ 01-24-2002: Message edited by: Cuchulainn ]</p>

Hi. Just got a wizzbang new XP computer, which included a Radeon 8500 graphics card. However it HATES CM! It siezes up after 2-5 minutes without fail. I believe I have all the latest drivers. Any suggestions please.... Cuchulainn

First of all, many, many thanks for your continuing ability to amaze through your dilligence, attention to what players want, and sheer creative genius! Now that's off my mind, may I ask about something that I can find no reference to thus far. I would imagine that over the course of many games with many players, there will be a requirement to pause games played on TCP/IP due to external interruptions at one end or the other (telephone calls, pee breaks, women demanding attention, etc). Is there to be any way to pause/save by mutual agreement, to pick things up later on, either in ten minutes, or perhaps the next evening? ------------------ I said ... Put the bunny down! [This message has been edited by Cuchulainn (edited 11-03-2000).]

Having just watched the MPEG, I wholeheartedly agree that the graphics are awesome. I would like to learn how accuratly real-world physics is modelled. To CM standards??? ------------------ I said ... Put the bunny down! [This message has been edited by Cuchulainn (edited 10-27-2000).]

Thank you very much , Wild Bill. The enthusiasm and dedication that you and others like you show for CM further elevates what was already a fantastic game. ------------------ I said ... Put the bunny down! [This message has been edited by Cuchulainn (edited 10-27-2000).] [This message has been edited by Cuchulainn (edited 10-27-2000).]

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear MadMatt. Happy birthday to you!" ------------------ I said ... Put the bunny down!

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rooster: Cuchulainn it's Time to Meet! This Saturday in Manhattan at Hallo Berlin, at 402 W. 51st Street at Ninth Avenue. 12:00 noon. CM Talk, match planning & mebbe even a little Subway Series Talk!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Sorry Rooster. Put on escort duty this weekend, looking after some out of towners who have their own schedule. ------------------ I said ... Put the bunny down!

Any and all welcome!!! ------------------ I said ... Put the bunny down!

Double posting.... (again) [This message has been edited by Cuchulainn (edited 10-18-2000).]

Aren't beret's French???

OK. If I don't get snaffled to look after two young ladies from Florida - a long story... Hallo Berlin this Saturday is fine by me. ------------------ I said ... Put the bunny down!

Double post... [This message has been edited by Cuchulainn (edited 10-18-2000).]

CNN Story: U.S. Army to wear black berets October 17, 2000 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A black beret will become the standard headgear of the U.S. Army starting next year, replacing traditional green hats, the Army chief of staff announced Tuesday. Gen. Eric Shinseki said the new headgear, to be introduced in June next year, would be a symbol of the Army's transformation into a new, lighter, more nimble force for the 21st century. "It will be a symbol of unity, a symbol of Army excellence, a symbol of our values," he told the annual convention of the Association of the United States Army, a professional support group. Shinseki said special operations and airborne units would retain their own distinctive berets, green for special forces and maroon for paratroopers. U.S. Army rangers, trained to operate behind enemy lines, adopted the black beret in the 1980s. Currently the standard government issue is an Army-green cap which folds flat and is dubbed an "envelope" cap by troops. ------------------ I said ... Put the bunny down!

Quite agree with all of the above. And, while we're at it... BTS ...why do arty barrages end the moment a FO is killed, and why can't they call in a barrage while riding in a jeep? [This message has been edited by Cuchulainn (edited 10-12-2000).]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Freak: Hello BTS, I live on Long Island. Could you give me the name of the museum where the PzIV is? Or Location? I of course will never really be able to afford such an item (most likely) but, when you say that "what little German stuff that is still out there...is very rare and very, very expensive", how rare is WWII German equipment? Tanks Specificaly. And if you know, how much would say a Panther or Tiger cost in relatively good shape? One that is drivable? Does one exsist that is drivable? Thanks BTS (Steve) Freak <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Found this on the web: American Armoured Foundation Tank and Ordnance War Memorial Museum Love Lane, Mattituck (516) 588-0033 call for hours Sunday 11-4 $5 adults $4 people under 12 and senior citizens, under 4 free.

This in today's papers: TANK: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine by Patrick Wright Faber £20 pp499 ANDREW LYCETT The tank is the armour of preference for Third World dictators. Often a middle-vintage Soviet T-55 with many miles on the clock, it sits impassively outside the presidential palace, watches menacingly over the main square, encircles the radio station during coups. At all times, its steely message is clear: don't mess with me. Inspired, no doubt, by his brilliant The Village that Died for England (about the multi-dimensional wave of protest that hit Tyneham in economically depressed Dorset after the army had taken it over for tank practice), Patrick Wright has had the promising idea of telling the tale of this totemic 20th- century war machine. With his command of contemporary culture and his reporting skills, Wright is adept at teasing out unusual, often symbolic patterns in history. He starts in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 - and the potent image of the single Chinese student holding up a column of battle tanks. Had the behemoth had its day? Were human sensibilities changing? As the young man's defiance was transformed into a globalised icon of the human spirit, Wright, ever alert to such ironies, notes that it was in America, not China, that the tanks refused to stop when, in April 1993, they participated in the bloody raid on the Branch Davidian cult. Rewind to the start, 1915, when the first world war became mired by what the early tank boffin Major-General J F C Fuller called the new trinity of trench, machine gun and wire, and the Admiralty Landships Committee dusted down a science-fictionish idea (used by H G Wells, for example) and commissioned trials of an armoured vehicle with caterpillar tracks. For secrecy's sake, it was decked out as a water tanker: hence the name, which preserved odd nautical connotations. Introduced on the western front, these lumbering Heath Robinson contraptions provoked laughter among the troops - a gallows humour that betrayed fear at their diabolical hideousness. But they proved their military worth and, after eyewitness correspondents and war artists had provided a propagandist gloss, tanks were paraded through Britain's towns, raising money for the war effort through the National War Savings Committees Tank Bank. Their success was celebrated in popular song, their menace etched in cubist art. Soon the tank was ubiquitous, not just in savage little wars in Ireland or Iraq, but as a weapon of social control at home. In 1919 it rolled through the streets of Glasgow (whose citizens had only recently contributed to the Tank Bank) to face off striking workers. "It is infinitely more humane to appal a rioter or a savage by showing him a tank than to shoot him down with an inoffensive-looking machine-gun," wrote Tank Corps intelligence officer Clough Williams-Ellis, better known later as the architect of Portmeirion. Even so, the British army was unclear about the weapon's future. Would it provide support for existing cavalry or infantry? Or was there a case for an independent or even wholly mechanised motorised force? Some of the brass hats adopted the former position, regarding tanks as a temporary expedient to deal with trench warfare. But the cause of science had a powerful advocate in Fuller who, even when dismissed as too eccentric within the defence establishment, exerted a decisive influence as a military journalist, particularly after finding an eager disciple in Captain Basil Liddell Hart. Fuller promoted mechanisation with the enthusiasm of a religious crusade, for, as Wright skilfully shows, his ideas had as much to do with magic as science. As a young lieutenant in India, Fuller became an acolyte of the occultist Aleister Crowley. His call for a radical new military order owed what Wright calls its cranky dialectics to Crowley's satanism, though he himself claimed he had switched from destructive to constructive iconoclasm. Fuller's distaste for the Establishment extended to his politics: a supporter of Oswald Mosley, he would almost certainly have become Fascist minister of defence. No wonder Whitehall kept him at arm's length. In the second world war armoured brigades operated much as Fuller anticipated. They dominated the German blitzkrieg of France, the see-saw desert campaign in north Africa, the Panzer drive into Russia and the remarkable battle at Kursk in July 1943 when the Nazis failed to hold the line against a Soviet force estimated at 3,275 tanks. Wright tells these stories well, not forgetting the experiences of ordinary people (both soldiers and civilians) who came into contact with this lethal weapon. But his true interest lies in the sideshows, whether it be psychologist Wilhelm Reich's rants about the links between the mechanisation of warfare and of the human psyche, or the tale of the Polish cavalrymen who charged invading German tanks in 1939 - a myth of bravery invoked by Margaret Thatcher but, as Wright found, played down by Poles who regard it as a patronising slur on their stupidity and backwardness. (Their otherwise favoured countryman Andrzej Wajda's 1959 film, Lotna, which portrayed this figment, is viewed as a crude communist calumny on the Polish officer class). In the modern world, Wright ranges over the importance of the tank in Israel's defences, the problem of the conversion of munitions factories in eastern Europe, and robotic warfare as seen in post-Desert Storm America. He finds plenty to interest him, from an examination of the biblical-cum-Zionist concept of the iron wall, through official disapproval of a pink tank displayed in Prague as late as 1991, to the American military's acknowledgment of the inhumanity of virtual war. Wright's achievement is to present the tank from so many perspectives - from arms manufacturers to radical artists. If I preferred The Village that Died for England, it is because his style seems better suited to the historical quirks of rural England than the horrors on far-flung battlefields. Symbolically, the tank is too inanimate, too destructive, for his creativity. This makes for a certain ambivalence. His general stance is that tanks are evil but, occasionally, as in Israel, he cannot help marvelling at their macho glory. Futuristically, Wright tells of a tiny sensor-bearing robot that attaches itself to a tank and, like an insect, eats through the operating systems. Recalling the motorised metallic boxes of 1915, he notes that thinking on tanks remains fixated by period fantasy. Though neither frantic nor fantasy, Wright's intelligent scepticism is certainly of its period. We appreciate the tank, we worry about its power, we try to understand it, all the while maintaining an ironic distance. Meanwhile, our consumer society tames it in the latest sports utility vehicle. Websites: www.achtungpanzer.com Lots of information on the most fearsome of all the second world war tanks Books: An Intimate History of Killing by Joanna Bourke (Granta £9.99) How soldiers deal with death [This message has been edited by Cuchulainn (edited 10-08-2000).]

They jumped pretty much directly by the riverside road. They were manoevering side by side, having crossed across the bridge (pausing briefly to fire a few shots halfway)and perhaps 'fell' off the bridge I guess. But this without suffering any impact damage!! And when the tractor 'jumped' back up, well....

Possible Bug? Spoiler Warning!!!!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -When the two Tigers, preceded by the tractor came across the bridge, first the tractor 'jumped' off the bridge to the road by the river, then one of the Tigers 'jumped' down too. Now two Tigers is bad enough news, but Tiger tanks that can jump off a bridge two stories high onto a road is waaay too unfair! Anyone else seen this? Oh, and later the tractor jumped back up and ran away. Killed both the Tigers though.

It seems that this particular Saturday isn't best for people. We'll run this up the flagpole for another weekend and see how it goes. It would be good to see how many want to meet to play CM (thereby requiring more organization) and how many would like to meet to have a quiet drink, swap stories, etc.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by frag: Cuchulainn, why not?! Just explain me what you want to have in it, and I surely will do something of it after the mods manager... Thanks<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You are a sucker for punishment! Well I pretty much concur with Robert. I'll think about it. When you've finished your current magnum opus, it'll give you something else to chew on....

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Lunchtime or evening best? Please vote.

It's seeming that setting up a dozen or so computers may be complicated... How about just meeting for a drink to start off with and pushing around ideas for a full 'PC/Mac fest' in person?