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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Warmonger: My suggestion would be that when your writing CM 2, with a release date of the summer of 2001 that you write it for a 64 meg video card. By then they should be the next standard for video cards and with the GPU on the Geforce 256 card it takes the drag off the CPU, so you do not have to worry about framerates. I do not know what you are targeting now, but if it is 16 mgs or 32 mgs, your missing the target for CM 2 like you did for CM 1. Also, backward compatibility to at least 32 or 16 megs would be important. Regards, Warmonger <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> The only way a Geforce would off load the CPU would be if the game support T&L which CM1 doessn't and there is a debate if it a hardware T&L support game would really look any better then the current software base. The T&L doesn't improve frame rate per-say it allows more lighting and Triangles to be drawn without a frame rate hit. It doesn't improve frame rate across the board. If the CPU is slower then T&L of the Geforce when doing T&L then the Geforce would help and only if the game supports T&L via hardware(Geforce) If you look at the benchmarks between 32megs and 64megs there isn't much difference and this type of game there wouldn't be any difference because the game doesn't push a large amount of graphics quickly. I think you've bought into the NVidia's marketing. Harlock

It seems a lot of people are comparing HE to HEAT which is wrong. Why HE wouldn't penetrate the top armor of the Panther is because the blast is going outward so there would be much less KE hitting the top. Reactive armor is HE, the explosion disrupts the stream of molted steal that HEAT uses. Reactive armor which is bolted on to the tank even on the top parts of the turret doesn't do damage I find it hard to believe a 60m mortor would to a Panther. Harlock

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jeffjones: I got the full version today (yeah!) and I"m having a few graphical annoyances. First,in the menus, the mouse will leave a square block where I clicked last. Second, while in the game, if I press Esc to go to the desktop, then return to the game, it badly distorts the text on the screen. I don't know how to recover it, except to exit the game and restart it. My specs: P3-650 Voodoo5 5500 384 MB SDRAM Intellimouse Explorer nothing overclocked. I've tried disabling the Intellimouse software, and tried changing the windows color depth from 32 to 16 bit. I have all the latest drivers for everything (I'm stickler on that stuff).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Did you install the 5500 drivers using the installer? Reinstall the drivers using Device manager. I'm not sure if you know your way around win95/98 so I'll walk you through it. If you do, sorry...Right click on my computer icon and click on properties. Click on the Device Manager tab and click on Display adapters icon. Below the icon should be listed your video card. Double click on it and select the driver tab. If your using win98 select the update driver button and select Display a list of all drivers..... and select next. Select have disk and enter the path of your V5500 drivers. This path will were your V5500 cd-rom is. Once done reboot your system and applied DirectX 7a and reboot again then see if you still have the problem. Harlock

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mikeydz: Checking order status probably depends alot on what info the shipping company can provide, and the manpower the company can provide to handle those inquiries. I've rarely ship a lot of packages, and I've never used USPS so I don't know how much tracking detail the Post Office could provide. I also don't know how many people actually "work" for BTS, but I'm pretty sure they don't have a person who works full time on handling order inquiries, so that Job more than likely falls back to Steve and Charles. I for one will wait until the requested date (23rd) before making an official inquiry of them concerning my copies. Everyone just take a breath and fire up the Gold demo, turn on the History Channel, go to a strip club, or whatever you need to do to relax. Mikey <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> The point is that BTS decided on this business model(selling directly to consumers) so the necessary resources should have been allocated. It seems that they haven't done this and now their paying for it. People have a right to complain, they order the product and would like to know where it is or the status of it. If they couldn't support this type of business model they shouldn't have implamented it. Hey, I love the game but BTS should of thought things through a little more. Harlock

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mannheim Tanker: ***Biting lip*** Captain, as BTS stated earlier, once the package has left their warehouse, it's all in the hands of USPS. Unless you have received a "trouble" message from BTS, your package should be in the system. I'd refrain from encouraging others to needlessly bother BTS about things that are beyond their control. You're not the only one that has yet to receive their CD (includes me) - just remain patient; it WILL arrive.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> If BTS is only going to sell their product over the Internet than they should have a system in place that can notify customers that their order has shipped/status. Other companies don't seem to have a problem keeping their customers' updated on their order. I have no problem waiting but I would like to know what the status of my order is since my CC has been billed. Harlock