BeWary

Good news. Thank you sir!

I'm a CMBO vet, but this wasn't possible "back then". Some friends and I want to play CMAK by designing custom maps and having our troops bought at game startup. Is this possible in CMAK? This is for a campaign-like game we're planning. We plan to play the same map a number of different times with different units each time, to simulate fighting over "territories". Thanks! BeWary P.S. Yes, I did a search! Actually, I did a few...

Von Lucke, I'll get you that e-mail when I get home from work. BeWary

Have you tried installing DX 8 again? What was your graphics card before? If it was onboard video, you probably need to manually disable it using a jumper or through the CMOS/BIOS configuration screens. Did you uninstall the drivers for your old video card before installing the new card? If not, uninstall the old drivers, the new drivers, and reinstall the new drivers after a reboot.

I don't trust IE to do FTP too well. I suggest using WS_FTP. It's free, has been around forever, and works well. BeWary

This is why I'm anal about exporting my registry before I install new hardware or software. If you reinstalled the drivers, then the problem probably lies somewhere else in the registry. If you can't find a way to restore an old copy of the registry, I'm afraid you'll probably have to remove Win98 and reinstall it. I can help with that if you have questions. I even have a detailed e-mail written up when I helped someone else reinstall Windows. BeWary

Well, it might simply be that your computer is a little old. 700MHz is pretty slow by today's standards. I don't agree that a GeForce 256 should handle everything fine. It could certainly be part of your problem. You should first update drivers. Try to get the latest drivers for your sound card (from Creative) and video card (from NVidia). If that doesn't help, something else more serious might be causing the problem, or like I said, maybe it's just too old of a system.

IIRC, there's an option in Eudora that says something like "put text attachments in body of message". This is something you'd want to uncheck, because Eudora thinks the PBEM is regular text. As mentioned, the other option is to zip the file. It's usually as simple as right-clicking on the PBEM file and selecting "add to zip". Then just send the zip file. BeWary

By jerky, do you mean the mouse pointer jumps all over the area at random when you try to place a waypoint? Or do you mean low fps? I've seen the former, usually in overhead view only. Going to an over-the-shoulder view seems to fix it.

If those suggestions don't work, consider replacing your memory. I've seen bad chips cause random freezing/crashing on 2 separate machines. I recommend only getting memory from www.crucial.com. I've never seen them send out bad RAM. [ November 08, 2002, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: BeWary ]

In other words, have your friend do a WindowsUpdate to patch his system.

Do other programs/games also freeze at random? If so, you might have bad memory. Otherwise, try updating your sound and video drivers. See if your motherboard has a new BIOS version. That's about all I can suggest for now.

Try updating your video drivers before you try anything else.

Hmmm... good news. I don't really know what the DMZ option normally does. I wouldn't think it would give you a second IP, unless your ISP allowed that, and I don't think it would work if it had the same IP as the router. I thought that DMZ just removes all protections for your computer, so basically anyone can get to it. Don't know how it affects the comp's IP though.

Ok, I'm a little late to the party, but I might have something to contribute. In order to host a game when behind a firewall, you'll have to do the following: 1) Get your router's IP address. That is the IP address that everyone else on the Net has to use in order to connect to your computer, regardless of what your computer's IP address is. You can usually get the IP from the router's configuration screen, but if not, this site will tell you what your router's IP is: http://www.whatismyip.com/ 2) Give your IP to your buddy who wants to join the game you're hosting. This is the IP he needs to give to CM. 3) Set your router to forward all packets addressed to port 7023 to your machine's local IP address (it's probably still 192.168.1.34). You may need to reboot the router after this change. Read the instructions carefully.