BeWary

I thought you only needed the desktop resolution to be what you want it in the game the first time you load up CM (or the 1st time after deleting the prefs file). Try deleting the prefs file, setting your desktop res to 1024x768, and loading CM. Then I think you can set your desktop back to normal without effecting CM. Am I wrong? BeWary

Ralph, you poor guy. I can't imagine using a card like that with my 1.33GHz Athlon. Oh, the horror! Yes, upgrade quickly! I'd agree with the GeForce 2/3 assessment, depending on the cash you have. BeWary

Perhaps the scenario designer set some tag that you were going to get reinforcements and then forgot to give them to you? Or more likely, meant to only give one side reinforcements but set the trigger for both sides? Just a guess. BeWary

Don't know if XP does this, but sometimes Win98 tells me I don't have the CD in the drive when I do. This usually happens when I recently changed CD's. To fix this, I have to open My Computer, right-click on the CD drive, select Eject, and re-close the tray. Then i hit F5 to refresh the screen and it correctly shows the CD in the tray. Maybe that'll work for XP too. BeWary

Did you check the icon you use to launch the game to make sure it still points to the correct directory? If it does, then I'd suggest upgrading the firmware of your CD/DVD drive. This should be available from the drive manufacturer, or if you don't know that info, your computer manufacturer. Good luck, BeWary

Hey all. I know having a "campaign" for CMBB is probably not going to happen, which is fine with me, but can I suggest a simple alternative? In CMBO, I've always wanted to play the scenarios in the relative order in which they happened. I think this would give a good feeling of how the war was being fought as well as the available equipment and troops at different points in the war. For CMBB, can we have a simple month and year that the battle takes place attached to each scenario? This would then be displayed in the scenario listing screen. Also, if we could click on the Scenario Date column header to sort the missions by date (like in the Windows Explorer), that would make it much easier to play the game and make it feel like you're starting in 1941(?) and ending in 1945. Assuming the main menu interface is similar to CMBO, I can't see how this could be too difficult to code. Thanks for listenting. BeWary

I think what you're referring to are the screenshots of the scenarios, right? They look that way because those are the graphic mods that the person who took the screenshot has installed. In other words, the graphics are not part of the scenario, so if you want better/different graphics, you'll have to download some mods. Then ALL of your scenarios will use the mods you install. Personally, I like the Velvet Grass mod. I think you can get it at CMHQ (www.combatmission.com). BeWary

There's probably a graphical setting in your Display Properties->Advanced window that will set the texture offset. For NVidia cards it's under the Direct3D properties. I believe the default value is usually 3. Try setting the default value for your card. If that doesn't work, or you don't know what the default should be, experiment with other values until it works. Hope that helps. BeWary

I'm not sure what the problem is, but make sure if you installed the patch that you installed it into the same "different" directory that you installed the game into. Also, right-click on the icon you use to launch CM, select properties, and make sure the "target" points to the "different" directory name you chose when you installed CM. BeWary

Dave, if you copied the new sounds into the CMBO WAV directory, then they would have overwritten the files already there. So something went wrong. Check the file extensions (e.g., ".TXT"). CMBO won't read them if they are not ".wav" files. Just to note, if you "deleted" the original files, then the new files were probably named something different, in which case CM wouldn't pick them up because the game is looking for specific file names. In that case, I believe it would pick them up from the CD, which would mean they would sound the same as before. Hope that helped. BeWary [ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: BeWary ]</p>

I've not heard of that problem before, but it might be related to your RAM. Only 128k! I had more than that on my 286. Oiling your CPU isn't a good idea. It doesn't have any moving parts. Though the massage was a good idea. Those electrons get kinda stressed zipping around so much. But seriously, I had a similar system that I played CM on daily for over a year with no problems. It was a P2-400, 196MB RAM, Win98, etc. Do you have some "special" background programs running? Try closing everything but systray and explorer. Perhaps you have special mouse software installed that might be causing this. Try preventing anything like that from starting automatically by using Start->Run->msconfig and going to the far right tab and unselecting programs that might be interfering. It amazes me everytime I see one of these commercial machines and how many programs they load in the background, so it wouldn't surprise me that something Gateway installed is interfering with CM. BeWary

Yes, the high-res mods can effect performance, but your system can probably handle them fine. Just try them! Then you'll know for sure. BeWary

You probably just need to adjust the screen settings for your monitor. Modern monitors have different screen size settings depending on the resolution and the refresh rate, which your new card probably changed. The other option is to change the refresh rate to what it was before. Usually 75Hz or higher. BeWary

I'm not sure of the artillery bug you're talking about, but I suggest just using Area Fire. It can be just as effective at causing casualties. BeWary

Yes, it'll work, as long as you set up your network correctly. Make sure both computers have the same subnet address. BeWary

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Dogface: bewary- I didnt write it i didnt say it was the gospel truth i just thought it was funny. So sue me for being a kinda old (but not that old) FART.... <hr></blockquote> I know, I was just giving you a hard time. BeWary

24, but feeling like 42 with my grey hairs, kids, and mortgage. So you can average that to 33 and I won't effect the group average much. Hey Dogface, a lot must have in the 3 years before those 1980-born kids became aware of the world around them, because I understand almost all of the things on that list! I remember watching the Challenger explode while sitting in a grade school classroom. I remember the Cold War and being worried about nuclear war. I remember BETA VCRs, black & white TVs, no remote controls, 13 channels only, duck-and-cover, etc. I even had a record player and understand "you sound like a broken record." Just an FYI for you old fogies. We young-uns aren't all that ignorant. BeWary

Do you have any custom arrows/cursors set up? If you do, try selecting the standard Windows arrows and cursors and see what happens.

I don't know of any good online shops for fans in particular, but if you find a fan you like, search www.pricewatch.com for the best prices. I'm using a Chrome Orb I bought from www.bzboyz.com and it's been fine. I have a bunch of cards in my 1.33 GHz system, which runs almost all day every day, and the cpu hovers right around 54°C even when playing CPU-intensive games. I also have good case air flow, so that makes a difference too.

Yes, it's a heat problem if you have it set up to shut off at a certain temp. If you have a name-brand case, you may not be able to add an extra fan, as I mentioned. If you can add one, you should see a round area on the rear of the case with a lot of holes in it. This will be where you'd put the extra fan. It should be about 2-3 inches in diameter. If you don't have anything like this, then your only option is to increase the temp limit. You should be able to safely make the limit 180-190 degrees Fahrenheit. On another note, I've read that leaving the case open can actually hinder a system's ability to cool down properly. It makes sense if the fans are arranged correctly. With the case off, the airflow is not directed, but with it on, it can be properly directed over hotspots like the CPU. Don't worry about where the video card fan is plugged in. If you haven't changed it, then leave it where it is. It's normal for them to be plugged into the card itself now-a-days. BeWary

The maximum safe temp for an Athlon Thunderbird chip is about 90 deg Celcius, which is around 200 deg Farenheit. This information can be found on the AMD website (www.amd.com) You could increase the temp limit before your machine shuts down, or better, install a case fan as noted above. The power supply sometimes only has enough fan power to get rid of its own heat and not any of the heat generated by the rest of the system. Also, some power supply fans don't have slots in them to suck in heat from the case. In that case, an extra fan blowing air out of the rear of the case is the best solution. Ideally, this fan can be positioned near the processor. Unfortunately, some name-brand system makers design their cases such that it's impossible to add a case fan. I hope that's not your case. BeWary

Are you talking about the pixel sparkling when you scroll around the map? Or some sort of corruption like Schrull was mentioning? I have a GeForce 2 card and get some sparkling when scrolling around the map, but this is not a corruption issue. If this is what you're seeing, it may just be that your last video card worked differently and didn't produce those sparkles. Did you have a Voodoo card before perhaps? I seem to remember the 3Dfx card I had handled some things like this better than the NVidia cards I've used. I wouldn't suggest any drastic measures unless your video is actually corrupted. First try updating your video drivers (I think 23.10 is the current recommended version to use for CM. Check the Battlefront news page for specifics). Also look at the brightness and contrast settings available to you in Display->Settings->Advanced->... under Windows. Do other games exhibit strange behavior too? BeWary

Hey all. I don't know if this has been a problem for anyone here, but I thought I'd share this none-the-less. I recently upgraded the video card in one of my computers to a GeForce 2 MX. This is on an older P2-400 with a 440BX chipset. The computer was consistently locking up in Direct3D games under Win9x, and after MUCH work trying to solve the problem, I found the solution tucked away in a corner of the Net. The trick is to lower the power consumption of the card slightly (from my understanding). This can be done by setting the AGP Aperture size (through the CMOS) to 16MB (which is supposed to disable the AGP bus from using system memory). The alternative fix (I've tried this too), is to merge a line into your registry that forces the card into AGP 1X mode. According to the guy that wrote up the fixes, the registry fix only decreased performance in games to 2-3%, whereas lowering the AGP Aperture size saw a >12% performance hit in some cases. Both fixes work for me, though I'm currently using the registry fix only. Here's the REG file (copy this into a new file, call it forceAGP1x.reg, and then right-click on it and MERGE it into your registry): REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\System] "ReqAGPRate"=dword:00000001 E-mail me at bwharry@ieee.org if you need further assistance. BeWary P.S. One other possible solution was to slightly increase the I/O voltage for the motherboard. I was not able to try this, and I wouldn't recommend it as it might possibly damage your video card (from what I've read anyway).

It could be the memory slot; is it dusty? Try removing the memory and blowing on it or vacuuming it (sounds dangerous, but I do it all the time, just be careful . It very well might be bad memory. I had a bad chip one time, and it would only crash a few games, and they would always crash in generally the same way. I kept thinking the games had bugs, but after replacing almost all components in my system, I FINALLY narrowed it down to the memory. It's very possible that your other programs simply don't crash when they get the bad data supplied by the memory. It all depends on how the program uses the information in the bad memory location(s). Believe, I've seen it numerous times as a programmer. At least you determined the source of the problem without too much trouble. And if you have 128MB or more of ram, you shouldn't need any more for a while (unless you're going to use WinXP). BeWary

Hmmm, well, it seems something's blocking the incoming traffic. Check the programs running in the backgroud. Type 'msconfig' at the Run command box. Hit the tab on the far right. It lists the programs that start up when you start your machine. Perhaps you have a software firewall and don't realize it (e.g. ZoneAlarm, BlackIce, etc). Or, just shutdown all programs running in the background (hit ctrl-alt-delete and select End Task) EXCEPT explorer and systray. That should eliminate the possibility of a software firewall unless it's running secretly, which you can look for in System Information, under System Tools. The other thing to try is to ask your ISP if they for some reason block incoming traffic on the port CM needs (7230?). Maybe they block incoming traffic to prevent people from hosting FTP/Web servers, though I haven't had this experience before. Good luck, BeWary [ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: BeWary ]</p>