Pvt. Ryan

Someone has skipped a few too many therapy sessions.

I had been running the game without any frame rate problems and then I decided to update my video driver for the fun of it. Once I did that the game slowed to a crawl. I went back to the old driver and the game works great again. I have a GeForce 7800 GTX. I am using 84.25 and had tried 93.71 unsuccessfully.

This summer!

When I assault a gun I take out the crew that is not behind the shield. Then I attack with two squads. One crawls while the other one crouches. When the gun turns to target the crouching squad I have it go prone and then advance with the other squad. You can eventually get one squad to flank the gun or at least get within grenade range. Ideally this is a job for mortars, which are not in the game.

If you look in the lower left hand corner it says, "There's a hole in your Sherman, dear Liza, dear Liza."

I'm no expert, but it sound like an overheating or power supply problem.

Just to follow up I haven't had any more crashes except the one I reported where a saved game doesn't load and then crashes. I've only had the problem with that one save so far.

How can it be vaporware when many people are playing it? The minimum tech spec issue comes up with every game I play these days. There are cominations of components that will run the game and those that won't. BFC or any sofware developing company can't test their games on every possible configuration. When you try to run the minimum specs you run the risk that your machine won't be able to cut it.

There are no mortars. Taking out AT guns or MGs is tough without mortars.

I've had at least 10 AFV's on my side plus the enemy's vehicles.

I've been saving and loading without problems, but when I try to load my last save I get a CTD.

I have all the settings at max and I'm not seeing the game as beautifully as you are.

Attach a mouse. I hate playing any game on a laptop that requires a mouse for control.

He may have hit quote instead of edit.

You don't need the email to download, just click the link in your pre-order confirmation. There must be something else going on.

So far, so good.

Back from dinner. I'll play some more and see if it happens again.

Full game. Played fine for about 10 minutes and then crashed. Pentium D 3.2 GHz WinXP 2GB RAM GeForce 7800 GTX

I didn't get one either. The email would have been sent to my Yahoo address and sometimes mass emails take hours or days to arrive.

This announcement had plenty of cowbell, but was pathetically lacking in exclamation points.

And if it ships after 4/19, well that's just standard practice in the software business, so don't hold your breath.

Someone set us up the bomb.

No, we are not all beta testers. That's why they won't release a game that has known problems that would affect many players.

Thanks. I'll try it when I get home.

Those come from Atomic Games. This is BFC.