Emthon

Incredible! Doyoudo this for a living? L8r, Em

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jeff Heidman: You can buy a GeForce 2 MX 32MB video card for less than $100. Right now, depending on your processor, that may be one of the most cost effective upgrades available. Jeff Heidman<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Amen. I bought one of those jewels to pair with my Cel2-566. I overclocked both and can now chew through any scenario with any mod at 1280x1024. Full speed ahead! L8r, Em

"other" Mr. Clark - Heh. It was a long shot. Interesting that you allude to getting rid of the Mr. Clark of AQ2 fame... his page was modeled as a spy's guide to getting rid of enemies. Sniping was especially noteworthy and honorable in Action Quake2. You mention Unreal Tourney. I am still occasionally messing with playing it online and offline. I have a server that runs CTF most of the time. I like to play the Infiltration and Tactical Ops mods on UT too. However, if stranded on a desert isle with only one game...it would be CMBO! RokSS:I must admit that AQ2 consumed me like no other game has. For about 3 months I played it during every free moment I had. I, along with another player (Tequila), started the OFC. I played it regularly for over a year. However, the cheaters and LPBs spoiled it for me. Chupa said: "And since the CM community is much smaller than the community for just about any FPS on the market (well, maybe not Daikatana)," ROFLOL! good one! L8r, [OFC]Emthon

While there are plenty of "Mr. Clarks" in the world, it is odd to see it as a screen name. Are you the one that had a nice page on Action Quake2? If so, just a word of "hello" from an old fan and welcome to CMBO. I enjoyed your page. If not, well, glad you are enjoying CMBO, the best tactical level WW2 sim ever developed! L8r, Em

Hijack- I have the same card. No problems with slowdown. I have read that the 6.35 drivers are not optimal. Check madonion.com to see what they have to say on the boards. I use the 6.31 drivers and get excellent performance. I have set the AGP aperture to 64mb, vsync off D3D, makes sure anti-alias is off. Sometimes it gets set on as default. Make sure and check it. Good luck, Em

Wild Bill- I just played FiF as the Allies. Scenario defaults and no changes. It was one bloody mess when I got through! Total Allied Victory, but there were no smiles on my leader's faces. In fact, several of them would never smile again. I do not have time for an AAR. However, the battle was a mixture of changing fortunes (armor lost, zook teams step up, holding a hill and getting overrun), loss for the overall good (arty called in "wide" to shock as many Axis as possible), and moments of frustration and elation (lose 2 MMG squads to my own arty and last zook team gets their last tank ). I knew I had it in hand when I squeezed them into the heavy woods and rained down 105mm death. Then, any of their ?Infantry units were easy mop up. Great scenario! Em

Where lies the Green man? Either of two places hid, Veteran or earthen Somewhere victory calls Icy death awaits my turn never to be heard Stealth, quiet, panic Like winter's smothering blanket win turns to defeat Battle's hellish din agony thunders the plane twisted forms of pain Smoke curls from the beast sun rising out of the east battle's end, grim grin.

Read many glowing online reviews, CGW ***** review, and then poked around Dejanews. I did not bother d'loading the demo. I sent in my my order and have been in CMBO heaven ever since! I have not enjoyed a game this much in a long time. L8r, Em

Just a bit on the Voodoo cards. I used to be a dyed in the wool Voodoo lover. However, I was quite dissatisfied with my Voodoo3 card and CMBO. I recently got a GeForce-2 MX and really like it. For CMBO it is terrific! It does pretty good on some other games that I play, too. I have the SBLive value and have been very pleased with it. I got a CD burner rather than a DVD drive. It has been very handy to burn disks of data and music. L8r, Em

hiya kip- I cannot overstate how happy I am with the GF-2 MX card. To be able to keep CM running for hours on end, big map, small map, other tasks in background, ESC out of program, load HyperSnap DX, screenshots, and anything else I would have never dreamed about with my Voodoo is just GREAT! Now, I did purchase the OEM version of the Hercules card. It has the slower memory. Some people are not able to overclock it at all. I was able to get a pretty good overclock on mine. YMMV. For another $25 you can get the retail version. It will likely overclock to core 210 and memory 220 mhz. It also looks fabulous. Probably has more to do with running at 1280x1024 than the card or driver differences. I pretty much had to keep the V3 down to 1024x768 or 800x600 to minimize the whiteout problem. L8r, Em

Just download Hypersnap-DX. It will sequentially capture screens and save them to files that are snapX.bmp, where X=consecutive integer numbers. Works like a charm. Freeware version too!

WBW- Reminds me of playing Chance Encounter last night. I was playing the Axis forces. Towards the end of the conflict, mop up. Anyway, I had a platoon leader with his two SMG squads directed to charge from the church over to the Allies hidden in the scattered trees to the left. Well, it was a very brash and stupid move. The Allies at that point had not gotten the word that their butts were getting kicked elsewhere. So, they put down some determined fire that Broke one squad and Pinned the leader. Thankfully, the turn ended. I then set the remaining Alerted squad to fall back and hide. I click, "Go" and watch as they come under fire. There goes the platoon leader, running away from his men. Then, I watch in horror as my remaining healthy squad begins to run toward the Allies. I am thinking, "you idiots, what the heck are you doing!?" They then stop within 10 meters of the main rifle squad and proceed to make mincemeat of them. I guess they were fanatical troops, Green BTW. The next turn, they take out a MMG nest. It was definitely one of those (small-scale) epic moments. L8r, Em

re: Human vs Puter opponents. Yeah, I know that. However, there are some scenarios that the TacAI can really excel in playing. I have played online games for many years and definitely agree with you, the human element is still superior. Unless, you are playing against a newbie (like me ) Ok, played CE as the Axis forces. While not materially harder, it did take me longer to get the Axis Major Victory. Something like 25 turns. (I knew the Allied forces were beat after about 15!) My Stugs did a darn fine job of knocking out 3 Shermies before the last of my Stugs acquiesed. Thankfully, the combination of a strong right-side (Axis view) presence and a hidden left-side presence, drove the remaining two Sherms to the left side. They both bogged down while still on the Allied side of the road. Heh. The 2 Sherms were still pretty lethal and cut off all my attempts to get my infantry from the church to the Allied-side woods. Also, my PzSchrecks had abysmal aim and served only to infuriate the tank commanders and 50 cal gunners. I do give a tip of the helmet to my Arty Spotter. I got him situated on the Axis wooded hill on the right side and managed to lay down some deadly arty on the troops as they were clumped in the scattered trees. It was pretty brutal! In order to get the tanks, I ended up running some infantry from the farmhouse to the closest tank. It was not pretty. They were dodging (and not) 50 cal fire as they came across the wheat field, up the hill, and to the side of the Sherm. Two rifle grenades later from 15 meters and there was only one Sherm. The final Sherm succumbed to a PzSchreck in the side. It was probably the 10th one fired from the church. I must have had 3 or 4 PzS squads try the shot. After that, it was a pretty simple mop up operation. Most of the Allied forces were in a Panic or Broken state. On to the next scenario.... L8r, Em

Sorry if you have already read my similar post concerning my Voodoo3 problems and ultimate resolution (pun intended ). I had an overclocked V3-2k in my Celeron 516 mhz machine. I was having the texture white out problems that everyone else was having with large maps. I decided to give 3dfx two weeks, from the time I started playing CM, to rectify the problem. Well, we still have the problem. About a week ago I got a Hercules GeForce2-MX. Since my wife did not bat an eyelash at that purchase, I decided to go for the Gold... I also ordered a Cel566 with the intention of overclocking the beejeezus out of it. Got everything installed, overclocked the Cel2 to 922 mhz, overclocked the GF2-MX to core 195 and mem 190. As you might guess, CM runs like a friggin dream! I can actually run it at 1600x1200 with only some jerkiness on All or Nothing, when viewing the entire map on view level 3. I go ahead and run it at 1280x1024 because that is a better match for my desktop on my 19" monitor. Of course, it is quite smooth and the display is gorgeous. So, for ~$120, you can get the GF-2 MX and be free of the white texture dropout! If you have been waiting for 3dfx to fix the problem, I would advise against it. If you can afford it, go for a different card. CM is too good a game to spoil by putting up with the texture dropout nonsense! I was doing the "make move, save game, wait for texture drops, quit game, reload game, play move, rinse and repeat". ARgh! My heartfelt $0.02, Em

The search function is a wonderful thing... I just should have used it before I posted my "newbie" post. Heh. I see that playing the Axis, which I innately felt, would have made a more difficult game. Perhaps I will.... Kingfish: Yes, playing against humans is always going to make it tougher! L8r, Em [This message has been edited by Emthon (edited 09-28-2000).]