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    No DShKs in the game?

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    20 hours ago, BFCElvis said:

    There is a laundry list of missing units. All have been submitted to HQ. Here's the complete list:

    Vehicles Missing from Single Vehicle menu

    Sturmpanzer IV Brummbär (mid)
    Sturmpanzer IV Brummbär (late)
    Elefant
    Hummel
    Pz IIIM (Flame)
    Soviet Units missing from Specialist Teams menu

    DP LMG (Army and Guards)
    DPM LMG (Army and Guards)
    DShK HMG (Army and Guards)
    German Units missing from Specialist Teams menu

    Flamethrower (except Luftwaffe)
    LMG34 (Heer and SS)
    HMG34 (SS and Volkssturm)
    LMG42 (SS and Volkssturm)
    HMG42 (Volkssturm)
    PaK36(r) 76mm (Heer, SS and Luftwaffe except airborne)
    IeG18 75mm (Heer, SS and Luftwaffe armored infantry. Also Heer infantry prior to October and SS infantry prior to February)

     

    Is that for the editor or for the quickbattle selector?

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    New PC

    in CM2 General Tech Support

    Posted · Edited by Redwolf

    To put it plainly: with the exception of the graphics card this is a PC commonly found in a landfill.

    Would be better to find something on Craigslist and put in a newer graphics card.

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    Laptop

    in CM2 General Tech Support

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Sluggo-337 said:

    I grabbed the wrong one.  What about this one?

    https://www.amazon.com/HP-Gaming-Desktop-Computer-Bluetooth/dp/B0BJFDP4DF/ref=sr_1_28?crid=3R8PRNU4UTLNN&keywords=gaming+desktop+refurbished&qid=1685054117&refinements=p_36%3A2421880011%2Cp_n_feature_twenty-eight_browse-bin%3A23724145011%2Cp_n_feature_eight_browse-bin%3A23630637011%2Cp_n_feature_twenty-three_browse-bin%3A13580788011&rnid=2257851011&s=pc&sprefix=%2Caps%2C157&sr=1-28

     

    That is obsolete enough that you should be able to pick that processor generation out of the recycling somewhere. Ebay is full of them sub $100. And the SSD capacity is extremely low.

    I mean it will run CM allright, but I don't see that it is a good offer.

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    General new computer purchase advice needed

    in CM2 General Tech Support

    Posted

    1 minute ago, danfrodo said:

    Thanks RedWolf.  I gave the current machine a thorough cleaning and will limp along for now.  But I really like the microcenter idea.  I cleaned it a while ago but was not rigorous.  I will get a new one soon, but feeling less urgent -- until the fan goes off again 🤪

    If you have a standard PC now you could look into putting a better graphics card, maybe requiring a better PSU.

    And your heatsink on the CPU could probably use new thermal paste, if that is the one making noise you could replace the whole heatsink with a quality unit. And old RAM is cheap, so why not? 

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    General new computer purchase advice needed

    in CM2 General Tech Support

    Posted

    2 hours ago, danfrodo said:

    Oh, so you are saying that buying HP/dell/Lenovo I might end up w non standard power supply that might not be upgradable later?  How would I know? 

    So you would build your own?  Or other suggestions for pre-built?  I mentioned HP because I can get a pretty good discount on some of their machines -- but maybe not really saving money because of what you mention above.

     

     

    My ex-wife once bought a random Dell which not only had a non-standard-format PSU but also an unreliable PSU. And everybody else had the same problem so Ebay prices for the PSU shot up. Most expensive and wimpiest PC ever.

    The technical data presented to you pre-purchase is not sufficient to judge issues like this. You will have to resort to reviews on the web. But that is not popular content, most reviews are for parts to make your own.

    If you are near a Microcenter that might be your best best. They assemble a PC from parts you buy there for IIRC $120-150. And you get to choose all the cool parts.

    Assembling it yourself is annoying if the thing happens not to boot. Is it the CPU, the board, the RAM or the PSU? You have no parts to cross-check with.

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    General new computer purchase advice needed

    in CM2 General Tech Support

    Posted

    The problem with buying a HP/Dell/Lenovo is that the power supply has the right power output. You want the option to pump more power later to change your graphics card to a more powerful one when they are cheaper. This is very bad if the power supply is not standard format. Buying a HP/Dell/Lenovo with a powerful card in the first place is relatively more expensive than their smaller boxes.

    So in summary, get a HP that has standard part dimensions for power supply and everything else.

    GPU wise, for CM you want NVidia. CPU wise, AMD has a bit of trouble with running 4 sticks of memory and right now new BIOSes come down on you like an avalanche. But if you get a 12th/13th gen Intel than you need Windows 11.

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    Can anyone good with computers help an idiot old man

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    Forget about the Coax adapter if you are willing to put an Ethernet cable from the computer to the router. It was just a distracting post, unless you happen to have coax in the walls (rare).

    A good first thing to post about your computer is whether you have an Ethernet port already. We don't even know whether it is a desktop or a laptop, that makes it a little thin on the forensics we work off.

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    Can anyone good with computers help an idiot old man

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Sublime said:

    Can anyone else please stop me from dying of despair and tell me theres some 40 dollarish tops option for this ? cuz that dudes link scared the **** outta me lol

     

    as in can I JUST buy a cable and plug in into the router or do I need this goddamn adaptor I cant afford

    You told us nothing about your computer, so we can't really help.

    You only need that adapter if you have coax cabling in the walls.

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    ChatGPT and Combat Mission

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    On 4/21/2023 at 9:31 AM, sttp said:

    Have you guys tried to ask ChatGPT questions about Combat Mission? It's pretty amazing, and I have no idea how it could possibly access some of the specific information I asked about, like describe the map and units and objectives in the mission entitled XXXX. Not sure where or how it would find such information... almost like it's delving into game manuals, mission briefings, mission map layouts from the editor (unlikely!), or supplementary pdfs or something. It's super interesting and impressive, but a little bit creepy in some ways too.

    I was sorta skeptical and thinking of this thing as just a talking search engine or something, but it is so much more.

    I'll paste in just a short snippet of my "conversation" with it. (Not sure why the text of my questions isn't showing up, but it's pretty obvious from the context what I asked it.)

     

     


    It would be funny if we later found out that ChatGPT is programmed to buy all games, plays them and gathers the content to answer questions.

    In CM's case it would also learn a lot about OOBs.

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    AMD 22.8 series breaks game again

    in CM2 General Tech Support

    Posted

    21 hours ago, LeBlaque said:

    @Battlefront.com, et. al. Thanks for the test and great feedback.  The out-of-memory error seems like a "driver-killer" as I experienced this as well on a large CMRT e-mail battle with drivers after 22.5.2.  Despite the flashbang being resolved in newest, if the game crashes that is a fatal flaw.  Do we all need to do ANOTHER separate trouble ticket for BF and AMD??

    You do.

    But you need to make it reproducible with a CMx2 demo so that AMD folks can run it.

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