Der Kriegsherr

I like the scale of the game, but there should be an Advanced Game version to make it a better simulation. Also the North Africa portion of the board is too narrow. This game is not even as deep as the original Third Reich released as a board game in 1975.

I would like to see an Advanced Game that offers more sophistication such as: 1) unit stacking; 2) armor units that can exploit holes in the enemy line.

I thought that my soundcard might be too old, so I decided to upgrade to a newer Audigy soundcard. Do you think that this might solve the problem? PS: This is the same problem that I've had before, except that CMBO used to freeze instead of stutter. Thanks.

I have a Soundblaster Live! Value soundcard and get lots of sputtering sound loops. At some random points in the scenario, the sound will stutter and repeat itself much like Max Headroom used to skip/sputter his speech. The game used to lock up somewhat often. Since I upgraded to a new motherboard and 1.6 Ghz CPU, the lockups don't happen but I get stuttering instead. Any explanations or solutions? I'm running Windows 98SE. Thanks.

The new CMMOS is simply GREAT!

Nevermind, Schrullenhaft, I found it in an old post. Start-Run-msconfig-Advanced-Limit Memory. Thanks again for all of the great things that you do around here.

we can go into Windows and alter the amount of RAM that programs use? Thanks.

Thanks for answering, Schrullenhaft. I installed CMBO as a Typical install. I don't think that this is a partial install. Isn't there a Custom install that takes up more HD space that you have recommended somewhere else in this forum?

Please someone advise me on the best method to re-install CMBO while keeping my mods and the CM Mod Manager. I plan to do the full install this time. If I save my current BMP file elsewhere, will I be able to move it back into place with no trouble? I think that I can. Am I wrong? What is the best sequence for installation of the patches? My CD came as version 1.03 (I bought it in August of 2000). Thanks much.

Oops! I spoke too soon. I had a total lockup just now. Had to reboot from on/off switch.

Schrullenhaft!! I can't believe it. I may have solved my CMBO lockup problem. I have played around 100 turns with not one lockup. I decided to try one more time to install the latest Soundblaster Live! Value drivers and the problem seems fixed. I tried this fix several times before, but it never worked before. This time it worked because I finally figured out how to install the drivers correctly. Thanks for the help. Now, Gentlemen, where can I find the best Single player scenarios?

Schrullenhaft: I'm running my system with 512 megs of RAM installed. Do you think this might cause lockups? How do I run with less without physically uninstalling RAM?

I have the same problem. I can find no solution, tho I've been searching for months.

Lockups occur with Unreal Tournament and Quake II, but not with another 3D game called La Grande Armee: Austerlitz. No 2d game ever locks up. I'll try a clean install of the game with no mods. How does one do this without messing up the original installation? How does one check for a bad memory module? Thanks.

"Did you already change your video drivers ?" No, I still have the latest video driver. "Do you have anything running in the background (do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and see what is normally loaded when you boot) ?" I have minimized that. "Are you running with many mods (video and sound) ? Have you tried CM without mods to see if your lockup problem is consistent ?" I have mods installed. CMMOS and some sound mods. Do you think that this could be the problem? Thanks.

I just exited CMBO and got this error message for the first time COMBAT MISSION caused an invalid page fault in module <unknown> at 0000:75d81f00. Registers: EAX=00000000 CS=0187 EIP=75d81f00 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=0048aee4 SS=018f ESP=00a7fbe4 EBP=00000004 ECX=82c05b5c DS=018f ESI=00000001 FS=52f7 EDX=80008068 ES=018f EDI=75d80000 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: Can anybody tell me whether this sheds any light on my lock up problem?

There was a time when CMBO ran just fine!! It was only after I updated my sound and video card drivers that the trouble started. I think that I've successfully re-installed the original SB Live driver, but I have not done so with my video card driver. Maybe I should try uninstalling the new video card driver and trying the 14.70 driver?

Schrullenhaft: I have a GeForce 2GTS 64meg video card with the latest drivers. Do you suppose I should try loading earlier drivers, say the 14.70 ones? Maybe it's the new video card driver causing the lockups.

Thanks. I've sent an email to Gateway tech support with my computer serial number to request my computer part model numbers from them. They included no such technical info with the computer. The Device Manager has a method to update drivers, but it does not list part numbers. The "method", by the way, appears to simply want to search my Systems Op CD that came with the computer when I got it in July, 2000. Even with Ambient sounds turned off, still get lockups. Terribly frustrating. Have not yet tried to play with "no sound"? What's really frustrating is that when I first got the game, I had no problems.

"Do you know the exact Gateway model that you have ? The Acer Labs (ALI) website in Taiwan has you identify the chipset before downloading drivers (for northbridge and southbridge). I'm not sure if Gateway will have an updated version of these drivers or not. If you follow Tanaka's advice you may be able to determine the ALI chipset model (there are newer drivers, but I have no idea if they'll help with your problem or not)." Gateway's support should also have a BIOS update (if there is one) for your motherboard which may be applicable too. The Acer Labs (ALI) website will have the latest driver (Click Support on the top bar and then Drivers in the left hand column). Most of the differences that chipset drivers provide are for AGP compatibility" Thanks for all of the help. My exact Gateway model is Gateway Select 800 Mid-Tower Case with an AMD Athlon 800Mhz CPU with Performance Enhancing Cache Memory. I certainly would like to update the Chipset and Motherboard drivers, if I could find the correct ones to install and how to install. Should the old drivers be uninstalled first for Chipset? Motherboard? How about Sound Card? I already know that Nvidia recommends uninstallation of Video Card drivers before re-installation of new drivers. I was able to accomplish that correctly, so I think that I have the latest video card driver installed. Thanks again.

Schrullenhaft: Thanks for all of the great advice. Many here are very indebted to you, including myself. I have an Athlon AMD 800mhz CPU in a Gateway tower that I bought in July 2000. I don't know the name of the motherboard, but this driver is in my Control Panel "Add/Remover Programs": ALi AGP Driver 1.68. Is this the motherboard driver? I'm running Windows 98SE. I could put the SB Live on IRQ 6 alone and have my Floppy Drive share IRQ 5 with the other device. Is as simple as changing the assignments manually in Device Manager? Or will I have to physically rearrange the cards into new slots? I will try running without ambient sound. This is really frustrating, because I used to be able to run the game with no problem. After I updated the video driver, the problem started. Now that I've properly updated the video driver, I still have problems. Thanks.

I've updated to Direct X 8.1 and then updated sound card and video drivers. I still get lockups in CMBO. Most commonly, it starts as a sound error: the sound will lock up and echo one moment of sound like an infinite sound loop. Then total lock up of the system and re-boot necessary. My Sound Blaster Live card is sharing IRQ 5 with ACP IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering. How can I switch IRQs? The Standard Floppy Disk Controller has IRQ 6 all to itself. Would it be better if I switched my Sound Blaster over to IRQ 6 and the Floppy Disk Controller to the shared IRQ 5? Please explain how to do this. The lock-ups that I'm experiencing are making me want to quit CMBO, which I don't want to do, because it's the best WWII game out there. Thanks.

I'm a newbie, too. I recommend CMMOS. Download the latest version, and then download all of the CMMOS compatible mods. There are lots of them! CMMOS's default installation is not in the CMBO folder. That's OK. Just make sure that your CMMOS compatible mods are unzipped into your CMBO/BMP folder. There is a way to use CMMOS for installation without use of WinZip, but I don't know what it is. Gordon Molek is a great guy who'll help you, if necessary. I'm still learning myself. It can't be too hard. I'm an old Batch file mod veteran.

I've got the "Then and Now" book on the Bulge, and it is my absolute favorite Bulge book. These mods ABSOLUTELY look exactly like the pictures in that book. It's uncanny. Here's a question for the Bulge fanatics like me: Was any snow on the ground on 16 Dec 1944? If so, did the German infantry and vehicles have snow camo on 16 Dec 1944?

Thanks, Gordon. I did email gordonemolek@earthlink.net but it came back as undeliverable. I'll try again. CMMOS looks fantastic. The program appears installed and apparently runs fine. However, the BMP files aren't altering the appearance of the figures in the the games.