Barkhorn1x
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Great stuff.
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Very nice.
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Great job GAJ.
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Welcome back Tom! I must admit that I came to CMBO after release and before I even starting played it I went to your site and "mod-slutted" every damn thing. You had great stuff on that site.
BTW, I recognized that map immediately. Great job.
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"Mark the spot Hustler and move on!"
- Big Joe
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...and then Goldilocks discovered that armor gunnery modeling was "just right"!
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Just got mine about an hour ago. Nice box. Nice manual.
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Last Defense
Thanks Jerkov!
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Well, they rode tanks in "Kelly's Hero's" - I saw it!
Cmon BF, put some realism in CMBN.
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Heard there was one. Which is it?
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Big Joe: [shouting to the captured German Colonel] Look! We're not worried about the German army, we've got enough troubles of our own. To the right General Patton, to the left the British Army, to the rear our own goddamn artillery, and besides all that it's raining. And the only good thing to say about the weather: it keeps our air corps from blowing us all to Hell because its too lousy to fly, versteh?
Best quote from a movie chock full of good ones. It was Telly's finest role.
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No e-mail for me but my order status shows shipped (
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1. On my rig the game does not exit gracefully. It hangs after hitting END and the whole screen goes black. To completely exit I have to terminate the process in task manager. I'm running an ATI 4850 video card and an AMD quad cord. Window 7 64 Home. I can provide more detailed specs on request.
A common issue w/ ATI cards and W7 64 bit. To fix upgrade your drivers to 11.5.
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Since I spent about 2 hours doing this I thought I would share the results for two reasons:
- Many have had questions about eking out FPS and the impact of this setting or that setting
- I know I love to steal others settings that are proven to work so I figured I could return the favor
System specs:
AMD PhenomII X4 965 Black Edition Quad-Core CPU (3.4Ghz)
MSI 770-G45 AM3 770 Chipset CrossFireX Support DDR3 Socket AM3 ATX Mainboard
6GB (2GBx3) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
600 Watts Power Supply (XtremeGear SLI/CrossFireX Ready Power Supply)
ATI Radeon HD 5670 1GB DDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [DirectX 11 Support]
DX 11 & DX 9 installed
- Running game on a 23” Samsung monitor at 1920x1800 rez
Benchmark approach:
- FRAPS (many insist that FRAPS itself steals a bunch of frames from CM games – don’t know if that is really the case or not)
- Saved a turn about 2 minutes in from the third battle.
- Replayed 60 seconds of the next turn w/ FRAPS over and over again at the same view level w/ the lead tank locked up. (Note: was impressed by the variations in results each turn.)
Game graphics settings that I am now using:
Display = desktop (1920x1800)
Vsync = Off
3D Model = Improved
3d Texture = Best
AA/Multi-sample = On
High = On
ATI = On
Shadows = Off
Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg
2288 60000 24 53 38.133
Observations:
- Shadows KILL FPS as can be seen by comparing the first two benchmarks (low settings/shadows on to low settings/shadows off). So goodbye shadows – sigh.
- The 3D Model setting has an effect on FPS as well – and “Improved” (coupled w/ setting Texture to Best) looks the same to me as higher settings so “Improved” it is.
- AA/Multisample has the largest effect on GFX quality – duh! – so must be set to On
- Turning the High Priority setting to On gave me a +5 FPS boost and did not seem to effect anything else so…set to On.
- All CCC settings were set to their lowest level or application controlled. I did do another round of benchmarking consisting of turning these all on or up high and found they had NO effect on GFX quality but most hit FPS – so I’m keeping them at the lowest settings.
The settings above give me the best balance of smooth game play and GFX quality. Of course, your mileage may vary.
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as almost all other companies, they take what they can, if they know people will pay it.
That's Capitalism baby!! The little engine that provides the greatest amount of goods and services for the least money.
Martin, Steve and the gang gotta get paid. But, in return they give us gooey game goodness with a rich chocolate center.
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Originally Posted by JG11Preusse
what they do here ist what i really dont like. looks like they love to see all this "i cant wait junkies" an play with them a while ........ >>> a few days after demo release ........ what means "few days" ?? a week is allready or almost allready gone.
Someone piss in your Cheerios this morning Fritz?
It will be out this week. Hey, I'm ony on my 10th turn of the first Demo battle so I have a ways to go. Perhaps that's why I'm so calm.
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That's what I was wondering...does Moon mean "Not May 20th, but later", or "Not May 20th, but earlier."
Guess which one I'm rooting for?
Believe we have to give Moon some credit here as if the game was to be released next week he would have stated - "not this week." But he did not state that at all and therefore I am thinking later today or tomorrow appears likely.
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+1 for Target armor arc.
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I think I read where BF has a game coming out real soon. REAL soon....
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I agree, CM:BN is the best game since CM:BB!
It's the "Sticky Fingers" of games.
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Got it sorted.
Thanks.
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De Savage do you have Windows 7 64bit with an ATI vid card? I had this problem...it seems after exiting the game there is still a process running and you have to manually close this before you can run it again. Updating to the newest 11.5 Catalyst drivers has fixed this for me.
Me too. Same issue and 11.5 fixed it.
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Originally Posted by PondScum View Post
Nice - thanks for doing the experiments! Have you compared CM:BN's antialiasing with that done by the ATI card? If the quality is comparable, that might be another way to eke out a few more fps.
Hmm...no I didn't - but I will tomorrow morning. I'll report the results here.Tested CCC based AA - not only does it look worse but FPS went down. Advice for ATI users - set AA in game to On and set CCC AA to the lowest setting = Multi-sample
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I did some benchmarking w/ my ATI card and had the issue when AA was set to Super-sample. It could be in conflict w/ the in-game AA setting.
Here are my settings that I found to give me the best combo of speed and nice GFX:
Game settings:
Display = desktop
Vsync = Off
3D Model = Improved
3d Texture = Best
AA/Multi-sample = On
High = On
ATI = On
Shadows = Off
CCC settings:
SV HD Anti-Aliasing = Use app
SV HD Anostropic Filtering = Use app
Tesselatiom = Use app
AI = Performance (disable)
Mipmap Detail = High Performance
Vertical Refresh = Off
AA = Multi-sample
Open GL = Triple Buffer
Try these and perhaps they will work.
) and I ordered on 03/11.
Request: 2nd Armored Division Badges for Armored Infantry and Tanks
in CM Normandy Maps and Mods
Posted
Point of clarification from a historical perspective - the "Hell on Wheels" sig was added post war and was not part of the patch in WWII.