[Speeding Up Game Play]

Batch converting bmp's can be done with the shareware app Irfanview. It takes a couple of clicks.

http://www.irfanview.com

[This is so freakin frustrating, Is there a better PCI card than G4 MX420?]

Have you tried reducing the color depth of the bmp's in the Bmp folder? I had some problems with CMBO and reducing the color depth of all the bmp files to 256 colors with Irfanview helped considerably. The graphics run more smoothly and the color depth is not noticeably affected. I am currently running a P3 1ghz, 384mb ram, 32mb geforce2 gts at 1024 x 768 75 Hz.

[Anyone else have this happen?]

Update the driver and the problem should go away.

[Batch Converting .BMP's to 256 Colors]

Batch converting the bmp's to 256 colors seems to speed up the scrolling and zooming during the action phase for CMBO. Are there any other methods of speeding up game play without uninstalling hi-res mods?

[Speeding Up Game Play]

Batch converting the bmp's to 256 colors seems to speed up the scrolling and zooming during the action phase. Are there any other methods of speeding up game play without uninstalling hi-res mods?

[Chance Encounter: Axis Total Victory]

The basic combat principles that won it for me were 1) avoiding open spaces in the attack 2) attacking aggressively en masse 3) engaging the opposing forces piecemeal.

[Chance Encounter: Axis Total Victory]

Here's how I defeated the Allies. I shifted all of my infantry and armor so that the church and the scattered trees with the flag were directly opposite them. I then had them move at march speed until contact. Once contact was made, the Stugs were taking flanking shots at the Shermans and chewing up the Allied infantry that emerged from the treeline. German mortar fire was hitting the infantry in the scattered trees, so that when the battered US infantry met my relatively inexperienced troops and 2-3 Stugs, they were further demoralized and killed. Because the German reinforcements arrived to the far right, I had them run across the woods and take up firing positions in the building to the right of the cornfield. I was able to cut down the US infantry caught in the open in the cornfield.

[ September 20, 2002, 01:51 AM: Message edited by: LibertyOrDeath ]

[Chance Encounter: Axis Total Victory]

What I meant to say is "driven the Allies all the way back to their setup area." Heh.

[Chance Encounter: Axis Total Victory]

I just played Chance Encounter for CMBO. I played Axis with default settings and annihilated the Allied force. All the Shermans were dead, and the two surviving Stugs had driven the Axis all the way back to their setup area.