Grau

After playing all the demo games I have come to realize that this game requires substantially greater hardware requirements than CMBO. I based this on the amount of time the computer needs to 'think' before play begins. I was playing Yelia Stare as the Axis and I found that found that on average for the first few turns the computer took approximately 26 seconds to think before play began. This is from when you press the GO button until the turn starts. My system is a P4 - 1.7 GHz machine with 256 MB of ram. I have a buddy who has a P2 - 400 MHz machine and he told me that his times averages from 1m-45s to 2m-15 sec. He was very disappointed and probably wil not buy the program until he upgrades his machine. Now this scenario is only a medium battle. What happens when you start to get in the large scale scenarios? Is it possible that the real program will have performance enhancements that make it run faster than the demo? 25 seconds is an eternity of computing with these processors. I have a Blackjack simulator that can run 2 million hands in that time. Do the 50 odd russian units need to make that many calculations to take their turn? I was wondering what times other users were experiencing. It would be interesting to know what times the people with the fast P4's and AMD chips get. How do the Mac times compare with these?