Destraex1

SS I played the demo of. Thought it had many options but was ultra unrealistic aswell as the infantry looking like dwarves.

QQ does TOW use multi core?

Can somebody please give me a hand optimising TOW2's performance. Does it only use a single core? I have a q6600 8gb ram nvidia 460 video card win7 64 The game seems to run at between 8 and 20 FPS. I have not tried to use other graphic settings yet than medium/high @ 1920 * 1200. Most of my games run on high/ultra at 30-60fps on average. Is their some specific setting that really boosts performance?

but scenario designers would be able to

you could play as the germans, british or russians campaigns in the original

oh cool... then they will not miss anybody.

? I played PT boats multiplayer in the original?

I also have no interest in pacific PT boats

no mission editor no buy I'm afraid. I won't be restricted to the canned missions. A bit later usually means if this is the last expansion it will never happen.

thats a shame because 64 is the predominant OS these days.

would have loved to see these in NATO before shock force concluded. Would have given modders a lot of scope.

The campaign missions don't seem to connect because you never really see anything showing your progress.

Thats a really good question... is the code now going to take advantage of more than one core? Single cores are rare today.

Great news thanks

I prefer playing the Germans currently.... thats all.

QQ - Will there be a german campaign or even a British one. Or will we be restricted to US?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sJrCxD3Zz0 lol there is the better trailer. Wrong forum really. But a lot of guys around early 30s like me prolly remember the originals It was just before Robotech, which most people know.

Anyone remember this cartoon from when we were all in nappies?

Moon, for a customer I think pre-order is sometimes about allocating funds and other times about ticking something you don't have to do later off your list. Its about not having to check the web all the time for release, its about getting that email that says your download is ready. So download as a pre-order even with no benefit would have sat well with me. my two cents.

For most people I think its the other way around. My wife has the TV while my domain is the computer. Both have their own little rooms If I had to use the TV for a console based CM, I think we may get a divorce lol

I still play homeworld2 today, still a great community with loads of mods.... very very good game. One of the few space combat games that does Z axis well... MAC got it. @michael emrys "Back to the celebrations."

yes offcourse. Its great that MAC will get CMN... I actually liked it that homeworld and close combat came on MAC as well. Back to the celebrations.

i'm more talking about what has to happen if the OS has a problem. Most times MAC techs will just recommend a re-install instead of being able to fix. I ran into this problem the other day. A mac update came in corrupted and the only solution seemed to be to copy backup and re-install. If its as quick as windows system restore then fine. The MAC re-installs I have done generally involve little in the way of apps or utils, smaller programs to re-install. Thats what I was referring to by little to re-install. My PC on the other had has over 50 games alone to re-install without considering all the smaller apps. Its so customised. Like I said I am coming across as a MAC detractor when all I want to do is point out that the PC is also a good platform and the MAC is not some sort of holy grail.

"My question for some of the PC users who dont care for Macs is "Have you actually worked with a Mac recently?"" I have worked with MACs recently yes. Have worked on the old Gmac and the newer intel based ones. Have installed gear into MACs (imacs, mac mini, macbook pro etc) and PCs of various ilks and use Both operating system families fairly regularly. The saying always goes that if your say a plumber that your own household plumbing jobs go wanting. Same goes for computer techs. If its not a hobby with a real home use for them as well then MACs are the easy way out. Plus I will bet they need to learn it for work when it gets very little use at work. "Why would I buy a $500 operating system when I already own a license for it? (The PC Laptop Died but I still had the WinXP License)" Did you know that windows licenses are not transferable to brand new oem machines in some instances? Anywho I am not against that, but you will find most did not happen to have an old dead PC to take a license from. I'm just saying that the majority of MAC users I know tend to shy away from that question because they either had no idea or have installed illegally. On this board I expect more often than not the people here to be upstanding. So the question was more food for thought than anything about the price of the mac being inflated by buying windows. "I spent more time on Maintenance & Support on that PC laptop in the 3 years I owned it than in my 25 years of Mac Ownership" Good, its great that you have gotten so much varied gaming use out of the mac over the last 25yrs. "Yes, I had to reinstall Windows several times and it was not a simple "Safe Mode & Undo" I also have done Mac Operating System reinstalls and find them much easier" Wiping a machine is always very easy. Especially since their is not too much to re-install on a mac. Why is this? I agree yankeedog that in a perfect world the 3billion iterations of a windows install would work seemlessly as a mac install does. The whole point is that windows/PC is such an open customisable mix. I have to disagree on one point in that most mac users I have talked to really do use MAC as a computer crutch. I am not saying they are silly or brain deficient, just technophobic in a lot of cases. I agree that maintaining the PC sometimes is a little like keeping a high performance motorcycle or the millenium falcon working. Where the stylish MAC is really a blue collar workhorse simplified PC in fung shwe clothing. But yeah, I see this turning into a rather long winded debate. I really don't hate MACs. Do not want to offend MAC users. I think its great that MAC users can enjoy this great series of games like the PC can. Don't forget what it could have been like if we only had mac and windows died back in the day. Likely we would have had no choice but to play console canned games the system would be so locked down. Give the PC a little credit mac users. The PC has given us soooo much good gaming over the years, and people say its a dying platform for games. I thus feel the need to point out other systems detractors where I can, the loss of modding capabilities and freedom, hardware felxability and progress... strange need to defend it? p.s. Sorry if the bold seems like shouting.

YankeeDog I agree with you. Wondoze of late has reaped benefit from a kick in the pants from Mac. Google pushing on the cloud and phone side of things. I'm not anti Mac per sae and have admired how easy some things on them are to do, especially for people who are technophobes. Macs really do just work for the simple things, but so do PCs. Have you ever tried fixing a broken (software or hardware problem) Mac though? Its a lot harder than a PC purely because MACs were not really designed to be fixed or tweaked, its becoming more common and I'm sure the MAC repair shops which charge a mint are cashing in. Try re-installing the whole operating system just because an update does not apply correctly...... in win you just go into safe mode and press undo. Certainly as MAC gets more popular it is starting to gain virus problems AND I even know MAC users who have no anti-malware protection unwittingly acting as virus carriers, infecting PCs. This happened recently via somebody I know who had a univers ity research colleague in another country infecting all the other researchers by hosting email virus. His mac was sending malicious software and he had no idea. His fellow researchers tracked it back to him months later and all blocked him. What I am though is dumb founded by the absolute blind "faith" that mac fans put in apple product. Its like they became a fan of duplo blocks because that was easy for them, that in turn started a life long religion attached to every new duplo set. Especially earlier on when Macs really did not do much at all unless you had either basic needs or extremely specialised mac niche needs. Another thing offcourse is the apple adverts openly having a dumb mac yuppy looking down on a smart windows geek. This just shows me how backwards apples marketting dept got their priorities. Funny thing is it worked because the public wants to be cool rather than practical. If I want something done, I'm not going to hire a mac yuppy. But I guess the point of the adv is that you can look cool and do some word processing at the same time. Bargain! Macs offcourse are pretty price competitive these days. So its worth it. They are so original with their PC hardware and windows software. But I can do word processing flawlessly with one. I really think if MAC did climb to the top it would either turn into PC\windows or we would have one helluva regulated computer scene quashing creativity and stopping indy companies such as this. Did you see the way Apple tried to stop apple app devs from advertising anywhere but apple recently? The only thing like it for Windows was the app creators trying to stop windows including more functionality with office. So next time you talk to a MAC owner, make sure you ask them if they installed their windows copy on any other PC or just the mac. In fact everybody who has done so in this thread pls reply confirming that you actually spent $500 on windows for your MAC P.S. Its true Google are catching up fast. They are doing a lot of things I don't like though like trying to take over youtube and make people pay for content. Oh and the next version of windows seems like it may feature an App store.... they better not push too far or people really will go linux