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  1. I´ve played Brit vs Syrian H2H mech infantry (don´t have the exact title at my fingertips) via TCPIP with Elvis. Essentially both sides have light vehicles, lots of infantry and access to one set of off- map Mortars. The game ended in a bloody draw (I was playing the brits). I recommend this one highly. I think there are many tactical posibbilities to this scenario.

    I´m currently playing the H2H armour clash (Challenger2s vs. T72s) as PBEM. I´ll report when all my T72s have been destroyed ;O)

  2. some real world experience:

    If you are getting vista64 bit, get 8GB of RAM. Makes a hell of a difference. It´s probably irrelevant for CMSF, but Crysis hums along happily with 8GB, but stutters with 4GB. I have both an XP (to be on the safe side) and vista 64 install on my system. I hardly touch XP anymore. XP is slower to start, and all apps including games are slower or the same. I´m sure windows 7 will run fine on the hardware of 2011.

  3. I don't get the steam bashing either.I wasn't a big fan when it first came out.All this game updating bollocks and the like seemed like spying to me.

    But after seeing x box live and how good that is i now understand more what steam is trying to do.

    I like the games being kept up to date.I like the friends side of it and knowing who is online.I like seeing what game they are playing and being able to invite people into a game(Left 4 dead).It saves trying to find which server they are on.

    Its not perfect but its getting better and better.in fact i can see most games going this way as its becoming a way of life for me online.the instant contact side of it is brilliant.the fact you can set up and join like minded groups.

    In fact i don't even think about the fact that steam fires up when i launch a game.its just the way it is.

    I agree with you as far as online games are concerned. with a 95% single player game like empire, I just don´t see why I shouldn´t be able to play my game if it´s installed and been activated by code just becvause the steam servers are in a temporary funk. it should be the other way round, if they can´t guarantee service they´re copy protection should deactivate for thatb time span.

    anyhow empire is working now, can´t say whether steam or sega is to blame. turned out that the first install from the dvd didn´t work (over half of the game was missing , according to steam it was 100% installed, doh).

  4. I never got the Steam bashing.

    I have moved the Windoze installation that my Steam stuff is on between different hardware about as often as I get a new game. Never had any problems. Steam games come up and run.

    I also never had problems with them being down.

    good for you. just bought empire (hardcopy!), installed it, wanted to play and i get: game unavailable, servers currently overloaded, try again later. doh.

  5. Be cool, I wish I was a geek ;O)

    Don´t read the manual !!!! :o) , it´s hopelessly out of date by now anyway.

    I was in your situation a while back. I´m not a linux pro, but after much experimentation I managed to get DT running. My somewhat short post sums up the main problems I ran into.

    64 bit is the big issue here. It isn´t impossible to run DT on 64bit linux, you need the right 32 bit libraries to do so. There is a post somewhere by Toby Haynes detailing how to do that.

    In my personal opinion (formed by dredging trhough linux forums for hours on end) 64 bit isn´t worth it. Whatever you do you´ll inevitably be running into problems using 64 bit linux unless you are a pro. As I understand it, there is no genuine advantage of using 64 bit except for being able to use more than 4GB RAM.

    No idea what ELF class is.

    One other problem I ran into was that when you download files in windows and move them to linux you often have to give yourself permission to use them. you do this using the chown command. chown --h gives you all the info needed how to use it.

    One cool thing about dropteam ( and probably all other games/programs) in linux is that that once it´s up and running, just backup your dropteam folder. should you ever reinstall your PC or get anew machine, just copy the DT folder back into your home folder, no "installing" required.

  6. Hi guys. Apart from not finding anybody online anymore, I´ve also found it more difficult to free up enough time for computergames other than a quick half our of FPS or trackmania here and there.

    I think I´ll let DropTeam die peacefully and wait for Dropteam2.

    I´m considering giving CMSF a second chance now that it appears that online play works.

    Anywho I won´t erase DT from my harddrive, just in case there is a grand reunion :)

  7. Zatoichi, that's an understatement :(

    However, if v1.11 doesn't accidentally help out ATI customers we'll take a look into it. So far none of our testers have reported problems, so it doesn't seem to be a universal issue. Which is also, unfortunately, the usual.

    Steve

    1.11 did not change anything for my XP install. I now installed CMSF in Vista64 (same computer, 8.12 video drivers) and this works now. weird (the XP install was working prior to changeing to 8.11 video drivers!).

    hope that helps.

  8. Good stuff SJ

    In any event unmanned fighters must surely be in the air within the next decade and if given a limited brief such as kill enemy flying objects the AI + human interface would be very simple.

    I hear the Iranians are building air drones with a secret AI pathfinding algorithm codenamed "CMSF". Their unpredictable flight paths will shock the their imperialist foes into such awe that they can be picked off by hand grenade throwing bicycle brigades.

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