Pelvinjaro

Thank you to all for responding. Great thread point-out, Schrullenhaft--I looked through the archive but missed that one. Davidh, the classic RAVE extension was indeed on my system folder, but not anymore. No help, though, the game still only plays in 640x480. I'm thinking that I just don't have the graphics support on this machine's hardware to support the 3DFX of Combat Mission. Not being a tech-savvy computer hardware guy, I'm still learning what a video card is...at any rate, I now believe it is not the result of operator error, so I've got that going for me. I may well try more memory, Jarmo. Certainly cheaper than getting a new G4... Thanks guys, PJ

Hi all. I've been enjoying CMBO on my G3 Mac Powerbook for some time now. Love everything about it, except for one problem... Each time I start the game, it takes over and resets my desktop resolution from 1024x768 to 640x480, runs the game fine (in full screen), and restores my regular resolution upon quitting, leaving my desktop icons scattered. I don't care about the scattering, but I finally saw the full screen detail on a friend's Pentium 3 IBM machine (curses!) and now I see what I have been missing--huge levels of detail on the vehicles and men, to say nothing of the terrain. (I thought it was just supposed to look fuzzy!) Read the FAQ, and have trashed the "Combat Mission Bynd Ovr Prefs" file again and again, and changed monitor setings and relaunched the game, but no help--it just takes right over and does its thing. The Quicktime movie shows up great, much better that the game itself, so I thought I had enough memory and video support for the real deal...any thoughts? Am I wrong? Does this old Powerbook just not have the graphics oomph to play this game at any other resolution, or is there an idiocy problem on the part of the owner? The machine in question: Stock 1998 Mac "Wallstreet" (version Powerbook G3/233 running OS 9.2.1, 64 MB RAM, 512 K backside cache, 14.1" screen , etc. Soliciting knowledgeable Mac heads/company commanders for reply... Thanks, PJ