Liddell-Hart
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Forgive me but isn't anisotropic different again? in that rather than sampling textures on a linear plane along line of sight it samples zones at various angles to the view and filters that way.
Basically all of them are designed to reduce an effect you used to get in FPS's when you'd move in a box of perfectly drawn textures with a visible line where the textures became less defined, in CM terms they're largely redundant, and in fact in some recent FPS's they can turn into a slide show on max settings on even the biggest and bestest cards.
As redwolf says though, despite the fact that most recent cards can max out filter settings on the CM engine, the effect can be unpredictable, ranging from unnoticable to unplayable.
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Essentially a mipmap is a series of 2d texture maps filtered and sized to improve appearance at different draw distances, bilinear and trilinear are just different levels, crudely speaking giving 2 or 3 levels of texture redrawing. The performance hit would be dependent on the complexity of the original texture.
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I don't think there'd be a huge backlash against Zhukov being portrayed as a hero, after all wasn't his rising popularity in the West one of the reasons Stalin used to ostracize him after the war?, didn't Eisenhower actually invite him to the US?Originally posted by jacobs_ladder2:Take for example the failure of history to give the Soviets the respect they deserve for their accomplishments in WWII. How would we in the west react to a movie portraying Stalin as a hero? Was Zhukov a hero? Was Peiper a hero? And what separates these men from Montgomery and Patton? Is it a coincidence that the winners are always the good guys?
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I agree Stalin would be a stretch though, but frankly to ask what seperates him from Patton and Montgomery is faintly ludicrous.
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Playing Battle in the Shadow, had a Challenger taken out by a front upper hull penetration from a 50mm AT from 850 yards, I had no LOS to the gun that killed me, which at least suggests a difficult angle, and all the armor penetration data I can find suggest that a 50mm would at best struggle to penetrate a Challenger frontally at that distance even dead on straight with tungsten ammo. Does CMBO model variable quality armor?
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I thought it was definitely live, but I suppose I may have missed the gun damaged info, thanks for the replies.
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It probably helps if like me you'd been royally hammered by the AI a few times at other scenarios, thus engendered with a slowly slowly check all the corners approach I managed to beat this first go (Although I did manage to lose half my PzIV's to a lone anti tank rifle a few turns in). But I still think it's one of the best I've played.
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Get the last set of Omega drivers, the last catalysts ran rough with mine.
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Playing Carentan last night, turn 20 one of my Stugs was moving out of the way of an artillery barrage, it was still live at battles end, but when the next battle started it had disappeared, so my question is, can you suffer casualties between battles?
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Turn AA off.
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But thats the rub isn't it, Russians and satellite Countries were only too happy to be freed from Soviet control, until they found that Nazi control was even worse in most cases, one of the biggest mistakes the Germans made was so heinously mistreating the inhabitants of the Eastern countries they occupied thus sowing the seeds of a partisan movement that posed all sorts of problems for supplies. They were also unlucky to cop particularly harsh winters in 41 and 42.Originally posted by Wartgamer:If they won.
The Germans had to isolate the Soviets, They should have converted the 'white' Russians and others against their former masters.
They might even have tried to 'give up' France by saying it was a neutral country and sue England for Peace. Keeping the US factories out might have worked.
As for the Russians as I believe somebody else pointed out, didn't Stalin wipe out most of the smart officers himself before they even got started?
Giving up France wouldn't have worked unless it was combined with a similar move on Poland.
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I have to say I played Carentan as the Axis after reading this thread and I had to knock out 3 tanks in the first battle as well as a fair few infantry skirmishes, and then stumbled into a full on firefight while withdrawing my troops to what I thought was safe ground in the second. I thought it was great. It got me interested in playing operations again after being put off by the heinous calculation times on Stalingrad in CMBB.
I think the AI must have had a particularly off day when you played it, I'd give it another go.
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If you've got XP can't you just rollback the duff driver?
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The truth is actually somewhere in between the two. It's definitely the Volkssturm that were the bottom of the barrel personnel wise, the Volksgrenadier were depleted standard infantry divisions brought back up to strength with substandard troops.
Confusingly both programs started life labelled Volksgrenadier.
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Agree that P4's are poor value compared to AMD, I don't know how they sell any topline p4's at the price.
HDD's are much of a muchness as long as you don't end up with IBM/Hitachi, those things chew themselves up with alarming regularity.
TFT's are still overpriced despite supply massively outstripping demand, outside of space saving there's absolutely no reason to pick one.
SLI Graphics just seems a pointless gimmick to me, why not just make one great card rather than having 2 decent ones?
Either of the systems in the original postings will play CM (and probably CMX2) without breathing hard. All in all I'd plump for the AMD, although I'd build it meself and dump the SLI.
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I'm using a Radeon 9800 Pro and if I try to use AA with any of the CM's, aside from wiping out the text produces a rippling in the picture as if you're viewing the scene through a massive heat haze, but using 16x AF alone on the last set of Omega drivers certainly doesn't produce any noticeable sparkling. Also IMHO the last set of Omega's still run a shedload smoother than the latest ATi Catalysts, so you may be better off with them.
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It's worth applying the patches anyway, even if you're only playing single player, some of the vehicle textures are missing from the original version, for example if you play "A Battle of Minors", the Hungarians will be reinforced by a squad of albino Zrinyi assault guns, also you'll notice a profusion of pure white mortar tubes.Originally posted by seamount:ok now i am not at home but if i should have an older version and i apply the patches i can play also with the newer version like 1.03 right ?
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I refuse to believe that the next gen CM will need more than a Athlon 3200, even the latest generation FPS's didn't go beyond that. Though you may miss some of the graphics effects if they're going to go with the latest DX9 or Open GL, having just bitten the bullet on a Radeon 9800XT from a GF4, there are some fairly impressive graphics effects (in later games) that DX8 cards like the GF4's won't display.Hmmmm...I'm running A GF4 Ti4600 with 128MB RAM. The video card isn't all that bad. My concern is the processor. Because of a recent system disaster, I'm now running an AMD XP 3200+. I wonder if that will be enough. If it isn't, I have nowhere to go except to Intel P4's and a new motherboard, RAM. Ahhhhhh! Much cash will be required. [/QB]It's probably fair to say that at the moment, Processor and Graphics processors are getting ahead of themselves, the new graphics cards are largely faster incarnations of existing technology (ie all DX9) and processors are getting faster and faster for no real reason as yet, beyond 3 Ghz when no software I've seen requires beyond 2 yet. Why the PC world can't take a leaf out of the console book and wring every drop out of existing technology rather than keep inventing newer kit is beyond me.
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So it's not me making fundamental errors?, thats something at least. Still depressing watching all those vehicles go up.
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How in the name of Zeus do you move all that armour through the initial bottlenecks without it either
A) going through in single file and falling prey to the A/T guns, enemy armour and Panzerschreck teams just over the ensuing open ground
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Getting the crap shelled out of it by enemy artillery as the choke points become tank and haltrack parks as you try a headlong rush.I realise I'm not a world beater at this game but this is the first mission from CMBO and CMBB that has made me feel completely useless.
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If you had a time machine and took a couple of divisions of modern battle tanks like T90, Challenger2, Abrams or Merkava back to WW2, would they be unstoppable by the weapons of the time? I'm assuming that weapons development would not change a jot in response to this wonder weapon obviously.
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Set up a quick battle Dec 41 with each side having a bit of everything, not at all historically accurate but just wanted to have a quickish blast with a range of vehicles.
I gave the Russian side 4 KV 2's, and now there is one sat atop a rise in the battlefield with a line of sight across my whole front, and it is decimating my forces while my shells are bouncing off it, I've got a mix of everything from 38T's to PzKwIV all calibres from 37mm to 75mm and they haven't even scratched it yet, so far it's taken out 3 x 38T's and 4 x Pz IV's as I've tried to get round the back of it, how do I kill it, can I kill it, or do I just have to wait for it to run out of ammo?
I realise I'll never be a Guderian but getting my entire force wiped out by one tank is a little dispiriting.
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Didn't Robert Cain win a VC at Arnhem for (among other things) taking on tanks single handedly with a two inch mortar aimed on an almost flat trajectory?, I haven't a clue how he managed it but I've definitely read it.
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I thought mines at first but the halftrack was in the middle of a column?
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Whilst moving my infantry up in half tracks through a cleared area, one of my half tracks just exploded, there was nothing in range, and there was no artillery fire, I even surrendered to check the map for an enemy I might have missed, and there was nothing.
Can anyone help me out.
Getting the crap shelled out of it by enemy artillery as the choke points become tank and haltrack parks as you try a headlong rush.
Problems with 8800 GXT and Vista Ultimate 64
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Awww great just awaiting delivery of a new comp with core 2 quad and an 8800 next week, and now I discover it's going to ruin CMBB.
But it does work with multi core processors right?