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Thank you very much. Really appreciate the help. This is an amazing game isn't it.

So you recommend I get the Big Bundle or just a specific expansion?

Thanks. One last question. I noticed on the sales page that there are a number of purchase options ranging from $55 for what I guess is the base CM game to $105 for the Big Bundle. I understand that the latter essentially contains all the expansions but my question is this. Are the expansions simply additional scenarios or is there functionality in the expansions that isn't included in the base game? The reason I'm asking is because I'm not a big scenario player. I enjoy creating my own battles and campaigns with the editor. So if all I'm getting with the additional expansions is more battles and scenarios, I can probably just do with the base game.

Been playing the CM series since BB. Couldn't play BO because it wouldn't work on my PC which I guess was too new at the time. Ironically, last year I tried the BN demo but that wouldn't run because my PC was too old and the graphics card didn't support it. Well, I finally got a brand new PC (Windows 7 64 bit, I7 processor, 8 GB RAM) and the demo ran like a race car. Oh, and BB can now run super huge battles without a second delay in generating turns. It's really awesome. Anyway, love the BN demo. CM is probably my all time favorite series and I've been playing video games since the 70s. Now that that's over with, the questions. 1. Been a while since I bought BB so I don't remember. When I purchase, do I have to redownload the game or if I put in a serial number will that unlock everything in the demo? 2. Is there a CD version? I like to have the CD as a backup (which I have for BB) in case of a computer crash. 3. Anything radically different between BB and BN as far as the controls that I should know about? I have found screen moving a little different as well as the commands, which now have graphical buttons instead of just hot keys. Anything else I should know about? Thanks. Love this game.

But aren't some of your windows settings based off of your hardware? The reason I'm asking is, after replacing my video card recently, my tech had to make some changes to the bios. After doing just that one simple thing, Windows had to go through a whole process of redetecting my web cam (had to reinstall that) and some other things. Wouldn't a whole brand new MB make whatever Windows needs to do even more involved?

If I get a new motherboard, that also means having to reinstall Windows 7, correct?

The card is fine. It was tested by my tech. It runs SimCity 4 because that program can run in software mode without the hardware acceleration. I still get an error on load but the game plays. The problem is simple. GeForce 5200 cards do not work with DirectX 11. I tried manually installing DirectX 9. The system says it installed but the diags still say NA for directX. I need to get a card that my motherboard will like that runs off of DirectX 11. It's that simple. This isn't complicated. The problem is finding such a beast because it's not likely as the motherboard is 11 years old. It's an ASUS PS4800 or another. Don't remember the exact name. It's old. The PC is old but newer than my Windows 2000 that ran everything because the video card was compatible with the version of directX on it. I ran CMBB with no problem. I can't even get that to run on this machine.

Well, I tried downloading and running the Vista fix demo and it doesn't work. I get this screen that comes up "Accept 640x480" or something or another. WTF? I'm running at 1024x768. The card is crap it won't run anything on this PC. I have to just accept that and the fact that new cards won't run because my motherboard is too damn old. I am stuck in no man's land. Too new an OS for my motherboard, too old a video card for my directX and too old a motherboard to get a new video card. This would actually be funny if it wasn't so damn annoying.

I went to the link you gave me and the patch for CMBB is for Vista. I'm running Windows 7 so I doubt it will work unless they have another patch for Windows 7. I guess I could download the demo and give it a shot but I'm not holding my breath. PS - I know you said the game doesn't use DirectX but this is right off the specs page. DirectX 8.0 compatible sound and video cards (PC) My sound card is compatible with DirectX 8 but I'm running 11 and it's not compatible with that. That's the problem. I can't run anything lower than 11 (I tried) so the card simply doesn't work for games that need directX.

I had no idea CMBN needed that big a card. Regardless, even CMBB doesn't run on this machine and I can't for the life of me understand why. I checked my OpenGL driver and according to diagnostics I have the most up to date one. The error I get with CMBB says resolution must be at least 800x600 or something like that and then just closes. I was running at 1024x768. So I reduced to 800x600 and it still won't run. The only graphics based game I can get to run on this PC is SimCity 4 Deluxe and even that gives me a message before starting that it can't do some kind of graphics related thing. I forget what. But it still works. Same with Flight Simulator 2002. It says can't use hardware acceleration so it runs in safe mode. I know it's my card not being compatible with this machine but a newer card (tried it) won't work because my motherboard won't recognize it. It's too old. So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. My card is too old for the newer DirectX and games and my motherboard is too old to put in a new card. And I don't have the bucks right now to get a new computer just to play games on. Again, I hate computers.

Computer power is NOT the issue. I am running a Pentium 4 with 3 gig of RAM and a 3 gig processor. I ran CMBB on Windows 2000 with hardly any power at all just fine. The problem is the video card, period. If I had one that supported DirectX 11 I would be having no problems.

Thanks, I had found it and put in a ticket. But it doesn't matter. I figured out what the problem is and it's not solvable. My video card is GeForce 5200. It's only compatible up to DX 9. I am running Windows 7 DX 11. I tried just installing DX 9 over it using the installer but no change. My mother board is too old to support the newer cards that support DX 11. We tried and the PC wouldn't start. So we had to roll back to an older card just to get it to work at all. So I am essentially screwed unless I simply get a new PC to run games which isn't an option because I'm broke. Oh well, it sucks but that's life. Thanks anyway. PS - I hate computers.

Okay, how do I open a ticket with the help desk? Is it here at the forum or a different URL?

Short and sweet. Long time player of CMBB on my old Windows 2000 PC. No problems at all. Sadly, I had to disconnect it for business reasons. My game PC is now a Windows 7 with 3 gig RAM and a 3.40 ghz processor, more than enough to run this game. I downloaded the CMBN demo figuring it's newer than CMBB and would have a better chance of running on my PC. CMBB does not. However, I am getting an openGL error. I did diagnostic online and according to the program I have a GeForce 5200. I checked to see if the drivers are up to date and they are. However did not check the openGL driver (I am assuming these are different? Don't know. Not really technically inclined) Anyway, what next? I'd really like to purchase CMBN but can't get the demo to work. The graphics card is brand new. It has 128 meg or RAM. For the life of me I have no idea why it won't work. Am I out of luck? I hope not. I really love this series but this PC doesn't seem to like it. I can't install it on my business PC because that's for music production. Suggestions?

Hi Guys: Been playing game long time...love it. Finally decided to check out some of the mods in your database. Problem is, some of the mods are non CMMOS compliant and I can't figure out how to install them. These are mostly armor mods like one Early Tiger E tank winter mod (file name wintigererly_mx_md.zip) How would I go about installing this mod since it's not CMMOS compliant AND if that is the case, what chances are there that installing it can screw something up? Any assistance in this area would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...great game.

I just created a battle in CMBB and when I go to play it I don't get the option to play against the computer. Only Hot Seat, Email and TCP/IP. I have been creating battles for over 2 weeks and have never had this happen. What cam cause this? The only thing slightly unusual about this battle is it's a beachhead assault and the Axis has about 60 assault boats hitting the beach. Can this be the cause? Any help will be appreciated.

Help!!! I will try this again with more detail. I am trying to install the CMMOS utility for CM II Barbasosa to Berlin. The utility that is supposed to allow you to ad modification to your original game. When I run it, after the archive extracts and it attempts to run what I am sure is setup.exe I get a Windows NT 16 bit message saying that Autoexec.NT an not run this MS DOS file. I am running Windows 2000 and the game itself runs fine. I am going to guess, based on the year of setup,exe (1998) that this is a 16 bit application and NOT compatible with Windows 2000. If this is the case it boggles my mind why someone would create a utility that old for a game that is 3 years newer. In any case, I can't get it to run. So here are my questions. 1) Is there a way to bypass this problem and install it some other way? 2) If not, is there a 32 bit version of this CMMOS utility? 3) If neither of the above, is there another way to be able to add the mods to my CM II? I really love this game and I know the mods will make it even that much better. Any help with this will be appreciated. You can email me at: swagen2167@aol.com Thanks.

Help!!! I am running Windows 2000 and I am trying to install the Mod utility for CM II. When I do this I get a message that Autoexect.NT cannot install this MS-DOS utility. What is the deal with this and how do I get around it. I'd really like to install the Mods because this game is really awesome. Thanks for your assistance, anyone.