Grimdaddy

On the hyperthreading issue, I disabled it in my BIOS, and the game ran fine the first time. However, retrying a mission ended with a random freeze again. Every attempt after this met with a random freeze as well.

Thanks very much for your responses, guys. I had suspected that perhaps since the tank was a "hand-me-down" that it may not be in full working order, but as Judo mentioned the mission and diary made no mention of faulty equipment, which was confusing. However, I should mention that the T-55 was fully operational for me in its second mission, "Commando" - but sadly I have yet to pass it after 18 tries because of freezing. To answer Moons question, I was lazing the stationary artillery in the first T-55 mission, and could not get a proper reading. I just shot them with a High-Ex shell though, so that was no real problem. Oh, and they were about 900m out from my position at the time. On the flipping, I have had the Sherman from mission one flip, and also a few AFVs. Actually, I think one of them was allied to me, but the poor buggers wrecked. It is not a huge problem at all, just one that I wanted to fix if possible. Thanks for trying to obtain info on the Global Realism option. I love the game, and want to get as much out of it as possible. Thanks again for your help, folks.

Wow. Well, I hope that someone can eventually answer at least one of the questions at some point. A comment was made in another thread about people who did not care for the AI driver possibly being people who are not commited to learning the sim. This is not at all the case for me, and I very much enjoyed driving the tank at the beginning of the game. However, now that I am deeper in the game, I wish to focus on deeper parts of the sim and the experience, without also driving the tank about. This was the reason for my question as relates to the AI driver, and there was no other. Thanks for any response.

Firstly, I love this game. I was getting the freezing bug a lot (I know, that is a support issue), but disabling grass seemed to fix it for the most part. On to the questions: 1. The T-55 range finder does not seem to function on the first campaign mission it is available in - is this intentional? It only returns readings of max range and 370 meters respectively. This was no problem, as I enjoyed using the manual range finder, but I was curious as to why this happened. Is there a setting I would need to enable? 2. Enemy vehicles flip over a lot, and then I dont get to shoot them. This makes me sad - do I need to enable "Right vehicle", or "Global Realism" to get this to stop happening? 3. What exactly does Global Realism do? The manual was a bit vague, so I was curious as to what precisely this affects. 4. Is there a way to identify targets from the gunner position, or just the commander position? It says in the manual to zoom in to ID, but it does not seem to work for me. 5. Is there a way to disable the Driver AI when I am giving him simple commands like "forward" and such? I love playing the other positions, but I do not really like to drive myself around - but the driver refuses to follow orders and causes me many unneccesary exposures. If there were a way to get him to stop "thinking" about my orders and just follow them, that would be really great. Thanks again for a great game. I had been waiting on it for some time, as there has not be a good tank sim in quite a while. This one certainly qualifies.