Budge4

Beta Driver off the Nvidia site Kieme

"Runs very (very!) well" You lucky devil, mine runs absolutely crap!! damn game. Just kidding dont want Madmax, oops meant Madmatt giving me hassle lol. Runs very nice on my 7950gt.

Just use the link in your Order Confirmation e-mail, enter your licence number and download game again then Panta. My game was 386mb, notice its 388mb now but does'nt say what version it is, obviously later than one i've got though. Will download it again for future install as it saves hunting for my patches disk which i usually misplace. [ September 01, 2007, 12:56 PM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

Deluxe Ed arrived this morning in UK, all in good nick apart from manual looking slightly battered around the edges. Not been brave enough to sniff manual yet. Hopefully Theatre of War is not far behind either now.

I ordered my copy on 29th July and not received anything yet (mouse mat version, maybe there is a mouse mat shortage). They are probably sent out on a first come, first serve basis which is fair enough. Probably get round to us eventually TheNathen. In fact i have'nt received copy of Theatre of War either and that was ordered 2nd Aug. edit - Im in UK [ August 29, 2007, 10:19 AM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

Ahh! thanks for pointing out page 29 konstantine, i missed that. Thought it was a bug that just a few of us were having. Not done any map making yet Mishga but may give it a go now.

I drive an artic for a company in UK that has been taken over by UPS, talk about going downhill (pardon the pun) Think the ****ty brown uniform gives it away lol. Fragile means throw it 6 meters instead of 3 meters more like. By the way how long did it take you guys to receive your game, i ordered CMSF on July 29th and Theatre of War on Aug 2nd, not seen a sign of either. Ordered both from Battlefront.com and im in UK. edit - Forget delivery query, just read Hard Copy Delivery post by Battlefront.com (about cmsf anyway) [ August 29, 2007, 05:35 AM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

I know problem i have with it is between the Battle Type and the Terrain settings, ie only Battle type that would work with Terrain setting "Hills" was "Meeting Engagement", choose any other Battle Type with Terrain setting "Hills" and it was back to main screen. ("Random" works in Battle Type if Terrain setting is "Hills" also but im sure your just ending up with the same pairing as above anyway) There are a fair few other Battle Type\Terrain pairs in there that wont work together also. I've had exactly same problem with every version of the game. [ August 28, 2007, 09:51 PM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

Your Welcome. Think Nvidea should make it a bit more obvious on their website that you need nTune if you want to adjust settings with new drivers though. Took me a bit of searching before found out. ps Interesting websites by the way Steve. [ August 07, 2007, 08:17 PM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

Its because thev've taken control panel out of latest drivers and put it in another program that you get from Nvidia site, download nTune and all control panel stuff inc temperature monitoring, gpu overclocking etc will be back. nTune is in the Platform\nForce drivers section on Nvidia driver download page. They are not just for nForce boards (they just get a few extra bits though) Running new drivers with nTune on my 7950gt, p965 chipset system and all options are there. nTune runs on Xp, Xp64, Vista and Vista64 [ August 06, 2007, 09:01 PM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

oops double post [ August 06, 2007, 08:45 PM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

That 2 7950's in sli mode or have you got that 7950gx2 card (2 7950's built as one unit) I have single 7950gt with an intel 3.4 d945. Run cmsf at either 1152x854 or 1280x960 with most graphics set at max apart from v-sync and aa disabled, it runs fairly good at that.

Think Threaded Optimization is set to Auto on mine, that good or bad. If you alt-tab out of a game thats trying to use dual core and set aff to 1 cpu, does that automatically turn off threaded optimization (if was on\auto) or does it then cause a conflict of some kind? (P4 3.4 D945,7950gt) Tobe is there not a "Basic\Advanced Options" Dropdown window in Control Panel page, know in older drivers dont see Threaded Optimization till put it on Advanced. Tobe when nvidia control panel is open click on "View" at top, choose "Advanced" then you will see Threaded Optimization in "Manage 3d Settings" Also if anyone does'nt know, a program on Nvidia site called Nvidia nTune puts all the missing old plus new things back into control panel of new drivers (100 series) such as - Temperature monitoring - GPU overclocking - Cpu, Gpu, Sys Mem usage which can run in background etc. For Xp, Xp64, Vista, Vista64. Version is 5.05.47.00, its in the "platform\nforce drivers of Nvidia download page, and no it is'nt just for nforce boards (They just have more options) [ August 04, 2007, 10:16 PM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

My installation is showing CMST 899MB (with moscow addon), CM2 1.25GB, CM3 1.41GB and ToW is 2.31GB. "Size on Disk" All games unmodded. Surprised me too. Maybe there is some kind of clever file compression in there? [ August 04, 2007, 05:20 PM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

Hopefully someone will listen to you. [ August 03, 2007, 02:49 AM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

Will have to roll forward then molotov_billy to try 94.24 as still on 93.71 lol, can you get 94.24 for win xp pro 64 bit then does anyone know, am sure its not on nvidea site. You could try downloading a Program called FRAPS Truppenfuhrung, it can run in the background and display on screen the frame rates you are getting in all your games, plus get max, min, average fps etc. [ August 02, 2007, 05:21 PM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

Bump

Could you program into the ingame options to only use 1 cpu core as in another of your games "Theatre of War" has. Would save Alt-Tabbing out every time game is run. The difference in frame rate in Theatre of War is mind boggling between using multi core (bad) and one core (good) I know CMSF is diff game but sure its suffering similar problem. Also being able to choose monitor refresh rate when choosing game res would be helpful so could enable v-sync then. Thanks [ August 02, 2007, 03:37 PM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

Well pleased using 7950gt with 512 mb of ram onboard, using 93.71 drivers, Intel 3.4 ghz D945 cpu, 2GB ram and win xp pro 64 bit. Game runs very well at 1280x960 or 1152x864 with no CTD's and graphics settings pretty well maxed out apart from anti-aliasing. Only problem is i get stuttery performance unless i turn off 1 cpu core and V-Sync is disabled ingame. Shame cant choose refresh rate when choosing game res as it seems to default to 60hz when v-sync is enabled instead of refresh rate i have monitor set too which im sure causes some of the stuttering. Noticed when i went to download Theatre of War Demo off this same web site that on download web page it actually recommends multi-core cpu users to only use 1 core to get much better framerates. Also the option to use 1 cpu is actually in the ingame options which seems a very good idea (saves Alt-Tabbing out every time you play it) other game programmers should note that. I know its a different game but there must be something in it. ps Just ran Theatre of War Demo. You should try it out just to see difference in frame rates between using Multi-Core and 1 Core WOW!! No comparison. [ August 02, 2007, 05:02 PM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

You can get Hills working by choosing Meeting Engagement in "Battle Type" (Its the only Battle Type that works with Hills) All other options such as unit size etc can be chosen as you wish then. Random in "Battle Type" works with Hills as well but guess "Random" is choosing Meeting Engagement also. So Meeting Engagement works with Hills but as i found out does'nt work with Town, Rough or Forest options. The "Bug" seems to be in the relationship between Battle Type (mainly to do with Meeting Engagement) and Environment options. [ August 02, 2007, 04:14 AM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

The only Battle Type option that works with "Hills" is "Meeting Engagement", also if you choose "Random" in the Battle Type it must automatically choose Meeting Engagement too, thats if "Hills" are chosen in the Enviroment of course. [ August 02, 2007, 01:50 AM: Message edited by: Budge4 ]

I have the full game and a 7950gt (not o\c) and there are no brown squares showing on mine, checked same map as your pics as well, no brown squares. Using 93.71 drivers in Xp Pro 64 bit.