beerhunter

I agree with you man. Except for one thing. As in TOW Africa, the campaign(s) is way too short. I was done with German campaign, will start with Russian soon, but again, the game will earned 95 of 100 of excellence with, lets say, 5 mission per campaign more. Neitherless, very, very good game...

I saw this randomly in German campaign too. Most of the time it was when I press F6 key (quick load). Cant explain why

Quote: 've noticed that once I've passed a certain point in a scenario that is tied to a campaign the frame rates jump through the roof. The only thing I can attribute to this increase in workload is some type of landscape change. End of qoute. Exactly to myself. But even when frame rates is lower this not affect game playability to the level where is imposible to play. I've noticed this "feature" in 4th mission (German side), and after that the frame rate does not go under steadily-sh 20 frames per second... And I have not very fast machine...

OK, sniper is too poor to shoot anything. Even on distance about 50 meters, they do not score one single hit in 30 attempt :mad:

Personally, I cannot confirm decreasing (at least not much) performance, even when plane strafing in first mission. All goes nice and smooth, for now...

I as said in first post, performance is great, even with high settings, and with many units on front. Nice job guys!!!

Is it just me, but I think that the performance of the release version is, lets say, much better than demo version. More fluent, even FPS higher (not much, but better). Even on high detail... OK, just quick observance on first mission.

My suggestion for incoming patch/patches (if not too late ) is to add new command-button for infantry: using weapons of choice in tactics manner - big guns -> grenades -> small guns ... When approaching enemy infested building, and no friendly forces around (in lethal distance), use the grenades instead of small guns, and vice-versa, when in buildings and friendlies is nearby DON'T use grenades... Its a common sense in infantry tactics (was in HV - Croatian army in war for three and a half year) that when approaching risky object first use big guns-grenade launcher (if possible), then and only then send some squad to check the building, with grenades if possible. And when commanding officer decide that is safe to enter object, use only small guns, pistols and submachine guns (of course if available). And if infantry squad has oportunity to contact some artillery, mortars or if some tanks near (hoorah for tanks!!), dont expose infantry to frontal fire (if time is no esence...) Works all the time for me in real, been squad leader for almost two years, having minor casualities in my team , mostly mortar shells and grenades and two or three bullets shots, and of course greatest fear of all for "prašinare" (croatian for infantrymen) - land mines...

On the way to Thala, best. The Kasserine Pass, worst.

This is it, I just finished all campaigns in the game, and I'm sad that there is no more battles per campaign, like it was addressed before on this forum. Now, on 64-bit Win7 game runs very well, without a single crash... So bring us more campaign, this is too few for such a game like TOW 2.

Because I been so inpatient to catch the following patch, yesterday I download 64-bit version of Windows 7, reinstalled all my programs, and now been playing TOW2 for 2-3 hours, lots of saving, lots of loading, not even one CTD or bug-like behaviour, started german campaign from first mission... This is truly 64bit game. But this is not a good for all users-buyers of game. Just for one game switch to 64bit OS version. I have some particular program that only run on 32bit (lucky me, there is VirtuapXP )

Thanks for quick answer, untill patch I call all my soldiers to give up weapons

Nope, the file is closed for debbuging. Can someone check this renderer type problem, if exist? Thats my point of view for crashes... Developers... your turn.

OK, after a lot of time trying to get one particular mission to even start - The defence of Sidi Nsir; and looking into the log file, my question is: what type of renderer this game use: Direct3d or OpenGL? What I think is that in mission builder game "use" OpenGL and in the "core game" Direct3D. I try to switch on OpenGL to use as primary renderer in game and now I got exactly the same type of error like sometimes in game: Runtime error#3(trap). Maybe some false code in core program occasionaly-random trying to switch to OpenGL renderer, and that is the point of CTD? OK, I will try to use debbuger to see is this exe build-release-system ready of someone "forget" to remove debug code....

OK, now it is serious. This game has to be patched soon as possible. Im stuck on british campaign - The defence of Sidi Nsir. No matter what I try, the game dont event start properly. Some time I can not even got the setup phase screen, game either crash to desktop without any warning or I got Fatal: out of memory error. Once I got this setup phase, press F5 for quick save and, guess what? Of course, fatal error.

He he he!!! This is good sign, it means that first add-on is on the way?!?Yahooo!

?!? Why you think that? I set my defence with three (heh) tanks on left flank of the town, put one FO (sniper) on right ridge to observe advanced tank and infantry column, (scoring 12 kills) and two AA guns inside the town. One of my bazooka team in front of trenches, slightly right behind the hill to ambush first tank attack on town, they even destroy one PzIII and succeed to retreat to town... Two howitzer into the "woods" right side of town to render enemies near the river, two other inside the city - 50 % casualities... Front trenches got some serious pounding but some soldiers manage to put some heavy defence fire on advancing infantry and stop two waves... (one infantryman score 7 kills !!!). And voila - reinforcement came just in time to eliminate two tanks that my first echelone failed to stop... Veteran level...

I've download and install new, beta version NVIDIA 185.81 forWin7 this morning. After couple hours of playing, loading, saving... not even once crash so far... Maybe this solve my problems with instability. Can anyone confirm this?

Must agree with that. There is no rush-style game. You have enough time to place your command, because the enemy want rush either. Also, there is no superweapon in this game (and those games we call it RTS) like in for example Starcraft. No swarm of enemies around and so on... I'm 40 years old and this type of game is exactly what I need for my casual playing. My kid and wife laughing at me watching me in a heat of a battle, with glass of beer in one hand.

Just finished German campaign. So sad, too short. I remember Close Combat series when you can play some maps not just once, but returning to map when strategic situation change. OK, would you create some "dynamical campaign" or one with, lets say, about 50 missions or so for each side? That would be nice and money-worth game

Indeed, too few missions in three campaigns...

Nooo, I'm play this game sloowly to enjoy every detail... Like I said, just stopped my troops for a while to get some breathe... Been on Tebessa, put artillery in position to render enemy trenches... My Tigers are ambushing any counterattack that enemy could land on me... Easy and slowly, theres no time boundaries like in CM... Heh, been so pathetic on this, isn't it?!? Remember me on my past...

The battle is calmed down, my tired soldiers sit and wait... Listening lion roaring, hawk cries... GREAT!!! Where is the add-ons and new campaigns and battles? Any chance to move TOW2 to another battlegrounds, like eastern and western front? Give us more, more, more!!!!

I've posted before that saved game have odd date and time. Now I've change my system time to 25.03.2009 because all of my games have one month less then current system time, and now my "game system time" is set to 01.02.2009. Not that is the biggest problem, but hey!!!!

Yes, but I cannot constantly deleting directory because of CTD. I dont want to start game from begining every time the game failed to load or save. Battle of Sbeitla is horror , gave me a headache before end... I'm on Kasserine pass now, and guess what, not even one crash in this mission. Loading-OK, saving-OK, thats the way entirely game meant to be... Don't think I'm complaining on all game, game is very good and promising, but something must be done with this "bugs" or call it anyway you want... Still, best game for long time. Regards.