Andre Calais Salles
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Hi, everyone!
Is there a way or a mod to be able to select multiple factions on quick battle?
Like being able to select US and Syrian troops against Uncon and UK troops.
Ty in advance.
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Sorry for late answer...
Reinstalled the game and it is fixed now!
Thanks everyone!
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11 minutes ago, sburke said:
Check your download directory. This is typically a problem with the brz files. Either they aren’t all there or you have some crossover with another combat mission game.
Thank you for the answer.
All .brz are there in the game directory, can't say if the game is using it right...
I'll reinstall the game, probably tomorrow cuz it's already late here.
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Hello, guys!
I just installed the Marines + British + NATO bundle and all text in my game is messy. For example, when I choose to quick battle, instead of faction it appears "Service" and in the dropdown list the faction names are "Stummel, Troop Recce, TRP, Bren L4, C15, G82 and Driver".
When I select squads in game their names sometimes are "Shilka" and other weird names.
Is this okay? It's just me not understanding any new text of the game after the bundle?
Should I reinstall the game?
Thx in advance!
PS: Can't take screenshots of the game, the paste is just all black.
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6 minutes ago, Mord said:
Must've he forgot he posted this. LOL.
Mord.
I can only p-lay games on friday or weekend, thanks anyway guys!
On 29/11/2017 at 12:28 PM, IanL said:The BFC repository (first link) is in retirement - no new stuff can be added, most if not all moved to The Scenario Depot (second link). So yeah go to the Depot.
Eventually the CMSF stuff will get listed on my listing site too but that will take a while.
Thanks!
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Is there a specifc website?
Thx in advance
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8 hours ago, akd said:
I think you may want to do it the other way around (i.e. pick your blue forces then switch to red v red to add those units) if you want your player side selection to show up properly.
29 minutes ago, Combatintman said:True - the end game screen defaults to whatever the first chosen unit is. So if you have say a US Army unit as your first pick followed by an UNCON unit as the second pick in the unit selection menu and you score a Major Victory, the screen will say 'US Army Major Victory' if it was an UNCON unit followed by a US Army unit it will say 'UNCON Major Victory'. However it has no other effect on behaviour.
Thx guys!
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On 20/11/2017 at 7:45 PM, Mord said:
@Schrullenhaft; You are a saint, my friend. I have seen you help many players over the years (myself included), and man, you truly went to bat on this one. I tip my hat to you and thank you on behalf of all of us who have roamed these forums since the early days. You are truly appreciated.
Mord.
I agree, the man is a hero. Thx Mr. @Schrullenhaft
1 hour ago, sburke said:Honestly I never recommend folks getting physical media anymore. Just forces you to worry about patches anyway. Once you buy the game you can always just download the full installer and save it. They release a patch or engine upgrade, just download the full installer again. Makes re installing a snap and your are always current
if for some reason you really want physical material you could try having it shipped to your hotel, but your schedule looks kind of tight for that.
I'll be at Canada too from 16 of december to 15 of january. I was asking because buying physical copies lets me escape brazilian absurd taxes. But I agree, digital media is way better.
Every dollar for us is 1 real multiplied by 3.5. If I compare with steam, Black Sea is way more expensive than Total War Warhammer on launch.
But the CM series are a beautiful... been playing a lot now had no problems anymore, what a game...
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6 minutes ago, sburke said:
yes go into the editor and make it red vs red. select who you want. Then make the game blue vs red and continue as normal
Thanks!
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Hello, people!
Is there any way to have unconventional and US army together on a mission? Like a joint operation with US special forces guiding Syrian rebels?
Thanks in advance!
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Fixed!
(At least no crashes for like 1 hr of play, neither for starting and quiting the game)
Looks like this is a brazilian problem. The bank .exes I told you was the problem. I found a software called Warsaw from GAS Tecnologia. core.exe and gbpsv.exe was beign generated by this software and somehow crashing the game, probably because of the license. This is an old software from one of the brazilian bank apps. I uninstalled it, both .exe disappeared and the game stop crashing.
If ou guys have more brazilian costumers experiencing this problem tell them to delete this software.
We actually dont need these bank apps on PC anymore because we can use them on smartphone now, so its better to just delete them, they keep interfering in other programs.
Thank you guys so much for your patience and attention!!!
May I ask... I'll be at NY on 15 of january to 19, do you guys have physical copies on sotres over there?
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4 hours ago, Schrullenhaft said:
The 'free' 1.21 patch will not be any different from the version you purchased. So it should be unnecessary to reinstall solely to see if the 'free' version would provide different results.
Assuming that the base CMSF game was version 1.10 or 1.11 you would need to then install the 1.21 patch, the 1.31 patch and finally the 1.32 patch.
Go to the 'Services' control panel (within 'Administrative Tools') and look for the 'LicCtrlService'. Make sure that it is started or if necessary, restart it. This is the eLicense service ('runservice.exe') and it needs to be running for the game to run.
If the game is not launching, definitely use the 'Run as administrator' option with the right-click to launch it.
The one major difference between CMSF and the rest of your games is that CMSF is OpenGL, while the rest are very likely DirectX. This will make a difference for the video drivers (which support both graphics APIs, but there is different code within the driver supporting each API).
The CTD is likely either something with the video drivers or some other interfering program. If CMSF is able to launch, then we need to know exactly what else is loaded up that may be interfering. Perhaps a list of all the programs in the 'Processes' listing in the Task Manager may help.
I just reinstalled it and tried starting the game, quiting and starting again. I could start it 5 times but on the 6th the game stopped starting again. It just gives a quick loading on the cursor and it does nothing. As I was writting this post I tried starting it again and it was succesful, I quitted tried again and no success. I keep giving attempts to start it and I can't predict when it will work, its random. Today is lauching more than expected at least.
I played for 30 minutes and the game crashed, but now I could launch back after the crash. I launched once, quitted and couldnt launch anymore.
Very weird bug.
Even when crashing on launch, the game appears on processes tab.
I'll try switch to intel hd graphics to see if the problem is the video card.
The only possible thing that in my processes tab that could be interfering with the game is a brazilian bank app that runs two processes: gbpsv.exe (g buster browser defence) and core.exe, but I doubt that it is.
Do you know how can I see in event viewer what is crashing the game?
This is my processes tab:
When I had CMN I had no problem ever, games are differente in any way?
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25 minutes ago, Schrullenhaft said:
The 'Office Software Protection Platform' is the licensing service for Microsoft Office (2010 or newer). I wouldn't have suspected this of causing any problems, but you can possibly go into the 'Services' control panel and disable it (and re-enable it before running any Office programs) and see if that has any effect when running CMSF again.
You say that you have a license key for a 'patch'. Did you purchase the 1.21 patch ? This should have only been necessary for customers who purchased the CDV retail version of CMSF (NOT the version that comes from Battlefront.com directly). The patch for the Battlefront version is free. CDV discontinued supporting CMSF before the 1.21 patch came out and the 1.21 patch converts the game to a Battlefront/eLicense copy-protected version that can use the newer patches. Installing any of the modules for CMSF will also convert it to Battlefront/eLicense, with the exception of the NATO module which needs 1.21 installed BEFORE it is installed (and you didn't purchase either the Marines or British Forces modules). If you purchased CMSF directly from Battlefront, then only one license key was needed.
I ran CMSF (with all modules and version 1.32) with the Radeon R9 290 and the 17.11.2 drivers and it worked fine playing a Quick Battle to conclusion (about 35 minutes in this case). I just used the default settings of CMSF, while running at 1920 x 1200 resolution.
The thread where you found mention of the 9.11driver fixing an issue is when the bug originally existed that would crash CMSF after 5 - 20 minutes of play. DO NOT INSTALL that driver. It will not work with your Radeon R7 265, which needs a much newer driver to run (i.e. - the 9.11 driver does not support the Radeon R7 265).
I disabled the office platform and still had ctd.
Yes, I bought the patch. Ill uninstall the game and install the free battlefront 121 patch then and see if that is the problem. I dont believe that is the problem cause the game worked fine on my other pc.
I have 200+ games on my pc, the only one glitching right now is cmsf. Thats whats keeping me from cleaning my pc from zero.
By the way, my win 7 64 bit is original.
Thanks!
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Tried on my dad's PC, runs perfectly, just install and play as long as I want no need for anything else.
It is a Win 7 32 bit, intel core 2, 8 gb ram, NVIDIA Geforce GT 710, gigabyte motherboard.
That doenst mean its solved, I need it to run on my PC.
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Tried on my Laptop, I7 core, Win 10 64 bits, 8 gb ram, AMD Radeon R7 M265, game won't even start.
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I found a way to stop Office Software Protection, CMSF became able to start, disabled the Software Protection too, but the game crashed again and wont start back.
I tested all of this with DEP on, going to try with him off and with CM Shock Force and Runservice.exe ticked.
Im almost 4 to 5 hours today trying to find a solution.
I still think this Office Software Protection Platform and Software Protection SPP is related to the game crashing, but theres something more.
What do you think?
Edit: Tested with DEP off, no good results.
Even the IP block couldn't be solved.
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Okay, I experienced another crash related to this Office Software Protection Platform. This should be a problem with eLicense then. Once I get that Office Software Protection Platform is deactivated in the event viewer, I can start CMSF.
I couldn't find a way to stop this Office Software Protection Platform, is there a workaround with CMSF elicense files?
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I used the event viewer to try to detect CMSF crash while playing.
At the same time CMSF crashed, the event viwer reported an aplication called Office Software Protection Platform beign activated:
I read somewhere that this Office Software Protection Platform deals with the Office license.
I'll try to deactivate it, but what do you think about it?
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When I license the game it gives me only one time but I have two keys, one for the game and another for the patch. The first time I installed it it was with the game key, I reinstalled it with the patch key then but no results on my problem. How can I license it with both keys?
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10 hours ago, Schrullenhaft said:
The 'Switchable Graphics' is typically a laptop-only function. Laptops with Intel CPUs that also have a GPU (AMD or Nvidia) will often run most day-to-day tasks with just the integrated video of the Intel CPU. The AMD or Nvidia drivers typically have a function within them to automatically determine when the GPU itself should take over and run the application (typically 3D games and other programs that benefit from the power of the GPU). All of this comes out of a shared video connection (VGA, DisplayPort, HDMI, etc.). On a desktop there are discrete connections for both the video card and the integrated video. A monitor hooked up to the GPU will only be driven by the GPU, while a monitor hooked up to the video connections of the motherboard will be driven only by the Intel integrated video. One product allowed for a GPU to run some of the graphics coming out of a motherboard connection (Lucid Virtu), but I'm fairly certain you're not running that. So in your case I assume that the Radeon is what you are connected to and the Switchable Graphics likely will not even appear as an option within the Radeon Crimson controls.
So the CTD is most likely either some sort of interfering software or a driver issue with the Radeon or some sort of hardware problem. Since you play other games on this computer that don't seem to have a problem, then it would seem a bit unlikely that you're having a hardware problem.
The intro video would be unlikely to be the problem. If it were, then I would assume that the game would crash each time it played that video (just a still of the Battlefront logo). I wouldn't think that just playing the video would cause a problem awhile later, but if you want to experiment with that, I believe you can simply delete or move the video from the CMSF folder (I can't recall what that exact file is at this point).
The 'Realtek HD' control panel shouldn't be a problem to my knowledge (its a pretty simple utility).
I'll have to experiment with the Radeon R9 290 that I have, however it is on a motherboard with an AMD FX CPU rather than an Intel i3.
Thanks schrullenhaft, sorry for the trouble. I can't find what is crashing the game, I saw a post of a guy that had the same problem and he solved it with amd catalyst 9.11 version, I'll downgrade to that. The weird thing is that the game starts for a first try when I enter my PC but, after the first crash or exit I have to keep trying to start it and he decides to do it randomly, but crashes occur faster after that.
I have no anti-virus, firewall is off, I did the DEP thing, I can't find a program that would block the game, I have steam, origin and battlenet but they are not open when I try.
I'll probably try on a laptop I have home but I would like to make it work on my PC.
It seems it's a problem with my video card or a hidden program blocking it (Can't find nothing on task manager either).
I can't quit trying to make the game work, thanks for the help.
Tell me what results you had on the Radeon R9 290.
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32 minutes ago, Schrullenhaft said:
If you have not overclocked your CPU or videocard/GPU (with a software utility or via the BIOS/UEFI), then they should be fine ('stock' speeds) and that generally shouldn't be the issue here (other than the possibility of overheating).
Are you playing on a laptop or a desktop ? If it IS a laptop, do you know if the game is playing on the AMD Radeon or the Intel HD Graphics ? The Intel Graphics MIGHT be unstable with CM and that MIGHT be the cause of the CTD issue. I'm not sure how the 'switchable graphics' is operating. Often a lot of these functions may auto-detect what is needed, but CM games often don't fit exactly what these drivers are looking for and assume that the 3D capabilities of the GPU are not needed (and thus the game ends up running on the Intel Graphics). Sometimes you have to tell the video utilities to 'run with maximum performance', which will usually involve running programs on the Radeon instead of the Intel.
This YouTube video shows some things to possibly change in the AMD Crimson drivers for Switchable Graphics. Most of these settings will have the video/GPU running with no power savings. Adding the CMSF executable to the 'Switchable Graphics Application Settings' MIGHT be enough to get the game to run, but you might need to change all of the power settings here just in case something is happening on that front that is causing a CTD with CMSF:
A 'cracked' game typically has the copy-protection system removed. With CMSF there shouldn't have been any hidden files to my knowledge and if you had deleted it I wouldn't think that anything would be left over to cause problems with your current install of CMSF. However torrents of cracked games may contain other malware, so they're not a good idea. I have no idea if there is any sort of malware on your computer. You may want to download one of the free anti-virus/security programs and possibly scan your computer (though I would somewhat doubt that any sort of malware is causing the issue you're seeing with CMSF).
Thanks!!! I'll try the video.
I am playing on a desktop.
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27 minutes ago, Schrullenhaft said:
With the game running and only crashing after awhile it does not seem like it would be any sort of security or DEP issue. If you purchase any modules, you will probably want to add the module executables to the DEP list too (not a current issue, of course). Do you play any other games on this computer ? I'm wondering if there is a possible hardware issue here. I haven't heard of any issues with the AMD drivers (Catalyst or Crimson - simply a naming system with Crimson the current incarnation) and CMSF or any of the other CM2 games. I have an R9 290 at home I can check out with the latest AMD driver and see if that runs into any issues.
What is your CMSF version (usually seen on the screen at the main menu at the bottom center) ?
What other programs are possibly running in the background as you attempt to play CMSF (including utilities, etc.) ? I'm not particularly aware of any incompatibilities, but you might run into something that is interfering. I can't remember off-hand if the Nahimic audio controls (for some on-motherboard sound systems) cause problems with all of the CM games or not.
If you're overclocking anything (CPU, video card, etc.), you may want to down-clock to the default clocks of those devices and see if that makes any difference. The CM series can be fairly 'hard' on CPUs and if there are any issues with the CPU cooling CM may aggravate that and overheat the CPU.
When the game locks up/crashes, if you perform a Ctrl-Alt-Del and 'start task manager', do you see the CM executable still listed (in the 'Processes' tab) ? If so, you can attempt to 'end' that process and see if CM will run again without rebooting.
I will purchase modules only after the game is fixed, I am playing the original.
The version is 1.32.
I have a lot of games on Steam. I usually have spotify running but I tried with him closed and had the same problem.
I have the audio manager HD Realtek.
How can I find if my pc is overclocked?
The game never locks up, he only CTDs, can't find him on processes tab.
Could it be switchable graphics function with the Intel HD Graphics?
Could it problems with the opening short video?
I forgot to mention a bad thing... My pc is 6+ yo, and 3+ y ago I didn't had a job nor the money to buy games. I found a .iso for a CMSF cracked version I downloaded from a torrent on my pc... the game was uninstalled but, could it be a corrupted file that was left on my pc that is now breaking my game? I had CM normandy too... After my first job I never download and cracked games anymore, I uninstalled all of them, that's why I forgoted this thing. How can I do a complete reinstall of the game?
I don't know if I can be punished but I hope you guys understands my circumstances at the time, I live in Brazil and buying games in dolars is way too expensive for us specially for a unemployed boy. After my first salary, the first thing I did was downloading steam and never downloaded a cracked game anymore.
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17 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
I'm coming late to the party and I just got beat out by the guy who knows more about this stuff than probably anybody else! Schrully covered most of what needs to be covered.
It is possible that there are two different problems. One is some sort of oddball instability issue that's causing the game to crash. The second might be some sort of security software shutting down CMSF's ability to run at all.
As for help with blocked IPs, I can do that if you post a request to the Help Desk:
https://battlefront.mojohelpdesk.com/
In the upper right there is a button to create a new Ticket.
Steve
I made the ticket, thanks.
22 hours ago, Schrullenhaft said:DEP settings will typically be needed for eLicense (the copy protection system). If you got the game initially activated and it ran, then DEP usually isn't the problem. When you have an issue with DEP it will usually prevent the game from running at all, which is your current situation, but it wasn't your original situation. Here is the Knowledgebase article on DEP settings for Battlefront games.
Here's another Knowledgebase article about startup problems with CMSF.
What security software are you running ? You may want to add exceptions within it to prevent it from interfering with CMSF and eLicense. This includes possibly making an exception for the 'Runservice.exe', which is the eLicense service (found in the 'Windows' directory). Security software can potentially interfere with CMSF and its modules. Sometimes quarantining the game executables and/or preventing them from running properly.
Your problem originally sounded similar to a problem with AMD drivers back in 2009/2010. There was an OpenGL bug that would crash the game after 5 to 20 minutes of play. This was only fixed in 2010 with an updated driver. I'm not specifically aware of the return of this bug (which is always possible). Do you know what you did wrong with your video driver installation earlier ?
An internet connection is ONLY necessary when you initially activate the license key. The copy-protection system does NOT go out and check your activation each time you run the game. Even if you uninstall the game the activation is still in place (unless you perform a 'clean install' of Windows or otherwise make significant changes to your computer). If you decide to remove it from this computer ('unlicensing') then you WILL need an internet connection to accomplish that. If your computer did not have an internet connection, then CMSF wouldn't care (as long as you have it activated already or do not need to unlicense it).
Do you know what version your CMSF install was at when it was somewhat working ? Even though it is no longer being developed/patched, it is still possible that your base CMSF installation may have only been version 1.10/1.11 (the current/last version is 1.32). If you intend on purchasing modules, then you will need to repatch the game (since the modules are at certain 'patch levels' themselves). Here's the Knowledgebase article on patching CMSF and installing modules. Patches mostly fixed data bugs in the game and corrected certain behaviors, etc. They usually didn't affect the actual running of the game.
I made the DEP thing and the game starts now but it still crashes after 10+ minutes. Sometimes I can't start it again after a crash, I need to wait some time. Anyway, the game is starting now but after the first crash it crashes more frequently and faster. Is there any diagnostic I could run to find what is crashing it? I have no anti virus and disabled firewall.
I selected CM Shock Force.exe and RunService.exe on the DEP, am I missing something?
The game starts when he wants to, I can't predict when it will work, I only know for sure it will work if I restart the computer.
I can't find him on firewall exceptions list and AMD Radeon Driver games list.
At task manager he is 32-bit: CM Shock Force.exe *32
I'll keep trying stuff like compatibility, playing with internet off, restarting the computer, but if you guys get any idea please post it.
Thanks, at least we made some progress!
I'm being obliged to play the first mission so many times and I enjoy every time, please let's fix this.
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9 hours ago, Schrullenhaft said:
DEP settings will typically be needed for eLicense (the copy protection system). If you got the game initially activated and it ran, then DEP usually isn't the problem. When you have an issue with DEP it will usually prevent the game from running at all, which is your current situation, but it wasn't your original situation. Here is the Knowledgebase article on DEP settings for Battlefront games.
Here's another Knowledgebase article about startup problems with CMSF.
What security software are you running ? You may want to add exceptions within it to prevent it from interfering with CMSF and eLicense. This includes possibly making an exception for the 'Runservice.exe', which is the eLicense service (found in the 'Windows' directory). Security software can potentially interfere with CMSF and its modules. Sometimes quarantining the game executables and/or preventing them from running properly.
Your problem originally sounded similar to a problem with AMD drivers back in 2009/2010. There was an OpenGL bug that would crash the game after 5 to 20 minutes of play. This was only fixed in 2010 with an updated driver. I'm not specifically aware of the return of this bug (which is always possible). Do you know what you did wrong with your video driver installation earlier ?
An internet connection is ONLY necessary when you initially activate the license key. The copy-protection system does NOT go out and check your activation each time you run the game. Even if you uninstall the game the activation is still in place (unless you perform a 'clean install' of Windows or otherwise make significant changes to your computer). If you decide to remove it from this computer ('unlicensing') then you WILL need an internet connection to accomplish that. If your computer did not have an internet connection, then CMSF wouldn't care (as long as you have it activated already or do not need to unlicense it).
Do you know what version your CMSF install was at when it was somewhat working ? Even though it is no longer being developed/patched, it is still possible that your base CMSF installation may have only been version 1.10/1.11 (the current/last version is 1.32). If you intend on purchasing modules, then you will need to repatch the game (since the modules are at certain 'patch levels' themselves). Here's the Knowledgebase article on patching CMSF and installing modules. Patches mostly fixed data bugs in the game and corrected certain behaviors, etc. They usually didn't affect the actual running of the game.
Thanks for the answer!!
I don't have anti-virus and my firewall is deactivated. I'll try the instructions on DEP and patching you provided once I get home, thank you very much! When I did the DEP thing, I didn't added the Runservice.exe and other stuff.
The AMD Radeon has a new driver software, they retired the catalyst and launched a new one called Radeon Crimson Edition. You can check on this website http://www.amd.com/pt-br/innovations/software-technologies/catalyst
I installed it incorrectly the first time, now it's ok.
Even the unlicense crashes sometimes and I have to restart my computer to open it again. This is what I find really weird, I can start the game a first time, but if ti crashes or I quit, the game will start again only if I restart the computer.
Today is friday and I can dedicate more time into this once I get home, thank you!
4 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:I'm coming late to the party and I just got beat out by the guy who knows more about this stuff than probably anybody else! Schrully covered most of what needs to be covered.
It is possible that there are two different problems. One is some sort of oddball instability issue that's causing the game to crash. The second might be some sort of security software shutting down CMSF's ability to run at all.
As for help with blocked IPs, I can do that if you post a request to the Help Desk:
https://battlefront.mojohelpdesk.com/
In the upper right there is a button to create a new Ticket.
Steve
I made a request via the battlefront.com > support > contact us, if you can get my e-mail there, the subject is "Can't access website, want to buy cmsf" and it has my IP.
I can't get my IP right now because I am at work, once I get home I can do it.
Thank you very much, Steve!
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Hello, people!
I'm new to the CMSF2 community. Is there a platform for CMSF2 players to meet for multiplayer games?
If anyone want's to play, I'm on. I'm not very experienced and don't be mad at me, but I'll be able to play my turns mostly on weekends, cuz I work and have other stuff to do...