Sequoia Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I mentioned I might wait to purchase it since I have unfinished campaigns from CMBN but temptation is getting the best of me. Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger33 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 All signs seem to point to CMFI being even more optimized than CMBN, so I think you are safe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I agree...sounds like the 2.0 upgrade thingy has tightened things up a bit. Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 One potential problem could be if you have a really-really-really old ATI graphics card. Then you may miss out on bump map goodness but be otherwise unaffected for gameplay. But I'm talking oooold, more than 6 years old. Like on my old imac. I think it was the Radeon X1600. Something was just not right with that thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Hmmm, mine is a Radeon 4670. Any clue on how well I should expect it to perform? Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I'm no expert (in fact I'm barely competent) but I was told it was the old X1600 chip in particular that was the problem. And just my luck, apple had soldered the chip to the mother board so I couldn't replace it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfhand Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Hmmm, mine is a Radeon 4670. Any clue on how well I should expect it to perform? Michael horribly... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offshoot Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Hmmm, mine is a Radeon 4670. Any clue on how well I should expect it to perform? Absolutely fine. The pixelshader technology needed for graphics cards to run normal mapping is pretty old now (6+ years for pixelshader 3, the latest version I think). As a trade off for needing to render normal maps, the models in CM v2 have reduced polygon counts. So instead of the graphics card having to render lots of polygons, it now renders normal maps, which is often more efficient resource-wise and in many cases (if used well) looks better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Whew! Thanks for the reassurance, Regiment0. I was just a bit worried about that. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Now that I think of it, if you're REALLY concerned there's always the option of waiting to play the CMFI demo before purchasing just to make doubly-sure all is well. I assume game release and demo release will be pretty much concurrent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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