rich12545 Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 It froze about a minute or two into the game. I've noticed this on other games and the culprit is usually a conflict with my 3dfx voodoo 3 2000 card running in the wrong mode or something. Other specs are k62-400, 128 soundblaster pci, win98, dx6.1. I'm reluctant to go to dx7, heard it's not quite ready. Also, where do I get this soundsprocket you mentioned in an earlier post. And is there a way to slow the zoom, it goes really fast. In the short time I used it, looks really great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big Time Software Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 You don't need SoundSprocket. That's only for Macintosh users. Sorry if that wasn't clear. We've had some reports about voodoo cards fooling DirectX (and therefore Combat Mission) into thinking they can run at certain monitor refresh rates when really they can't. I don't know if this is your problem but we're looking into it. Charles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slazzari Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 Rich - Make sure you have an IRQ assigned to your Video card in your system BIOS - The card will work without allocating an IRQ, but it will perform very erratically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 What resolutions does CM support? I'm trying to run at 1024x768, 24bit colot, with a refresh of 75hz (I'm almost certain my monitor will run that correctly) Nothing happens when I click the app; my system black-screens and I have to reset. Is CM limited to 800x600? DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 That's what it is. CM won't run at higher than 800x600. Now, how can I have my system automatically change that resolution down from 1024x768? I've become accustomed to that res. DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big Time Software Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 Doug, CM is able to run at any resolution 640x480 or larger. But 3D cards and monitors all have their limits. CM attempts to determine, through DirectX, what 'best' resolution your computer can handle and then uses that. But we're discovering that DirectX (in conjunction with the 3D card drivers) is not entirely reliable in what it reports back as "workable" resolution settings. So we'll have to work around this. For now, is 800x600 working for you? Charles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCrawler Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 I can attest to the fact that CM will run in resolutions higher than 800x600. It runs just fine at 1024x768, and looks awesome on my 19" monitor! ------------------ Jon Johnson Steel Lightning Productions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scott Clinton Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 I had my keyboard freeze last night in about turn 8 after the replay. Not a single hotkey would work. Then after about 30 seconds of trying I noticed that I could get some of the functions to work...but they were not using the correct hotkeys! Then after about 30 seconds of trying to find where the save game feature was 'hiding' the keyboard started working again! Played two more turns and all was well. Don't ask me what happened! ------------------ The Grumbling Grognard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 Guys, I run CM at 1124 x 864 on my 17 inch monitor. SWEET !!! I think it only uses 16 bit colour at that resolution though but I prefer it to 1024 x 768 at 32 bit colour cause I get a slightly nicer panoramic view. Listen, I had a broken 3D card from December last year until I got CM in June . I had NEVER noticed it was broken since I'm a wargamer and I VERY rarely played anything which was 3D or needed 3D acceleration. CM is the game that's gonna put 3D cards into wargamer's computers. I'm convinced of it. ------------------ ___________ Fionn Kelly Manager of Historical Research, The Gamers Net - Gaming for Gamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Oberst Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 1024 X 768 X 16-bit color depth works for me. Setup: Dual Celeron-366, Win2000 RC2, 256MB RAM, SB Live!, nVidia RivaTNT, Nec XE-17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich12545 Posted October 29, 1999 Author Share Posted October 29, 1999 To Slazzari....how do you assign an irq to the video card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slazzari Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 Rich - Go into your BIOS (restart the machine, press DEL or F1 - every machine is different). This will get you into your BIOS. Now, keep in mind, every machine has the potential to have a different BIOS, also, so you may have to hunt around a bit for it. I have an ABIT BH6 motherboard, and under the CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP, there is the ASSIGN IRQ TO VGA? item, which has to be clicked YES for a Voodoo 3 card of any sort. It might be in a different place, and say something different, but you should be able to figure it out. Good luck One more thing - BE CAREFUL messing around in your BIOS. If you are not comfortable munging around in there, DONT, you can really mess things up. Have someone who knows what they are doing look at it, then. Rather be safe, than sorry [This message has been edited by slazzari (edited 10-29-99).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolColJ Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 Scott about the keys not working I had this problem too - reason , had caps lock on!!! But BTS this shouldn't happen - please fix it ------------------ CCJ aka BLITZ_Force My Homepage - www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Beach/4448 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scott Clinton Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 Yep, you are prob. right. I seem to recal something on the download site or doc that said they are working on a keyboard issue. This is most likly it. ------------------ The Grumbling Grognard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regan Wood Posted October 29, 1999 Share Posted October 29, 1999 I have booted the demo twice. The first time it froze after about 2 to 3 seconds. Had to reboot. The second time I was able to scroll about 10 seconds before it froze. Thats all I've had time to do. My system is an AMD 366, 64mb ram, ATI Rage Pro w/8 mb, probably DirectX 6.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted October 30, 1999 Share Posted October 30, 1999 Regan, Definitely update Directx and go to http://www.hardwired.thegamers.net and go into the TechMagic site .. In that site you can just click on the name of the company supplying ur video and soundcards and you can quickly get into their websites and download their drivers. A general driver update is in order IMO ------------------ ___________ Fionn Kelly Manager of Historical Research, The Gamers Net - Gaming for Gamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted October 30, 1999 Share Posted October 30, 1999 Hmmm...I keep trying to run the game with my default graphics res set to 1024x768 with 24bit color, and I KNOW that my system is capable of doing that; I play games all the time with that setting in effect. I'll try backing down to 16bit color and see what happens. DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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