Snark Posted February 3, 2000 Share Posted February 3, 2000 Downloaded Combat Mission demo on Netscape Navigator 4.7. (twice: second time trying to resolve problem) When I try to play demo I dont get graphics. Only 3 color (black and green on white background). Black men on green pads.a few green lines. No details Any suggestions on how to rectify this problem are apreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattias Posted February 3, 2000 Share Posted February 3, 2000 Snark, In order to give us a chance to help you must give information, as detailed as possible, about the software- and hardware environment in which you are running the demo. An evergreen of an advice though; it is always a good idea to get the latest drivers for each and every one of the parts in your computer. Cheers! M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snark Posted February 3, 2000 Author Share Posted February 3, 2000 Mattias Good advice. Im rinning widdows 95 on a NEC233Mhz pentium. 23MB SDRAM 32 MB internal cache 256KB Pipeline burst cashe 4.3 gig HD 1/3 free Highperformance graphics with 2 MB Video memory I also dnloaded Direct X 7 from microsoft to see if that would fix my Combat mission demo problems Hope this helps Thanks S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted February 3, 2000 Share Posted February 3, 2000 I can only make guesses here. What color depth are you running at ? 256 colors will probably not be enough. Try "High Color (16-bit)", which you can set from Control Panels - Display - Settings tab. The minimum recommendations for video are a 4Mb video card, but the game *may* still run on your computer, but it will look very "choppy" as you move around so you will need a lot of patience to play. If you have any further details on your computer hardware (i.e. - which video chip you have), we can possibly direct you to other solutions if the aforementioned doesn't solve your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted February 3, 2000 Share Posted February 3, 2000 Play around with color and desktop resolution settings. There's a problem with the demo, in that it doesn't correctly alter these settings on startup or something. If your system is set to something that CM doesn't support, it'll refuse to run. Also, your monitor might not be up to the tast of the combo of res/color/refresh rate. DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guachi Posted February 3, 2000 Share Posted February 3, 2000 Given the underpowered nature of your system, your problem sounds similar to the one I experienced over Christmas when I tried to play the game at my mother's house. What I did to solve the problem was decrease graphics acceleration. Go into Control Panel - System - Performance - Graphics and reduce the graphics level from 'full' one step at a time and the game should work eventually. The system I tried it on was similar to yours. CM ran but it was not pretty. Only having 2MB video on the compute really hurt. My suggestion to you is to upgrade your video card to anything above 2MB. You might even be able to get a 4/8/16MB card cheap or free of of somebody you know. Jason ------------------ Board member since 9/99 with 340 posts. I'm a member, dammit!! [This message has been edited by guachi (edited 02-03-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ol' Blood & Guts Posted February 3, 2000 Share Posted February 3, 2000 I've got an 8 MG Intel i740 AGP 3D Accelerator that I don't use anymore, since I upgraded to a 32 MB Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 Ultra. What's the 32 MB Internal Cache memory you have? Haven't heard of that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big Time Software Posted February 3, 2000 Share Posted February 3, 2000 Sounds like a clear case of not having preserved the directory structure when unzipping the Beta Demo. Make sure all BMPs are in a BMP directory in the same directory as the EXE file. Do the same thing for WAVs in a WAV directory. That should fix your problem. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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