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Will CM2 require hardware upgrade?


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Well, from someone who has just upgraded himself, here's what I went from and to what I went to.

From:

Intel Celeron 433Mhz

66MHz FSB

128MB PC66 (equivalent) SDRAM

32MB Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 Ultra

To:

AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz

266MHz FSB

256MB PC133 SDRAM

64MB DDR S/U/M/A/ Geforce 2 GTS(Pro AGP) Platinum Edition

I can't begin to tell you the difference in game speed now. On my old system, with all of my hi-res mods installed (except grass), I was getting pretty poor framerates with any large map above 1000m x 1000m. Now I can run run everything including hi-res grass and HUGE maps silky smooth at 1152x864 resolution.

And with CM2 engagement ranges likely to be longer than CMBO's, you can probably expect CM2 to have a lot of large maps. Combine that with probably a higher polygon count on the vehicles and more standard hi-res'ed textures, an upgrade is probably a good idea.

Don't ever try to squeek by with the minimal system requirements. Do yourself a favor and get an upgrade while you still can! :eek:

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