Speed of play

[Probert]

My PC is not new, but handles up to 1250 point battles quite well. However a 2000 point battle on a medium map causes drastic speed loss and chopiness. Is there anything I can do as far as settings to make the program run smoother?

[stikkypixie]

Turn of trees, wheater, three-men squad etc... Don't run anything in the background. Other than that there isn't much you can do.

[ParaBellum]

You can also reduce the amount of doodads or even switch them off completely.

[Redwolf]

What kind of graphics card do you have?

You can install smaller textures if you don't have enough video RAM.

[ July 08, 2004, 06:50 PM: Message edited by: redwolf ]

[Soddball]

I found that even though my PC had an 850Mhz Athlon processor and 512MB RAM, my old GeForce with 32MB DDR wasn't cutting the mustard on battles over 1,200 points. I replaced it with a GeForce Ti4200 with 128MB DDR and hey presto! 20,000 point games are my friend.

[Redwolf]

Another trick is that CM has more demands for texture memory and less for polygin speed than other games.

That means you can pick up one of those cards which have plenty of memory but are very chep because their chips are running on low frequency or are otherwise speed-crippled. Examples are ATI Radeon 8500LE 128 MB and NVidia Geforec4 5200 128 MB. They'll do fine for CM, are very cheap and hold all the textures you want.