Zimbu The Monkey Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Here are the complete specs: P3 600 running Windows XP 256 mb ram Viper 770 vid card I've tried the demo and the game only runs perfectly in the tutorial mission. Is it possible to decrease the graphical detail and whatnot to make it run smoothly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jKMkIII Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 You can at least: 1) remove/decrease trees, Shift-T 2) decrease number of men shown in squad.. can't remember what combination it was but it is in hotkeys screen. Then things that might have some effect, perhaps someone who knows could tell what their real effect is. 3) reduce horizont drawing distance 4) get low-res grass mod from http://www.cmmods.com If battle has fog or smoke you can turn them off, or to use simplier drawing methods. Which at least on some cards seem to have huge effect. Again don't remember keys used, but hotkeys screen helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pascal DI FOLCO Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 What's that Viper GC ? VRAM ? Freq ? Res ? Drivers ? A P3 600 is OK for playing CMBB with anything less than 5,000 points, as long as the Graphics card is correct (Radeon 7500+ or GeForce2 GTS+) IMHO. With a crappy card you can't expect much, as long as you don't downsample all the textures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jKMkIII Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I think Viper770 is 32Mb TNT2 card, at least it is not better than that. Which of course is propably better than mine 16Mb SuperSavege IXc that I have in my work laptop (this years top model). But even such little memore on card I haven't noticed any slowness, except when went to level 5 view in "Danube Blues" urban scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dschugaschwili Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 You should also reduce the terrain doodads. They can cause quite a slowdown on the lower view levels. Dschugaschwili Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Weiss Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 GEFORCE2!?! Pssst, hey kid. Get yerseff a graphics card that'll carry the load. A Geforce4 is what ya need. I run one on a PIII 733mhz Coppermine, and got no complaints at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWB Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Actually, in my experience, a TNT2 with 32mb is worse than a TNT2 with 16mb, reason being downsampling. The TNT cards really need the help, and alot more happens with 16mb VRAM. The TNTs with 64mb are a horror. In any case, GeForce4 4200s are pretty cheap these days, and it is christmas time . . . WWB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pascal DI FOLCO Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Originally posted by Bruno Weiss: GEFORCE2!?! Pssst, hey kid. Get yerseff a graphics card that'll carry the load. A Geforce4 is what ya need. I run one on a PIII 733mhz Coppermine, and got no complaints at all.If it's a GeForce4 MX it's not much better than a GTS, but OK. It it's a Ti its waaaay costlier and 600MHz proc is too slow to take full advantage of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splinty Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I saw a GeForce3 Ti 500 for $99.00 US in the hardware section of ZDNet.com not too long ago. Let me tell you a Geforce 3 is more than enough card for your CM needs and $99.00 is one hell of a price, way better then the $350.00 I paid last year when it was the big boy on the block. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 CMBB runs fine on my P3 350mhz without turning things off. As everybody has said, you need to upgrade your video card to a Geforce. But buy some more memory sticks too. They're cheap. CMBO also ran fine on a V550. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Hell, your pc is a DREAM machine compared to my aging 300mhz G3 mac! I've been thinking of upgrading my own weeny graphics card lately, but otherwise I've got no complainst at all about running the game. Check the game's minimum/optimum specs on the Battlefront main site. [ December 03, 2002, 12:16 PM: Message edited by: MikeyD ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Oberst Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Originally posted by Zimbu The Monkey: Here are the complete specs: P3 600 running Windows XP 256 mb ram Viper 770 vid card I've tried the demo and the game only runs perfectly in the tutorial mission. Is it possible to decrease the graphical detail and whatnot to make it run smoothly?Buy a new Athlon XP1800+-based machine with 512 MB RAM, a killer video card, and stack this new machine on top of your old box containing the P3 600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbu The Monkey Posted December 3, 2002 Author Share Posted December 3, 2002 Thanks for the replies folks. I should be getting a new PC soon enough, but I'd rather order CMBB now than later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcm1947 Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I don't know much about computers so won't try to tell anybody how good a Viper 770 is but since I happen to have one that is 32 mb, running with a P850 I just wanted to mention that playing the demo I had no problem what-so-ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illo Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 Converting terrain and building mods smaller will have great effect. They will look fine even if every bmp is 50% smaller. Decreasing bmps color depth will help too. Smaller the filesize faster you CMBB runs. You can squeeze quite much without sacrificing much of visual quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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