HARI SELDON Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 I have waited patiently like everyone else for CMC. In the interim, I have purchased a new pc with vista home premium (32bit) and Nvidia 8500GT graphic card. CMBB is now unplayable for me. If CMBB is now unplayable, it makes no sense for me to purchase CMC when it is released. Will battlefront provide a fix for the CMx1 engine games? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 Are you sure it's the 8500 card? People with the 8x00 generation of cards and with Vista have been happily playing CMBB, so on the face of it you'd think you should be able to do so too. Have you checked the CMx1 tech pages for a potential cause? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 Okay, decided not to be lazy today. There seems to be an issue here with the 8x00 generation of cards, discussed and with a workaround here. See how fiddling with the AA settings works for you. It doesn't seem to be an ideal solution but it's something. Good luck! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 I'm not running on Vista, but apart from a few very minor color distortions the 8600 seems to work fine (knock wood). I'm really glad I successfully resisted having Vista installed on my machine, which seems to be a source of many problems for many people on many different types of games. Apparently everyone is supposed to rewrite their applications so that Microsoft can sell a new operating system that no one really needs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HARI SELDON Posted November 13, 2007 Author Share Posted November 13, 2007 Thanks for the responses. I've been able to run CMBB albiet with VERY slow response time and with flashing in the background. Not much fun playing under these conditions. Too bad - as I enjoy CMBB much more than CMSF. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kommissar Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 Wow! A forum topic that doesn't have to do with the release date. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cid250 Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 Vista Sucks for video games just now... get your money back and install XP, you will be much happier, since you'll be able also to install DirectX10 on Win XP if you wish it for any future game. But... OpenGL is far superior in features just now over DirectX10 (again). CMBB was built over old OpenGL features, and Vista drivers still suck with OpenGL in some video cards. Your computer hardware will perform much better on Win XP on any game, since Vista is a waste of resources (like a trash can, for money invested in hardware power). Lots of games do not even run, and the same can be said of lots of cool and interesting software applications. [ November 13, 2007, 04:05 PM: Message edited by: Cid250 ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel J Lee Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Hey Harry, Sorry to hear about your problems with Vista and wargaming! I bought a new system at Costco with Vista and returned it the next day. I hated it altogether, and besides EVERYTHING I do on a computer can be done just fine with XP. So, I ordered a powerful system from Newegg.com for $900. They even threw in a 17" LCD! Specs: XP Pro, 1 Gig of RAM, 300 Gigs of HD, GeForce 7600 XT card, and 2.4 MgHz (DVD rom/CD too). If you can settle for that for everything YOU do, then do it (if you can return the Vista OS and PC). Once the vista problems are figured out in 1 or 2 years, you can upgrade. In the meantime, I am very pleased with ZERO problems with XP and Combat Mission. Works like a charm and XP has been very stable for me. In 6 months my computer hasn't even crashed! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel J Lee Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 P.S. Sorry I spelled your name wrong, Hari! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HARI SELDON Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 Well it looks like I'll have to keep my old pc (XP, Pentium 4, 512mb ram, 128mb video card) as my CMBB machine. All my other existing games (HPS, Shrapnel, & Matrix) run perfectly on my new vista pc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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