HijackGMH Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 I recently built a new computer and installed Vista Home Premium(32bit). The system is an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @2.4GHz with 4GB RAM and the GeForce 8400 GS card with 256K. This video card had worked fine for all four Combat Mission games in my previous computer under Windows XP. However, on initial load of Vista, CMSF and CMBO worked great but CMBB and CMAK had cascading video in the background and were painfully jerky and slow. I read the numerous posts about Vista and NVidia and resigned myself to tweaking the NVidia Control Panel settings. Eureka! Setting the Antiailasing mode to "Override any application setting" eliminated the adverse video effects! The two games are still somewhat slow and jerky so I continue to monkey with Anisotropic Filtering, Antialiasing-Gamma Correction, Antialiasing settings between 2x and 16x, and Antialiasing-Transparancy settings. Has anyone got the magic combo for re-gaining smooth program action? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donnieitaly Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 I have a similar problem (well sorta similar -here it is in depth) "My problem is this. I've recently upgraded (sic) to Vista run on a Dell laptop and one of the requirements I listed to my son who "designed" it for me was that it should be able to run ShockForce. And it does. Unfortunately now I can't run CMs One, Two or Three. You know Normandy, Afrika Korp and Eastern front. This is a major pain for me. A VERY helpful chap called Martin at Battlefront told me it was probably the result of having a new graphics card (whatever that is) and he asked me to list the graphics stuff. Herewith:- Graphics > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Display adapter type ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series > >> Total available graphics memory 1534 MB > >> Dedicated graphics memory 256 MB > >> Dedicated system memory 0 MB > >> Shared system memory 1278 MB > >> Display adapter driver version 8.477.0.0 > >> Primary monitor resolution 1440x900 > >> DirectX version DirectX 10 > >> .................................................. .............................. Chaps, I'm 60 and not the computer genius my son is. I want to live until at least 80, but if I can't have all FOUR Battlefront games what's the point? Can anyone help? Chris Harvey. Now my son who is paid lots of UK £s sterling says the easiest way to get around this is to load a "Virtual Computer" into my Dell laptop. I don't know what he means (well I do, but couldn't do it myself.) by this so hopefully he'll be doing it for me. If you're still not totally happy then send me an e-mail and when he's sorted it I'll tell you if it works and, hopefully, how to do it. donnieitaly@fastmail.fm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichyG Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 @HijackGMH I've got my system to run at the same state of yours it seems. resolved background warping issue but still have shocking framerates no matter what size map etc. In theory my PC should thrash this game into the floor (i run Crysis DX10 at medium settings to put it in relation). I've got an nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS. I'd like to resolve this issue after wanting to play the old operation style scenarios that only CMx1 can provide! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JV44 Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 After being called a Troll for expressing my boredom at people knocking Vista (and therefore Vista 64) I decided to reinstall CM2 BTB to see if it works under Latest nvida drivers for 8800 , I have found that all I had to do in order to get it working was to set Antialiasing Mode --> 'Overide any application setting' and set Antialiasing to x2 Of course I set this in a unique profile for the CM.exe file so as to not impact other game settings Yes it is mildly jerky but playable which is all I want out of a game that if i am honest I haven't picked up for months I will revisit again if CMC comes out and current performance will be fine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Hi JV44 is ryt I certainly agree with you. Thank you very much for sharing your information. It was really very helpful for me. Thanks!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain-James Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Ho yes thanks a lot Now we'll have to find a way to address this annoying framerate issue... Everytime I play it feels like Im using an Armstrad CPC to process NASA data, it's kinda frustrating 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekryan Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 About this framerate issue. I read somewhere that it can be the result of the fact that hardware rendering can not be accesed and software is used instead and thats why we have this poor (making it unplayable) performance. I have the same situation in CM:SF. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 How did you setup a profile for video settings specific to CMAK? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 How did you setup a profile for video settings specific to CMAK? If you're using an Nvidia video card, you have to right click on your desktop and open the Nvidia control panel. If CMAK is not on the list, you can select it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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