Pelvinjaro Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 Hi all. I've been enjoying CMBO on my G3 Mac Powerbook for some time now. Love everything about it, except for one problem... Each time I start the game, it takes over and resets my desktop resolution from 1024x768 to 640x480, runs the game fine (in full screen), and restores my regular resolution upon quitting, leaving my desktop icons scattered. I don't care about the scattering, but I finally saw the full screen detail on a friend's Pentium 3 IBM machine (curses!) and now I see what I have been missing--huge levels of detail on the vehicles and men, to say nothing of the terrain. (I thought it was just supposed to look fuzzy!) Read the FAQ, and have trashed the "Combat Mission Bynd Ovr Prefs" file again and again, and changed monitor setings and relaunched the game, but no help--it just takes right over and does its thing. The Quicktime movie shows up great, much better that the game itself, so I thought I had enough memory and video support for the real deal...any thoughts? Am I wrong? Does this old Powerbook just not have the graphics oomph to play this game at any other resolution, or is there an idiocy problem on the part of the owner? The machine in question: Stock 1998 Mac "Wallstreet" (version Powerbook G3/233 running OS 9.2.1, 64 MB RAM, 512 K backside cache, 14.1" screen , etc. Soliciting knowledgeable Mac heads/company commanders for reply... Thanks, PJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 These Powerbooks have 2-4Mb of VRAM, which might be limiting you to 640x480 with 3D RAVE apps like CM. This thread mentions the same problem and it seems that you may be stuck with 640x480 with your particular PowerBook. You may want to double-check the amount of VRAM that is in your model and possibly upgrade it if you only have 2Mb (though it might be hard to find the VRAM upgrades now). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidh Posted February 8, 2003 Share Posted February 8, 2003 ...and as always, if for some reason the Classic RAVE extension found its way into your system folder, you must remove it and trash it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarmo Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 Another thing. With virtual memory on, CMBB wants 55 MBs RAM. My OS 9.1 eats up 33 MBs, albeit with oogles of extensions and plenty of RAM given to disk cache and other needs. Conclusion, I'm pretty sure you dont have enough RAM to run CMBB properly. A few times, when Ive had too many other programs open at once, CMBB has run very sluggishly and with blocky graphics. I think you should see what a RAM addition, say 128MB block more would cost you. At the very least you'd benefit with other programs, even if it might not make CMBB run well as you still dont have enough VRAM either. 64MB's just isnt enough for OS9 and modern programs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelvinjaro Posted February 9, 2003 Author Share Posted February 9, 2003 Thank you to all for responding. Great thread point-out, Schrullenhaft--I looked through the archive but missed that one. Davidh, the classic RAVE extension was indeed on my system folder, but not anymore. No help, though, the game still only plays in 640x480. I'm thinking that I just don't have the graphics support on this machine's hardware to support the 3DFX of Combat Mission. Not being a tech-savvy computer hardware guy, I'm still learning what a video card is...at any rate, I now believe it is not the result of operator error, so I've got that going for me. I may well try more memory, Jarmo. Certainly cheaper than getting a new G4... Thanks guys, PJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aka_tom_w Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 you don't have enought RAM I think it is that simple 64 megs of ram is just not enough My guess would be more ram (AT LEAST 64 megs More) would get you up and running at full resolution good luck -tom w 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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