Gl.en Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 I am a new CMBB owner and am loving the game as I did CMBO. I am having a huge problem with operation "To The Volga". Screen scrolling is jerky and slow and when I select a unit and an order, there is a lag between the time I click a destination and when the waypoint appears. This has been up to 20 seconds to move several units. Playing as the Germans I persevered and finished setting up and hit Go. The Computer Player Thinking bar then took up to 30 minutes to complete! The dark blue bar displayed behind the operation name is taking 15-20 minutes every turn and once the fighting actually starts it is also jerky and slow, making it hard to move across the battlefield. I have removed the third squad member, the building roofs and unit bases. As it is, this operation is unplayable. Now I know there are some serious numbers being crunched but this does not happen to the same extent in other operations and battles. My system is a Dell Dimension 2350 Pentium 4 2.4Gig with 512 Meg RAM and Intel Integrated Graphics (not the ideal card but works very well with even the most demanding shooters and other games), Windows XP Home and Direct X 9. I have all the latest drivers. My PC far exceeds the system requirements so I am feeling a little frustrated. Guys, are there any other steps I can take to get me on the way to the Volga?? Thanks Glen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 "To the Volga" is one of the more CPU/video-intensive scenarios on the CD. Your Intel integrated graphics are no match for that scenario and will perform sluggishly. Even some high-end video cards can be stressed out by that scenario. Many other games have a much more limited 'horizon' which limits what has to be drawn on screen. CM's horizon is much farther than many games, which means there are far more vertices and textures to move around in memory and more mip-mapping for all the textures present. Your best solution is to get an actual AGP card instead of using the integrated video. Typically we've recommended NVidia-based videocards since they support fog-tables, which the Radeons don't (and the Intel integrated graphics also don't support fog-tables). However if you play other games you may find that the Radeons might provide a little more bang for your buck. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gl.en Posted December 28, 2003 Author Share Posted December 28, 2003 Thanks heaps, think I'll take your advice and fork out for a better video card. Glen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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