iainjackson Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 i have a p3 500meg pc with 64mb of ram and a stealth 3 32mg graphics card. should i buy this game? i don't want to upgrade my pc yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Pilot Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 I don’t know enough about computers to tell you yes or no, but I can give you some reference points. I have a: Celeron 500Mhz processor 810 chipset (with integrated shared system video memory of 11MB) No video card 256MB RAM Windows 98SE I find CMBB performs well on this system. However, I recently upgraded this computer from 64MB RAM to 256MB. Prior to that upgrade, even the smallest CMBB scenarios didn’t run well (difficulty scrolling, playback was anything but smooth, LONG pauses as the computer accessed the hard disk). Following the suggestions of the helpful folks from this forum, I upgraded to the most recent drivers (slight improvement to CMBB, but still unplayable), and then upgraded the RAM. The improvement in performance was well worth the $40. I’ve tried up to medium sized CMBB scenarios and found them to play smoothly (though I suspect that large ones may give me some trouble). The only suggestion that I haven’t implemented, though still considering, is installing a video card, which I’m told could yield even more improved performance, maybe even allowing large scenarios to perform well. Hope that helps. Ace 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainjackson Posted October 11, 2002 Author Share Posted October 11, 2002 thanks for the info, maybe i need to get some more ram then, its quite cheap at the moment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dressler Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 I can't tell you how much improvement additional RAM made to all my games. I started with a 900Mhz processor, 20G HD, but only a 16Mb video card and 64Mb of RAM. CMBO ran ok, not great, but games like MOHAA and B-17, the Mighty 8th had framerates so low they were more like slide shows than games- actually B-17 was unplayable. It would play about 2 seconds of the game, freeze for about 10 seconds, play 2 seconds, freeze 10 over and over. I upgraded to 320Mb of RAM and a 32Mb vid card and the improvements have been astronomical. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macnab Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 Hi i have a 500mghz and 128 ram with an ati rage pro and it run`s ok ive put the weather down and two man squad`s and not the full tree`s to speed it up ,no prob`s with cmbo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzerjaeger Posted October 16, 2002 Share Posted October 16, 2002 Dunno. I haven't got it working yet... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Immolator Posted October 19, 2002 Share Posted October 19, 2002 I had a 733 mhz cpu HP computer with 64 megs of RAM. CMBB ran just fine, but CMBO was hurky jerky. My solution was to upgrade to 512 Megs of RAM and CMBO runs great with graphics and sound at the max. The upgrade was only about 60 bucks and helped the computer speed in other areas also, e. g. graphics on the net, etc. Therefore, my recommendation is to get plenty of RAM while it's cheap. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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