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Shortround
10-23-2003, 01:54 AM
The Afrika Corps summary gives no indication of minimum system requirements to play it.
I have a 700 MHz machine, 128 MB RAM. If I'm wasting my time waiting, tell me now...
Pzman
10-23-2003, 01:55 AM
Shouldn't be much different from CMBB.
Shortround
10-23-2003, 01:56 AM
Originally posted by Panzerman:
Shouldn't be much different from CMBB. Meaning what?
Pzman
10-23-2003, 01:58 AM
Meaning, if you can run CMBB on your computer, you should be able to run CMAK.
Shortround
10-23-2003, 02:10 AM
Thanks anyway, but I don't feel like buying a game I don't want just to see if I can run one I do.
Do you work for the company? Something tells me you don't.
BulletRat
10-23-2003, 02:13 AM
Just download the CM:AK demo when it comes out - that should tell you how well it runs.
Snarker
10-23-2003, 02:35 AM
Shortround,
Heres the link to the CMBB specs. CMAK should be close to these.
CMBB System specs (http://www.battlefront.com/products/cmbb/specs.html)
Pzman
10-23-2003, 02:44 AM
Originally posted by Shortround:
Do you work for the company? Something tells me you don't. Did I ever clam that I did? :confused: And how should I know if you haven't played the other games?
[ October 22, 2003, 11:45 PM: Message edited by: Panzerman ]
Shortround
10-23-2003, 03:16 AM
Originally posted by Snarker:
Shortround,
Heres the link to the CMBB specs. CMAK should be close to these.
CMBB System specs (http://www.battlefront.com/products/cmbb/specs.html) Thanks. Guess I'll have to wait for an upgrade.
Quintusarrius
10-23-2003, 09:45 AM
I have a 700 MHz machine, 128 MB RAM. If I'm wasting my time waiting, tell me now...
Well, you should be able to run CMBB on that. Although you might want to keep battles to below 1250 points as my 750 struggles with more stuff than that.
If you have any kind of graphics card, that will make life easier. RAM is still pi$$ cheap so if you pick up another 128 (Or a 256 stick) that will make the world of difference.
If you have trouble finding someone willing to play small scale battles, let me know... I like <1000 point battles.
Four Stringer
10-23-2003, 01:03 PM
I've got a PIII 700mhz w/256MB of RAM and a 64MB NVidia GeForce 3 card. I don't have any problems running CMBB; HUGE battles sometimes take a bit of time to load though.
If you have a decent vid card, and get a bit more RAM, CMAK will probably run fine on your machine. I also keep my system pretty clean, so my system resources aren't hogged by unused programs running in the background.
Bammer
10-23-2003, 08:25 PM
Originally posted by Shortround:
The Afrika Corps summary gives no indication of minimum system requirements to play it.
I have a 700 MHz machine, 128 MB RAM. If I'm wasting my time waiting, tell me now... A video card of at least 32mg but 64mg is better
CMAK is a bit harder on the video card than CMBB, mainly because of dust and some higher poly-count models. Dust will be especially hard on the high-ram TNT card holders, they never could do transparencies no matter how much vram they had.
Still, it ran quite nicely on a Celeron 800mhz w/384mb RAM & a GeForce 2MX, while that celeron was running SQL Server, IIS, Roger Wilco Base Station & MySQL.
So, in summary, biggest variable really is the video card. Machine speed does not come into play until one gets to larger battles and even then it is just a matter of a blue bar taking longer or shorter. Best advice is to play the demo, if you dont like how it works, you will not like how CMAK works.
WWB
PS: And, just for better computing experience in general, I would highly reccomend more RAM. It is dirt cheap these days.
[ October 23, 2003, 06:01 PM: Message edited by: WWB ]
STILL no Mac OSX support??
Great Zeus - Apple released the THIRD major evolution of OSX recently (Panther). New Macs aren't even capable of running the old OS9 any more. (Who is Battlefront expecting to sell the Mac version to?) OS9 was declared dead by Apple YEARS ago.
Still no CMBB sale from me yet as I wait for Battlefront to get serious about Mac development and there won't be a CMAK sale from me either - not when it will only run on an OS that was ended by it's creator (Apple) two years ago!
Pzman
11-05-2003, 04:46 AM
Its called an old game engine. BFC is going to make CMX2 OSX compatable, but it would take far to long to do so with the current one. Get a nice cheap sceond hand Mac and stop wining. Anyway its the guys at Apple that chose to get ride of RAVE that you should blame not BFC. When BFC asked Apple if they would continue to support RAVE before OSX came out they said yes and then changed their minds.
[ November 05, 2003, 01:49 AM: Message edited by: Panzerman ]
Robert Olesen
11-05-2003, 04:51 AM
I have a P3/550, 256Mb RAM, 32Mb video card and CMBB runs reasonably well on that. Battles tend to be slow when the battle size goes much above 1500 points, at least when the damage setting is high, but I tend to avoid large battles anyway.
I'm not happy to hear that CMAK is harder on the graphics card, but I guess that's an inevitable development.
Wisbech_lad
11-05-2003, 05:50 AM
Yep, I've got 450PIII, but upgraded over the years to 384MB and a 64MB video card. No problems on small/ medium scenarios, the blue bar moves slowly once battles get big. But the game is best (IMHO) at reinforced company size anyway.
Ales Dvorak
11-05-2003, 07:37 AM
Originally posted by WWB:
CMAK is a bit harder on the video card than CMBB, mainly because of dust and some higher poly-count models.Bad news for Mac users.
MikeyD
11-05-2003, 02:38 PM
Hey dudes, I'm running a mac with a measley 300mhz with a 16 meg video card and am having loads of fun running the Beta, smoke, dust, and all!!!! ...okay, admittedly with a little downsampling.
My point is you'd have to have a REALLY low end machine ...or the wrong type video card ...or running mac OSX, to be scared off by CMAK.
[ November 05, 2003, 11:40 AM: Message edited by: MikeyD ]
Andreas
11-05-2003, 02:43 PM
Originally posted by Ales Dvorak:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by WWB:
CMAK is a bit harder on the video card than CMBB, mainly because of dust and some higher poly-count models.Bad news for Mac users. </font>[/QUOTE]Previously I was running the Beta on a Radeon 7500 32MB card, and it looked better than CMBB (no downsampling for starters), and I did not notice changes in speed of scrolling across a map.
Dust may have had a bit of an effect, but it was nothing that jumped out.
The underlying machine was a 3-year old G4/400 with 384MB. Ran the game just fine.
Pzman
11-05-2003, 02:44 PM
That's great news Mikey.D; that means my G4 400Mhz with 32mb card should be fine.
MikeyD
11-05-2003, 06:06 PM
Panzerman, I'd KILL for a 32 meg card!
Kill, yes... but not spend money. I am a cheap bustard. :D
Pzman
11-05-2003, 07:23 PM
Just as long as you don't kill me for mine everythings ok. :D I got it second hand with the computer so it was a good deal.
Ales Dvorak
11-06-2003, 08:15 AM
Originally posted by Andreas:
(no downsampling for starters):D
Originally posted by MikeyD:
Hey dudes, I'm running a mac with a measley 300mhz with a 16 meg video card and am having loads of fun running the Beta, smoke, dust, and all!!!! ...okay, admittedly with a little downsampling.
Music to my ears. I can forestall going over to the dark side for a little while longer.
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