schrecken
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maybe Shrecken has an updated link to the file
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I'll hunt it down... where to host it though?
Has it not been hosted at CCS?
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cjg225
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Are you running the game on an old PC or a new one?
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Like out of the box new, but not a slouch....
Windows XP
AMD Athlon x64 4800+ Dual Core
nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX
4 GB of ram
twin 75GB Raptor RAID-ed hard-drives
I haven't tried it on my laptop yet. Maybe I'll do that tonight. Not that I really ever use my laptop while in my room at school and would want to just for one game...
This is irksome. 
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squadleader_id
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| cjg225 wrote:
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Are you running the game on an old PC or a new one?
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Like out of the box new, but not a slouch....
Windows XP
AMD Athlon x64 4800+ Dual Core
nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX
4 GB of ram
twin 75GB Raptor RAID-ed hard-drives
I haven't tried it on my laptop yet. Maybe I'll do that tonight. Not that I really ever use my laptop while in my room at school and would want to just for one game...
This is irksome.
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Powerful PC! 4GB of RAM? So you're running Vista?
Can't help you there...I'm on Xp.
At a glance though...with such a powerful PC the jerky gameplay should have been caused by the dual core incompatibility.
Have you downloaded the AMD Dual Core patch? There's a separate drivers for AMD dual core procs for Xp...dunno for Vista.
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cjg225
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Well, I mistyped that. I have 4 GB in there but not all of it is utilized because I'm running XP.
Is the AMD dual-core patch inherently different than the one someone posted from Microsoft earlier? Because I installed that and it worked... Or maybe not. After I installed the patch I had to reboot the PC, and like I said, when I turned the PC on this morning, CCV worked fine, but after I closed it and reopened it later it was back to the same old choppiness.
I'll try anything at this point. I'd really hate to have to restart every single time I wanna play CCV if I have already played it once already in that session.
Maybe it's a good thing I keep forgetting my CC IV disk at home when I go home for vacation. I'd be tearing my hair out... Lord knows what CC II would do...
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squadleader_id
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:50 am Post subject: |
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Well, I mistyped that. I have 4 GB in there but not all of it is utilized because I'm running XP.
Is the AMD dual-core patch inherently different than the one someone posted from Microsoft earlier? Because I installed that and it worked... Or maybe not. After I installed the patch I had to reboot the PC, and like I said, when I turned the PC on this morning, CCV worked fine, but after I closed it and reopened it later it was back to the same old choppiness.
I'll try anything at this point. I'd really hate to have to restart every single time I wanna play CCV if I have already played it once already in that session.
Maybe it's a good thing I keep forgetting my CC IV disk at home when I go home for vacation. I'd be tearing my hair out... Lord knows what CC II would do...
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I assumed Vista because the 4GB 
The dual core patch for AMD is different...it's highly recommended that you download install this. Gives you a lot better compatibility with older apps. Just google for the patch. I'm pretty sure this will fix your problems.
I'm running a slightly 'slower' system to yours:
Windows XP SP2
AMD Athlon X2 4000+ Dual Core
nVidia GeForce 8600 GT 256MB
1,5 GB of ram
160GB HDD
I can run CC3-CC5 (haven't installed CC2 in a while...will try later today) fine...playing over and over (without slowdowns)...I play battles between working on my PC
Actually...I can usually multitask while playing CC5 (ie: play a game, pause it...work on a Photoshop project...come back to the game...back to Photoshop etc). Since CC take so little resource from modern PCs...you can extract/compress and burn DVD movies in the background while playing CC5 
To make things easier, I'm using the CC Starter util from CSO.
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schrecken
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| Don't you wish you could play CC in a window?
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squadleader_id
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:49 am Post subject: |
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Don't you wish you could play CC in a window?
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Why would I want to do that?
That would only work if you had a huge monitor/LCD...or a dual-display setup (work on the left, CC game on the right...yeah!).
Playing the game full-screen mode on my 20" LCD...I still want to see more details in my beloved tiny soldiers' uniforms...why would I want to limit the view in a window?
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schrecken
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:26 am Post subject: |
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That would only work if you had a huge monitor/LCD...or a dual-display setup (work on the left, CC game on the right...yeah!).
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I play a lot while I work...vmw3are works but I'd rather it could be played windowed.
Also you don't have to "PAUSE" the game while attending to other tasks.
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schrecken
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:54 am Post subject: |
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There's a thought for ppl with latest PC's.
Try Vmware or VirtualPC (free download from MS) and run a virtual copy of win98 to reach CC nirvana.
Works for me with the bonus of multitasking while playing.
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squadleader_id
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schrecken
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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yep, thegame needs to be installed on your virtual machine , plus the mods.
Added bonus... you can play against yourself in multiplayer!
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arkturas
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M1Garand
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I have a stock Dell Dimension E510 with XP the only thing added on is my GeForce XFX 8600 GTS xxx and CC5 is REALLY Slow HELP! PLEASE!
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