Windows Vista

[Ratzki]

A part of some posts from Battlefront that may be of help

I recently built a new computer and installed Vista Home Premium(32bit). The system is an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @2.4GHz with 4GB RAM and the GeForce 8400 GS card with 256K. This video card had worked fine for all four Combat Mission games in my previous computer under Windows XP. However, on initial load of Vista, CMSF and CMBO worked great but CMBB and CMAK had cascading video in the background and were painfully jerky and slow. I read the numerous posts about Vista and NVidia and resigned myself to tweaking the NVidia Control Panel settings.

Eureka! Setting the Antiailasing mode to "Override any application setting" eliminated the adverse video effects! The two games are still somewhat slow and jerky so I continue to monkey with Anisotropic Filtering, Antialiasing-Gamma Correction, Antialiasing settings between 2x and 16x, and Antialiasing-Transparancy settings.
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Graphics
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> >> Display adapter type ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
> >> Total available graphics memory 1534 MB
> >> Dedicated graphics memory 256 MB
> >> Dedicated system memory 0 MB
> >> Shared system memory 1278 MB
> >> Display adapter driver version 8.477.0.0
> >> Primary monitor resolution 1440x900
> >> DirectX version DirectX 10
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Chaps, I'm 60 and not the computer genius my son is. I want to live until at least 80, but if I can't have all FOUR Battlefront games what's the point?

Can anyone help?

Chris Harvey.

Now my son who is paid lots of UK £s sterling says the easiest way to get around this is to load a "Virtual Computer" into my Dell laptop.
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