Slitherine

...loved SC1
...gave up on SC2....
After lurking here for months, then checking daily.....
Just installed via matrix...
Hurrah!

Great - we hope it lives up to your expectations

Welcome to the forum!

Thankyou.
running through the tutorial.
particularly like the determination/ display of combat odds and modifiers, prior to engagement.

Welcome to the game Agent Smith

Think of Commander as what might have happened if Hubert had zigged instead of zagged following SC1

I still can't understand where his head was at. But his choice made it possible for Slitherine. And in this niche hobby of ours, if you drop the ball, it's not always possible you get a second chance.

Absolutely agree Les, I hope you get Jersey and Kuni onto this one.

Kuni and also Rambo were in the Beta team.

Jersey has me mentioning it on his forum, but I think he is a bit gamed out. I see his interest likely waiting to hear a wave of input first.

Got it yesterday, but still haven't been able to run it on a 15 " laptop with Vista nor XP. Keeps giving me an error saying display doesn't support 1024 x 768.

What is the max resolution that your laptop can manage? If it is less than 1024x768 then the game can't display correctly.

Cheers

Pip

pipfromslitherine wrote:What is the max resolution that your laptop can manage? If it is less than 1024x768 then the game can't display correctly.

Cheers

Pip

To me it rather sounds like some compatibility problem with the drivers, it is rather impossible that 15'' LCD has a max res of 800x600

My laptop has a native resolution of 1440 x 900.

rtamesis wrote:My laptop has a native resolution of 1440 x 900.

Can you switch your desktop res to 1024x 768?

Yes I can. However, the same error message pops up, preventing me from running the game.

What sort of graphics card do you have? Can you give us full specs of the machines you are having difficulty on.

Does your display support 32 bit color? Game tries to run at 32 bit color, maybe if ppl do not have that support (I am not sure if old display support that so please correct me if I am wrong) we should allow 16 bit also.

firepowerjohan wrote:Does your display support 32 bit color? Game tries to run at 32 bit color, maybe if ppl do not have that support (I am not sure if old display support that so please correct me if I am wrong) we should allow 16 bit also.

Many older laptops GPUs do not display correctly 32bit but use 24bit instead. This would be better than 16 in terms of quality. I'm pretty sure that a PC that can't display 1024x768 at anything higher than 16bits wouldn't be able to run the game anyway due to CPU/RAM.

I'm running XP and Vista Ultimate as virtual machines on Parallels 3.0 on a 2.16 Ghz Intel Core Duo MacBook Pro 15" which has 2 Gb RAM, a bus speed of 667 Mhz and a Radeon X1600 graphics card with 256 Mb VRAM. The screen is 1440 x 900 with 32 bit depth color. I have no problem running other hardware-taxing games such as those published by Matrix Games on it.

That error message show up if the machine failed to switch to full screen mode at the 1024, 768, 32. We will work on a that for a patch and make sure if full screen mode fails then that the game run windowed instead.We did not think a display with the 1024, 768 support would fail going to full screen and that is why that error message is wrong.

Woohoo! Go, Johan!

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You can't beat that anywhere else in this industry

Reading your info in more detail it looks like you are emulating a PC on your MAC. This version of Commander is for PC only and we will look at the MAC version ASAP. It could be that Java does not set up as you would expect on a MAC emulating a PC. Having said that if we can fix it we will!

Emulation implies that one is simulating PC hardware on a totally different hardware platform, which was the case with Microsoft's Virtual PC running on PowerPC Macs. This is not the case with Parallels' virtual machines, which run only on Intel-based Macs that use essentially the same hardware as PCs. I can run 3D PC games on my Vista Ultimate virtual machine, which I would think is far more CPU and graphics intensive than Commander-Europe at War, so I don't understand why Commander-Europe at War won't run on it as well.