Sloan,

Thank for the tips, it helped a bit, fps is hovering around 20 during battles, and sometimes down to 15 in heavy battles.

Played a lot tonight (still have a few weeks until my month is up), and got involved in a heavy defense of Thionville. The Germans were attacking heavily, but we managed to hold on, until we could spawn some armor and AT. I wish all my sessions could be like this. This is the game at its best. It is too bad though, that most of the time spent during a session, is finding a decent battle. I suppose I will give it a go, and if I am still having fun, stick around for another month.

The game kind of grows on you, despite it's shortcomings

This comment was edited on Nov 12, 00:27.

Sir Bruce,

Points well taken.
Beleive me when I say that the game concept is fantasic, being there from the beginning, no one could argue that the game has not come a long way. CRS deserved some credit for biting the bullet and bringing the game to its current state, however, I think we can all agree that it never should have been released in the state that it was (I was there in June).

It is a shame really. Perhaps I will give it another go, (always just one click away). I really just wish my setup (as in last post) would yield better results.

This comment was edited on Nov 11, 19:22.

Sloan,

I would be genuinely interested to know how you are getting those frame rates. I mean this sincerely. I have a 1 Ghz T-Bird, 512 megs of ram, GeForce 4 ti-200, and a sound blaster live. Running Windows XP Home. Running a with a cable modem. The only other game that has remotely strained my setup is UT2003, but considering the graphics in the game, I find that understandable.

In WWII online, offline I get abot 40 fps, and online when nothing is going on , I get anywhere between 25-35 and at times drops to 14-15 in combat. (this is the game killer for me).

Do you have an UBer PC, over 2Ghz?

If you have any suggestions about raising my frame rate, beyond what is posted at the site, I would be welcome to hear them. Again I am being sincere. If I could maintain a framerate above 25 (a point where the sense of smoothness begins for me), I would be more willing to overlook some of the other aspects of the game that I do not like.

It's funny, how people keep coming back to the game, thinking that "THIS" will be "THE PATCH", that re-ivents the game, that fixes the frame rate, that does away with the 64 visible player limit. It is almost a sickness.

As evidenced by my last post, I too have been afflicted by this grim malaise, but no more. I think a complete re-design of the game would be neccessery. What astounds me is that the whole game is around 100 megabytes. For something so small, I have always been amazed how elephantine the program becomes when installed.

After both the 1.6 patch and now the 1.7 patch I decided to activate my account again to see if there has been any improvements.

Despite the engine upgrade dx 8.1, the game still looks (some of the textures look a little better) and sounds pretty much the same, and performs poorly.

the game also seemed barren after some weekend play (during peak hours). A lot less going on the map, didn't really feel that there were many people on, got shot in Dinant by some mystery person (probably due to the 64 player limit), or some long range machine gun kill, logged out, unsuscribed, forfeiting my remaining time. I don't imagine I will be back ever again.

The biggest flaw of the game besides the performance issues, is the design. While real combat may be "minutes of sheer adrenaline" punctuated by hours of bordom, this should never have been modeled into the game. While BF1942 may be light on sim, it high on fun, a much more immersive experience by far. The 64 player limit, is just ludicrous and kills the validity of the close quarters combat experience. Getting killed by an unseen enemy, is just a slap in the face.

The infrantry game is crippled. Tanks can snipe you from miles away, yet any device such as binoculars, that may be historically innacurate, could add a lot to the game.

While the game may be fun for some, and I certainly respect anyones choice to play or not to play, I really feel that this game will always be confined to a small niche of gamers, and ultimatley will fail unless they ever managed to recreate the game from the ground up (new engine). Having Western Europe modeled at half-scale, while on paper may be interesting, in reality results in a country-side filled with ghost towns with pixel-thin walls.