Supreme Commander beta

[Deadlight]

Errr...how the hell do I upgrade a factory to the next tech?

[MadduckUK]

on the far right of the buld list for the factory in qustion, should be...

[redsky009]

oh redsky.. i i didnt know you cared?

I got the Hexus love man...yeah

[cptwhite_uk]

Two things from the demo, a) the interface takes 30% of the screen up, even at a widesceen 1900 x 1200 and b) fraps give me a FPS of 15 - so a standard format might help, but is a case of not enough CPU power (X2 4200) or is my X1800 XT not powerful enough?

Has anyone seen what holding alt + up arrow key does yet

[redsky009]

Yup, its pretty cool

I'm like having it on the left, TA styleee (except it makes factory build orders harder to see)

[kalniel]

Yeah, still too blooming big.

[Dihi Doctor]

If you put your specs in the my system link on the left we'll be able to see them and see why

It does run brilliantly on max details for my rig Though that may change if I get a better monitor.

Oh yea... have done. I suspect it's mainly my graphics card tbh. Both CPU and GPU have are watercooled and have a lot more overclock in them when I have the time. Would it make much of a difference?

[Deadlight]

Well, they say 'we recommend an 8800' but then they would. I'm gonna wait for ATI's R600 and they make my choice...

[Steven W]

Well, they say 'we recommend an 8800' but then they would. I'm gonna wait for ATI's R600 and they make my choice...

The manual says Nvidia 6800 or better. Having problem installing so haven't been able to find out how smooth it runs on my PC.

[redsky009]

The manual says Nvidia 6800 or better. Having problem installing so haven't been able to find out how smooth it runs on my PC.

Bugger, anything to do with Securom by any chance?

[Steven W]

Bugger, anything to do with Securom by any chance?

Sorted. No it was own PC problems (dvd drive making funny noises), nothing to do with the software. Installed now, just watched all the tutorial videos and briefly started the campaign. I love the intro video, intriguing story. My first impression - complicated! I like the HUD and the friendly AI seem really sharp. I'll need to take some time playing this before I write up a review, I need to understand it first! Gonna go back to the manual and have a good read through that first.

Recommended specs: 3.0 GHz Intel or equivalent AMD processor, 1GB RAM or better, 10GB HD space, 256MB RAM, Direct X9, Nvidia 6800 or better.

[MadduckUK]

Recommended specs: 256MB RAM

no way on earth

[kalniel]

Re-read it. That's graphics ram.

[kalniel]

Oh yea... have done. I suspect it's mainly my graphics card tbh. Both CPU and GPU have are watercooled and have a lot more overclock in them when I have the time. Would it make much of a difference?

Overclocking usually gives you gains in the few %.. that's not usually enough to prevent large plummets in framerate, but it can turn an unplayable one into a slow one.

I think it's a combination of both GPU and (eating his words as he says it) maybe the lack of dual core CPU? Sure fire way to test this is to compare the framerate at different resolutions - play and then save the game at a particularly big battle. Then load it up trying different resolutions from as high as you can go to as low as it lets you. If changing the resolution always gives you a noticeable change in frame rate then you're GPU bound. If changing the resolution rarely gives you a noticeable change in frame rate then you're CPU bound.

If just the highest resolution changes make a difference, then you're only becoming GPU bound in those resolutions, and you're CPU bound at the rest.

It would be great if Steven could run some performance testing in his review.

[Dorza]

I have found that If I go straight for the AIs commander with my commander and destroy him, it comes up on the screen blah blah commander defeated or what ever it says as expected and all is well and good. However if your commander is too close to the exploding AI commander he can get taken out too in the fallout of the other commanders explosion, which results in you losing the game. Even though the AI commander technically speaking exploded first. This doesn't seem fair to me, since the AI team was defeated first. Has any one else experienced this?

[Veles]

Well your commander is ultra important, if he dies you lose, doesn't matter if you take out the commander a split second before you go, cos basically YOU are dead. It's not really that they have won either, you've both lost.