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Old June 23rd, 2005, 11:52 AM
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The processor is most likely not the culprit. I've been running the game on a C4-1500 for some time and never had any problems.

It seems, though, that there a troubles with multimedia codecs (Windows Media Player Plugins?!) of some sorts. Seemingly the WMP gets to anxious to play the avi and mp3 files the WinSPMBT uses, that both apps cl(r)ash about it ...
Yes - Plus I was wrong about the Celeron, as it does have a floating point co-processor it seems. Looks like I may have been confusing that one with another cut-down budget CPU.

The other thing seems to have been PCS with a lot of real RAM used up by background programs (loaded at start up probably). The game wants real RAM, so some folks may well need to trim down some of these service tasks to free some space, and/or increaseing the windows swap file size may help a bit.

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My .02
XP by itself is not very happy with 256 sdram
My wife's PIII 1.0 with 256 and it shares 11 with onboard video is a slug.
My computer is home built, 1.2 AMD Duron, 512 sdram, WD 7200rpm HDD 8mb cache.
WinSPMBT plays just fine as did DOS versions.
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Overall I am impressed too. The only issue that I have encountered is the intermittent sound, which is really obvious during an artillery bombardment. I actually like the 480 x 640 resolution the best. The icons are bigger so I can see them better. I tried the 600 x 800 and I just can't get used to it. One feature that I like in SPWW2 and SPMBT versus SPWAW was the bigger icons. I guess it is due to the resolution of the games.
I hope that the sound issues are resolved soon.
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I appreciate the default level at 800 x 600
With DOS I had to zoom out each turn.
Now I can zoom in if desired.
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working on my AMD 1.5 with 512 SDRAM an a 16 MD video card. does run a little slow, but I older an slower now also.
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