You can't go home again, or Combat Mission hates me

[Ed Anger]

Only available in West Europe.

See how I feel when trying to buy a bargain bin fps on D2D.

No, because I wasn't going to buy it. 

[Ed Anger]

ALLAHU ACKBAR!

The first game works. No russians to kill, but slimy brits. Loaded up Villers-Bocage, and ran amuck with Wittman's Tiger shooting up Josqs and they ran to and fro to avoid an 88mm suppository.

Fun.

[Warspite]

ALLAHU ACKBAR!

The first game works. No russians to kill, but slimy brits. Loaded up Villers-Bocage, and ran amuck with Wittman's Tiger shooting up Josqs and they ran to and fro to avoid an 88mm suppository.

Fun.

[Syt]

Yo, Mr. Ed.

Installed CMBB and it works with Vista64 and nVidia GTX285.

Only downside: now widescreen support, and the nVidia drivers don't allow me override the monitor scaling (so that I have an undistorted image with black bars left and right), so I have a squished 1600x1200 display. And I had to manually set AA, filtering etc., in the nVidia panels, of course.

[Ed Anger]

I fiddled with the AA settings, as much as my patience allowed. I just don't have the testicular fortitude anymore to tweak shit. It drives me up the wall.

[Martinus]

[Syt]

I fiddled with the AA settings, as much as my patience allowed. I just don't have the testicular fortitude anymore to tweak shit. It drives me up the wall.

Huhm. Took me a minute to do the settings in the nVidia thingamajick (AA 8x - not8Q, that drags it down a lot- then crank up all the filter options. You are aware you can set it per application and then forget about it afterwards?

[Ed Anger]

I fiddled with the AA settings, as much as my patience allowed. I just don't have the testicular fortitude anymore to tweak shit. It drives me up the wall.

Huhm. Took me a minute to do the settings in the nVidia thingamajick (AA 8x - not8Q, that drags it down a lot- then crank up all the filter options. You are aware you can set it per application and then forget about it afterwards?

Yeah. I'm a very lazy man nowadays, and fiddling with computer settings bores me to tears.

Back when 3DFX was all shiny and new, I'd play with settings. Nowadays, I just get annoyed.

[Ed Anger]

Well, you know what they say. Good games don't die! Battlefront.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of a new v1.04 Vista upgrade for Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin. This upgrade officially adds support for Windows Vista. Special thanks to Philip Culliton for diving into our ancient code to figure out and fix the various issues introduced with Vista!

The Vista upgrade is not a free patch! It can be purchased for $5 as download only from the Battlefront.com store!

Players are recommended to try out the new upgrade first before purchasing! A free updated v1.04 demo is available as well from the Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin Demo page!

Fuck Battlefront.

[Scipio]

They have got some gall.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Steel Panthers: World at War?

Granted, it's a bit dated.

[sbr]

Well, you know what they say. Good games don't die! Battlefront.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of a new v1.04 Vista upgrade for Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin. This upgrade officially adds support for Windows Vista. Special thanks to Philip Culliton for diving into our ancient code to figure out and fix the various issues introduced with Vista!

The Vista upgrade is not a free patch! It can be purchased for $5 as download only from the Battlefront.com store!

Players are recommended to try out the new upgrade first before purchasing! A free updated v1.04 demo is available as well from the Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin Demo page!

Fuck Battlefront.

They have got some gall.

This issue is interesting to me.  A for-profit company, most likely a corporation with financial obligations to shareholders, developed and is selling an upgrade to make their games compatible with Operating Systems that didn't exist when the games were first released, and some fans are pissed.

1. Would you have been less upset if the word "patch" had never entered the conversation?  If Battlefront made an Official Vista/Windows 7 Compatibility Upgrade ^TM would you be less bothered by the idea of paying $5 for it?

2. Assuming there is no possibility of a free upgrade, for whatever reason, what would you rather see Battlefront do?  Let the games fade into oblivion as OSs evolve, or take the time anfd cost of making their games compatible with new OSs, but for a cost?

[Ed Anger]

This issue is interesting to me.  A for-profit company, most likely a corporation with financial obligations to shareholders, developed and is selling an upgrade to make their games compatible with Operating Systems that didn't exist when the games were first released, and some fans are pissed.

1. Would you have been less upset if the word "patch" had never entered the conversation?  If Battlefront made an Official Vista/Windows 7 Compatibility Upgrade ^TM would you be less bothered by the idea of paying $5 for it?

2. Assuming there is no possibility of a free upgrade, for whatever reason, what would you rather see Battlefront do?  Let the games fade into oblivion as OSs evolve, or take the time anfd cost of making their games compatible with new OSs, but for a cost?

Years ago, when I really liked battlefront, I'd have no problem. But my attitude towards them has soured, although not to a matrix games level.

I'm just not going to pay for a patch from them. Especially one that tosses eLicense onto my system.

[Berkut]

I don't fault them for charging for this "patch", but it is an admission on their part that their game is basically dead, since it means that they are pretty much giving up selling new copies of the game.