Supreme Cmdr

quote: Originally posted by Paddy Gregory: Maybe I didn't explain myself properly, to get to Credian from Terran is the problem, as you have to go through Polaris 2, which is where the disabled fighter is in my case. No point. Just send email explaining the problem, and the saved game exhibiting it. Be sure to follow the guidelines for sending in saved games, as well as the naming convention for the ZIP file.

quote: Originally posted by actrade: Question for the SC. I didn't have any problem running BCM patched with the "official patch". Solid as a rock. I seem to remember, but I'll be damned if I can find where I read it, you saying that after the first official patch, the RC patches MUST use Direct X 8.1 drivers. The download page says all patches must use 8.1, but did the first patch not require it? BCM shipped with DX 8 and was developed using the DX 8.0a SDK. Thats why the DX 8.0a runtime is on the game CDROM. During the time the game was in Gold production, MS finalized DX 8.1 and thus the DX 8.1 SDK and runtime. From that point on, I updated BCM to use DX 8.1 SDK, which also requires DX 8.1 runtime installed. This is why all patches, starting from 1.0.01, required DX 8.1 runtime. btw, thanks for the excellent research. Glad I didn't have to do it. [ 12-10-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

I have updated the VCF extensively to cover issues under investigation and other issues worth discussing.

quote: Originally posted by Mr_Paris: I was thinking , i have read a lot of posts flaming the newbie , for little newbie type acts , and i think we have been getting a bit of a bashing of late so i think we need to have a "be nice to the newbie day"........after all in replt to a previuos post i think we should rember where we all came form dont u ?.... Show me one post bashing a newbie and I'll ban that person immediately! Thanks We already established this awhile back. NO newbie bashing. Period. Correcting a newbie (like myself, Soback, Gallion etc) is one thing, bashing is quite another. I usually just delete and/or relocate threads, posts etc, rather than going off the deep end. There is a reason this board is clean, and thats one of those reasons. So, unless I missed something, this is a pointless thread.

quote: Originally posted by ooJAYoo: Ohhhhhhh, so there isn’t any chance on using captured vessels to use as your own, or as escorts?Is there anyway in bringing in Tractor Beamed ships and Cargo Pods into the cargo bays? If its not in the manual or the VCF. You can't do. Quit spamming the boards please. Its bad enough finding stuff as it is, without getting false hits.

quote: Originally posted by ooJAYoo: , but what makes good game play? Its not so much Graphics vs. Game play, as one is lost without the other. The graphics have to be to some degree good else the game will fail to pass off what it Absolutely. And thats the point I was making. BCM's graphics do the job it was supposed to do (assuming you have a good video card) and yet, some forget that and try to compare it to games that couldn't even handle 10% of its processing.

quote: Originally posted by AshSpear: I recently acquired BCM, and I have only one problem that I cannot solve. It is related to the TTD tags in TACOPS when viewing planets. My understanding is that when you zoom in to view a scene, such as some _mbase scene, all the buildings and units should have TTD boxes around them, so that you can target them. This works fine, even when moving to many different scenes and regions of the planet, however once I have placed a waypoint, such as deploy drone, and I have the shuttle deliver the drone and return to base, there is a problem. Now if I zoom to another scene I can see the buildings, but the ttd do not appear for these. I believe that there was a reference to a similar problem earlier in the text indicating that it was normal and that one just had to change the view angle so that the terrain would be rendered. I try exiting tacops, and trying again. I've tried changing the angle, and the zoom, I have even tried exiting the game, and then restoring the saved game, but I can only view the TTD for buildings and units in the vicinity of where I deployed the drone. Even after the drone is recovered, and there are no units or waypoints in the area, the problem persists. I can reproduce the problem at will. Is there anything else I should try? I will look into it. And if this is a wild goose chase because you have the TTD toggled incorrectly, your ass is mine. [ 12-10-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

quote: Originally posted by Paddy Gregory: If you want me to Zip up the save game and send it, say the word. It's a pain in the arse, because there is no other (easy) way to the Credian quad and it's a lottery every time I go there as to whether the game will CTD or not. Send in the saved game. When I read this, I just jumped to every region in the Credian quad with no problems whatsoever.

quote: Originally posted by antaren4279: What is this rc9b I saw a few posts up? Just download and install it.

quote: Originally posted by Mr_Paris: Hi SC, I seem to be having a CTD problem specifcally around acessing the Navcomputer when in flight , if i try to change a destination i get a CTD, now if i acsess the Nav computer but do not selct a new destination and click log of no problem , yet when i chage destination and then click log of i get the CTD,(on a trade run from earth to Pluto) strange eh ? ive reproduced this 5 + times, i have the save game if u want it......i have all the latest drivers for my Video card and sound card ........ MR-PARIS OK, will check it out now

Ah yes, Gremlins. Blame it on the them. Why not? As long as it ain't me, I'm game with that.

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quote: Originally posted by cougarxg1: SC you got style I have a few models in 2.5 format and 3.0 format just give the word and location and I will send em over. I wish I could convert em to BC but I do not have the required MAX The ships I have... (gonna be short because most my models in light wave format but these are still some goodies) Warlock class Destroyer White Star Minbari Fighter and Minbari War Cruiser Put each model's mesh and textures in a separate zip file. Then send all 4 zips to [email protected] . Don't you have a model of the station?

quote: Originally posted by Gallion: A honest review that is better than most IMO. TTFN I agree.

Works fine here. If you click on the map, you zoom to that location. Learn how to use the system.

quote: Originally posted by $iLk: So to break down the problem (TACOPS exits to First person when my CC, interceptors, and I am in the same mission zone on a planet and I attempt to give an order through Tacops to one of the above) Unless I'm missing something, thats bollocks. Learn the limitations of the system. And I just checked it again. Yep, it works just like its supposed to. Once you give an order, it will be sent and you will revert to fp view. This is normal because on the ship, your default view would be Tacops. In fp mode, it is your forward view. Thats how it works. But if it becomes annoying, I'll revise it and keep the Tacops view static. [ 12-09-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

You can catch it here.

quote: Originally posted by Urza: Wow, they actually invented a new grade just for that. Reminds me of the old Battlecrusier 1.0 reviews. Nah, they weren't that bad. If they were, I'd have killed myself there and then.

quote: Originally posted by Drastic: In general, when/how do stations' inventories get replenished/rearranged? I'm especially leery of the iridium-trading approach, as HQ's stocks have (near's I can figure) remained unimpacted by anything other than my own actions, at least in game so far. Don't want to transfer all the things I'll need to be rebuying later to more expensive stations. It is dynamic. NPCs do the same thing you do. And stations set their prices, availability based on conditions, inflation etc.

quote: Originally posted by Baloogan: I think this question whould fall under this catagory: How to deploy SF marines from CC. If anwser in manual plz put the page.... Its not in the manual. Because you can't.

quote: Originally posted by Game_Ender: When i am in orbit around a planet (150k out with A/P on halt) i usally have 4 of my fighters defend my firestorm. Something wierd happens when they gaurd. They fly away from my ship and then turn around and head back, they continue flying untill they bounce off my hull (making a BUMP noise). They then proceed to that repeat for the entire duration of the gaurd. This bounce causes no damage, but sometimes the ships get stuck and i have to move. Is this normal? Dumb pilots tend to do that. A lot.

quote: Originally posted by Vigilince: I seemed to have solved the Voodoo 5 issues while on the planet, all graphic problems appear to be gone. In order to fix the problems, add these to your shortcut of your exe file for Battlcruiser... -ng -nm -nd1 -nd2 Only thing that remains is the planet texture problem in space... What a revelation!!! To think I actually added those in the VCF. As for the planet texture, you can't fix it because it is a z-buffer precision problem on those drivers. Can't be fixed.

quote: Originally posted by dnoyeB!: No issues on my part. I think you have done a good job. I think I'm turning into one of these SC zombies hehe, you think?

quote: Originally posted by StarShadow: Crashing to Desk TopAlong with the info on my signature I have set the video setting to their lowest and switched to 16bit. Still the problem persists. The game randomly crashes back to my desktop. No warnings at all. All my drivers are the latests for both vid. and sound. Any suggestions? Nope. You might want to try running it in a window using the -w1 param and seeing if you get an error message when it quits.

Well look who the cat dragged in! Hi Wold, talk about AWOL!!