Re: Some questions regarding Gas Powered games and Supreme Commander

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From: Loren Pechtel
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:52

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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:46:32 GMT, john.dsl@verizon.net (John Lewis)
wrote:

>With your obsolete PC machinery, Supreme Commander should be a
>slide-show very frequently in SP mode. The game is fully
>multicore-aware and the SP AI apparently requires genuine dual-core
>horsepower when large numbers of units are in action. Need a fast
>dual-core processor, a high-end graphics card,  a very large-screen
>monitor or even better still --- dual monitors.

Yeah--my machine hasn't been upgraded for a while.  It's always a bit
jerky and zoomed in on a busy area it can become impossible to place a
building.  I don't know what's going on but the placement box might
get stuck until I zoom back out.

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