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Old 01-06-13, 06:03 PM   #1
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I am back. I am older. I am smarter. I have questions.

This was my thread from almost a year ago.

I am a subsimmer...

This thread got me thinking. I shall return to the tanksim world.

Since that thread, I have tried the Steel Fury demo (Which barely ran. It was laggy) and I used to play T-72 Balkans on Fire demo. I own ArmA. My new question is...What can I run on my system.

I have Windows 7 64 bit, 4GB RAM, a 64MB GPU, and a 2.3 GHZ Dual Core CPU. Keep in mind that I have a horrible internet connection. My download speed averages out at 12 kbps.


Can you help me? My uncle was a tank commander. I'd like to try and play a little bit of tanksims.
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Old 01-06-13, 09:02 PM   #2
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Wow! Does it come with sticks and stones?????

Seriously, my son has a similar rig - a Fujitsu-Siemens with a Mirage 672 64 mb gpu and 2gb RAM and an intel centrino - and all you can hope to run with such a basic gpu are are older RTS of the type: Soldiers Heroes of WW2, Codename Panzers, or Need for Speed games on minimum settings and 800 X 600 or 640 X 460 resolution. And you cna expect sometimes choppy gameplay.Even for T 72 Balkans on Fire or IL2 you need at least a 256 mb gpu.For Arma, Crysis, Steel Fury , Steel Beats etc you need 512 mbs otherwise those games won't start or will simply be unplayable. You need to upgrade your gpu to play modern games or sims.
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Wow! Does it come with sticks and stones?????

Seriously, my son has a similar rig - a Fujitsu-Siemens with a Mirage 672 64 mb gpu and 2gb RAM and an intel centrino - and all you can hope to run with such a basic gpu are are older RTS of the type: Soldiers Heroes of WW2, Codename Panzers, or Need for Speed games on minimum settings and 800 X 600 or 640 X 460 resolution. And you cna expect sometimes choppy gameplay.Even for T 72 Balkans on Fire or IL2 you need at least a 256 mb gpu.For Arma, Crysis, Steel Fury , Steel Beats etc you need 512 mbs otherwise those games won't start or will simply be unplayable. You need to upgrade your gpu to play modern games or sims.
I can play half the games on that list. I have IL2, ArmA, and I have the T72 Demo. They all work perfectly fine.
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I'd like to try and play a little bit of tanksims.
Some safe bets:

- M1 Tank Platoon (the original)
- M1 Tank Platoon 2
- Panzer Elite
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Ähem... Steel Beasts your liking...?

It should run with your CPU, I ran it on a Pentium 4 3 GHz, that was single core. The video RAM on your gfx however - I cannot say.

Be advised that the new version released in summer or later this year will come with a new graphics engine which probably will be more demanding on the hardware, so there is a chance that while you an get the old engine now and be able to run it, this window will be closed for you once the new version is out (the old versions will probably not be sold anymore then).

If you want to get the old version for your older hardware, your time is slowly running out.

Internet is no problem, you need to get the dongle via mail, and somebody can send you the software on CD if downloading it works too slow for you. Has been done before like that, you're not the first.

You can test it - whether it runs on your rig - via a guest license. Ask in the eSim forum for one.

On tanks, there is just one sim out there.
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Some safe bets:

- M1 Tank Platoon (the original)
- M1 Tank Platoon 2
- Panzer Elite
Safe bets? Maybe the hardware. But with Windows 7 64 Bit? I did not get M1 running reliably even under XP SP3.
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Safe bets? Maybe the hardware. But with Windows 7 64 Bit? I did not get M1 running reliably even under XP SP3.
There's some word about getting M1TP2 up and running in Windows 7:

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3693908/1

As for the original M1TP, you'll probably need Dosbox.
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