K6-2 450
128MB SDRAM
12G HD (4G open)
Voodoo3 2000 PCI

I have F4 at full detail at 1024X768. Only thing turned down is Dencity (set one notch past half way) and bubble (mid). I find that a fresh boot befor playing helps alot and I also run a scandisk/defrag every other day. I have my computer do this automatically lat at night. I don't have any trouble in any mode of play. Maybe this will help for my fellow gamers with a small amount of cash to get the most out of F4. This also makes me wonder why people say you "HAVE" to have a high end sys to get good frame rates in F4. My bargen basement system dose just fine on all 50 of my games at full detail, and I play them all.

I also d/l a atmospere fix that gave a cleaner looking fog and better sky line, but the big plus was higher frame rates!

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"Hollywood Out"

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Originally posted by The Prophet:
My system:

K6-2 450
128MB SDRAM
12G HD (4G open)
Voodoo3 2000 PCI

I have F4 at full detail at 1024X768. Only thing turned down is Dencity (set one notch past half way) and bubble (mid). I find that a fresh boot befor playing helps alot and I also run a scandisk/defrag every other day. I have my computer do this automatically lat at night. I don't have any trouble in any mode of play. Maybe this will help for my fellow gamers with a small amount of cash to get the most out of F4. This also makes me wonder why people say you "HAVE" to have a high end sys to get good frame rates in F4. My bargen basement system dose just fine on all 50 of my games at full detail, and I play them all.

Prophet

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http://www.combatsim.com/ubb/Forum21/HTML/004660.html

That post you linked, according to it I can drop a bunch of bombs on a groupe of troops but some will sorta "reappear." Would this explane why a IR sam that I drop a pair of rockeyes or Mk-82s is still able to fire after the bombs fit tight on top of it? I have this happen alot in BAI and CAP missions.

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Originally posted by The Prophet:
Rilex,

That post you linked, according to it I can drop a bunch of bombs on a groupe of troops but some will sorta "reappear." Would this explane why a IR sam that I drop a pair of rockeyes or Mk-82s is still able to fire after the bombs fit tight on top of it? I have this happen alot in BAI and CAP missions.

Prophet

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could this possibly explain the appearing planes in campaign to????

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Originally posted by Ajax:
The last time I defragged it took me two days and two nights...I must say I've got a 20.2 gig HD and there's 19 gigs of data on it, still is this fairly normal?? (OK, this OT, I just want to know please)

-Ajax out

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Originally posted by Ajax:
The last time I defragged it took me two days and two nights...I must say I've got a 20.2 gig HD and there's 19 gigs of data on it, still is this fairly normal?? (OK, this OT, I just want to know please)

-Ajax out

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when I defrag it takes me about 5+ hours with about 8.5 gigs used out of 10.2 gigs- depends on the last time I cleaned it up though
Zarthalas

Defragging is probably the best thing you can do for F4. Do it often -- at least once per day. Don't want to do that? Then get Norton Utilities and Optimize your disk once every week or so. I have a 20 gig HD and it takes me about an hour to optimize once per week.

Object density -- if you set this below 5 then you will loose some of the ground units. Take the DPRK AAA battalion for instance -- with OD turned down to 4, you will reduce the guns in the battalion by 1/2.
Check it for yourself -- set OD to 4, fly over a DPRK AAA battalion and record the flight on ACMI. Then go into the ACMI tape and count the number of guns in the battalion. There will be three of each type. Go back and do it again at a setting of 5 and it will show you six guns of each type.

There was a post on this forum (Alex I believe)that said that with the OD turned down and you have a battlion of 40 tanks, then only 20 of them will appear in the game. You kill these 20 and as soon as you do the other 20 (in reserve) will appear and take their place. If your OD was turned up you would get a chance to get all 40 to start with.