RTS with the best online community?

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Kreeeee

Kreeeee

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OK, I'm branching out from StarCraft here and am looking for an RTS with a great community and a very good 2v2/3v3 style of play for when I want a more casual experience.

I've played a few RTS games but never given any a long go online bar starcraft so feel free to suggest any RTS game and I'll give the most popular recommendation a good go online.

PC specs:

E6600 @3.65Ghz but usually run at 3.4 to keep it under 45 degrees.
XFX 8600GT XXX (mildly overclocked by default)
6GB RAM
Vista business 64bit

Cheers ladies.
 
"ladies" :p

Anyhow, I can't really give much insight but i'm pretty interested in what people have to say about the subject too. I get the impression that the community for DoW is pretty decent but I'd rate that as 'casual play only' really.
 
I'm happy for a change of pace and style, in fact it's what I'm after.

Whats the supcom community liek and if my graphics card ok for it?

My screens are:

18"
1280*1024
NVidia 6200 PCI card

20"
1680*1050
XFX 8600GT XXX
 
But aside from zoom in and zoom out, what are Sup Com's strengths as an RTS?

1st: No

2nd: Yes, at low-mid settings.

Assume you're dual-core?
 
Aekeron said:
But aside from zoom in and zoom out, what are Sup Com's strengths as an RTS?

1st: No

2nd: Yes, at low-mid settings.

Assume you're dual-core?
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They're both on the same PC, running dual monitors and was wondering if the 6200 was powerful enough to run a second screen in sup com.

From the OP:

Kreeeee said:
PC specs:

E6600 @3.65Ghz but usually run at 3.4 to keep it under 45 degrees.
XFX 8600GT XXX (mildly overclocked by default)
6GB RAM
Vista business 64bit

Cheers ladies.
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Oops. I blame the hideous workload I had until just earlier :)

I think I ran SupCom on a 7800GTX with dual 21" CRT monitors at one point..but I may have upgraded to my 8800GTS640 by that point...
 
I'm running supcom with an x1950pro on med settings over a 1680x1050 and 1280x1024 res monitors on medium settings. It does crawl when dozens of units are on screen attacking, but at that point it's better to zoom out a bit and let the LoD lower and make it run smoother.

If the 6200 will run the second screen is only a slight possibility, maybe only if it is zoomed out completly at all times not letting it render any models or hi res textures.... it'll just be a big mini map then, but that is how i use my second monitor and i don't think i even look at it often.
 
On my second monitor I always have it completely zoomed out which ofc allows for higher fps.

Main strengths I would say are:
1.Massive scale battles across land, water and air.
2.Good online community.
3.Very few hacks/cheats are out for it.
4.An excellent expansion providing players with a whole new race and multiple new units for each previous race.
5.Gonna have to mention this again.....MASSIVE battles. 8 players = possible 8000 units on the map :p
 
You can, but I would suggest having atleast 4GB ram and a dual core at 3.6ghz and a large cache :p

Saying that, the game always run as slow as the slowest pc is running. So even if you have an awesome pc, some1 who runs a celery 1.5 will bring your game down to scraps :(
 
So Kreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee would be okay but my paltry 3.2 e64200 (4 mb cache) would struggle. Ah well :)

edit: Odd that it automatically puts a space in..I guess it reduces formatting breakage.
 
Nay wouldnt say that. I ran a 6300 at 3.4 with 2gb PC6400 ram and an x1950Pro with 8k units :) Just gotta make sure you keep the ai count down a bit as that munches cpu power.
 
theo said:
If the 6200 will run the second screen is only a slight possibility, maybe only if it is zoomed out completly at all times not letting it render any models or hi res textures.... it'll just be a big mini map then, but that is how i use my second monitor and i don't think i even look at it often.
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That's how I'd use it. I could also rejig my setup so the 18" is run from the 8600 as well.

Why would you use AI in an online RTS game?
 
Kreeeee said:
That's how I'd use it. I could also rejig my setup so the 18" is run from the 8600 as well.

Why would you use AI in an online RTS game?
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No true, you wouldnt. But if you wanted to have a skirmish game to get used to the concepts of it, then it may lag if you chose to have an all out WWWWWWAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!
 
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