Supreme commander tips

Rob200sx · 21 Feb 2007 at 09:00

I haven't tried it yet but is Comm bombing still possible? (a nasty mean tactic from the days of TA

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VeNT · 21 Feb 2007 at 09:45

badgermonkey said:
Just assign a different set of units to that hotkey instead

thats not what I asked.

Caustic · 21 Feb 2007 at 09:46

-Tauren- said:
a quick question. my game is running fairly smooth i.e it scrolls across the screen without jumping etc, but whenever i see an enemy unit (even just ONE unit) it looks as though the unit is frame skipping, even though my screen is still scrolling smoothly. any answers available? cheers

Your CPU is probably overloaded. Zoom in on a mass extractor and see if the animation is smooth. If not, your CPU is maxxed out and having to take shortcuts to keep calculating the AI etc. Easiest solution is to slow the game down a notch or two, as that should fix it.

Caustic · 21 Feb 2007 at 09:47

Rob200sx said:
I haven't tried it yet but is Comm bombing still possible? (a nasty mean tactic from the days of TA )

Yup. Still works. As does picking the enemy commander up!

Mobius 1 · 21 Feb 2007 at 09:50

Caustic said:
Your CPU is probably overloaded. Zoom in on a mass extractor and see if the animation is smooth. If not, your CPU is maxxed out and having to take shortcuts to keep calculating the AI etc. Easiest solution is to slow the game down a notch or two, as that should fix it.

The mass extractor is running smooth, and making the appropriate noises even when im zoomed right into it. That is at normal game speed. :/ Mind you, i have a single core cpu. so i guess its time to upgrade.

Fx-Overlord · 21 Feb 2007 at 10:28

VeNT said:
is the only way to disband units to use eng/acu to reprocess them?

Don't select anything and CTRL + number the unit you want to disband

MoNkeE · 21 Feb 2007 at 10:52

-Tauren- said:
The mass extractor is running smooth, and making the appropriate noises even when im zoomed right into it. That is at normal game speed. :/ Mind you, i have a single core cpu. so i guess its time to upgrade.

Could just be a vertical synch issue

Turn it on in the Settings and see if that fixes it - but you'll probably get a frame-rate drop

-RaZ

MoNkeE · 21 Feb 2007 at 10:53

Fx-Overlord said:
Don't select anything and CTRL + number the unit you want to disband

I think he wants to know how to destroy/self destruct the unit instead of unassigning it's group. In Total Annihilation it was CTRL + D, but I think it's something like CTRL + SHIFT + DEL in this game...

-RaZ

Mobius 1 · 21 Feb 2007 at 10:58

MoNkeE said:
Could just be a vertical synch issue Turn it on in the Settings and see if that fixes it - but you'll probably get a frame-rate drop

-RaZ

tried that, no luck unfortunately..i guess there is some settings i could maybe change that will stop it happening. it doest really bother me but like some of their ships pop on screen one second then disapear the next kinda gets annoying as your torpedo launchers are shooting things i cant see, oh well.

MoNkeE · 21 Feb 2007 at 11:01

what video card/drivers are you using? Is it overclocked? Could just be artefacting or something like that

-RaZ

VeNT · 21 Feb 2007 at 11:04

MoNkeE said:
I think he wants to know how to destroy/self destruct the unit instead of unassigning it's group. In Total Annihilation it was CTRL + D, but I think it's something like CTRL + SHIFT + DEL in this game...

-RaZ

thats what it was
pesky unit cap!

Fx-Overlord · 21 Feb 2007 at 11:05

MoNkeE said:
I think he wants to know how to destroy/self destruct the unit instead of unassigning it's group. In Total Annihilation it was CTRL + D, but I think it's something like CTRL + SHIFT + DEL in this game...

-RaZ

Oh. CTRL + K then

I'm a keyboard whore

The_KiD · 21 Feb 2007 at 11:10

Stelly said:
There is a thread about that... more then likely the french trying to oppose there language on us... because they have had to accept english words in the french dictionary, that must hurt

Stelly

Do you not think we have lots of their words too in our dictionary?

VeNT · 21 Feb 2007 at 11:21

The_KiD said:
Do you not think we have lots of their words too in our dictionary?

yeah but we don't mind
English is a **** tbh.