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Played the Supreme Commander 2 demo earlier this year (figuring I'd get SupCom 2 when Steam has it cheap enough), and so I finally got motivated to buy the original...
With which I have issues...
1) It won't even install on Win 7 Pro. Grrr...It's not like this is from some little micro developer. Back to XP.
2) My XP box just barely has enough horsepower, despite being an AMD 2800+ dual-core, with ATI X1600 graphics.
3) It aborted really badly on me yesterday, and I cannot recover. I was in the middle of the final episode (#6) for the UEF faction, did something that caused it to crash hard, and I cannot get it going again...not for lack of trying, but none of the saved games will get going, not even the tutorial behaves properly.
SupCom1 is an update to Total Annihilation, from years ago. One extra feature is that your army can be A LOT larger, I think 400 buildings and fighting units, which is great (considering that Starcraft limits you to 200, which gets to pinch a little sometimes), but this does mean that extra compute power is needed. So with this crash, something is now wrong in that it seems unable to handle more than six or eight units/bldgs. So game saves just barely even load, and won't run.
This crash was so bad that I went and looked at services to turn off, startup apps to remove, and ultimately had to uninstall the game.
Fortunately, I only paid $3 for the game, on Ebay...but still. That is absolutely the worst software crash I've experienced. Ouch.
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Hey there Hyde University Advanced Degree,
I'm Mary who writes Well-Rendered. You posted a really interesting comment yesterday which got lost in blogger's comment wobbly yesterday.
I was so disappointed that I screencapped the comment and wrote a special post on it.
I haven't really had time to read your blog properly, what's your degree in? Have you really been doing it since 2006?
Mary
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