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chrono
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Aug 2000
posted August 09, 2000 13:25   Click Here to See the Profile for chronoClick Here to Email chrono  send a private message to chrono
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Does CTP even work on a computer with an AMD or Celeron procesor?

Just curious because after looking through most of the help section, it looks like it doesn't! And thats a shame.

Chrono

Milkman
Chieftain
Oak Harbor, Washington, USA
May 2000
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Have a friend running it on a AMD 300. Not sure about celeron though.

Do seem to remember someone having problems running CTP and having to change their display color settings/size. I am running true color 24bit/1024x768 for win98, and 800x600 for CTP display.
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Greece
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i have run ctp on a k5-166, a k6-333 and an athlon-600(my family loves amd )) with no problems
Milkman
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May 2000
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MarkG

This is way off topic, but have u had problems running anything else with AMD chip? Its motherboard/processor upgrade time here and looking into using amd processor.

Dragonlord
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Richmond, VA USA
Jul 2000
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Well, i can tell you that running CTP with anything lower than 300 mhz celeron will be not playing at all. The game will run ok i suppose under 640 x 480 but the load/save times will be ridiculous.

I have a 350 PII myself and i complain all the time
I guess i have become dependant on my university's computers....

Of course, this will be no problem if you like to be the "iron man" heh.


arrrghhhh the 700 PIII ...

Maestro
Warlord
Belgium
May 2000
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Dragonlord, I can tell you that running CTP on an ancient Pentium 200 MMX on a resolution of 1024/768 works fine !
Flyercraft
Settler
St-Luc , Qc , Canada
Apr 2000
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I have a 500 celeron with 128MB Ram and working CTP at 1024/768 and it works pretty fine except when it comes to dealing with the space screen, seeing all those units and cities in space + clouds + all the things on the ground... When I come the that timeline, I usually change the graphics settings with animated goods or something like that. Oh I also have a P166 with 64MB Ram and CTP runs a little slow at 1024/768, I guess I'll take the resolution down a little before I get to space
Forster
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Columbus, GA
Oct 1999
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I have a P3 500 and it runs CTP with no problems. I couldn't even get it to load completely on a P2 233. No idea why, but even Activision said to give up.
Shadowstrike
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Jul 2000
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First day on Ctp, works fine so far. And my computer... *leans over* is definately a AMD.
Flyercraft
Settler
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Apr 2000
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Forster, how much Ram does your P2 233 have? I'm quite impressed that it doesn't work, wasn't CTP supposed to be able to play at a minumum of 233? (even if my 166 works)
Forster
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Oct 1999
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60 meg, 20g hd, but it was an Aptiva, and I think it may have had something to do with the video card. Oh, well.
I have a P1, 166, also an Aptiva with 32 meg and 12g hd, wouldn't load on that either.

I have found several games that wouldn't load on those machines. The graphics card was soundblaster compatible, but, like I said, wouldn't even install completely.

TheLimey
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May 2000
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I've got it running on a couple of overclocked systems (a K6-2 and a Celeron,) both with 64MB initially, although now 256 and 384 respectively. I don't think that its necessarily the processor... maybe some odd motherboard problem?
Forster
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Oct 1999
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Well, like I said, I have the P3 and it screams, and I can now play all those games that wouldn't install or play on the other machines.

Happiness is!

DrDanger
Settler
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Oct 1999
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quote:

Originally posted by Dragonlord on 08-09-2000 09:51 PM
Well, i can tell you that running CTP with anything lower than 300 mhz celeron will be not playing at all. The game will run ok i suppose under 640 x 480 but the load/save times will be ridiculous.

I have a 350 PII myself and i complain all the time

I guess i have become dependant on my university's computers....

Of course, this will be no problem if you like to be the "iron man" heh.


arrrghhhh the 700 PIII ...

My wife's Cpu (my old one)..is a Pentium 2 300 MHZ 64 ram..CTP..works great..My new CPU is an Athlon 700 256 RAM..works fine..

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