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ORIGINAL: Jason Petho

Next year I'll have to buy a new PC for home.

What kind of specs would you recommend to run these monster scenarios?

If I can dip in for a moment, not sure what your taste is but I'd buy a tower, over a laptop ( if thats obvious I apologize;). I have a 2004 assembled box, P4 Extreme ed. 3.4 gb. 32 Ram with an old school AGP radeon 1gb grah. card, I can still play everything,Far cry 4 for example, full out. No lag, no jag as they say.

Point is I guess, like buying a car, you get one shot for all the options,more $, yes, but you wont be sorry later when you wish you had it and frankly, it will last, imho, gaming engines/graphics are at something of a standstill re: greater demand as Moores law has hit sorta of a wall re; brute cpu power,hence multiple cores, and theres just so much 'incremental' imaging one will pay for I think.

( oh and I don't play CSME on my tower because it makes an infernal racquet, I play these type of games on my laptop lol).

This is my current rig, but she's 10 years old.

My C Drive is a Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB

I have a few other normal drives for storage and backups.

Graphics was upgraded a few years ago and is currently handled by a GTX 980 Ti.

I prefer desktop over laptop.

I have both for when I travel though.

ORIGINAL: Jason Petho

I prefer desktop over laptop.

I have both for when I travel though.

By now, I have run through several turns of your save game file. No crashes or other signs of abnormality. (This is on the slow virtual machine.)

Earlier, although I did experience a crash on another (actual, physical) Win10 system, happening after a tripfire, I was unable to replicate it.

I don't doubt that under some circumstances, with newly modded scenarios, potential crash bugs might lurk. These might relate more to data errors than speculated coding errors.

But I will also report that, prior to release, I/we auto-tested (AI vs. AI) every single one of the nearly 200 CSME 2.0* scenarios, multiple times. In the end, at the point of release, none of the standard, "official" scenarios was observed to be crashing.

If this episode were soon after release last year, if this were one of the "official" scenarios, I would continue to pursue this more diligently.

But given how difficult it is to reach that far back into the past; given how (unnecessarily) huge the map is for this modded scenario of yours -- I am going to drop this investigation. Just one of those things. <shrug>

I understand and appreciate the effort you put into this. My Thx.[:)]

Guess it's time for me to upgrade as well; at least quad-core CPU @3.5ghz, a decent vid card and 16gb ram should do the trick, eh? My desktop still got only a dual-core @3.07ghz cpu and 4gb ram. Notebook is quad-core @1.8ghz cpu amd and 12gb ram.

Klink, Oberst

I'd agree with what Berto wrote there: 16GB of RAM, SSD disk (with additional HDD capacity as needed), and a decent CPU. Graphics processor is less important for these old style games, alhtough more important if you like your first / third person shooters, or flight simulators etc, as well.

I like 32GB of RAM. Something like GalCiv3 on a very large map can take up 24GB of RAM. SSDs are good for games you play a lot as they reduce load time significantly. With a 250GB SSD, putting Windows and a few games and essential programs on it doesn't leave much room. I'd probably do 500GB or 1TB nowadays for the SSD. I have 4TB in two regular hard drives, which should last me quite a while. If I somehow run out I'll use external drives.

Cheers,
CB