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4gotten1 posted 02-26-99 04:37 AM ET
... as it says on the back of the box, so I'll buy it.
Is it just the another phrase for "Turn-based strategy"?

Borodino posted 02-26-99 06:04 AM ET
I've had absolutely no problems with SMAC at all on my Compaq Presario 1655 with a Pentium II. I had downloaded the patch before I bought the game and patched it immediately. As far as I know, though, the patch had nothing to do with hardware incompatibilities.
Scrubby posted 02-26-99 08:15 AM ET
Hey I got the game, what, two weeks ago and I've been so engrossed that I haven't yet installed on my desktop. I think Firaxis is guilty of a little fibbing here. Their "laptop optimizations" were kind of laughable but to their credit they did think about it. Do not do a laptop install! Perform a full install and things will be fine... also set the ds3d and eax settings in alphacentauri.ini to 0; this seemed to help the sound stuttering on my laptop (which by the way is a Pentium MMX 233 32M RAM). Good luck.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-26-99 10:24 AM ET
Another point. The game was completely developed on laptops, Toshibas and IBMs.
jkm
firaxis games
Scrubby posted 02-26-99 10:31 AM ET
No way!
Utrecht posted 02-26-99 11:05 AM ET
The only problem that I have experienced running this on my Toshiba 4010 is the need to navigate with the keypad enabled. This ends up elimiateing all of the keys from U on.
One thing that would elimiate this would to be to Left-Mouse Click on a tile and have the item move there. As I see it now, I have to enable the keypad (annoying) or Right MC and select move unit here (annoying)
Now there might be a setting that I am missing, but I have not found it.
Other than that. Works great. especially getting a couple of turns in on the plane.
Futzy posted 02-26-99 06:08 PM ET
I'll add that my wife and I play MP between our desktop and laptop, and it works great. Although the one thing I've noticed is how much better it looks in 10x7 mode as opposed to 8x6 (although kudos to Firaxis for giving people the option).
Wen_Amon posted 02-26-99 06:24 PM ET
I only play on my notebook cause my pc only has a 1mg video card.
I love it.
It kicks ass.
It really does.
Im serious.
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Author	Topic: Please convince me how is SMAC "Laptop-friendly"
4gotten1	posted 02-26-99 04:37 AM ET ... as it says on the back of the box, so I'll buy it. Is it just the another phrase for "Turn-based strategy"?
Borodino	posted 02-26-99 06:04 AM ET I've had absolutely no problems with SMAC at all on my Compaq Presario 1655 with a Pentium II. I had downloaded the patch before I bought the game and patched it immediately. As far as I know, though, the patch had nothing to do with hardware incompatibilities.
Scrubby	posted 02-26-99 08:15 AM ET Hey I got the game, what, two weeks ago and I've been so engrossed that I haven't yet installed on my desktop. I think Firaxis is guilty of a little fibbing here. Their "laptop optimizations" were kind of laughable but to their credit they did think about it. Do not do a laptop install! Perform a full install and things will be fine... also set the ds3d and eax settings in alphacentauri.ini to 0; this seemed to help the sound stuttering on my laptop (which by the way is a Pentium MMX 233 32M RAM). Good luck.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-26-99 10:24 AM ET Another point. The game was completely developed on laptops, Toshibas and IBMs. jkm firaxis games
Scrubby	posted 02-26-99 10:31 AM ET No way!
Utrecht	posted 02-26-99 11:05 AM ET The only problem that I have experienced running this on my Toshiba 4010 is the need to navigate with the keypad enabled. This ends up elimiateing all of the keys from U on. One thing that would elimiate this would to be to Left-Mouse Click on a tile and have the item move there. As I see it now, I have to enable the keypad (annoying) or Right MC and select move unit here (annoying) Now there might be a setting that I am missing, but I have not found it. Other than that. Works great. especially getting a couple of turns in on the plane.
Futzy	posted 02-26-99 06:08 PM ET I'll add that my wife and I play MP between our desktop and laptop, and it works great. Although the one thing I've noticed is how much better it looks in 10x7 mode as opposed to 8x6 (although kudos to Firaxis for giving people the option).
Wen_Amon	posted 02-26-99 06:24 PM ET I only play on my notebook cause my pc only has a 1mg video card. I love it. It kicks ass. It really does. Im serious.