The PACOPS modification for Command Operations Battles from the Bulge has been discontinued. The reason for this is twofold: 1) I simply lost interest in the project as a whole, and 2) when that interest returned I found out that I could no longer play the game to a suitable extent.
There is an issue with CO and AMD video cards which results in a menu scaling issue where the text overruns the game screens. This was not an issue for two years until one day it started on my Windows 7 machine. Two posts in the forums (one at Matrix, the other at Lock and Load) yielded zero assistance.
I then rebuilt my Windows XP gaming rig and the game ran flawlessly on an NVidia card until I upgraded to Windows XP SP 3. Now the game cannot install the Battles from the Bulge expansion pack, and when attempting to reinstall the base game that as well now fails.
So my overall options are to 1) buy an NVidia card for my current gaming rig, or 2) reinstall Windows XP SP2 on my other rig and see where that gets me (the more likely option).
In either case at this time I am heavily involved in another game, so it will be some time before I return to this series. Given that the developer has moved to another publisher and released a newer version of the same game, there is no ongoing support for CO1 so therefore my project is discontinued at this time.
I would personally like to thank Jim Carravallah for his outstanding mapmaking contributions, as well as Miquel Ramirez for his technical input and expertise. Both have contributed greatly to this project and should be duly recognized for their efforts.
Thanks everyone – Ranger, out.
