Company of Heroes™: Opposing Fronts™

- What happens to my original copy of Company of Heroes when I install Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts?

Opposing Fronts will uninstall and remove original CoH from the computer and replace it with updated content. Opposing Fronts is essentially two games in one.

Upon launching the game, users will be required to log in with their Relic Online account before proceeding to the main menu. This allows the user to play without ever needing to have the disk in their DVD drive. If a connection to Relic Online cannot be had, then the user will need to have their disk in the DVD drive in order for the game to validate the authenticity of the media.

Additionally, users will need to insert their Opposing Fronts disks one time when creating a new Relic Online account with their Opposing Fronts CD-Key.

Current Company of Heroes users can log in to Opposing Fronts with their existing Relic Online account and Add Product either through account management or by clicking one of the locked single player campaigns. This allows you to apply your Opposing Fronts key to your existing account. You will need to insert their Opposing Fronts disk one time when doing this.

Players can Add Product even if no connection to Relic Online is present. You will need to validate with your disk and the regular rules about needing the disk in while playing occurs.

- If I install Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, can I still play with people who only have Company of Heroes?

Players on original CoH will be able to play with Opposing Fronts players as long as their version numbers are the same. As of release day, the version number for all products will be 2.101 once they download the first patch from Relic Online.

- What are the minimum/recommended system requirements?

MINIMUM

Windows® XP or Vista
2.0 Ghz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent or AMD Athlon XP or equivalent
Windows XP – 512 MB RAM with dedicated memory video cards (1GB RAM required for shared memory video cards)
Windows Vista – 1GB RAM
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB video card with Pixel Shader 1.1 support or equivalent and latest manufacturer drivers (see supported chipsets below)
DirectX® 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card
DVD-ROM drive
Keyboard, Mouse
10 GB of uncompressed free hard drive space (We recommend having 1 gigabyte of of free space after installation)

RECOMMENDED

Direct3D 9:
3.0 Ghz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent
1 GB RAM
512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series or better

Direct3D 10:
3.0 Ghz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent
2 GB RAM
640 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 series or better

REQUIRED FOR MULTIPLAYER:

1 set of discs per computer
For 6-8 player multiplayer or skirmish matches, the Recommended System Requirements are strongly suggested
Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers. LAN play requires network interface card and latest drivers.

- Important hotfix for DirectX10/Vista users

Microsoft Vista Hotfix

Microsoft has made a very important Windows Vista hotfix available for download: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105 "Virtual address space usage in Windows game development"

This Vista hotfix is recommended for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series customers running DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 applications.

This hotfix resolves abnormal application behavior such as crashes and extremely low frame rates when running some 3D applications at very high graphics settings.

Go to this link to obtain the hotfix: http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html