Timbo0024

my game discs are clean and i can play red alert 3 and kanes wrath without any problems. and so does star craft 2 (which sucks compared to command and conquer) im pretty sure i dont have any viruses my scans came up clean and since i have two computers i do all of my downloading on my old one and check it out before transferring data to my newer one.

hi everyone i need some help. i bought generals and zero hour for like $5 on amazon and had them installed on my old computer and they ran perfectly. i just installed them on my new computer and like everyone else i have problems. my computer has windows 7, 8g of ram, i5 processor, and two graphics cards for switchable graphics it has an intel hd graphics card that it supposed to switch to for power saving and then it has an ATI mobility radeon hd 5650 (which is what i use most of the time) after doing the options.ini file thing i got both games working. without patching generals i put in zero hour and patched it with the 1.04 patch. when i started up the game everything ran smoothly until i started a skirmish. as soon as the map loads my game starts lagging without me moving anything so i let it sit for a second and the lag stopped until i moved my first dozer to build a power plant. seeing that this was going to be a problem i backed out of the game to the main menu which now also lagged went to the options menu and changed eveything i could and nothing helped. i also switched between both graphics cards and got the same problem so i exited zero hour and patched generals to see if that would help which it didnt generals lags just as much as zero hour. i looked online and saw the the zero hour 1.04 patch causes alot of lag so i uninstalled both games deleted all the files left over and reinstalled so i could start with fresh versions of both games but my problem still continues. so after more searching i saw a comment on another site with some who also had a lag issue and said that EA told them to delete the data file and repair the game with the uninstall options. after doing that it got so that the main menu no longer lags but the game still does when i try to play. so basically when trying to play single player the game lags for about a second ever other second, making it pretty impossible to play. also while the game is frozen i can still move my mouse cursor around unless im trying to place a building somewhere. also i dont know if this is related but a couple times as the game would lag every 2 seconds i could hear my fan spin up and slow down every 2 second with it, but this has only happend once or twice . most of the time the fan stays normal. any help would be greatly appreciated