C&C Generals running at very slow speeds

[Guest GreekSimo]

Hi... I recently bought Generals, only to return it the same day. The gameplay was soooooooo slow! I was waiting forever for units to move from one area to the next. I do not know the exact cause of it, as I played it on a fairly new and updated computer (512Mb Ram, 2.6GHz Intel Pentium IV). I noticed that the Ram was only 226MHz though, so I am thinking it wasnt fast enough to handle such a ram demanding game.

 

Has anyone else ever had this problem? Or is it just me. Cause I was really looking forward to playing it It actually got me really depressed, but I bought DragonBall Z Movies instead hehe anyway, if someone can tell me whether it is the game, or if its the computer, cause when I upgrade my own computer I have (which is 2 years old now, Celeron Processor and 128Mb Ram) I do wish to buy it again and hopefully it will be fine!

[chickendippers 1]

Well what's your video card? that's just as important as your processor and RAM.

Did you try turning the graphics details down?

 

Before we got a new computer, I had Generals running acceptably on a 700Mhz computer with 256Mb SD RAM and 64MB Video Card.

[Sonic 295]

Yeah whats your video card?

You may have the same problem that someone posted about in this thread http://forums.cncnz.com/viewtopic.php?t=1595

 

Have a read through that thread.

[Guest GreekSimo]

Ok I found my chipset to be this:

 

VIA VT82C694X Apollo Pro133A

 

It has a 64Mb AGP apeture size, whatever the hell that is hehehe...

 

So if I upgrade my computer using this chipset, would it be sufficient? Or should I update that too?

 

My sister's computer, which the game was lagging on, has an Intel chipset, like the other guy had in the other post. So maybe intel suck at that???

[Hans5849 0]

intel make some of the best chipsets for their processors, and from my readings here something is wrong the VIA chipset you listed is for a pentium 3.

 

go here and d/l that program, when you get in to it do this

 

Motherboard-

-Motherboard

 

-Chipset

 

Display-

-Windows Video

 

coppy the information given in those catagories (you can just right click and it will coppy all the info for you) and post it here.

[Guest GreekSimo]

Here is all the information you requested! Would I need to change this to play C&C Generals?

 

 

Motherboard Properties

Motherboard ID 62-1001-001199-00101111-071595-V694V686$GA6940066VXC7-4X / 6VXC7-4X-P F9

Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X(-P)

 

Front Side Bus Properties

Bus Type Intel GTL+

Bus Width 64-bit

Real Clock 67 MHz

Effective Clock 67 MHz

Bandwidth 533 MB/s

 

Memory Bus Properties

Bus Type SDR SDRAM

Bus Width 64-bit

Real Clock 100 MHz

Effective Clock 100 MHz

Bandwidth 800 MB/s

 

Chipset Bus Properties

Bus Type PCI

Bus Width 32-bit

Real Clock 33 MHz

Effective Clock 33 MHz

Bandwidth 133 MB/s

 

Motherboard Physical Info

CPU Sockets/Slots 1

Expansion Slots 1 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 AMR

RAM Slots 3 DIMM

Form Factor ATX

Motherboard Size 180 mm x 300 mm

Motherboard Chipset ApolloPro133A

 

Motherboard Manufacturer

Company Name Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

Product Information http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Produc...roduct_List.htm

BIOS Download http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Suppor...S/BIOS_List.htm

 

 

 

Chipset Properties

Motherboard Chipset VIA VT82C694X Apollo Pro133A

 

Memory Slots

DRAM Slot #1 128 MB (PC133 SDRAM)

 

AGP Properties

AGP Version 2.00

AGP Status Enabled

AGP Aperture Size 64 MB

Supported AGP Speeds 1x, 2x

Current AGP Speed 2x

Fast-Write Not Supported

Side Band Addressing Supported, Disabled

 

Chipset Manufacturer

Company Name VIA Technologies, Inc.

Product Information http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/chipsetindex.jsp

Driver Download http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2

 

Problems & Suggestions

Problem AGP aperture size is more than half of the system memory size. This may cause performance penalty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video Adapter Properties

Device Description NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64

Adapter String RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro

BIOS String Version 2.05.17.03.00

Chip Type RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro

DAC Type Integrated RAMDAC

Installed Drivers nv4_disp (6.14.10.4523 - nVIDIA Detonator 45.23)

Memory Size 32 MB

 

Video Adapter Manufacturer

Company Name NVIDIA Corporation

Product Information http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=products

Driver Download http://www.nvidia.com/drivers

[Sonic 295]

The problem is your NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 video card. Its just not good enough for Generals sorry. Its also on the un-supported list of cards that Generals doesn't support.

Known Video Card Issues

For optimum video performance, we highly recommend that you run Command & Conquer Generals with an AGP video card. PCI video cards are generally much slower than AGP cards, and you may experience abnormally slow performance and poor graphics with a PCI-based graphics card. Additionally, the video cards listed below are below our minimum supported specs.

 

- 3dfx chipsets

- Nvidia TNT2

- ATI Radeon Mobility

- ATI Radeon 7200

- ATI Rage 128

- ATI IIC AGP

- S3 ProSavage

- S3 Graphics Twister

- SiS650 Integrated VGA chipsets

- Trident Blade 3D

- Vivid XS

- VIA Tech graphics controllers

- Quadro4

- Leadtek Winfast GeForce 2 GTA

- SiS Xabre

- Gainward Xabre

- Intel Extreme Graphics2 82865/G

Looks like you will need upgrade to a faster card.

[Guest GreekSimo]

fudge and a half! Damn.... well can anyone recommend a good quality video card then?

[Gazdude 0]

Well you could buy one the same as mine.. GeForce FX 6800GT 256mb

[osey 2003 0]

Thats if he is willing to pay the money, i think those cards sell for around £270.00

[chickendippers 1]

There's no point in splashing out for a 256Mb card, the 128Mb counterpart is just as good and half the price!

[Gazdude 0]

Thats if he is willing to pay the money, i think those cards sell for around £270.00

 

Cost me £307 :S

[GeneralZ 0]

a 128 video can be found forr $100. I use ATI Radeon 9600