PLS HELP my generals take about 5 minutes to load up

[Sammy 0]

I just installed a fx5700 256mb ddr agp video card

My System Has 1054mb of ddr pc2700 and i have 1800 xp athlon cpu

it takes forever to load both games, the games kinda gets stuck on EA GAME screen then slowly keeps going then after 5 minutes or so the game comes up then the game runs fine........... Any sugestion?

[Sonic 296]

Install the latest nVidia ForceWare drivers for your FX5700.

 

If that doesn't help you can stop the EA Game logo from displaying at start up by following this guide http://www.cncnz.com/features/tech/gen_spe..._loadtime.shtml

[s]-[arp 0]

a custom low detail shell theme helps a lot on my system too. I think you can download them of CNCden, tho im not sure. YOur best bet is to search on google for "Earth of War zero hour shell map" and download it. Even on my AXP 2000 with a Geforce 5200 and 512 DDR ram, ZH runs smooth, minimises fast on all the settings maxed (on 1024 res with no AA)

 

hope it helps!

[Sammy 0]

How do i do this for ZERO HOUR i still get the slow ea games bubble?

[Sonic 296]

Just repeat the process but substitue Program FilesEA GamesCommand & Conquer Generals Zero Hour for Program FilesEA GamesCommand & Conquer Generals.

 

Generals and Zero Hour are installed in seperate folders on your hard drive.