C&C Generals question

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-03-09 12:13am

Well, I picked up C&C Generals a couple of days ago and only got around to playing it today. So, I happily booted up my super-powered gaming computer and installed it. So far, no problems. I start up the game, movie runs smoothly, then all of a sudden when the menu screen is brought up it just gets slower. Not by a terrible amount, but enough that it's noticeable. I moved the mouse around a bit, and it moved like a snail, and had the tendency to dissapear alot. So, I started up a skirmish, and when I get to the main battle screen, guess what? Instead of nice terrain I get a black ground. Empty space. By now the game is moving slower than hell, and the terrain is invisible.

All the structure and unit graphics are fine, but the terrain is still a sea of darkness. And it's still moving slow.
I checked the options menu, set the detail to low in hopes of speeding it up. No sucess. Background the same, still fucking slow. I now checked the memory, still found I had plenty left. I checked my drivers, found they were totally up to date. I disabled the auto-virus program (which it says to turn off before playing), and.......zip. Same damn thing. 3 reinstallations later, same thing. Dammit, I've had it up to my head in this computer. All my other games work just great, inculding Warcraft 3 and Master of Orion, both of which are graphic hogs. All the normal computer functions work perfectly, but no matter what I do, C&C is thw same.
What is wrong?

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-03-09 12:15am

Triple topiced. Well I guess you have an excuss with the arson and all.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-03-09 12:16am

I've never seen a quintuple post outside the test board.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-03-09 12:17am

Triple? No, no, no, look again: quintuple.

I think that has to be a record.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-03-09 12:17am

Go for the gold!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-09 12:18am

Don't tempt people to beat it please

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-03-09 12:18am

Return the thing...that or see if your Vid-card needs updating(really doubting the second one, and believeing you just got fucked up copy)

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-03-09 12:19am

DAMNED COMPUTER! DON"T YOU START!

Sorry about that folks, I've already contacted some of the mods and the duplicates should be gone shortly.
Oh well. A new record at least.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-09 12:20am

Already taken care of.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-03-09 12:22am

Dalton wrote:Already taken care of.

Yet again Dalton, you have saved me.

Thanks.

Strafe · Post by **Strafe** » 2003-03-09 12:35am

Well EA's motto is right I suppose..."Challenge Everything" including your computer...

C&C Generals is really a performance hog...it drains resources like no tomorrow...

As for why that's happening...I would think it to be an incompatible VidCard...but unless you are still using a 3dfx card I doubt that is the case...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-03-09 12:53am

What version of DirectX do you have?

I have an Athlon XP 1.53GHz, ATI Radeon 8500LE/128MB and 512MB RAM and it runs well at 800x600 with all eye-candy options set to max and 4X ansiotropic filtering enabled (anti-aliasing, OTOH, kills performance)

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-03-09 12:55am

I have 8.1, like it suggest.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-03-09 01:03am

Captain tycho wrote:I have 8.1, like it suggest.

Video card and driver revision?

I have Catalyst 3.1 and DirectX 9 installed.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-09 01:09am

I've got it running smoothly on two PC's:

1.4GHz Celeron with GeForce2 MX video card
1.7GHz Celeron with GeForce2 GTS video card

This isn't exactly bleeding-edge hardware, and the game runs just fine on mine. Have you tried the EA support forums?

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-03-09 01:18am

Running on a GF2MX? How well?