Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

[MarcVenice]

Topic Summary pretty much sums it up hehe. I'm running a x2 3800+ @ 2.6ghz, a 8800gts 320mb, and 2gb of ram. In the single player campaign it gets really bad at times, but even in the beginning the performance is nowhere near where it should be. When I've got 500 units moving around, I can imagine things get choppy, with the units from the enemy combined.

But in the beginning it's not much better, with only very little units, and the map is still quite small. Thing is, my first core seems to get maxed out, where my second one doesn't, more like 60-80%? I'm pretty sure I'm CPU bound though, because my 8800gts BARELY heats up, in games like NFS: Pro Street or Crysis I can easily get it up to 75-80c, but in SC: Forged alliance it just sits there around 65-70c, which is almost at IDLE temps. This leaves me to believe my GPU isn't doing much, if anything at all

I'm running in Vista btw, and well, nothing else I can really think of. Bumping down the resolution and some graphic settings didn't do me much good at all. Is the only fix to get a C2D and overclock it past 3ghz, or am I missing something ? I considera x2 @ 2.6ghz still pretty fast by nowadays standards, but it gets KILLED in SC

 

[Acanthus]

I would say you are likely cpu bound.

Disabling shadows and AA entirely are the only things i have to do on my PC and i have the same graphics card and vista.

I dont think youre running into ram issues unless you have a lot of crap running in the background. Supcom likes a lot of memory, but you specifically said youre not playing on large maps.

Even Core 2 Duos can get maxed out in Supcom in the right situations. The load balancing isnt fantastic so youll see one core maxed and the other not quite maxed, or in the case of quad core itll bring one core to full load and the others to 10-40%.

 

[MarcVenice]

I checked ram usage, and it was hovering around 1.5-1.6gb. I turned fidelity down to low, and it runs a smoother, but now I'm not happy with the graphics. Back when I had a single core athlon 64 I didn't mind the bad performance. Now with a dualcore I kind of hoped it would be better ...