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[Pendaelose]

ok two things one i dont know how to take a screen shot and two i guess i am building alot of units like 20-30 walkers for the robot gen or 30 or so tanks for the tank gen and esily maybe 200 infitry for the infatry gen one more thing whenever i give a bunch of move orders in quick sushenshion i get a suirish error meshige and thanks for all your help

oh and in the beging of the game it is fine but the longer I play the worse it gets until I have to quit the game because the none of my ground units can get anywhere it is really anoying

It sounds like your running out of memory, but that's just a guess. If you are running out of memory theres no telling what errors you can get before it crashes. When it comes to performance and memory use the difference between the mod and original ZH is how many units you can field and how many the AI will make. Remix does involve much larger armies and as a result does have much higher system requirements than the original game. If this is what's getting your system then I'm afraid you may just be out of luck. It works great on most systems and I can't gut the game to extend it to the minority who have issues.

200 infantry can cause problems though. If you had built 200 units in the classic ZH the game would crash every time. It doesn't matter if they're little or big units, that's still 200 path finding AIs trying to move around each other at the same time. worth note, in the next release it will be much harder to make 200 infantry.

I'm not sure what to tell you about 20-30 units getting stuck on each other and not moving. I've got game play videos with armies that size doing just fine.

http://www.moddb.com...calation/videos

Yea no1 explain problems . I dunno but i have no lag/engine/error/gameplay problems at all and i am playing on fullHD resolution on max details with Disabled Dynamic Level of Detail.

That's good to hear, and it backs my point above that the mod works fine if you have the system to support it. Mine also runs just fine with max settings and 1920x1050. I also play in windowed mode so I can use my tools while I test. On my second monitor I usually have all my tools running, including GMAX.

[Pendaelose]

hi what are the optimal systems requirements like RAM ext

I honestly don't know. To figure those numbers out requires tools I don't have. I can say that your system should be a proper "gaming" system. A standard laptop for business use will have a very hard time running it.

Another way to look at it, what other games can this system play without any problem? Can you play borderlands? That's low end Gaming requirements.... Or can you play Crysis? high end.

[Pendaelose]

Hi Pend, how canI run the game with 1920x1050 resolution or HD mode? I don't have those options in ZH.. All 4:3 resolutions only, not 16:9

There are a couple ways, but the easiest is to edit your shortcut. If you add "-xres 1920 -yres 1080" you game will use that resolution. You can add "-win" to make the game play in a window. My target line looks like this"

E:\Games\Generals\ZeroHour\Generals.exe -win -xres 1910 -yres 1040

This gives me a windowed game that fills my screen *almost* to the edges. I use two monitors, so this lets me web chat or use team speak etc, just by moving the mouse to the second screen and I don't even have to stop playing.

Keep in mind, if you are playing in full screen mode you must choose an XY resolution that is compatible with your screen or the game will crash on startup. If your install path has quotes around it, the arguments should be outside the quotes.

[MasterZH]

Or you can use Big-editor (for example Final Big Editor 0.36 Utility) and edit !Remix_INI.Big for remix or INIZH.big for ZH there you will find (in big file structure..) DATA\ini\gamedata.ini there you have
XResolution = 1920
YResolution = 1080
DrawEntireTerrain no/yes if enabled draw entire map>slow down pc(less fps) but if you use different camera height for example 700+ it remove black/not rendered textures terrain...
CameraHeight = 500.0 set default camera height
MaxCameraHeight = 500.0 700+ or so you need to enable drawentireterrain to work
MinCameraHeight = 10.0
CameraAdjustSpeed = 0.9
etc.
Dont change resolution in game menu it will reset resolution in big file and game.

[Pendaelose]

Or you can use Big-editor (for example Final Big Editor 0.36 Utility) and edit !Remix_INI.Big

even easier, you can edit that same info in the settings INI in your my documents folder, but I still think the shortcut is the easiest and most reliable way. It also doesn't care if you play with the resolution in the options, it will still go back to your preference.

[Pendaelose]

hi as soon as you build the super wepons gens ICBM your units (expt air) can no longer move at all it really ruins the super wepons gen

wow... I have never ever EVER heard of this bug. Silly question, are you sure it wasn't something else that caused that? Because there is no upgrade coming from the ICBM that effects the way units move, and I play with SupW general often.

did you maybe put so many defenses that units couldn't move out of your base anymore?? That's more believable, because I'm serious when I say theres nothing that connects the ICBM to unit movement. that's like saying you couldn't walk anymore because you cut your hair this morning.

[Pendaelose]

Hi Pend, sorry for my good english

first - Remix 3 - Best mod for CnC, what i see, great work!
but second....
It's to much lag and slow games in single or multiplayer.
Game work to slow in low or high graphic mode, i think is AI-problem, what can i do?

My system is 3.0Gh Dual Core, GF8800 512mb and 2gb RAM
Contra and Crysis works good on hight, Remix work bad on low...
And... when you release new version with some AI? It's realy meat

It is the AI. Tank general causes the worst lag by far, Demo creates almost none. I figured out what was causing it and will be working hard to avoid it in future releases.

am.. not for this topic but, how (go round or by pass) limit on 120 (128?) upgrades in code please....

And Merry Christmas All!

There is no true "by pass" but there is a trick. If you absolutely cannot make 128 upgrades fit the bill you can re-use upgrades on other generals. Now you have 128 possible upgrades for EACH general.

There are 2 catches. First, the upgrade cameos and text labels become meaningless. Second, you must make any structure capable of buying upgrades immune to capture.

There is a partial work around for both of these. You can create "Upgrade_Objects" that have a build limit 1 and grant the upgrade as soon as they are created. They have no art code, and use an immortalbody type. They are very similar to the code for a spy satellite, but they grant the upgrade, and never die. This has an added bonus because you can now use "Prerequisites" on the upgrade and they will correctly display when you mouse over it. A normal upgrade in ZeroHour could only be linked to a science, and would never tell you what science.

[MasterZH]

Please can you explain what is causing those lags?
What time is most possible to catch you on hamachi?

[phenom1989]

Please can you explain what is causing those lags?
What time is most possible to catch you on hamachi?

i got no lagg here, maybe 1-2 times but then not more

maybe your pc is to slow? give some specs here!

Edited by phenom1989, 02 January 2011 - 11:58 PM.

[MasterZH]

Please can you explain what is causing those lags?
What time is most possible to catch you on hamachi?

i got now lagg here, maybe 1-2 times but then not more

maybe your pc is to slow? give some specs here!

Lol i have no lags asus directCU 460gtx 1Gb i5-750(quad core) (2,66-3,2ghz with turbo boost and up to 4ghz) 4gb ddr3 1666mhz) playing full HD on 24led lcd ;P
Just want to know what cause those lags...