Supreme Commander / Total Annihilation

[Kozmos]

Hmmm... but my single CPU is good. My dad has a computer which is superior to mine, but the CPU is as powerful as mine. That's just one of them though. He has 4 CPUs running at the same time on his computer.

My CPU also runs like it's two CPUs

Do you know what utter nonsense you just wrote? I am probably meant to reply earlier to this, but the deep /facepalm I made probably made me suppress this memory.

 

[Stylesrj]

Do you know what utter nonsense you just wrote? I am probably meant to reply earlier to this, but the deep /facepalm I made probably made me suppress this memory.

Yeah, what I'm trying to say is that my dad's computer has 4 CPUs and they're all the same power. They cannot work together as one, so while it can run 4 high-end processes at the same time, it cannot run anything higher than one of the CPUs

My computer has only 1 CPU, but it is divided into two sections or something. I'm not a computer whiz, so please go easy on my nonsense and ignorance of computers.

Can you explain to me why Supreme Commander will not work on my computer?

 

[Kozmos]

Okay your dad probably has a Quad Core processor but not many programs take advantage of it. It can devote all of it's cores to one program provided it is designed to do so. Newer games are almost certain to take advantage of multi-core processors.

You probably have a Dual core processor which SC should use and run smoothly. I have no idea why it isnt working. Try the technical support website of THQ or Gas Powered Games.

 

[Stylesrj]

Perhaps I need to get more memory, is 1 gigabite enough memory? I'm thinking of getting to 2 gigabites.
Or it could be a video card issue, I dunno

 

[BasketCase]

I'm thinking that rig you're using simply can't handle SC.

Your description of the quad-core setup sounded really odd, and SC is a game that can bring any computer currently existing to its knees. And I'm not just talking about the graphics, either--the graphics in SC will make any computer cry for mercy if you turn the effects and detail up enough, but SC also needs a ton of number-crunching power because it individually tracks every projectile in the game--every bomb, every missile, every laser beam, every high-speed bullet fired by a gunship's multibarrel chain cannon. You've seen those videos of EUF gunships strafing a base or an enemy force? Every one of those bullets gets its own tracking to see what it hits.

 

[Stylesrj]

The computer I use only has a dual core CPU

My dad's computer has 4 CPUs. It isn't a quad core setup of one CPU. It actually has 4 CPUs in it

 

[Kozmos]

I dont think his rig is the problem. It's better then mine and I run fairly smoothly until thousands of units come to play.

 

[Stylesrj]

I tihnk my dad's computer can easily support SC hands-down. But mine, I'm not so sure. Let's not discuss his problems, let's discuss mine. My ad and his friends tell me that it's a video card problem.

I can't even run a demo of SC without a system reboot. Sims 2 is a bit sluggish, but I think more memory will solve that kind of problem...

 

[Kozmos]

Post your system specs.

 

[BasketCase]

I dont think his rig is the problem. It's better then mine and I run fairly smoothly until thousands of units come to play.

When a program can't even start, and triggers a system reboot every time Styles tries to start it, something is wrong on a completely different level. A bad driver, a bad BIOS, a faulty motherboard that's triggering a hard reset off a bad low-level command somewhere. Possibly too small a power supply--the problem with that being that a computer becomes erratic and has several different problems when it run short on juice (such as, the graphics card begins to throw artifacts). Insufficient power probably won't cause his rig to have exactly the same problem every time.

To which end: Styles, you got any more details you can give us? Does the SC demo cause exactly the same problem each time?

 

[Stylesrj]

It causes the same prolbem. It loads, and as I think it's finished loading up (the main screen shows, the huge ACU and all that, but that's just a static image) the computer resets

 

[BasketCase]

I'm thinking software problem or hardware/software conflict.

The reason I got all describey about number-crunching power earlier is because your odd hardware description made me wonder about things such as a non-standard math co-processor and such.

What kind of graphics card do you have?

 

[Kozmos]

Styles try to get one of those free programs of the net, that scans your computer and lists all the specs neatly in a list.

 

[Stylesrj]

I already got one. I just haven't found enough time to be posting the specs and stuff... I'm always busy doing other things, like video games such as Civ IV and Red Alert 2

 

[Mjwhear]

How much space do you have on your HDD?

 

[Stylesrj]

I don't think it's a matter of Hard Drive space. Seriously, I got plenty of space.

88 gigs on my main drive, 11 gigs on the data drive