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Performance Tuning Guide

By deadmoto

The most popular problem in Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is a slow performance.
Extremely slow. Even on high-end quad-core CPU with dual-SLI graphics.
The reason is that game engine is outdated and does not utilizes all resources of your system.
So, here are some tips how to tune your game to improve performance for comfortable gaming.

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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11 Oct, 2013 @ 2:12pm

14 Jan, 2020 @ 10:09am

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Guide Index

Overview

Video Settings

UI Settings

MODs

Comments

Video Settings

Here is a list of video options sorted by their impact on FPS:

Turn off Vsync.
Decrease anti-aliasing level down to 2x
Turn off the world border.
Turn off the bloom render.
Switch shadows quality to low
Turn of fog of war.

UI Settings

Turn the range-rings off except selected unit.
Turn on cartographic mode (if nothing helps).

MODs

LOUD
Replaces many game resources and improves game performance.
Core Maximizer[forums.gaspowered.com]
This tool enables improves rendering spreading threads across available cores.
IMPORTANT: requires administrator privileges (UAC prompt)
Duncane's FA AI Patch[forums.gaspowered.com]
Includes significant amount of fixes and improvements of default AI
Sorian AI[code.google.com]
Improved AI with lower CPU consumption. More efficient, more difficult.

50 Comments

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Sir John Middleton Smith Jr 3rd 29 Mar, 2023 @ 1:54pm

My computer is 8 to 9 years old and works fine. Graphics cranked. 2560x1600 res

Sir John Middleton Smith Jr 3rd 29 Mar, 2023 @ 1:53pm

My computer is 8 to 9 years old and works fine

SgtScum 3 Jan, 2023 @ 2:26am

FAF has solved nearly all the performance issues especially the slowdowns with lots of air spam. Plus they have added in tons of new content in the form of extra campaign style missions and a zillion maps and mods along with the healthy online community which numbers in the thousands.

Slmarker 4 Sep, 2022 @ 4:50am

ill repeat some of the advice below. FAF aka forged alliance forever is the answer to many issues you may have. FAF is a community that loves the game and have made their own updates to the game over the years. They have even made a coop campaign to play with up to four total people.
Enjoy this wonderful game!

imker 17 May, 2022 @ 2:31pm

Add Large Adress Aware from here:
https://www.moddb.com/downloads/large-address-aware1

It allows you to patch an exe game file allowing it to use more RAM on your computer, which increases performance.

Gordholm 14 Apr, 2022 @ 5:32am

i suggest to goggle for FAF - forged alliance forever. you will have a blast.

biker 5 Apr, 2022 @ 9:53pm

I had crap performance and my sound was terrible. Had me baffled because my system is really very good. Ryzen 7 1700. My son noticed that the game was loaded on one of my 7200 rpm standard hard drives. Both issues were resolved after I moved the game over to my SSD C:Drive. All is well with the world now. Game runs great.

Argyle 19 Dec, 2021 @ 11:37am

Biggest performance improvement in Win 10/11 is to toggle D3D_WindowsCursor in the console. Brought me from shitty FPS/stutter to immediate great performance. Ryzen 7 2700, 2070 Super

Scout360Pyro 7 Dec, 2021 @ 6:27pm

@Lexal No. That is something broken at the core level of the game, sadly.

Lexal 31 Oct, 2021 @ 2:38pm

these sound all well and good, but does either of those mods, if any, fix the AI slowing the game to a crawl due to them trying to give orders to dead units?

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