How is performance so bad?

[Floofy Poofy]

I have a high end system, 9900X, RTX 4070, and I struggle to keep the game even at 40 FPS. Dips right down to almost 19 when Im scrolling :/

[Tsundere Kanojo]

did you try increasing the game speed?

the FPS is tied to the game speed slider. Though in campaign, you can't change this normally without adding a command line argument on launch. (-SPEEDCONTROL)

[Floofy Poofy]

Originally posted by Tsundere Kanojo:

did you try increasing the game speed?

the FPS is tied to the game speed slider. Though in campaign, you can't change this normally without adding a command line argument on launch. (-SPEEDCONTROL)

I have, no luck sadly.

[Tsundere Kanojo]

maybe give this a shot, no guarantees.

set the renderer to OpenGL.

https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases

[peeka]

Gamespeed and scrollspeed are separate settings.

[Nyerguds]

What resolution are you playing on? Setting the game to higher resolutions means the game engine has to show tons more animations on the screen at once, and it's not very good at that.

[rbz]

If you have an integrated GPU, check if the game doesn't use that rather than your main GPU.
Also try out a different wrapper maybe, people praise CNC-ddraw but for some weird reason ddrawcompat works better on my system.

[Nyerguds]

RA2 is too old to make use of graphics cards. It's not a 3D game.

[rbz]

Doesn't the wrapper use texture filtering, anti-aliasing etc?
That stuff should require GPU usage, even if the original software renderer uses only CPU afaik.
I don't think this game has no hardware acceleration, since older games than it have it, but I could be wrong.

[Fulano]

Originally posted by Nyerguds:

RA2 is too old to make use of graphics cards. It's not a 3D game.

2D graphics are still done on the GPU too. They are much lighter and may not make a noticeable difference between a integrated chip and a GPU though.

I would still be wary of the higher memory latency of integrated graphics though.