How to boost low fps in Generals Zero Hour?

[kING]

I am using the Gentool. Game installed from EA Games App. I am on Windows 11, running an RTX 4060.

FPS in Skirmish is 30. It just feels choppy, and slow not smooth like butter on my ancient crappy laptop I had previously.

Any tips?

[Nyerguds]

I'm fairly sure these games have always been locked to 30fps. The choppiness is probably not due to the frame rate.

[StickingKoala83]

Yes, Skirmish mode will capped your fps to 30 fps, but i suggest u play using Online mode (LAN), You can still playing using Bots, but you cannot pause your game, In This mode your fps Is uncapped.

[last light of the library]

In game fps mp is engine locked to 30 fps, regardless. Sp skirmish can go to 60.
As for gpu:
That doesn't matter at all as long as its any gpu made after 2005 ish it won't effect how generals performs.

As for choppy:
The bigger the map and the more AI's the laggier the game is.
Some maps have poor performance by default due to design and pathfinding
(Twilight flame and Eastern Everglades for example)

Generals/zh runs almost exclusively on a single core thread and can't be changed to run on more threads or cores. The better the cpu's single core power the better the frame rate.

Disabling certain settings also improves frame rate/performance.
All you need to keep on really is 2d + 3d shadows + heat effects.

[shotgunharry]

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