Performance Tuning Guide

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The reason is that game engine is outdated and does not utilizes all resources of your system.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.

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.

[MjauMix]

DUAL_SLI GRAPHEECS!

[Mussels]

The game is bugged in the campaign at the moment, theres a fix in the forums that involves using files from DGVoodo2

This fixes the freeze when the video clips play

[Ragnar]

im having a problem with the game itslef its slow laodin through the titles but when im on the main menu its fine then i click on the campaign and it takes about five minuites for the menu to load and another 5 to select a mission and about 10 minuites to actualy load in and its still really slow it would freeze from tie to time but last year when i played this game it was completely fine i have a decent rig and can run most games on max settings but any advice on hot to fix the issue for me would be a great help

[Sir John Middleton Smith Jr 3rd]

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

[Sir John Middleton Smith Jr 3rd]

My computer is 8 to 9 years old and works fine

[SgtScum]

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]

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]

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]

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

[biker]

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.