Who here plays Supreme Commander Forged Alliance Forever?

[TonTom]

I used to love SC:FA but I fell out of love with it because there was a bug where the game would slow to a crawl as more and more units were created. Something to do with the engine not being designed for multi core CPUs so even with a fast PC, every game would end up essentially being played in slow motion. Did FAF fix that? If so I'd probably give it a try. Still got my DVDs somewhere but probably easier just to buy a digital copy.

Wasn’t that down to a 32bit memory limitation/issue. Pretty sure I remember Chris Taylor talking about it in an interview.

 

[eeii]

I used to love SC:FA but I fell out of love with it because there was a bug where the game would slow to a crawl as more and more units were created. Something to do with the engine not being designed for multi core CPUs so even with a fast PC, every game would end up essentially being played in slow motion. Did FAF fix that? If so I'd probably give it a try. Still got my DVDs somewhere but probably easier just to buy a digital copy.

It’s a lot better now. When I play with friends we normally play coop with the AI. 3 humans against 5 AI. We do stick a unit cap on to 500 which works really well.

 

[eeii]

Does anybody play FAF on 9800x3d and if you do can you tell me your CPU score. Thanks

 

[Shikkaka]

I'm still playing Total Annihilation my laptop can't handle SC

 

[Cromulent]

I'm still playing Total Annihilation my laptop can't handle SC

Does TA work on Windows 11?

 

[Combat squirrel]

Does anybody play FAF on 9800x3d and if you do can you tell me your CPU score. Thanks

I'd love to know this too ! I think someone in the games lobby was around 70ish? 70 something? But not sure

 

[Shikkaka]

Does TA work on Windows 11?

It does indeed. I've been playing the Escalation mod.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Game was ahead of its time. Crazy we’ve not had any games similar to this in recent years with current tech.

 

[eeii]

Game was ahead of its time. Crazy we’ve not had any games similar to this in recent years with current tech.

There is a game called Sanctuary which is supposed to be a modern day version, however every time i check the release date it’s slipped buy another year.

 

[Conscript]

Does anybody play FAF on 9800x3d and if you do can you tell me your CPU score. Thanks

Is this the CPU Rating which displays when you setup a Skirmish game?
If so, I'm on a 9800X3D and mines shows 68.

 

[eeii]

Is this the CPU Rating which displays when you setup a Skirmish game?
If so, I'm on a 9800X3D and mines shows 68.

Thanks that’s the one

 

[Cromulent]

I bought Tempest Rising the other day and am really enjoying it. Feels very much like C&C.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Thanks that’s the one

I've NO reason to upgrade as all I play is this and abit of valheim - but when the cpu score hits 50 I may upgrade for the lolz

 

[Conscript]

I thought 68 was bad until I hovered over it and it said was from 0 to 450...so it's more of a ranking, than a rating I guess

 

[Combat squirrel]

I thought 68 was bad until I hovered over it and it said was from 0 to 450...so it's more of a ranking, than a rating I guess

68 is amazing, game quality wise anything below 200 is elite, thats why the sub 250 CPU score games exist to reduce slow down.

50 - 68 Is unreal and I imagine the game designers had no idea people would still be playing it with those scores

 

[eeii]

I thought 68 was bad until I hovered over it and it said was from 0 to 450...so it's more of a ranking, than a rating I guess

68 is very impressive. My 5800x3d gets about 101 so I’m some way behind.

 

[Webster]

I'm still playing Total Annihilation my laptop can't handle SC

on taf?

 

[Shikkaka]

on taf?

What's TAF?

 

[Webster]

What's TAF?

TA Forever client - where people play TA/ESC/ProTA etc.

 

[Shikkaka]

Oh no, I downloaded it from GoG if I remember rightly.