Method 1 : Disabling Folder Property Indexing


The steps to do this is the following :

1/ Go to your MAIN Command And Conquer Generals Zerohour Folder where you installed Rise of The Reds.
2/ Don't go inside the Main Folder, but rather just select it.
3/ Right Click on the folder then go to Properties.
4/ Go To advanced.
5/ Uncheck " Allow Files in This Folder to have contents indexed in addition to file properties "
6/ Press okay.


Method 2 : CPU prioritization

Be warned, I am not 100% sure whether this is a valid method to further increase preformance but it's there if you wanna do it.

1/ Run Rise of The Reds.
2/ Open Task Manager.
3/ Click on "Further Details"
4/ Now you should have more toolbar options on top, from there go to "Details"
5/ Search for general.exe , click on it then.
6/ Right click on it, and then drag your cursor to "Set Priority"
7/ Change Priority from Normal to High.

Method 2.5 : Removing Junk Files

Incase you like to edit the game as well, in particular maps / scripts, or just for checking ,

1/ Go to The Comamnd And Conquer Generals Zerohour Document File
2/ Delete a file named "_tmpChunk.dat"


Bonus : Installing Gentools and setting FPS Limit to 480 makes the game look smoother and less stutery though it sometimes work, sometimes not.

Method 1 is good because indexing slow your PC in some moments even if you have top CPU GPU. Your hard disk maybe busy and slow every game. Helped for me a bit. At least my late games became more smoother even vs people (not ai). Also to addition to this method I can recomend to disable windows telemetry task from taskmanager which can freeze your game in important moments.Method 2 can be usefull if your have high Mhz on your cpu core because sage use only one core even if you have 8 cores server cpu.

Doing this, will it affect the other programs which are running on my PC parallel to the game, to have a priority below Normal?

Changing CPU priority settings won't alter any other program no.



I did not know about that thanks

Hei mizo first and second step can be applied to game by default ? for the final release 1.87
Its useful. i tested on my old laptop this worked

It cannot be applied by defualt since this is based on the base game.

Applied the first two and voila! My 3v3 PVE crashed while playing against Russia on map tournament valley

i'm surprised people didn't know these 3 tricks. %) old laptop makes one become real pro in optimizing system resources.