C&C Generals / Zero Hour - Lag in 8 Player Games

Hey everyone -

I love this game to death, BUT there's a major flaw. About 10 minutes in a 4v4 game, the game always lags. It's not my laptop by a long shot, considering this happened on everyone single system I've owned (including brothers too) and the game is like 8 years old.

I've tried lag-mods but I don't see any difference. I also tried editing game files as suggested on some sites, but that didn't work too.

Anyone know of a good fix?

Btw, can't wait until Generals 2 early 2013 =D!!!! So happy.

 

There is no fix for the lag im afraid.
I think i remember reading that its because of the games buildt in replay feature that records the match making the game lag after a while.

 

What a shame.

My brother and I play about 1 match almost everyday.

 

4v4 game always lagged after 15 minutes, in any computer, that's because of the army sizes grow exponentially, everybody commanding 200 units on a huge map doesn't help anything..

EDIT: Generals = best multiplayer RTS ever

 

It's definitely up there as one of the greatest

Have you guys tried the new mod for it? It's on the moddb website.

New units, maps, etc.

China's new hacker truck is pretty damn cool. You build a van and it comes with 2 free hackers in it, so you can hide it in corners. I no longer play the mod because even if both my brother and I have it installed, we get the out of sync error when playing together.

 

Yeah, I am so disappointed that they never fixed the out of sync error. Nothing's worse than going a solid 30-40 minutes into a game only to get an out of sync error. The game has a large fanbase, and certain it made them a lot of money, just surprising they never fixed such a glaring issue. I still play skirmishes against PC time and again when I need/can kill 10-15 minutes. It's just a lot of fun.

 

What's the name of this mod(post link)? I'm currently using Shockwave MOD.

 

It's the recent Shockwave 1.1 mod (that has the China unit I was describing)

http://www.moddb.com/mods/cc-shockwave is the moddb link.

http://shockwave.swr-productions.com/ is their official site.

Received a 9.5 rating with 1,385,551 visits to the site. Still a huge fanbase for this game.

I would LOVE to play it multiplayer/LAN but the ridiculous out of sync bug makes it impossible, unless it's just me.


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Edit: Forgot to ask, but what's the most popular/best mod for C&C3/KW? I was going to re-install it as well