These are my system specs:Īdmittedly, my laptop is far from the best gaming machine out there, but it meets and surpasses both the Minimum and Recommended Requirements for both the original and Forged Alliance, and whilst I've got a 'desireable' performance from the original, playing Forged Alliance is dreadful. I've tried reinstalling, and with and without the patch, but there's no difference. Now, although I've not played much of Forged Alliance, I got the impression that it was very similar to the original, only with more units and a new Heads Up Display - nothing to cause such a massive drop in performance. The particular setting that has the most impact is called 'Fidelity.' Most other settings (even the addition of 16x Anti-Aliasing) have very little effect on the framerate. During a typical scenario (a base with some units) I get nothing more than 6-7 FPS on anything more than Low Settings. People then started to play Forged Alliance, so I installed it, patched it and started a game: awful. We started with the original, and I was pleasantly surprised with how well my notebook could play it - around 18-20 FPS with all Settings on High other than Anti-Aliasing, at 1440x900. Recently, along with several other people I know, I bought the Gold Edition of Supreme Commander, which contains both the original, and the stand-alone expansion, Forged Alliance.

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