Optimizing Generals...

[Banshee]

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Some interesting tricks written by Deezire, take a look:

Deezire wrote:

Heres some from my notes that I know work with the final build;-

-win
runs the game in a new Desktop window

-quickstart
my favorite for the final build as it skips all the intro movies and shell map, taking you straight into the main menu

-showTeamDot
Handy one as it will display a dot in the top right corner of the screen showing which color you are - you might remember this from early screenshots and the one I posted with the low camera shot

-noshellmap
ignores the shell map

-shellmap
uses the map specified in GameData.INI by ShellMapName = for the shell map (the game defaults to doing this anyway)

-noaudio
disables all game audio

-nomusic
disables all music

-novideo
disables all videos

-forceBenchmark
if you really want to optimze the game for your system configuration, use this switch. At runtime, the game will produce a Benchmark.txt file in the Generals directory which contains one line - the benchmark settings by its own internal measurements specific to your computer and system configuration at the time the game was run. Simply copy this line and enter it as a new BenchProfile = entry in GameLODPresets.INI - WARNING this will cause your game to take an age to load, dont panic as its doing the benchark tests!

I do know that these wont work as I found them handy and have already tried them;-
-constantDebug
-scriptDebug
-dumpAssetUsage
-winCursors
-noShellAnim
-nologo
-list
-full
-objecttest.ini
-wireframe
-logAssets
-noshroud
-userdatadir
-particleEdit
-useWaveEditor

I havent had time to try or test the rest with the final build, but heres some if you want to give them a shot (IIRC some of these are specific to WorldBuilder);-

-updateImages
-noFPSLimit
-noagpfix
-seed
-ignoresync
-nofx
-noshadowvolumes
-buildmapcache
-FPUPreserve
-noLogOrCrash
-playStats
-fullVersion
-fullscreen
-yres
-xres
-preload
-munkee
-jabber
-stateMachineDebug
-showTerrainNormals
-noShowClientPhysics
-showCollision
-fps
-lowDetail
-noViewLimit
-latNoise
-latPeriod
-latAmp
-latAvg
-packetloss
-map
-jumpToFrame
-RunAhead
-selectTheUnselectable
-vTune
-logToCon
-ignoreStackTrace
-ignoreAsserts
-cameraDebug
-DemoLoadScreen
-netMinPlayers
-preloadEverything
-preload
-DX
-displayDebug
-noStaticLOD
-noDynamicLOD
-lowDetail
-noViewLimit
-nocinematic
-nofade
-nomilcap
-noDraw
-ReplayCRCInterval
-saveAllStats
-LogObjectCRCs
-VerifyClientCRC
-ClientDeepCRC
-CRCClientModuleData
-CRCLOgicModuleData
-KeepCRCSaves
-DebugCRCUntilFrame
-DebugCRCFromFrame
-NoInputDisable
-UseCSF
-localMOTD
-saveStats
-benchmark
-FPUPreserve
-noLogOrCrash
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[Tratos]

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Yes, Deezire also discovered that it is literally impossible and EA dont want you to make TC mods for Generals, take a look, http://online.deezire.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=893&highlight=

[hellfire]

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I think their affraid of us doing better

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All hail me

[Tratos]

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Yes, but it's to stop people from making TC's before the obligatory add-on pack comes out. I reckon that this will be fixed only when EA have finished with the game, they will release a patch that sorts it out claiming it was never intentional and they only just fixed it, then no more patches ever again, and the release of a successor game with 'new' features.

[Banshee]

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Hey, there is a way to bypass this limit.... Just make your custom sites and DONT TOUCH IN THE ORIGINAL ONES. JUST DISABLE THEM.