Built a custom pc worth $1700, can't play a game that is 10 years old????

mirzymirz

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So I built this pc which I think is bad ass. Gigabyte motherboard, intel-4770 cpu, gtx 770 4gb memory gpu card with 2 bad ass fans, coolermaster haf x case with 4 fans, 8gb of high end ram, aftermarket coolermaster cpu fan called evo plus or something, SSD 250g drive from Samsung, just all good stuff. I benchmarked it on some program that came with my videocard and it did well.

I loaded a rom of red alert 2 - yuri's revenge ( i own the original so I think thats legal as far as I know from research ) and it works like shit. I figured I would be able to build a ton of units and have an awesome time on a game that used to slow down my old non custom pc but it is working like garbage. It is running slower than it did on my old pc.

How can this be? The benchmark test with the 3d stuff etc. that I did seemed to run fine and fast but red alert 2 which is like a 10 year old game now ran sooooo slow? Could it be that my drivers etc. are so advanced that they are just not compatible with the old school? How could this old game run slow? Please let me know.
 
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Yeah, even the most modern pc in the world won't be able to play games that old (because the game goes into shock from such a fast cpu lol). Without compatibility mode.

Have you done windows XP mode compatability?

I personally have a laptop with windows 8.1 now and I had to put windows 7 or windows xp compatibility mode to run Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour. And it worked flawlessly.
Yeah, even the most modern pc in the world won't be able to play games that old (because the game goes into shock from such a fast cpu lol). Without compatibility mode.

Have you done windows XP mode compatability?

I personally have a laptop with windows 8.1 now and I had to put windows 7 or windows xp compatibility mode to run Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour. And it worked flawlessly.
 
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