Help! PC speed problem when playing Red Alert 2

Probably your system. Your scraping the bottom of the barrel on minimum system requirements. I used a P3 600 with 128 megs ram and there where times when it got a little slow. I think the smallest proc. you can use a 266 and 64 megs of ram. When I look at buying a game I usually look at the recommended requir. as my minimum. I seem to be happier with the results of a game if I meet those requirements.

You might try closing some of the icons you see on your task bar. They eat ram. Might want to snag a copy of MemTurbo. <A HREF="http://www.memturbo.com/" target="_new">http://www.memturbo.com/&lt;/A> Scrubs and recovers ram. It will usually free up ram even after a fresh reboot.

Might try turning down the resolution (ie. picture quality) on the game. Duh didn't even think to mention that as the first thing to do. Oh well, you probably figured that out already.

Ra2 is fairly cpu intensive. About the only thing that will net you a speed boost is switching to WinNT. You can drop your res. down too, or convert to Win98; the latter won't be all that noticable.

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