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Anonymous

9 years ago

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Command and Conquer Generals Help

I bought the Command and Conquer Ultimate Eddition and I'm having a problem in the Generals game. I have a windows 7 64bit with NVIDIA GForce GT 540M. When I click on a unit to get it to move there is a lag in the time the unit moves, and once it moves I can't get it to un-highlight. It will continue to move until I click on another unit, and in turn that unit will continue to move around until I click on another. Has anyone else had this issue?

Nyerguds
9 years ago
@TheHaddix

Very peculiar problem... but, if you're used to playing the older games, please be aware that right click and left click have different functions in the games starting from C&C: Generals. Consult the game manual for more information on that.

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ivrognard
Hero (Retired)
9 years ago
@Nyergudshey, as the local C&C expert ever encountered this problem?
@TheHaddixi've tagged the person that probably knows the most about the series and its problems on those boards. Hopefully, he can help you. I never encountered the problem, but he might have. He also made some mods to ensure that the old C&C games work on modern Operating Systems (Windows 7 and above), so he is definitely the person that is the most familiar with those.
Nyerguds
Hero+
9 years ago
@TheHaddix

Very peculiar problem... but, if you're used to playing the older games, please be aware that right click and left click have different functions in the games starting from C&C: Generals. Consult the game manual for more information on that.
Anonymous
9 years ago
Thanks for the info. The mouse functions were different and once I got used to that it's working better. I figured a work around for the objects not de-selecting. I just push one of the number buttons that have nothing assigned to it and the previous objects then de-selects. Thanks again for responding to my problem and the link to the manual.
Anonymous
9 years ago
Thank you for taking the time to pass my inquiry on to someone who could help.
Nyerguds
Hero+
9 years ago
@TheHaddix

Well, I probably would've seen it anyway; I got an email subscription notifying me of all new topics in this forum 🤓

It's pretty weird how they switched it, though. They basically just copied the click style from Blizzard's RTS games that Starcraft popularized.

C&C3 has an option to switch to classic mouse mode, but it has some problems, and doesn't always work right. For example, I think it prevented certain commands from working right on bridges since they are both terrain to move on and objects that can be targeted.