Zero Hour problems

[BustaRomeo]

When I play Generals Zero Hour it mostly plays fine, but sometimes this weird thing starts happening. I don't know what causes it to start, but it just starts pausing and playing and pausing and playing, like as though the game is playing at 1fps; not even that. My computer specs go beyond what is required of this game, and it plays very well the rest of the time. But when this 1fps thing starts happening it goes on for like 5 minutes, and it's really annoying. It also happens when a large group of units is ordered to move or attack. Please help.

[DragonNOA1]

Do you have anything running in the background? Maybe something keeps starting up that you are unaware of that slows your computer down. I've had virus scanners start while in the middle of a game and I was wondering why my comp was going so slow.

[BustaRomeo]

Nope. I've even disabled numerous services, and while this was happening I'd go to the desktop, open up task manager, but nothing other than the game is running. I've looked at other forums and lots of other people have the same problem, even with top-of-the-range computers.

[BustaRomeo]

So no-one can help?

[New Guy Jr]

I have noticed a similiar problem. I play skimishes a lot and when I build up a somewhat big force it lags a lot. I wrote it off as every unit has to have AI to react to attacks this is eating up resources. I haven't updated the latest patch though.

[BustaRomeo]

OK, hold the phone! I did my bit of hands-on research and the problem is actually the v1.02 patch! It works fine on a fresh install, and with the v1.01 patch, but as soon as I (not necessarily everone else) install the v1.02 patch the game starts doing this. Isn't that something? I should report it to EA.