Try TA Spring http://spring.clan-sy.com/

 It's a remake of TA with much better graphics and it's free! It also has quite a few new features that make the game better while keeping the core gameplay the same.

 It really is better then the original and it's FREE! And has a fairly active community at peaks it has around 300 people online! I think thats quite phenominal for a game made by group of college kids, they coded the games whole engine by themselves.

It's definitely one of the biggest achievements in PC gamings mod community history.

Were allowed to talk about some stuff :) but yes Xbsh their are things I actually can't tell you about right now!

Some nice surprises :D

Terror subs have been nerfed, mainly Aeons overpowered sub and frigates the games Tech 1 boat got a big buff so subs have a much harder time killing it.

No nuke turn off ability, though I really don't get why nukes are such trouble for you, the anti nuke cost like 10x less then the nuke so you'd really have to be careless to get nuked early on given the nuke cost it's such an investment.

 Onemic, my rig is comparable to yours, slightly better, in the early game I'd say performance went up at least 40% in the later game it's far more dramatic, hard to give you exact numbers, but I think you'll definitely have playable framerates now in the latest patch, though I honestly find it surprising that your rig gets into the single digits on low settings.

I have to ask are you talking about vs the AI or online? I'm strictly speaking about online, I haven't played the AI, but can only imagine it still eats CPU's up.

 If your talking about VS the AI all I can say is no clue and suggest you play online as it's more fun, if your talking online then I think you might be missing the amd dual core XP patch because online their is no reason your rig should ever get that low in frames on those settings.

UPDATE:

OMFG GUYS the games optimization has SKYROCKETED since even I tested it!!!!!

I can't even explain to you just how much better the game runs now.

A simple test I just did is build 1000 scouts and fly them all over the place, on the old version of this game I'd get into the single frames a second when I did this!

NOW I GET OVER 40 DAM FRAMES WHEN DOING THIS!

I was one of the testers for it (GPG let a number of Top ranking players and some of the top modders get their hands on the new game)

Here's what you need to know

The game has been drastically optimized, expect dramatic improvements especially later into the games when more units are on the screen, many computers that couldn't even run it before should be able to play it fine now.

Keep in mind though the game runs significantly better under XP then it does Vista before and after this patch (vistas just bad for gaming at the moment as many of you know)

Aeon no longer dominate on water maps, everything that made them the water powerhouse has been nerfed, however they are still great, just not overpowered

T3 land has been nerfed, T3 land had ridiculous range that really hurt the ability of T2 and 1 to compete, this is fixed, also T3 land factory got a time/cost boost

T2 all in all is much more useful, in the current build you have people skipping T2, doing that right now is a huge risk and T2 plays a vital role.

Mass extraction points are much more valuable so the game all around promotes expanding much more then it did and fabricators a large part of that problem have been nerfed, all around the games whole economy feels much, much better.

The Gigantic Experimental units have become much more practical and are available sooner in the game, but not to the point were they are overpowered.

Anti Air prioritizes it's targets far better so you won't have your AA shooting down some scouts when your base is getting bombed to pieces.

All Aircraft Carriers Including the giant independence day flying CZAR now are also mobile air factories in an effort to make them much more useful

The T3 nuke sub no one ever built is significantly cheaper now so you might see it used!

Unit pathfinding has been greatly improved

Cybrans walking ship walks much faster on land now.

Theirs much more, but I just wanted to give you what I felt are the most important things the patch does.

The patch all in all gives the game a fantastic balance, on top of this games are all around much more action packed then they use to be. Expect the patch within the next few days.

And for you turtlers out there their is now a no rush mode that will allow you to set a timelimit that will create a big bubble around your starting area that will be impossible for you enemy to get through until the time limit you set is up :)

When playing Supreme Commander, it didn't feel like technology had progressed through 1000 years of war at all. I mean, it's A THOUSAND years. That's a long time.

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Well to be honest if you were to even make an RTS game off the united states current technology it really wouldn't be fun because simply todays warfare is far much more automatic and AI driven then RTS games aim to be.

Honestly we can fight a whole war with missiles fired hundreds to thousands of miles away.

My point is thats no reason to bash an RTS

As for who wins Aeon Illuminate duh!

Nod really feels like cheesy anarchist/muslim like group that consists of people of low intellect.

The Aeon on the other hand are basically Hitler like with buddhism minus the peace lmao. Obviously "The Way" Refers to "Enlightenment" and since "Enlightenment" truely is the meaning of life they win hands down.

Now if your talking about which one is more overpowered in the given games the NOD by far LMAO :lol: CnC 3 really is a joke in it's current form with the ridiculous scorpion spam.

Aeon are definitely overpowered right now as well, but not as nearly as much and they really are only overpowered on Water maps only.

Supreme Commander has a new patch comming out within the next few days thats suppose to drastically make the game run better, though if your right is far, far off from the min specs then well your right.

Just thought I'd let you know though. :) 

353 I have seen others make that comment and I'm quite confused by it, the benchmarks I have seen show the 2900 fairing better the higher the resolution you pick yet your suggesting the opposite is true!

 GURU3D and Tom's hardware support this, did new drivers or something just come out and new tests that I don't know of or what?

the DX9 looks better? Are you high? The DX10 shot smokes it.