Hacking Supreme commander

I found use for my hacking skills today.

Supreme Commander is an old goodie we used to play a couple of years ago. I tried running it on Win 7. It worked like a charm… until it had used up 1,5 Gigs of memory that is, then it crasched like a drunk driver.

So, I hacked my Supreme Commander.exe to be able to use more memory. So far it works fine, and it has passed the point where it usually crasches.

If you want to hack your own Supreme Commander.exe in an easy way you can download masm32 and use editbin on it with the commandline option /LARGEADDRESSAWARE. This makes Supreme Commander support larger addresses than 2GB.

HOWEVER, if you are sitting on Windows XP you have to make sure the OS supports it as well.

In boot.ini check this out:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect

Change this to:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect /3GB