Troubleshooting

The game crashed to desktop.

The most likely cause of this is memory overflow. Forged Alliance is a 32-bit game, so it can only use 4 GB of RAM before crashing, but because of factors beyond any modder's control, going over 2 GB of consumption causes a full crash. For this reason, the LOUD launcher automatically sets the game's texture quality to low, since this massively reduces RAM usage. Larger maps and unit counts make the problem much worse.

RAM is not the only possible source of the problem, though. Make sure audio is set to stereo with spatial sounds off.

Also, beware alt-tabbing from fullscreen mode. Windowed mode is better for this, and is generally considered to be more stable altogether.

An NVIDIA driver update causes stuttering whenever I move my mouse.

A debugging command run at the start of every match should take solve this, but cheats have to be enabled in the lobby settings.