Options.ini goes in Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Data
Not C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Command & Conquer Generals

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cheers, i just assumed. However, that doesn't seem to have fixed it :S

anyone got any other ideas?

This might have been said already but...

If you are running Vista Home Basic, DO NOT CLICK when Zero Hour is loading, that will make it glitch and cause an error. Just don't click anywhere on the screen while its loading.

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OMG dude THANK YOU, I've been trying to get this to work on my PC after my vista update for a year now... Now I'm running this with Windows 7, it works just fine. Only the opening graphics in the main menu does not play, but what ever the game actually works now.

Hats off to ya

Ive been playing generals with vista for a while but when i wanted to play online i had to update. when i updated it gave me and error about deleting a file and wont even let me start the game. any suggestions?

I appreciate everyones wisdom and knowledge so far on this topic; however, I cannot get my game to run. I disabled UAC through msconfig.exe, I set up my options.ini, I put it the comptability in xp service pack 2, I clicked run as admin... I get two splash screens then the "technical difficulties" that hides behind the splash screen. I am running vista 64 ( pain in the boooty, Dell is shipping me 7... praying C&C works on there.)

Anyone have any ideas on what else I could try?
I have also tried patching from the autorun screen, and after I patch and it attempts to install my patch, I get the "Could not rename/delete file English.big, then the stupid git attempts to reinstall the patch in an endless loop.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Gracias. Thank you. Danka. Rar

I finally got my game to work using a little creativity. I play generals on my old laptop and it has worked great on their depsite the fact that the thing is a POS.Anyways, i attempted to get a good patch on my vista 64, the auto patch didnt work, neither did the patch from this site, installed myself. So i went to my old copy on my xp laptop, copied the english.big and replaced the one in my vista 64, and voila, it worked, and im online and everything is dandy. Thanks for everyones ideas and help.

if anyone wants me to send them a copy of the english.big file for them to replace themselves, feel free to pm me with ur email address and ill send it along for u

I have windows 7 and generals runs fine,
but when I try to download patch 1.8 (original generals) to play LAN with my brother it cannot overwrith English.big. Helpsies?

what about if you press run as administrator and it does not work? what do i do?
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I have Vista, and I have First Decade with CNCGZH installed on it, and the latest Shockwave mod.
I start the normal Zero Hour, and it runs fine, but when I go to skirmish, the AI just sit there. It's just their command centers and single dozer sitting there. They are all white (as in neutral white)

I've tried reinstalling, and AI works fine with Shockwave. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

HOW BOUT THIS EROR !!! 😞 😞 😞

Release Crash at Sat May 28 21:56:34 2011
; Reason Uncaught Exception in GameEngine::update

Last error:
Exception is access violation
WinMain at 4016e0
Error code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Description: The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.
Access address:00000010 was read from.

Stack Dump:
(-1) : 0x0078409A
(-1) : 0x07377E7C
(-1) : 0x00545120

Details:
Register dump...
Eip:0078409A Esp:0012F75C Ebp:0DEBFF24
Eax:07377E00 Ebx:0CAF6CC0 Ecx:00000000
Edx:00000000 Esi:0CAF1E68 Edi:0CAF002C
EFlags:00210296
CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003b GS:0000
EIP bytes dump...

Bytes at CS:EIP (0078409A) : 83 7A 10 01 76 1F 8B 45 64 50 8B CD E8 75 EF DB FF 8B 8E 8C 4E 00 00 50 8D 44 24 38 50 51 8B CF


Current stack:

ANYONE CAN HELP PLS... !!!! 😞 😞 😞

Release Crash at Sat May 28 21:56:34 2011
; Reason Uncaught Exception in GameEngine::update

Last error:
Exception is access violation
WinMain at 4016e0
Error code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Description: The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.
Access address:00000010 was read from.

Stack Dump:
(-1) : 0x0078409A
(-1) : 0x07377E7C
(-1) : 0x00545120

Details:
Register dump...
Eip:0078409A Esp:0012F75C Ebp:0DEBFF24
Eax:07377E00 Ebx:0CAF6CC0 Ecx:00000000
Edx:00000000 Esi:0CAF1E68 Edi:0CAF002C
EFlags:00210296
CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003b GS:0000
EIP bytes dump...

Bytes at CS:EIP (0078409A) : 83 7A 10 01 76 1F 8B 45 64 50 8B CD E8 75 EF DB FF 8B 8E 8C 4E 00 00 50 8D 44 24 38 50 51 8B CF


Current stack:

The options.ini technique worked fine for me, thanks a lot 🙂

I am trying to run CNCGZH Deluxe Edition on windows 8.1. Generals works, the options.ini trick worked for that one. But when Zero Hour completes installation, it says "error 1628: Failed to complete installation" then tells me the game has been successfully installed. When I try to run it, (after using options.ini fix, setting it to use XP service pack 3 compatibility, and running as administrator) it goes through the first splash, then the second splash crashes and gives me the serious error. Does anyone have a fix for this?

[EDIT] I followed someone's advice for the installation bug but I'm still getting the same crash issue.


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Everyone I know has told me 8 and 8.1 work fine. Just do a clean install, no compatibility and no options tricks.

It could be your hardware.

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I've installed it on others' 8.1 computers too but if anyone's having the issue I'm getting I'd really appreciate knowing what they did to amend it, or if anyone has any suggestions.

Also when I try to patch to 1.04 it says "Old file not found".