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Posted by: Mr_A1 - Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:13:41 PM
This works for those with the original C&C Gens and ZH CDs. Most have been having the same problem as me with getting the multiplayer part to work without crashing with the tech difficulties box showing up. I checked the MS Vista Games Support Forum and found this as the solution and it does work for 32 bit version of mine and a 64 bit version person said it works also. Download the Generals 1.08 patch and the ZH 1.04 patch from EA (http://www.ea.com/official/cc/generals/us/demos.jsp?state=6) and right click on each separate patch and choose 'Run as Administrator' to update which allows multiplayer mode to work again. The in game and patchgrabber will mess up the updates. Also make sure you set both C&C to 'Run as Administrator' to ensure they work correctly. I have run them both with success without using compatibility mode.

Posted by: Mr_A1 - Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:13:41 PM

This works for those with the original C&C Gens and ZH CDs. Most have been having the same problem as me with getting the multiplayer part to work without crashing with the tech difficulties box showing up. I checked the MS Vista Games Support Forum and found this as the solution and it does work for 32 bit version of mine and a 64 bit version person said it works also. Download the Generals 1.08 patch and the ZH 1.04 patch from EA (http://www.ea.com/official/cc/generals/us/demos.jsp?state=6) and right click on each separate patch and choose 'Run as Administrator' to update which allows multiplayer mode to work again. The in game and patchgrabber will mess up the updates. Also make sure you set both C&C to 'Run as Administrator' to ensure they work correctly. I have run them both with success without using compatibility mode.

Posted by: CG Apollos - Friday, March 16, 2007 8:28:17 AM
Thanks for posting these tips. I myself have no problem running Generals or ZH on Vista here though. I have 2 PCs with Vista, 1 that installed using the normal Generals and ZH disks and 1 that installed using the TFD pack: PC 1: Intel Pentium D 3.2Ghz 2.5Gb of 667Mhz ram ATI Radeon X850XT Windows Vista Business 32-bit (Normal Disks.) PC 2: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz 2.5Gb of 667Mhz ram ATI Radeon X800XT Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit (The First Decade.) Both play fine when networking and online. I'm suprised some people are having problems with the normal disks and patching.

Posted by: CG Apollos - Friday, March 16, 2007 8:28:17 AM

Thanks for posting these tips. I myself have no problem running Generals or ZH on Vista here though. I have 2 PCs with Vista, 1 that installed using the normal Generals and ZH disks and 1 that installed using the TFD pack: PC 1: Intel Pentium D 3.2Ghz 2.5Gb of 667Mhz ram ATI Radeon X850XT Windows Vista Business 32-bit (Normal Disks.) PC 2: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz 2.5Gb of 667Mhz ram ATI Radeon X800XT Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit (The First Decade.) Both play fine when networking and online. I'm suprised some people are having problems with the normal disks and patching.

Posted by: Luckie - Friday, March 16, 2007 9:22:22 AM
Yeah, I'm with AA. I installed vista last night along with generals and zh and everything works fine. The only problem I have is that the Ion Cannon beam shows up pink for no reason.

Posted by: CG Apollos - Friday, March 16, 2007 9:25:18 AM
[quote=Luckie] Yeah, I'm with AA. I installed vista last night along with generals and zh and everything works fine. The only problem I have is that the Ion Cannon beam shows up pink for no reason. [/quote]It might be missing some textures then, try a reinstall.

Posted by: chromedomer - Friday, March 23, 2007 4:07:47 PM
My zero hour single player runs fine. But when I say play online it says could not connect. I installed the patches and set generals to administrator . Whats wrong?

Posted by: Luckie - Friday, March 23, 2007 4:39:21 PM
AA, its a driver issue, not a missing file issue. It shows up pink because the crappy vista nvidia drivers dont understand the words that be comin' out of ZH's mouth. chromedomer, windows firewall might be blocking it. Open the control panel, then Windows Firewall. Ad a rule about unrestricting generals.exe.

Posted by: Mr_A1 - Friday, March 23, 2007 7:42:19 PM
[quote=chromedomer] My zero hour single player runs fine. But when I say play online it says could not connect. I installed the patches and set generals to administrator . Whats wrong? [/quote] Check Firewall settings. Make sure that generals.exe and game.dat both are allowed through.

Posted by: timm31 - Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:03:30 PM
For some reason I cannot get Generals to work with Vista! I have tried everything. I am dying over here. I made sure everything was running as Administrator, i have the newest drivers, tried running it with and without the patches. The game installs fine, and when i double click it, i get the initial splash screen, which goes away...then the 2nd bigger splash screen shows up. But right as it's about to load the opening video, it just sits there with a "Serious Error." Both Generals and ZH encounter this. Can anyone please give me a hint here??? Specs: Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 2.66 GHz 4 GB Dual Channel RAM at 667 MHz Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS (256 MB) SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic

Posted by: timm31 - Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:03:30 PM

For some reason I cannot get Generals to work with Vista! I have tried everything. I am dying over here. I made sure everything was running as Administrator, i have the newest drivers, tried running it with and without the patches. The game installs fine, and when i double click it, i get the initial splash screen, which goes away...then the 2nd bigger splash screen shows up. But right as it's about to load the opening video, it just sits there with a "Serious Error." Both Generals and ZH encounter this. Can anyone please give me a hint here??? Specs: Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 2.66 GHz 4 GB Dual Channel RAM at 667 MHz Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS (256 MB) SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic

Posted by: CG Apollos - Monday, May 14, 2007 7:02:49 AM
Check "ReleaseCrashInfo.txt" in [b]Documents/Command and Conquer Generals Data[/b] and [b]Documents/Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data[/b] and post the contents here. Nice setup by the way.

Posted by: timm31 - Monday, May 14, 2007 7:11:16 PM
See, that's just the thing. It does not creat a ReleaseCrashInfo.txt. What happens is that the 2nd splash screen comes up and the hourglass says vista is working on it...but then it just sits there, and another message comes up but pops under the splash screen. The only reason I can see what it says is due to Vista's thumbnail view that comes up when you highlight the window at the bottom. i just right click the error window that comes up and close it from the taskbar at the bottom. Then no ReleaseCrashInfo is generated. Any suggestions? Thanks by the way about the setup! [quote=AuroraAlphaHL2] Check "ReleaseCrashInfo.txt" in [b]Documents/Command and Conquer Generals Data[/b] and [b]Documents/Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data[/b] and post the contents here. Nice setup by the way. [/quote]

Posted by: timm31 - Monday, May 14, 2007 7:11:16 PM

See, that's just the thing. It does not creat a ReleaseCrashInfo.txt. What happens is that the 2nd splash screen comes up and the hourglass says vista is working on it...but then it just sits there, and another message comes up but pops under the splash screen. The only reason I can see what it says is due to Vista's thumbnail view that comes up when you highlight the window at the bottom. i just right click the error window that comes up and close it from the taskbar at the bottom. Then no ReleaseCrashInfo is generated. Any suggestions? Thanks by the way about the setup! [quote=AuroraAlphaHL2] Check "ReleaseCrashInfo.txt" in [b]Documents/Command and Conquer Generals Data[/b] and [b]Documents/Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data[/b] and post the contents here. Nice setup by the way. [/quote]

Posted by: TRIGRHAPPY - Tuesday, June 19, 2007 5:12:51 AM
ALSO, TO FIX THE HANG ON 2ND SPLASH SCREEN PROBLEM ON VISTA: Go to your /documents/generals zero hour blah blah blah/ directory Delete everything. Create a new file called options.ini Open it and paste the following: AntiAliasing = DrawScrollAnchor = GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0 Gamma = 50 IPAddress = 0.0.0.0 IdealStaticGameLOD = High LanguageFilter = false MoveScrollAnchor = MusicVolume = 55 Resolution = 800 600 Retaliation = yes SFX3DVolume = 79 SFXVolume = 71 ScrollFactor = 50 SendDelay = no StaticGameLOD = Low UseAlternateMouse = no UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no VoiceVolume = 70 Save and exit, Then send me a check for $500 and play the game. ($500 is optional of course)

Posted by: TRIGRHAPPY - Tuesday, June 19, 2007 5:12:51 AM

ALSO, TO FIX THE HANG ON 2ND SPLASH SCREEN PROBLEM ON VISTA: Go to your /documents/generals zero hour blah blah blah/ directory Delete everything. Create a new file called options.ini Open it and paste the following: AntiAliasing = DrawScrollAnchor = GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0 Gamma = 50 IPAddress = 0.0.0.0 IdealStaticGameLOD = High LanguageFilter = false MoveScrollAnchor = MusicVolume = 55 Resolution = 800 600 Retaliation = yes SFX3DVolume = 79 SFXVolume = 71 ScrollFactor = 50 SendDelay = no StaticGameLOD = Low UseAlternateMouse = no UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no VoiceVolume = 70 Save and exit, Then send me a check for $500 and play the game. ($500 is optional of course)

Posted by: jhawley - Saturday, June 23, 2007 12:25:10 PM
To Trig Thanks!! This worked. Not sure about the $500, but you have my appreciation for solving a frustrating problem. VISTA 64-bit EVGA MB w/ Core 2 Duo Quad E6800 PNY nVidia GTX8800 768mb EA should hire you into SQA

Posted by: LukeEkblad - Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:45:55 PM
Pleas help! I'm having the same problem as Timm31 but only with Zero hour. I think the thing that TRIGRHAPPY sent might help, but...I don't know what a directory is, so I don't know where to put all that stuff. Also, when I do past it, do I past it in a text file?

Posted by: Vyron - Friday, August 10, 2007 9:53:00 PM
I also have a problem trying to run this in Vista; I know this is an old topic but I need some help. At first I couldn't run the game at all since there was no options.in, so I followed the above instructions and got the game to run. Now the problem is that the game would freeze a few seconds into the game, and the error reported by Vista said game.dat is not responding (it was also a problem with that file for the options.ini error as well). What the hell is wrong? I got the lastest patch for ZH, and this is a clean install. I also set it to run as admin. This is the exact error: Description: A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: AppHangB1 Application Name: game.dat Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 4230c05b Hang Signature: 0be3 Hang Type: 2048 OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.2 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Hang Signature 1: 73f163e4f31f1c595abae0d635be7b62 Additional Hang Signature 2: 5a37 Additional Hang Signature 3: f9c66b4d95751217d86114832698a5a4 Additional Hang Signature 4: 0be3 Additional Hang Signature 5: 73f163e4f31f1c595abae0d635be7b62 Additional Hang Signature 6: 5a37 Additional Hang Signature 7: f9c66b4d95751217d86114832698a5a4

Posted by: Vyron - Friday, August 10, 2007 9:53:00 PM

I also have a problem trying to run this in Vista; I know this is an old topic but I need some help. At first I couldn't run the game at all since there was no options.in, so I followed the above instructions and got the game to run. Now the problem is that the game would freeze a few seconds into the game, and the error reported by Vista said game.dat is not responding (it was also a problem with that file for the options.ini error as well). What the hell is wrong? I got the lastest patch for ZH, and this is a clean install. I also set it to run as admin. This is the exact error: Description: A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: AppHangB1 Application Name: game.dat Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 4230c05b Hang Signature: 0be3 Hang Type: 2048 OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.2 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Hang Signature 1: 73f163e4f31f1c595abae0d635be7b62 Additional Hang Signature 2: 5a37 Additional Hang Signature 3: f9c66b4d95751217d86114832698a5a4 Additional Hang Signature 4: 0be3 Additional Hang Signature 5: 73f163e4f31f1c595abae0d635be7b62 Additional Hang Signature 6: 5a37 Additional Hang Signature 7: f9c66b4d95751217d86114832698a5a4

Posted by: costabunny - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 10:42:27 AM
Thanks - create the ini file - DUH why didnt I see that one - simply copied it off my laptop and BINGO off to kill my brothers now :) Thanks

Posted by: KaneLivesInDeath - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 5:18:57 PM
[quote=TRIGRHAPPY] ALSO, TO FIX THE HANG ON 2ND SPLASH SCREEN PROBLEM ON VISTA: Go to your /documents/generals zero hour blah blah blah/ directory Delete everything. Create a new file called options.ini Open it and paste the following: AntiAliasing = DrawScrollAnchor = GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0 Gamma = 50 IPAddress = 0.0.0.0 IdealStaticGameLOD = High LanguageFilter = false MoveScrollAnchor = MusicVolume = 55 Resolution = 800 600 Retaliation = yes SFX3DVolume = 79 SFXVolume = 71 ScrollFactor = 50 SendDelay = no StaticGameLOD = Low UseAlternateMouse = no UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no VoiceVolume = 70 Save and exit, Then send me a check for $500 and play the game. ($500 is optional of course) [/quote] I was refered to this thread by EA Allmighty's forum moderators and told to follow your sugestion... but it didn't work and they sent me back here. This is the exect original Error message Technical Difficulties You have encountered a serious error. Serious errors can be caused by many things including viruses, overheated hardware and hardware that does not meet the minimum specifications for the game. Please visit the forums at www.generals.ea.com for suggested courses of action or consult you manual for Technical Support contact information. This only appers when I am trying to run the Zero Hour Expansion. and in addition to the INI file there arenow two text files named RealeseCrashInfo and RealeseCrashInfoPrev. both say Release Crash at Wed Oct 03 14:29:11 2007 ; Reason Error parsing INI file 'Data\INI\Object\airforcegeneral.ini' (Line: 'Object AmericaClusterTomahawkMissile ') Last error: Current stack: what should i do now

Posted by: KaneLivesInDeath - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 5:18:57 PM

[quote=TRIGRHAPPY] ALSO, TO FIX THE HANG ON 2ND SPLASH SCREEN PROBLEM ON VISTA: Go to your /documents/generals zero hour blah blah blah/ directory Delete everything. Create a new file called options.ini Open it and paste the following: AntiAliasing = DrawScrollAnchor = GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0 Gamma = 50 IPAddress = 0.0.0.0 IdealStaticGameLOD = High LanguageFilter = false MoveScrollAnchor = MusicVolume = 55 Resolution = 800 600 Retaliation = yes SFX3DVolume = 79 SFXVolume = 71 ScrollFactor = 50 SendDelay = no StaticGameLOD = Low UseAlternateMouse = no UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no VoiceVolume = 70 Save and exit, Then send me a check for $500 and play the game. ($500 is optional of course) [/quote] I was refered to this thread by EA Allmighty's forum moderators and told to follow your sugestion... but it didn't work and they sent me back here. This is the exect original Error message Technical Difficulties You have encountered a serious error. Serious errors can be caused by many things including viruses, overheated hardware and hardware that does not meet the minimum specifications for the game. Please visit the forums at www.generals.ea.com for suggested courses of action or consult you manual for Technical Support contact information. This only appers when I am trying to run the Zero Hour Expansion. and in addition to the INI file there arenow two text files named RealeseCrashInfo and RealeseCrashInfoPrev. both say Release Crash at Wed Oct 03 14:29:11 2007 ; Reason Error parsing INI file 'Data\INI\Object\airforcegeneral.ini' (Line: 'Object AmericaClusterTomahawkMissile ') Last error: Current stack: what should i do now

Posted by: Pern - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:13:20 AM
Vista/32 multiplayer/ online issues with C&C Zero Hour. Where to start. Zero Hour and Generals run perfect, except; When I join a custom match/ quick match and try to join the mulitplayer game by clicking "accept", I never connect to anything. I can't play online at all. I then have to CTRL/ALT/Del out of the game and restart the game. -I applied everything as "Mr_A1" recommended. -I tried the file "Kane lives in death" recommended. -Running both Generals and Zero Hour in compatability mode for XP SP2. -Running everythng as Admin. -Made exceptions in Firewall/ disabled fire wall. -No spyware or viruses, turned off all anti virus and spyware security systems. -Removed Windows Defender. (what a chore).!! -Removed User Account Control. (What a chore)!. Everything worked great on my old XP PC, when I bought this new machine and reinstalled with Vista 32 Home Premioum, I simply can't connect to any online matches but I can play single player, and it works fine. My computer is upper/mid end gamer, two GTS 8800's, Core 2 Duo 2.4, 2 gig ram, etc, etc. My boy and I play ALL "Steam" games COD 4, DOD: S, Orange Box, and.. MOH: Aiborne, all run great and I can play all the other online games I have perfect but ........C&C Generals Zero Hour "Online". Any more help would be great, I would really like to get this going, my boy and I liked this game. Sincerely, Pern. pern1971@yahoo.com P.S. Vista has no advantage that I can find. Its full of issues, dificult to use (for gamming). If I had a copy of XP sitting on my desk....I would install it and put Vista back on the shelf and wait for the update/ fixes!

Posted by: Pern - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:13:20 AM

Vista/32 multiplayer/ online issues with C&C Zero Hour. Where to start. Zero Hour and Generals run perfect, except; When I join a custom match/ quick match and try to join the mulitplayer game by clicking "accept", I never connect to anything. I can't play online at all. I then have to CTRL/ALT/Del out of the game and restart the game. -I applied everything as "Mr_A1" recommended. -I tried the file "Kane lives in death" recommended. -Running both Generals and Zero Hour in compatability mode for XP SP2. -Running everythng as Admin. -Made exceptions in Firewall/ disabled fire wall. -No spyware or viruses, turned off all anti virus and spyware security systems. -Removed Windows Defender. (what a chore).!! -Removed User Account Control. (What a chore)!. Everything worked great on my old XP PC, when I bought this new machine and reinstalled with Vista 32 Home Premioum, I simply can't connect to any online matches but I can play single player, and it works fine. My computer is upper/mid end gamer, two GTS 8800's, Core 2 Duo 2.4, 2 gig ram, etc, etc. My boy and I play ALL "Steam" games COD 4, DOD: S, Orange Box, and.. MOH: Aiborne, all run great and I can play all the other online games I have perfect but ........C&C Generals Zero Hour "Online". Any more help would be great, I would really like to get this going, my boy and I liked this game. Sincerely, Pern. pern1971@yahoo.com P.S. Vista has no advantage that I can find. Its full of issues, dificult to use (for gamming). If I had a copy of XP sitting on my desk....I would install it and put Vista back on the shelf and wait for the update/ fixes!

Posted by: helpmepls - Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:24:53 PM
erm refering to TRIGRHAPPY's solution for the hang on the 2nd splash screen, the file that i make, is it a folder, a text document or something else. (sorry for this dumb question, i've tried many methods for my problem which is the game doesent load and it gets stuck on the 2nd splash screen before closing). thanks

Posted by: TRIGRHAPPY - Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:40:33 PM
You're creating a text document (not "rich text"). When you "Save As" name it options.ini Make sure you don't save it as options.ini.txt by accident or it won't work, it MUST be "options.ini" Or just right-click "save as" on the link below, and save it to your Zero hour/generals folder in "My Documents". If it asks to overwrite, say yes. Then load it up and play. This fix works for Generals and Zero Hour. Good luck folks http://www.ospora.com/dimento/cstrike/options.ini

Posted by: TRIGRHAPPY - Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:40:33 PM

You're creating a text document (not "rich text"). When you "Save As" name it options.ini Make sure you don't save it as options.ini.txt by accident or it won't work, it MUST be "options.ini" Or just right-click "save as" on the link below, and save it to your Zero hour/generals folder in "My Documents". If it asks to overwrite, say yes. Then load it up and play. This fix works for Generals and Zero Hour. Good luck folks http://www.ospora.com/dimento/cstrike/options.ini

Posted by: mangofire263 - Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:16:52 PM
hi i have vista and when i try tp play, i get a pop up box saying update needs to re-start the computer, and if you click the(x) it still reboots the computer over and over. acer 1.6 dual core 250 gb hd windows vista premium please help im going through withdrawls!!!!!!!!!![angry]

Posted by: Stewox - Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:22:23 AM
[quote=KaneLivesInDeath] I was refered to this thread by EA Allmighty's forum moderators and told to follow your sugestion... but it didn't work and they sent me back here. This is the exect original Error message Technical Difficulties ... //name the error like this , there is no need to post all what it says// This only appers when I am trying to run the Zero Hour Expansion. and in addition to the INI file there arenow two text files named RealeseCrashInfo and RealeseCrashInfoPrev. both say Release Crash at Wed Oct 03 14:29:11 2007 ; Reason Error parsing INI file 'Data\INI\Object\airforcegeneral.ini' (Line: 'Object AmericaClusterTomahawkMissile ') Last error: Current stack: what should i do now [/quote] You have a mod installed , or it has not been removed completely , delete the > ZH main dir > Data > INI folder about , file extensions , .ini .... , you can simply do it in a txt file , save , then rename the file extension.

Posted by: Stewox - Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:22:23 AM

[quote=KaneLivesInDeath] I was refered to this thread by EA Allmighty's forum moderators and told to follow your sugestion... but it didn't work and they sent me back here. This is the exect original Error message Technical Difficulties ... //name the error like this , there is no need to post all what it says// This only appers when I am trying to run the Zero Hour Expansion. and in addition to the INI file there arenow two text files named RealeseCrashInfo and RealeseCrashInfoPrev. both say Release Crash at Wed Oct 03 14:29:11 2007 ; Reason Error parsing INI file 'Data\INI\Object\airforcegeneral.ini' (Line: 'Object AmericaClusterTomahawkMissile ') Last error: Current stack: what should i do now [/quote] You have a mod installed , or it has not been removed completely , delete the > ZH main dir > Data > INI folder about , file extensions , .ini .... , you can simply do it in a txt file , save , then rename the file extension.

Posted by: Comando112 - Friday, January 18, 2008 5:07:06 AM
Vista Sucks. Stick with XP. Tell the retailer to get you XP instead of vista.

Posted by: krit - Friday, January 18, 2008 7:13:55 AM
If someone wants to use Vista, then they have all the rights to do so. Ranting on about how you don't like Vista isn't very useful either.

Posted by: Goblinforce15 - Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:38:48 AM
ya i have a problem. it says it cannot delete/rename english.big. please help

Posted by: loonatic - Monday, February 18, 2008 10:48:56 AM
[quote=TRIGRHAPPY]ALSO, TO FIX THE HANG ON 2ND SPLASH SCREEN PROBLEM ON VISTA: Go to your /documents/generals zero hour blah blah blah/ directory Delete everything. Create a new file called options.ini Open it and paste the following: AntiAliasing = DrawScrollAnchor = GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0 Gamma = 50 IPAddress = 0.0.0.0 IdealStaticGameLOD = High LanguageFilter = false MoveScrollAnchor = MusicVolume = 55 Resolution = 800 600 Retaliation = yes SFX3DVolume = 79 SFXVolume = 71 ScrollFactor = 50 SendDelay = no StaticGameLOD = Low UseAlternateMouse = no UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no VoiceVolume = 70 Save and exit, Then send me a check for $500 and play the game. ($500 is optional of course) [/quote] Hey TRIGRHAPPY, I've had this problem ever since I got my new pc(3months) and what you've advised has worked perfectly....spot on. Thanks a brazillion m8. One more thing tho, I have the exact same problem with LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth II.....there aint any game info in my documents so I can't try the same trick as for C&C. Have you ANY idea what I could do to sort that out? If you do, then, well, I still can't send you $500 sorry. But imagine the satisfaction of helping a fellow gamer out with such an annoying problem. Cheers ;)

Posted by: loonatic - Monday, February 18, 2008 10:48:56 AM

[quote=TRIGRHAPPY]ALSO, TO FIX THE HANG ON 2ND SPLASH SCREEN PROBLEM ON VISTA: Go to your /documents/generals zero hour blah blah blah/ directory Delete everything. Create a new file called options.ini Open it and paste the following: AntiAliasing = DrawScrollAnchor = GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0 Gamma = 50 IPAddress = 0.0.0.0 IdealStaticGameLOD = High LanguageFilter = false MoveScrollAnchor = MusicVolume = 55 Resolution = 800 600 Retaliation = yes SFX3DVolume = 79 SFXVolume = 71 ScrollFactor = 50 SendDelay = no StaticGameLOD = Low UseAlternateMouse = no UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no VoiceVolume = 70 Save and exit, Then send me a check for $500 and play the game. ($500 is optional of course) [/quote] Hey TRIGRHAPPY, I've had this problem ever since I got my new pc(3months) and what you've advised has worked perfectly....spot on. Thanks a brazillion m8. One more thing tho, I have the exact same problem with LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth II.....there aint any game info in my documents so I can't try the same trick as for C&C. Have you ANY idea what I could do to sort that out? If you do, then, well, I still can't send you $500 sorry. But imagine the satisfaction of helping a fellow gamer out with such an annoying problem. Cheers ;)

Posted by: slippery_target - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:08:17 AM
Please help me. I've had generals since it came out and also zero hour. I've played it on my xp for years but i bought a dell xps last summer with vista and installed zero hour and played it no problems put i just tried playing it the other day and an error messages comes up before the "EA Games, Challenge Everything" screen comes up saying that DIrectX or my operating system is invalid. Should i try the "Create a new file called options.ini"?? Please help

Posted by: slippery_target - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:08:17 AM

Please help me. I've had generals since it came out and also zero hour. I've played it on my xp for years but i bought a dell xps last summer with vista and installed zero hour and played it no problems put i just tried playing it the other day and an error messages comes up before the "EA Games, Challenge Everything" screen comes up saying that DIrectX or my operating system is invalid. Should i try the "Create a new file called options.ini"?? Please help

Posted by: moiwarlord - Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:25:57 AM
hello all , my problem is when i play on line therough Vista and at the 1st moment the match starts i get the vote screen , i have the game installed on another pc and it works fine and they are all using the same router , i do have windows defender running on the new pc that has the problem , i tured shutting it down but the problem is still there .

Posted by: iwillCRUSH - Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:51:28 AM
here is a fix i found on another site not sure if it is for every one but it worked for me, i had already done the compatability and run as administrator changes. go to -> start -> all prgrams -> acessories -> command prompt -> open it, Type Msconfig.exe, press enter -> in that go to tools tab, then find Disable user UAC and click it, their problem solved, you can turn it on with the option underneath it. htis is not my idea i just found it and thought it was pretty simple so i tried it and it worked for me. who knows my puter couold melt tonight as a result. if any one can better explain the change i made i would love to know if any one else is looking for what might be a simple fix and is easy to undo here it is.

Posted by: iwillCRUSH - Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:51:28 AM

here is a fix i found on another site not sure if it is for every one but it worked for me, i had already done the compatability and run as administrator changes. go to -> start -> all prgrams -> acessories -> command prompt -> open it, Type Msconfig.exe, press enter -> in that go to tools tab, then find Disable user UAC and click it, their problem solved, you can turn it on with the option underneath it. htis is not my idea i just found it and thought it was pretty simple so i tried it and it worked for me. who knows my puter couold melt tonight as a result. if any one can better explain the change i made i would love to know if any one else is looking for what might be a simple fix and is easy to undo here it is.

Posted by: SixOneNiner - Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:21:45 AM
I know this topic is about Vista installation but i'm having the same error you mention in regular Generals under XP so i thought i'd bring it up. I played Generals for some days with no issues whatsoever. When i install ZH, Generals stops working, always returning the "Technical Difficulties..." box. I tried removing the game directories under My Documents or using that stripped down option.ini file but no luck. This is using the C&C Deluxe Edition. Did anyone happen to go through the same experience and found a fix?

Posted by: SixOneNiner - Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:21:45 AM

I know this topic is about Vista installation but i'm having the same error you mention in regular Generals under XP so i thought i'd bring it up. I played Generals for some days with no issues whatsoever. When i install ZH, Generals stops working, always returning the "Technical Difficulties..." box. I tried removing the game directories under My Documents or using that stripped down option.ini file but no luck. This is using the C&C Deluxe Edition. Did anyone happen to go through the same experience and found a fix?

Posted by: CG Apollos - Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:14:32 AM
[quote=SixOneNiner]I know this topic is about Vista installation but i'm having the same error you mention in regular Generals under XP so i thought i'd bring it up. I played Generals for some days with no issues whatsoever. When i install ZH, Generals stops working, always returning the "Technical Difficulties..." box. I tried removing the game directories under My Documents or using that stripped down option.ini file but no luck. This is using the C&C Deluxe Edition. Did anyone happen to go through the same experience and found a fix? [/quote]What are the contents of the [i]ReleaseCrashInfo.txt[/i] file, found in your C&C Generals Zero Hour Data folder in My Documents? Please post them here.[quote=Comando112]Vista Sucks. Stick with XP. Tell the retailer to get you XP instead of vista. [/quote]Great way to back up what you say man. You've totally convinced me to go back to XP over Vista.

Posted by: CG Apollos - Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:14:32 AM

[quote=SixOneNiner]I know this topic is about Vista installation but i'm having the same error you mention in regular Generals under XP so i thought i'd bring it up. I played Generals for some days with no issues whatsoever. When i install ZH, Generals stops working, always returning the "Technical Difficulties..." box. I tried removing the game directories under My Documents or using that stripped down option.ini file but no luck. This is using the C&C Deluxe Edition. Did anyone happen to go through the same experience and found a fix? [/quote]What are the contents of the [i]ReleaseCrashInfo.txt[/i] file, found in your C&C Generals Zero Hour Data folder in My Documents? Please post them here.[quote=Comando112]Vista Sucks. Stick with XP. Tell the retailer to get you XP instead of vista. [/quote]Great way to back up what you say man. You've totally convinced me to go back to XP over Vista.

Posted by: Stewox - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:09:21 PM
Just to note , the FIX for VISTA ZH SECOND SPLASH SCREEN FREEZE , works for XP , and the problem also happened on XP pro sp2, did not happen to me never , but on a friends PC , he was using 8500GT and intel dual core E4xx very rare ,very fatal , and lol very easy to fix, i wouldnt guessed in a million years , thanks, whoever thought of the second splash screen fix , [grin]

Posted by: darkmaniac7 - Saturday, August 2, 2008 4:12:48 AM
hey, sorry for bringing back a dead topic but im also having a weird error, i have vista ultimate x64, and generals regular works great, but zero hour on the other hand looks like its about to load up, resizes goes to a black screen then crashes to the desktop with no crash or error, ive done the compatibility thing, Disabled UAC, and enabled the options.ini, ive even reverted to no-cd's and not even that works....im about at the end of my rope with this tupid problem....

Posted by: darkmaniac7 - Saturday, August 2, 2008 4:12:48 AM

hey, sorry for bringing back a dead topic but im also having a weird error, i have vista ultimate x64, and generals regular works great, but zero hour on the other hand looks like its about to load up, resizes goes to a black screen then crashes to the desktop with no crash or error, ive done the compatibility thing, Disabled UAC, and enabled the options.ini, ive even reverted to no-cd's and not even that works....im about at the end of my rope with this tupid problem....

Posted by: frozen4322 - Monday, August 11, 2008 5:07:40 PM
[quote=darkmaniac7]hey, sorry for bringing back a dead topic but im also having a weird error, i have vista ultimate x64, and generals regular works great, but zero hour on the other hand looks like its about to load up, resizes goes to a black screen then crashes to the desktop with no crash or error, ive done the compatibility thing, Disabled UAC, and enabled the options.ini, ive even reverted to no-cd's and not even that works....im about at the end of my rope with this tupid problem....[/quote] I have the exact same problem, and i can't figure it out, no crash info no nothing it just "blacks out"

Posted by: frozen4322 - Monday, August 11, 2008 5:07:40 PM

[quote=darkmaniac7]hey, sorry for bringing back a dead topic but im also having a weird error, i have vista ultimate x64, and generals regular works great, but zero hour on the other hand looks like its about to load up, resizes goes to a black screen then crashes to the desktop with no crash or error, ive done the compatibility thing, Disabled UAC, and enabled the options.ini, ive even reverted to no-cd's and not even that works....im about at the end of my rope with this tupid problem....[/quote] I have the exact same problem, and i can't figure it out, no crash info no nothing it just "blacks out"

Posted by: Slimbob - Sunday, September 7, 2008 12:23:48 PM
[grin] Had the splash screen problem on XP after the new build I have just done. The 'options.ini' cure worked a treat for me but had the added bonus of changing the resolution to match my HD TV. I saw in the configation after the game booted for the first time all the paramaters were set and the rez was set at 800 x 600 on my 23'Samsung HD TV I can go up to 1360x768 and on most older games I can only go up to 1024x768 and get a 'stretched' picture as most games and including some today (Generals 3 being on of them) dont have widescreen resolutions. I changed the rez to 1360x768 and whoo hooo widescreen Generals!!!! Thanks to all for solving my problems. Great forum

Posted by: Slimbob - Sunday, September 7, 2008 12:23:48 PM

[grin] Had the splash screen problem on XP after the new build I have just done. The 'options.ini' cure worked a treat for me but had the added bonus of changing the resolution to match my HD TV. I saw in the configation after the game booted for the first time all the paramaters were set and the rez was set at 800 x 600 on my 23'Samsung HD TV I can go up to 1360x768 and on most older games I can only go up to 1024x768 and get a 'stretched' picture as most games and including some today (Generals 3 being on of them) dont have widescreen resolutions. I changed the rez to 1360x768 and whoo hooo widescreen Generals!!!! Thanks to all for solving my problems. Great forum

Posted by: CHOC0 - Sunday, October 19, 2008 5:53:25 AM
I've got vista and tryd the options.ini trick, the game worked one time next time i wanted to play zh online, i got the 2nd splashscreen problem again :( i feel like its kinda random when it does work and when it doesnt, i didnt change anything.. could any1 help me out?

Posted by: mattso45 - Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:12:34 AM
i have vista and i have had no problems with single player but sometime my PC just exits the game when i am on multiplayer it is very annoying. my system specs are intel dual core procssor 1.46GHz 502 ram directX; 10 display; 32bit 60Hz but it is a laptop so that might be the problem.

Posted by: Bestpretzle - Sunday, July 19, 2009 11:46:45 PM
I have C&C The First Decade and i run Generals Zero Hour. The game loads, i pick single player mode, the country, and the difficulty. everything loads good except when it gets to the part where the bike are coming off the cliff then it freezes. The music keeps playing over and over but the game just freezes. Window Vista Home Premium Toshiba Satellite A205 1GB Ram Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2450 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz

Posted by: Bestpretzle - Sunday, July 19, 2009 11:46:45 PM

I have C&C The First Decade and i run Generals Zero Hour. The game loads, i pick single player mode, the country, and the difficulty. everything loads good except when it gets to the part where the bike are coming off the cliff then it freezes. The music keeps playing over and over but the game just freezes. Window Vista Home Premium Toshiba Satellite A205 1GB Ram Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2450 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz

Posted by: Sheepdisease - Thursday, September 3, 2009 5:42:44 AM
[quote=TRIGRHAPPY]ALSO, TO FIX THE HANG ON 2ND SPLASH SCREEN PROBLEM ON VISTA: Go to your /documents/generals zero hour blah blah blah/ directory Delete everything. Create a new file called options.ini Open it and paste the following: AntiAliasing = DrawScrollAnchor = GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0 Gamma = 50 IPAddress = 0.0.0.0 IdealStaticGameLOD = High LanguageFilter = false MoveScrollAnchor = MusicVolume = 55 Resolution = 800 600 Retaliation = yes SFX3DVolume = 79 SFXVolume = 71 ScrollFactor = 50 SendDelay = no StaticGameLOD = Low UseAlternateMouse = no UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no VoiceVolume = 70 Save and exit, Then send me a check for $500 and play the game. ($500 is optional of course)[/quote] Thank you so much, this worked for me too. To anyone who wishes to know the exact name of the folder, which you should put the options.ini file into, it's called 'Command and Conquer Generals Data'.

Posted by: Sheepdisease - Thursday, September 3, 2009 5:42:44 AM

Posted by: Bartlett - Friday, September 11, 2009 12:28:16 PM
Well I recently purchased C&C Generals and Zero Hour for my PC. I am running vista, and I set both Generals and Zero hour to compatibility mode, however, every so often the screen freezes for a few seconds with the music and whatever sound was playing constantly repeating the last 1/2 second. It does this for about 6 seconds, then the screen fragments (I don't know what it's called, that's the most fitting word I can think of), all sound stops, and I must reboot my PC. Before it only happened every 3 games or so, but now I can't even play 1 skirmish game without it happening. Any help please?

Posted by: Bartlett - Friday, September 11, 2009 12:28:16 PM

Well I recently purchased C&C Generals and Zero Hour for my PC. I am running vista, and I set both Generals and Zero hour to compatibility mode, however, every so often the screen freezes for a few seconds with the music and whatever sound was playing constantly repeating the last 1/2 second. It does this for about 6 seconds, then the screen fragments (I don't know what it's called, that's the most fitting word I can think of), all sound stops, and I must reboot my PC. Before it only happened every 3 games or so, but now I can't even play 1 skirmish game without it happening. Any help please?

Posted by: manik - Saturday, November 7, 2009 5:33:46 AM
Hi, after getting my current PC (with vista) a few years ago i installed generals only to find it would hang at the 2nd splash, i gave up. I feel like playing it again and so followed all the instructions i've seen. I have patched generals and zero hour, put both in compatability mode for SP2 and run both as admin, i put the options.ini file into EA games/command and conquer generals Zero hour and EA games/command and conquer generals zero hour/data still the problem persists, i was wondering if anyone could help me. Thanks in advance

Posted by: manik - Saturday, November 7, 2009 5:33:46 AM

Hi, after getting my current PC (with vista) a few years ago i installed generals only to find it would hang at the 2nd splash, i gave up. I feel like playing it again and so followed all the instructions i've seen. I have patched generals and zero hour, put both in compatability mode for SP2 and run both as admin, i put the options.ini file into EA games/command and conquer generals Zero hour and EA games/command and conquer generals zero hour/data still the problem persists, i was wondering if anyone could help me. Thanks in advance

Posted by: krit - Saturday, November 7, 2009 6:41:50 AM
Options.ini goes in Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Data Not C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Command & Conquer Generals

Posted by: manik - Saturday, November 7, 2009 8:08:57 AM
cheers, i just assumed. However, that doesn't seem to have fixed it :S anyone got any other ideas?

Posted by: hahailost - Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:23:55 PM
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.

Posted by: sosa - Friday, November 27, 2009 9:06:44 PM
[quote=TRIGRHAPPY]ALSO, TO FIX THE HANG ON 2ND SPLASH SCREEN PROBLEM ON VISTA: Go to your /documents/generals zero hour blah blah blah/ directory Delete everything. Create a new file called options.ini Open it and paste the following: AntiAliasing = DrawScrollAnchor = GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0 Gamma = 50 IPAddress = 0.0.0.0 IdealStaticGameLOD = High LanguageFilter = false MoveScrollAnchor = MusicVolume = 55 Resolution = 800 600 Retaliation = yes SFX3DVolume = 79 SFXVolume = 71 ScrollFactor = 50 SendDelay = no StaticGameLOD = Low UseAlternateMouse = no UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no VoiceVolume = 70 Save and exit, Then send me a check for $500 and play the game. ($500 is optional of course)[/quote] 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

Posted by: sosa - Friday, November 27, 2009 9:06:44 PM

Posted by: goldmarine - Saturday, December 5, 2009 10:10:37 AM
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?

Posted by: nap420 - Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:30:59 AM
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

Posted by: nap420 - Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:30:59 AM

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

Posted by: nap420 - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:55:00 AM
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

Posted by: nap420 - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:55:00 AM

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

Posted by: Think Twice - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 6:53:55 PM
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?

Posted by: needmon3y - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:28:31 AM
what about if you press run as administrator and it does not work? what do i do? [question]

Posted by: Bay - Saturday, January 15, 2011 4:13:52 AM
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.

Posted by: firecrackers - Saturday, May 28, 2011 6:02:54 AM

[quote=sosa] [quote=TRIGRHAPPY]ALSO, TO FIX THE HANG ON 2ND SPLASH SCREEN PROBLEM ON VISTA: Go to your /documents/generals zero hour blah blah blah/ directory Delete everything. Create a new file called options.ini Open it and paste the following: AntiAliasing = DrawScrollAnchor = GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0 Gamma = 50 IPAddress = 0.0.0.0 IdealStaticGameLOD = High LanguageFilter = false MoveScrollAnchor = MusicVolume = 55 Resolution = 800 600 Retaliation = yes SFX3DVolume = 79 SFXVolume = 71 ScrollFactor = 50 SendDelay = no StaticGameLOD = Low UseAlternateMouse = no UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no VoiceVolume = 70 Save and exit, Then send me a check for $500 and play the game. ($500 is optional of course)[/quote] 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 [/quote] HOW BOUT THIS EROR !!! [sad] [sad] [sad] 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:

Posted by: firecrackers - Saturday, May 28, 2011 6:05:35 AM
ANYONE CAN HELP PLS... !!!! [sad] [sad] [sad]

Posted by: firecrackers - Saturday, May 28, 2011 6:06:43 AM

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:

Posted by: leodew - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:00:27 AM
The options.ini technique worked fine for me, thanks a lot :)

Posted by: possiblespy - Sunday, July 26, 2015 6:06:45 PM

Release Crash at Sun Jul 26 17:01:32 2015 ; Reason Uncaught Exception during initialization. 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:00000004 was read from. Stack Dump: (-1) : 0x004F8070 Details: Register dump... Eip:004F8070 Esp:001844B0 Ebp:057C18CC Eax:00000000 Ebx:00000000 Ecx:00000000 Edx:00956F90 Esi:057C1824 Edi:00000003 EFlags:00210246 CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0053 GS:002b EIP bytes dump... Bytes at CS:EIP (004F8070) : 8B 41 04 56 8B 74 24 08 8B D0 0B D6 89 51 04 5E C2 04 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 Current stack:

Posted by: klingondragon - Monday, July 27, 2015 1:29:53 PM
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.

Posted by: possiblespy - Monday, July 27, 2015 3:09:20 PM
[img]http://i.gyazo.com/15e4db0064de1f3812109f03658587ea.png[/img] 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".

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