Command And Conquer Generals Game.dat Crack
Laverne Levenstein
Whenever I play a game either online or offline my units explode after a few seconds and of course I am defeated. This has been happening now for 1 week. What is wrong? Have I got some special C&C virus????
I have the exact same problem where everything blows up after a few seconds and the re-install has not helped. I have also tried manually uninstalling, patching, disabling firewall/antivirus, etc....
I can assure you that it is not ripped/downloaded or cracked in any way. And I even have several brand new serial codes since EA thinks that giving me a new one each time I contact them is the solution.
I am aware that it is a fairly common problem and I have searched all over the forums and google, all of which people post the problem but no answers become available. Alot of the answers received are from moderators of other forums assuming that the person does not have the real disc so they shut down the thread. I believe that is why there is a lack of answers for this particular problem.
Have you tried a complete uninstall? Run the uninstaller from Add/Remove in the Windows Control Panel. Then make sure to remove any files left behind in the game install folder. Remove registry entries as well.
// and now finally the EA representative I have been talking to for about 3 weeks just said he " give up on this problem, I am sorry but there is nothing further I am able to do" and then he gave one of their pre-made comments for this issue "Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts Customer Support. I do apologize for any delay in my response. I have been assigned to your issue, and would be happy to assist you in this matter. As a gamer myself, I understand how frustrating this issue can be. At this time we are investigating this issue closely with the Studio. While we do not have a resolution for this issue, we are hopeful to have it soon. We do apologize for any trouble that this has caused you, and appreciate your patience while this issue is being investigated. ".....
He went on to say that "off the record" that he was refering me to a different patch that might work for the issue and he sent me to a page that had no-cd patches.. ... so I tried it and it now runs without everything blowing up.
His explanation was that there is a built in anti-piracy glitch where if there is any kind of large change on a computer (mine was upgrading to windows 7 ultimate) that the game will think it is not from the actual disc and act as if it is fake.
2. If the game does not allow you to even connect to the online servers// contact an EA representative via the chat service they have (phone support is even worse) and have them supply you a new serial code.
3. If your game is running too fast it is most likely because of something to do with your processor and/or graphics card. The way I got mine to work is to right-click on the shortcut for zero hour and select properties. From there you need to change the target at the end to look instead of ("C:\Program Files (x86)\EA Games\Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour\generals.exe") to look like ("C:\Program Files (x86)\EA Games\Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour\generals.exe" -win) with the space and "win" after it... This will cause your game to start in windowed mode and if your game should not be running as fast anymore, then you need to go into the options on the game and change the resolution to the smallest available, then exit the game. After you exit you need to restart the computer and upon restart you need to change the target of the shortcut back to normal, when the game loads up after that, you can change the resolution back to what you had originally.
4. Finally, if you are having the problem where if you start any kind of non campaign mission and you can only play a few seconds to a minute before everything blows up (or campaign mission where you win and it says you lose)...... this is caused by the games built-in anti-piracy that could have been activated by something on your computer (installing some programs/ antivirus software/ firewall/ etc...).
Assuming you have the actual cd's like I did and not ripped like mentioned above, this problem may be fixed by installing something called a no-cd patch. This method was mentioned by an EA representative via chat (still can't believe that). After the installation make sure your game is patched via the menu after inserting your game disc. The no-cd patch actually includes a game.dat and generals.exe that will force the game to run properly when the game disc in inserted.
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For example, the Twilight Flame map gameplay (with 7 Hard AI) is smooth in Generals v1.08 and ZH v1.0 (unpatched) but it is terrible in ZH v1.04. So, AI Behaviour and Pathfinding Coding is broken in ZH v1.04.
The cause of this is the broken v1.04 game.dat file. The "game.dat" file located in the Zero Hour directory contains some codes related to AI and the difference between the ZH v1.0 and ZH v1.04 versions is due to the "game.dat" file.
By comparing the "game.dat version 1.0" file with the "game.dat version 1.04" files, the error can be detected. As far as I know, the programming language of .dat files is Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. Also Hex editor or something can be use.
In short, you can play version v1.0 until someone fixes this bug in version 1.04. This mod will downgrade your Zero Hour version to v1.0 for performance and smoothly gameplay. Installation instructions are available in the "README.TXT" file.
As I said, Most people use ZH v1.04. Because v1.04 is the latest version and most mods are designed for it. Also, the gentool plugin is only compatible with v1.04, and v1.04 is used in online matches.
Patch 1.04 also includes changelogs of all previous patches. So, the changes from Patch 1.01, Patch 1.02 and Patch 1.03 are also available in Patch 1.04. In addition to these, Patch 1.04 has its own changes.Changelogs are made cumulative.
For example, the FPS drop in the Twilight Flame map in v1.01, v1.02, v1.03 and v1.04 is actually because the AI is trying to take the shortest route. Therefore, vehicles are often stuck on cliff edges.
Many thanks. I apreciatte your upload patch and much your reply. Honestly, i (and possibly many more people) will use this in mods like SHOCKWAVE, because i never play Vanilla ZH later of know Shockwave mod and in maps with 8 players is atrocious the massive slowdown.
You 're welcome. My fix method may work with some mods and not with others. For example, it may not work with shockwave mod. As a workaround I made this fix which downgrades the version to v1.0 so this fix method can be used until this bug is fixed in v1.04.
However, we must fix this issue in game.dat v1.04 file. Thus we can play all mods smoothly and without lag, alongside vanilla Zero Hour. We also get the fixes that all patches from Patch 1.01 to Patch 1.04 have. We need help from someone with programming skills.
Thanks for this solution. This really works and I appreciate it. But the crashes in the game have increased unignorably. I couldn't complete a single skirmish without a game crashing. This is probably because we removed the fixes that came with the patches. Can you suggest something to solve this, apparently the standard solutions don't work much.
This requires opening and editing the game.dat files (perhaps by comparison the v1.0 and v1.04 files) but this requires EA Games to release the source codes of the game and also requires programming knowledge.
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