Download Map For General Zero Hour

[Latrina Mosely]

AlsoI DID have the the Tiberium Redux mod installed and that gave me the same error as I am getting now, so I uninstalled that, and uninstalled ZH and Generals and tried to start from scrated. I am still getting this error. Would be something simple as a resolution error?

PS: My resolution is set to 1600 900 because I have a wide screen monitor. When I filled out the options.ini that's the resolution I entered. I notice however after launching the game and going into the options menu, it' still set at 800 600. Weird huh? I thought if I exited the game, set my desktop to 800 600 and THEN tried it, it would fix it. It didn't, it must be a bad file from that Tiberium Redux, but I deleted all the folders! o.0

I'm not so sure about this next suggestion, but maybe it's with your copy of Generals. Or overheating, it may be possible, depending on the number of fans your PC has and the weather where you're living. Meh, I really have no other suggestions, since I cannot test on my PC (I'm running a Win7 Ultimate Edition 64 bit on specs way different from yours).

Overheating to measures so great that you can't play a 2003 game on such a computer is totally out of the question. You didn't read the error at all. It always says that errors may come from viruses, overheating software, etc., but none can affect ZH nowadays.

Yes, we've all experienced overheating, but only with those games our computers can barely run on minimal detail. This summer I've pretty much tortured my PC with StarCraft II and hi-detail Kane's Wrath. But that is only because I don't have an air conditioner at home, while everyone else has one.

Overheating on 7 almost 8 year old games on a computer with 2,8 GHz and 6 GB RAM, as trunkskgb has, is impossible. Plus, that error window is written like that for people who don't know what to do when the game crashes. Viruses and overheating hardware are only implied to be the cause, but no viruses specifically effect generals.exe or generalsZH.exe, and overheating is possible only if you can hear your PC moan. I've had dealings with that error window before, but those errors turned out to be only wrongly written mod stuff.

@trunkskgb, did you make sure you manually deleted all Tiberian Dawn Redux files from that folder? If not, you may have put the game in the same directory as you did before, along with left-over files from the mod.

No need to hear the PC moan... And for the virus, well. there's one that can affect all exe files (but not all at the same time, but at random), Sality. It doesn't outright kill all exe files, but it kills enough to necessitate either a full reformat (of all partitions), or a manual MS-DOS deletion (unless you have an anti-virus that cleans everything, including the boot-sector, accessible only through MS-DOS, before Windows boots up).

AAAARGH! Now I'm just confused. Can anyone explain what the interface that is used before Windows boots up is called? And am I right in assuming that it is the one being used to access and clean boot sectors of viruses?

I think we're steering a bit too much away from the initial meaning of this topic. If trunkskgb has an antivirus with an active protection service (like Symantec Endpoint Protection), then he couldn't have Sality (who knows how old that virus is?). If he doesn't, than he is pretty much on his own now, presuming he has Sality. MS-DOS and NT are not the same, story ended.

trunkskgb didn't answer to any of our possible solutions, so maybe it's best that we wait until he says: did he manually delete all mod files, or if not - did he install Generals in the same directory as before; is Generals patched to 1.08 and ZH to 1.04; is the game legit.

I deleted everything, and started from scratch and it still gave me an error. I then remembered that "another" folder is created in the Application Data folder where data is stored. I deleted that, and Generals worked. The patches I have for my games are from the original Westood FTP site that I have saved on my external storage device from years ago. They are legit. After I had Generals working, I played it for a few days using fan made maps. Bay of Pigs 2 to be exact. I then got bored with that, so I installed Zero Hour. I launched the game, and I got in. I made it all the way to the skirmish mode where you pick bases and colors and everything. I said to myself that it works, and I exited the game. The VERY next time I launched ZH, I got that error again just after the loading screen after the EA movie, and the opening intro.

hey there, i know this reply is very late haha, im having exactly the same problems, and about the overheating issue, its not my laptop overheating, but the cooler my laptop, the more of a chance i have of my game running hahaha, dont ask why, i havent found any solutions to this yet, my zero hour is on 1.4 or 04, something like that and i have bought it from retail, not cracked either, with no mods, i dont have a solution to this, but im only posting to share my experience and hope that when u find your solution, you can share too.

Personally i would go back to my old computer, its os was vista, but recently the motherboard stopped working and i havent had the money to buy a new one, this current computer is windows 7, and i know for a fact that zero hour isnt working because of the OS, on my vista, i had no problems, and every since getting this laptop, with 7, most of my games have stopped working, or not worked very well at all, i believe it has something to do with its compatibility, games like GTA4 and Fallout 3 aren't working on this computer as they were on my old one, and this laptop could run 20million circles around my old one before the old one would know whats happening its that much more powerful.

All of my games work fine on Windows 7 and I'm talking games from back in the day. I got Tib Dawn and Red Alert working on 7, but that was 32-bit rather than 64-bit. I know some games rely on full administrator permissions before they can run properly. May need to set Run as Admin on the game executable, and see if that helps any. Because, to be honest, it's not the OS that won't run the games... it's something else.

Thank You for your reply.

yes, I'm asking for a better configuration please. My experiment with using the same settings as that bf2 configuration (failed) worked only on one of three of my computers. the premade c&c generals.dxw config only works with the original c&c generals, but not c&c generals zero hour.

Thanks again,

noddynod443

I have done some extra experimenting with the c&c generals.dxw from the dxwnd exports folder and I would venture to say that that config never worked. Starting c&c generals zero hour with the config just bypasses any video setting in the config.

I finally retrieved my licenced copy from the "Command & Conquer the First Decade" 2DVD box, but I got a quite frustrating result: the game is easily installed, but the securom protection doesn't let the game start in Win10 and the few cracks I could find seem either viral or not working.

How did you manage to make the game running in first place?

Well, I'm running C&C Generals by using c&c The First Decade on a windows 7 Ultimate 64bit OS. I also had a windows 10 laptop that had no problem running the First Decade on it. I believe this patch should fix your problems:

I use the patch. It fixes bugs from all the first decades collection of games, it fixes Lan and internet functions, and it removes the need for having the dvd/cd to start or play any of the first decade games.

The situation here is a little frustrating.

I installed the game from original DVD, ok the game is safedisk protected and therefore needs a crack, after a few unlucky experiments here is what happened:

Yes, sounds like a frustrating situation.

I think the problem might be cause by your Install DVD; because you shouldn't need any cracks, there should not be any problem installing the unoffical patch 1.03 rev 4, and you should not need the DVD after installing the patch.

I can hardly believe it's my DVD fault since it is a physical DVD (when I say "physical" I mean that I spent my money to purchease something, including private printed activation keys) and the install procedure completed successfully, so all stuff was transferred on HD.

As I said, the game was copy protected with some safedisk release, so it needs a crack and (since I own the DVD & leaflet with activation keys) I'm legally entitled to use a crack, that BTW I believe it was distributed by EA itself, since the 1.03 patch removes the copy protection.

In addition, it doesn't seem that this game bundle has some sort of localization so that I could blame something like a "bad italian version" (or not? I have to check...).

In any case, it's not a good point in favor of EA: such an old game should work flawlessly.

Anyway we can try your release, though I'm skeptical, I fear it could be something about the game that doesn't like my pc...

How about doing a "remote testing"? You can setup a experimental .dxw config, post it here for a group of folks to checkout, then they can test it and post back their results, and so on

What do think of that idea? Certainly all us "players" could give ya a hand in that way?

It was all useless. Your files have the same effect here: I used them to uninstall & reinstall C&C Generals (I decided to leave ZH for later) then I patched the game with the included Unoffical Patch 1.03 rev4. Both install & patch process were ok, no problems of any sort, but when I run the game I see a splash screen for about a minute, then the game suddently terminates with no messages or logs. Nothing changed compared with my DVD install.

I wonder what could have happened. The game stops logging more or less afer this log line

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