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9 years ago

C&C generals not starting on Windows 10 no matter what

Hello,

I've bougght the command and conquer ultimate collection and downloaded "generals and generals zero hour"

None of these are working on my windows 10 laptop.

I've tried this: 

http://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/Info-How-to-run-older-Command-amp-Conquer-titles-on-Windows-8-1/m-p/4236614#U4236614

But no matter what, i'm getting this error:

Technical Difficulties...

you have encountered a serious error. Serious errors can be caused by meny things including viruses, overheated hardware and hardware that deas not meet the minimum specifications for the game. please visit at www.generals.ea.com ----- and so on.

Can someone please help me?

2 Replies

  • @MattDUC92

    Hmm. No idea, sorry. Generic errors like that are always hard to troubleshoot...

    You might want to check out the Revora forums; given the fact they manage multiplayer for the post-RA2 games nowadays, they probably have experience with these games' problems on the newest systems.

    [edit]

    Wait, it could just be the settings thing... did you also check out the "Common Issues and Solutions"  thread? It's another sticky thread at the top of the forum.

    Go to your My Documents folder and check whether there's a "Command and Conquer Generals Data" and "Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data" folder in it. If not, create them.

    Inside that folder, you should have a file called "options.ini". One of the most common problems with Generals is that this file is missing. If it is, create it by right clicking, selecting "new" -> "Text Document", and then renaming it from "New Text Document.txt" to "options.ini". If you don't see the .txt in the suggested filename, make sure to enable extensions in Windows; otherwise you won't ever be able to rename it to .ini.

    The contents to put into that file are listed in the aforementioned common issues thread. Search for "Generals load crashes" on the page.

  • Hi all. I had the same. I've had luck with this. Origin-Game library- find game and select repair 

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