ok i got mine working, hope this helps others. my fix was a combination of previous ideas with 1 twist.
step one: i repurchased the entire command and conquer games series through Origin to get around the no disc problem
step two: i went into the options file in both the command and conquer generals and zero hour folders and edited the resolution value to 1920 1080 and saved them
step three: dont mess with resolution value in game under options or you will have to repeat step 2 to be able to play again
fix should work on any game in the series where the stock video option was showing invalid option and has an options file under documents. 3 days worth of headache......kind of surprised ea didnt do this as a patch
Hi
I had similar secdrv issues with Generals and a patch that came down for Win 7 last year
The fix was to start a cmd prompt as admin
Start > run>type cmd - from list of progs produced (cmd should be top) right mouse click & run as Admin
in the admin cmd box type sc start secdrv & Enter
C&C should now run
To stop the secdrv (obviously someone at MS thought it was a security breach in the same admin box type
sc stop secdrv
The full list of commands are :
sc config secdrv start= disabled
To set the driver's service to manual, type the following command:
sc config secdrv start= demand
To enable the driver's service (and to set it to automatic), type the following command:
sc config secdrv start=auto
To manually start the driver's service, type the following command:
sc start secdrv
To manually stop the driver's service, type the following command:
sc stop secdrv
I've just upgraded to Win 10 which has totally stopped this hack working
