^^^^^ This solved the problem for me on a Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machine ^^^^^
There were 2x copies "dbghelp.dll" in my Zero Hour folder, nuking both fixed it.
God help anyone that uses EA chat help....
^^^^^ This solved the problem for me on a Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machine ^^^^^
There were 2x copies "dbghelp.dll" in my Zero Hour folder, nuking both fixed it.
God help anyone that uses EA chat help....
Received the same DirectX 8.1 error trying to play C&C Zero Hour using the Origin software on Win 10 x64.
None of the options.ini, resolution changes, .dll files deletion worked for me. Enabling GPU Scaling using my AMD video card software did the trick however.
Hopefully this helps someone out and gets them to playing the game faster 🙂
By the way, DirectX 8.1 is not a version of DirectX which comes shipped with Windows. You need to install DirectX 9.0c (which apparently contains it) manually:
This will resolve the missing DirectX library issue for C&C Generals, C&C 3 Tiberium Wars, C&C Red Alert 3, C&C 4 Tiberian Twilight and their expansions, as well as the Battle for Middle-earth series.
Hi, sorry to drag up an old thread, but i have been trying to sort this out for the past 24 hours, i have the same DX8.1 error, so far i have uninstalled reinstalled the game, changed from AVG to another provider due to another error coming up due to AVG, i have done the trick of changing the resolution on the options.ini as well as deleting/ making new ones when they weren't there before. I have reinstalled microsoft c++ 2015/2017 as another web site said this has been a fix for some. and am still at a dead end currently? running on windows 10, ryzen 5 1600x and amd rx580. any help would be great i used to love this game so want to get back into it. This happens for me for both Generals and Zero Hour
