^^^^^ 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....
Hi all not sure if i am crashing this party a tad too late but any ways... here it goes.
So i am running a 3300X with 32GB 3200 DDR4 and a GTX980 on WIN10... this should be enough to run CCGens, both but i was getting the same DX8.1 error. Even after applying all the above solutions...
But this was bugging me as i previously ran the game but only started to get this error when i changed monitors.
So, before i was using an HP E241i on an HDMI connection... then i moved to a AOC using the DisplayPort 2.1 for 165Hz screen refresh rate and this is when things started to go sour for me.
To this day i still cannot use any display port on any monitor as it will trigger the DX8.1 error... but using any other HDMI or DVI connection it works flawlessly.
So my take on this matter is; it might be a refresh cap sort of issue.
Cheers 'vry one!
Look up GenPatcher, it will fix your issue.
