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Anonymous

12 years ago

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Direct X 8.1 error affecting Command & Conquer Generals and Command & Conquer Zero Hour.

Our team is aware of a Direct X 8.1 error affecting Command & Conquer Generals and Command & Conquer Zero Hour. I tried the fix posted on the help forum but deleting the file didn't fix generals ze...

ATron50000
11 years ago
http://help.ea.com/en/article/command-conquer-generals-and-command-conquer-zero-hour-direct-x-8-1-error-workaround/
^^^^^ 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....

milosbg20

2 years ago

@milosbg20 Something I forgot to mention. I have also tried swapping monitors. 1 uses DP, 2 use HDMI and one is DVI. Didn't change anything.

I noticed when changing resolutions sometimes I would trigger the directx 8.1 error again. Just checked, and it seems when I enter 1440x768 I will get that error, but with all other resolutions I just get a black screen for a moment and get thrown out to desktop.