Generals and Zero Hour crashes on launch
When I try to launch Generals or Zero Hour i get attached Technical Difficulties error. I'm pretty sure there is nothing wrong with my PC since it runs other games just fine. After selecting the game I want to play it pops up a screen saying it needs administrative rights, I click ok and then the game briefly loads, the EA appears, and the EA Games voice, then the game crashes and shows the attached error. Same issue when launching the game with Steam
This is in the crash log:
Release Crash at Sun Oct 11 17:56:42 2026
; Reason Uncaught Exception in GameEngine::update
Last error:
Exception is access violation
WinMain at 4017a0
Error code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Description: The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.
Access address:00000040 was read from.
Stack Dump:
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x66E839B8
Details:
Register dump...
Eip:66E839B8 Esp:001AD1E0 Ebp:001AD2D8
Eax:00000000 Ebx:00000000 Ecx:7FFFFFFF
Edx:00000000 Esi:00000001 Edi:0DE25F30
EFlags:00010242
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0053 GS:002b
EIP bytes dump...
Bytes at CS:EIP (66E839B8) : 83 78 40 00 0F 84 8E 03 00 00 8B 40 40 81 F9 FF FF FF 7F 75 0E 8B 88 9C 00 00 00 89 8D 30 FF FF
