Re: "Registry is corrupt and has been altered"

thanks for the advice i was able to get zero hour working this way but not generals which sucks , thanks anyay man

The same thing. Me and a buddy are trying to play C&C Generals and I can't connect to the online part....and I just bought the Ultimate collection for this purpose only... ☹️

What can I do?

Hi,

Just found out this afternoon the problem within windows 8.  Had the same register failure.

The solution is quite simple. Just set the program as like starting in windows 7 and give it administrator rights. And suddenly I am able to play all of the mismatch register games. Zero hour, red alert 3.

Did nothing inside the regedit.

Paulus

Finally I have fixed it on my computer with WindowsXP. It seems that somebody made a typo in the source code!

I can see diffent keys in registry than you wrote:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Electronic Arts -> EA Games -> Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour -> ergc

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Electronic Arts -> EA Games -> Generals]-> ergc (including ])

After changing "Generals]" to "Generals" it works!

there are two folder in the registery under the C&C folder

Red Alert 3
Red Alert 3*

delete the original and rename the Red Alert 3* to look like original

I had to do this with red alert 3, but I had to add the key ergc to all of the Red Alert 3 keys in the registyr directy shown.

Not sure which one worked, but it works now.

It isn't any of your business why I changed my regedit.  But since you seem ignorant of the fact, the registry which supports all things in windows gets bogged down and corrupted.  Thus cleaning up a registry is absolutely common.  How can you not know this?

How can I fix this for RA3 on Windows XP? I have not seen a working solution for C&C RA3 on Windows XP.

For me it also only works on zero hour, i still get the same error running cnc generals. Any solution for this?

Can you please elaborate what "add the key ergc to all of the Red Alert 3 keys in the registy" means?

It has been a while, but I recall that I navigated to the following location in the REGISTRY;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Wow6432Node -> Electronic Arts -> EA Games -> Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour -> ergc

Here I manually re-entered all of my product Serial Numbers for Red Alert 3 and DLC.

This resolved the error for me after a reboot.

- Failhelm/Irdenholt