Problem playing c and c generals zero hour . Win 7 64

413x · 10 Apr 2012 at 11:28

Keeps crashing on me

Have an ssd with the game on a different drive

It keeps crashing, at different points, so annoying got my console because of exactly these issues but was hoping I could at least play some of my old games!

Is there a fix?

matt_fsr · 10 Apr 2012 at 12:15

Steam or non-Steam version?

Have you put the latest patch on if its' non-Steam? If not, do so!

Any error messages when it crashes?

413x · 10 Apr 2012 at 12:31

It's patched

The sound just distorts then I have to reset

trigger-happy · 10 Apr 2012 at 12:54

There is an unoffical community patch which lets you play without a disc also it fixes the problem with w7 64bit. Oddly enough I still cant get the menu background animation to get going, its just a picture and no music.

413x · 10 Apr 2012 at 13:18

Thanks for that, I don't have that patch, yeah I did wonder about the background animation being off
Trying to find said patch now

MouthBoy · 10 Apr 2012 at 18:49

Yes there is a way, I will quickly do a few searches for you.

EDIT: Here is a link to another forum (sorry) and it has the answer to how I got mine working.

Amnesia · 10 Apr 2012 at 19:22

matt_fsr said:
Steam or non-Steam version?

steam version ?

Tute · 10 Apr 2012 at 20:37

trigger-happy said:
There is an unoffical community patch which lets you play without a disc also it fixes the problem with w7 64bit. Oddly enough I still cant get the menu background animation to get going, its just a picture and no music.

The patch removes the animated menu, apparantly that was one of the things causing a problem.

Also, mine crashes unless I turn UAC off completely. Have you tried that?

trigger-happy · 11 Apr 2012 at 00:03

Tute said:
The patch removes the animated menu, apparantly that was one of the things causing a problem.

Also, mine crashes unless I turn UAC off completely. Have you tried that?

Ah I see, it makes sense now

My UAC is always off, ty for the reply

Tute · 11 Apr 2012 at 00:33

Start going through the stuff suggested here then:

http://www.commandandconquer.com/forums/showthread.php?547-Common-Problems-(Updated-11-12-2011)

It's for TFD but i've tried the suggestions in that thread with standard Generals and they've worked with that too.