Command & Conquer: Generals

iNPUt · 4 Jan 2010 at 16:04

I am am looking to purchase Command & Conquer: Generals and Im lazy,
can't be bothered to wait for deliverys, was just wondering if anybody has seen
it on a game distribution client / program.

Not on: Steam or EA download store.

West · 4 Jan 2010 at 16:17

Doubtfull, it's an old, old game now.. get it from Play.. you'll have it in a day..

Chong Warrior · 4 Jan 2010 at 18:36

Be aware this only works on XP, won't work on Vista or 7

Dave85 · 4 Jan 2010 at 18:49

I have both generals and zero hour installed and working fine on vista x64 me and my mates were playing just yesterday using direct connect.

Mak3R · 4 Jan 2010 at 18:51

Worked fine for me in Vista x64 too. Although i beleive i had to manually create the settings.inf file (or something like that) to get it to launch as the game wouldnt do it automatically. After that run perfectly.

dovey · 4 Jan 2010 at 18:52

same windows 7x64 and generals works fine for me

Tute · 4 Jan 2010 at 19:54

Mine works in Windows 7 x64.

Best bet is to get it as part of The First Decade. That way you get support for newer operating systems.

physichull · 4 Jan 2010 at 20:56

Chong Warrior said:
Be aware this only works on XP, won't work on Vista or 7

Nope, works on Vista. Classic game. Have it installed on my pc now.

killari · 4 Jan 2010 at 21:40

Tute said:
Mine works in Windows 7 x64.

Best bet is to get it as part of The First Decade. That way you get support for newer operating systems.

I can confirm the non first decade copies of generals and zero hour work fine on my vista and windows 7 x64 builds.

Tute · 4 Jan 2010 at 22:00

killari said:
I can confirm the non first decade copies of generals and zero hour work fine on my vista and windows 7 x64 builds.

Fair enough. Never had to try myself as I just bought TFD.

Chong Warrior · 4 Jan 2010 at 22:48

My copy never worked with Vista, haven't bothered trying with 7 yet, worth a shot I suppose

Jsbeer · 5 Jan 2010 at 08:59

The originals are a pain to get working to Vista - however if you do a web search you'll find some posts on how to get them working. Buying the first decade which has been optimized for new operating systems is a much much better bet though.............

iNPUt · 5 Jan 2010 at 09:43

Cheers for the heads up about first decade, can grab it for a fiver with free delivery

Cheaper than buying them singularly.

peetee · 12 Jan 2010 at 20:53

anyone have any problems having games between vista/win7 machines and XP machines?
Turned out a few of us used to play generals, so we decided to lan it up on laptops, problem is the vista/win7 machines can all play together fine, but if the XP systems join it mismatches... though the XP machines can play against each other fine.

kieves1 · 12 Jan 2010 at 22:41

peetee said:
anyone have any problems having games between vista/win7 machines and XP machines?
Turned out a few of us used to play generals, so we decided to lan it up on laptops, problem is the vista/win7 machines can all play together fine, but if the XP systems join it mismatches... though the XP machines can play against each other fine.

Are all the ports forwarded correctly???

ZH is a better game than generals but a few bugs and imbalances

esK` · 12 Jan 2010 at 23:07

Superweapons General for example... Altho I love the Aurora Alpha Bombers! Got to love the explosion from them!

peetee · 12 Jan 2010 at 23:08

doesnt seem to need anything forwarding, since the vistas/7s can play with each other.. and the xps can too. We're all set to different ports in the options menu.

Samueltastic · 12 Jan 2010 at 23:29

Loved the airforce general. King Raptor ready for take off :cool:

sbi5ar · 13 Jan 2010 at 08:08

The first decade was some thing like £7.49 in GAME during the january sales..... Not sure if it is still at that price.

Jsbeer · 13 Jan 2010 at 08:13

Generals is £5 here:

Eeek apparently the place is a supposed to be a competitor, but you can always search for the deal yourself...........