Command and Conquer loading and saving error windows 7 64 bit

[Anniolation]

Hi

I wonder if anyone can help!!

I am playing command and conquer generals on my PC, which runs fine on my windows 7 64bit machine, however when i go to save the game the game closes out to windows and i get an error box comes up saying technical difficulties, sorry a serious error occurred!!

This is so frustrating as i cant play the whole game without saving.

I have tried running the game as administrator, going into the files and changing read write option for all admin and users and even even changed the ini file in the c&c folder and nothing works.

I used to play it on my xp system and worked fine but it wont work on my windows 7 system

I am running windows 7 home premium 64 bit
Intel Core quad Q8300 AT 2.50 Ghz
4 Gig of memory
NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT

Nothing is wrong with the game play on i cant save and hence i cant load

Any help would be appreciated!!

[Jorge749]

If you REALLY want this to work, try the following:
-Re-install the game and hope it fixes its self.
-Run it on Windows XP.
-Give up
From what I have seen, this error come and goes randomly but only appears on Windows VISTA and 7 working fine on XP.

[xezon]

Run the game in XP compatibility mode.

[rodonmanes]

The truth is, that the game doesn´t work properly on win 7 - 64 bit, and it probably never will as EA games refuse to offer any good support for it (beleave me, i´ve treid and they just don´t care, customers apparently aren´t valuable to them). The only thing you can do is tinker with the game until it works semi fine and crashes the least while playing. I´ve tried every trick in the book and there is non that absolutely works, i thought though for a moment few days ago, that i had found a permanent solution to the problem, and was going to share the solution on a torrent, but no... it turned out to be false alarm, i will though continue to search for the solution, but i doubt it will ever be made as EA ignores this problem and hides behind windows xp but still sells the game, which then in return, ticks of people when they discover that they can´t run it on win 7 100%. I think EA should just man up and release a patch that fixes the game and makes it compatible and fixes the multiplayer also, that would make SOOOOO many people happy, this is a huge issue in the Generals community!

[rodonmanes]

First of all, patch to 1.04 before trying anything below.

You could try and uninstall the game, go to the registry and delete every zero hour entry and install again, do not use the cd crack as it sometimes makes the game malfunction.

There are few solutions you can also try, like insert into the options.ini;

C:\Users\<USERNAME>\Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data\options.ini
AntiAliasing = 0
DrawScrollAnchor =
FirewallBehavior = 0
GameSpyIPAddress = 192.168.0.1 (make sure you use your own IP)
Gamma = 50
IPAddress = 192.168.0.1 (make sure you use your own IP)
IdealStaticGameLOD = High
LanguageFilter = false
MoveScrollAnchor = 0
MusicVolume = 61
Resolution = 800 600
Retaliation = yes
SFX3DVolume = 58
SFXVolume = 53
ScrollFactor = 60
SendDelay = no
StaticGameLOD = lOW
UseAlternateMouse = no
UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no
VoiceVolume = 70

There was also a theory that if you installed the game on windows xp and copied the data folder from the generals zero hour folder to the win 7 generals zero hour folder (deleted the data folder and inserted the "win xp" data folder), it would solve some problems, and it really did for quite some time for me, but started to crash again recently. This also actually messed up the mod i had installed, that is, the AI that the mod had, which was kind of obvious but, hey... if you´re going to try this, then there will be side effects.

You can also check if you have sufficient rights to the game folder (right click, properties, security and choose your user and edit the user rights).

It is also not recommended to install the game to program files as it´s more restricted in Win 7, hence the access violations that occur sometimes.

and of course, run in compatibility mode (win xp sp 3) and run as admin and disable visual themes.

If you want the game to load a little bit faster you can add into the shortcut -noshellmap (like if you had "C:\games\generals.exe" in the shortcut, you could do this instead "C:\games\generals.exe" -noshellmap).

and you could go extreme and disable all programs that windows runs on boot up and restart and see if the game is more stable.

I got this "fix" from EA games, to run only one CPU while playing the game, that didn´t do anything.

aaand to top this all of, be sure to have installed DX9 or directx 9.0c, else the game won´t work (well.. actually, it requires DX8.1, but DX9.0c is better).

and there are loads of other fixes that íve tried, these are only few of them and some have worked, like the options.ini, registry cleaning and the data folder copying, but like i´ve said before, Generals zero hour and generals just desn´t work properly on win 7 and probably never will.

[rodonmanes]

This is actually one of the most common errors you could get by running zero hour in windows 7 64 bit;

Release Crash at Wed Jun 08 15:05:36 2011
; Reason Uncaught Exception during initialization.

Last error:
Exception is access violation
WinMain at 401700
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:000E9FB8 was read from.

Stack Dump:
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x77CF2A85
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x77CF2D07
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x77CF2BF2
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x6B43A25D
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x75EA98CD
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x007D66BB
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x007851D2
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x00785027
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x0074EBFB

Details:
Register dump...
Eip:77CF2A85 Esp:0018AE18 Ebp:0018AE40
Eax:029C18A8 Ebx:029A3A58 Ecx:00000000
Edx:000E9FB8 Esi:029C18A0 Edi:00E60000
EFlags:00010246
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0053 GS:002b
EIP bytes dump...

Bytes at CS:EIP (77CF2A85) : 8B 12 3B D1 0F 85 A9 5C 00 00 3B D0 0F 85 A1 5C 00 00 0F B7 06 29 47 78 8B 87 B8 00 00 00 85 C0


Current stack:

EA games knows of this but don´t do anything about it, maybe Victory games will do something??? This is actually also happening in the lord of the ring: battle for middle earth, which is, as i understand, just an upgraded version of the SAGE engine, so this isn´t just zero hour that is behaving like this.