Command & Conquer: Generals & VISTA

[mullers]

i have a laptop with vista and i could play command and conquer generals just fine alone. but when i down loaded the updates it told me to restart my laptop, now when i open the game i have a box that says patching and when it gets to 10/10 instal_Final.bnp, an error msg appears saying "patch error. existing game files may have been modified. you should reinstal t...
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help me please

[dazilla85]

HI IM RUNNING WINDOWS VISTA ULTIMATE ON MY LAPTOP IVE INSTALLED C&C GENERALS & ZERO HOUR AND I GET A MESSAGE SAY INSERT CORRECT CD EVEN THO ITS THE SAME CD I JUST INSTALLED THE GAME OFF NOW WHEN I FIRST GOT THE LAPTOP 6 MONTHS AGO IT WORKED WITH OUT A PROBLEM BUT THEN I STARTED DOING THE WINDOWS UPDATES AND IT STOPPED WORKING IS IT BECAUSE OF THE UPDATES OR SOMETING ELSE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME EMAIL ME WITH SOME OR OF RESPONSE paulkeating3@hotmail.com

[sykez]

hi ive bought command and conquer generals and ive finished all maps and finished all missions and now i want to play online with people that i think might be hard enough to play against but every time i try to go online it makes me install a update and then exits and starts the command and conquer generals back up and then im go into multiplayer then online and it makes me do it all over again please help please please pleeeeease

thanks.=)

[Roox84]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sykez

hi ive bought command and conquer generals and ive finished all maps and finished all missions and now i want to play online with people that i think might be hard enough to play against but every time i try to go online it makes me install a update and then exits and starts the command and conquer generals back up and then im go into multiplayer then online and it makes me do it all over again please help please please pleeeeease

thanks.=)

I'm having the same problem. I have the hardcopy (not a pirated version). Any help or links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Caspers]

i need some help with generals, it seems if i play too long online on one map it cuts me from the game all together , also sometimes i will be in the online lobby and it will appear cannot connect to persistant storage server can some one help me with my problem? i run vista and my laptop is compatible and meets the requirements for the game!!

[electric]

C&C is a pain but if you follow these steps it should work for you

if the game is install

put disc in drive on boot up choose delete from the menu
delete the game plus any personal files [ saves ]

when finish deleting pop open the drive and let drive boot up
you should be only able to install game

after install go online [ thru game ] DL and install updates than set up your account-----play

[Caspers]

Quote:

Originally Posted by electric

C&C is a pain but if you follow these steps it should work for you

if the game is install

put disc in drive on boot up choose delete from the menu
delete the game plus any personal files [ saves ]

when finish deleting pop open the drive and let drive boot up
you should be only able to install game

after install go online [ thru game ] DL and install updates than set up your account-----play

I tryed that in the past m8 and when i tryed to install the game again i had all sorts of problems, do you know the official site to register my game codes to prevent these kinds of things from happening? I registered last time with a different cd(same game) and i had no problems at all after that.

[Caspers]

Quote:

Originally Posted by mullers

i have a laptop with vista and i could play command and conquer generals just fine alone. but when i down loaded the updates it told me to restart my laptop, now when i open the game i have a box that says patching and when it gets to 10/10 instal_Final.bnp, an error msg appears saying "patch error. existing game files may have been modified. you should reinstal t...
failure renaming\deleting file Crogram files\ea games|command & conquer generals\english.big
help me please

M8 i can tell you that you have a serious problem because the exact same thing happened to me, i think you have uninstalled your game then reinstalled it without completely removing everything, there is a big'file in the install, that prevents you from reinstalling without completely removing all files from the previous install, i think you have also registered your game with your code too(you can only do that once), what you have to do is go into your registry(you must be very carefull doing this) go to your desktop menu and where it says start search type in regedit press enter, then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE arrow and press ,then SOFTWARE arrow and press,then ELECTRONIC ARTS arrow and press, then EA GAMES arrow and press,then right clik GENERALS and delete,then press all the arrows you just pressed to collapse the menu's then just click on your desktop to bring you back to your normal screen, then restart your computer and attempt to reinstall your game again, get back to me if that don't work ok

[Caspers]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sykez

hi ive bought command and conquer generals and ive finished all maps and finished all missions and now i want to play online with people that i think might be hard enough to play against but every time i try to go online it makes me install a update and then exits and starts the command and conquer generals back up and then im go into multiplayer then online and it makes me do it all over again please help please please pleeeeease

thanks.=)

go to google and type in command and conquer generals patches, then find the one where it says: english patch 1.07 and download it, the reason why generals does this is because your computer has to be known by generals online, then restart your computer, after that you have to go into your command and conquer generals data which is in my documents, then go to options configuration settings, then where it says port overide delete whatever is there and type in your own 4 digit code, then on your top left corner go to file and save, then close menu and restart your computer,then go into generals game and the 1st menu you see go to options, and down the bottom it will say: (Refresh Nat) press it ,then exit game, then go back in and do the same thing and this time you should see your 4 digit port overide number there, if you do you should have no problems playing online ok!! let me know how you went

[Roox84]

I got my "65544_65536_english.rtp" update to finally work by uninstalling and retrying several times. Now it won't let me play online, says Serial number is invalid. I got my copy from a yard sale for $4 this summer... now I know why it was so cheap.
How can I get a valid serial number?