"technical Difficulties" - C&c Generals

[imported_The__One]

Half of the ppl, who get "Tecnical difficulties", or "A serious error has occured"error when starting the game have not waited for the .bat file to decompress completely..U must wait till it explicitly says done ( I think it auto-closes itself )

And "unace" means decompress a .ace file, like "unzip" mens decompressing a .zip file

Oh, and U don't have to manually run the "divine sound extractor", just unzip, run setup.bat(all the way), run the keygen, then run the key insert app, and paste the key from the keygen, and run the game

p.s: C&C Generals is NOT a DOS based game, it runs perfectly well under win XP, tho some older DOS games, wont...

[Paranoia]

I left the .bat file to go until it said something like "this was compressed using UHARC, now go play. Press any key to continue..." - and it would close. I didn't unace anything, so maybe that's where the problem lies. (unless the original .exe is the ace file)

Steve

[Crip]

Originally posted by Schuler@6 April 2003 - 03:04
What are the settings on your monitor? Try lowering your refresh rate maybe. I'm not hardware expert but maybe if you change some settings it might work.

I tried that, the refresh rate on the monitor was 60, moved that up to 75 and 80 and no luck on either attempt. Downloaded latest drivers for the monitor but once again, no luck.

I did let the setup.bat file run until it closed the dos window itself, so I know that isn't the problem.

Going to try mailing the manufacturers of the monitor for support, if that fails, then changing the monitor is the only option.

[nizers]

All that over a game....

[McGee]

Especially a downloaded game

[Schuler]

Originally posted by McGee@7 April 2003 - 23:23
Especially a downloaded game

He's got a point there. If you have a valid piece of software and it doesn't work then you have a better case. You never know with downloaded software.

[Paranoia]

My setup.bat doens't close itself? Heres the log of what happens when i run it - see if you can spot any errors...


C:\Program Files\Command & Conquer Generals>echo off
decompressing game data.. will take a LONG while

UHARC 0.4 ----- high compression multimedia archiver ----- BETA version
Copyright © 1997-2001 by Uwe Herklotz All rights reserved 28 Dec 2001
>>>> **** FOR TESTING AND EVALUATION ONLY **** NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE **** <<<<

Processing archive "dvnpak1.dvn" (created: 08-Feb-2003, 05:15).
Using 33.7 MB for decompression and 1.0 MB for file buffers.

Extracting 7 files (362529408 bytes)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Completed successfully (77.4 sec) All files OK

UHARC 0.4 ----- high compression multimedia archiver ----- BETA version
Copyright © 1997-2001 by Uwe Herklotz All rights reserved 28 Dec 2001
>>>> **** FOR TESTING AND EVALUATION ONLY **** NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE **** <<<<

Processing archive "dvnpak2.dvn" (created: 10-Feb-2003, 01:50).
Using 33.7 MB for decompression and 1.0 MB for file buffers.

Extracting 430 files (36741380 bytes)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Completed successfully (37.9 sec) All files OK

UHARC 0.4 ----- high compression multimedia archiver ----- BETA version
Copyright © 1997-2001 by Uwe Herklotz All rights reserved 28 Dec 2001
>>>> **** FOR TESTING AND EVALUATION ONLY **** NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE **** <<<<

Processing archive "dvnpak3.dvn" (created: 07-Feb-2003, 04:14).
Using 33.7 MB for decompression and 1.0 MB for file buffers.

Extracting 3567 files (248687264 bytes)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Completed successfully (250.3 sec) All files OK
doing some funky stuff
rebuilding bigfiles will take time but its worth it =)
Building: &#39;maps.big&#39;
Building: &#39;terrain.big&#39;
Building: &#39;textures.big&#39;
Building: &#39;Audio.big&#39;
Building: &#39;AudioEnglish.big&#39;
Building: &#39;Speech.big&#39;
Building: &#39;SpeechEnglish.big&#39;

***Missing Part of Log***

Game decompressing / rebuilding / booring stuff is done go play
this game took 2 nights to ripp i hope you enjoy it.
/dvn tagteam (ripped by the snake, the rhino, the moose and the lion=)
Press any key to continue . . .

When i press enter the program closes.

The missing part of the log is where the screen refreshes itself and displays the above. I dont think it said netin about an error or suchlike, but it was really quick.

Steve

[CornerPocket]

Unfortunately I ran into this dialog box error myself on my secondary 900mhz based system. Try updating DirectX to latest version for your OS. I did and was able to supercede the error box and the only problem is that it plays slow, very slow because of the graphics card. Running a older ATi 32MB Rage Pro card and it seems to be the problem.

Primary system running Athlon XP with a Geforce4 Ti4200 128MB and it runs flawless. I&#39;d start with the DirextX upgrade and see how things go. If the card is better than what I listed on my secondary, you may have more luck.