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Well, just spiffy. I spent the money on this game after I finally upgraded my memory enough to run it. I click on Generals.exe and... It crashes to desktop, citing 'serious error'. Possibly from virii(Scanned last night, got rid of them), need for defrag(Two days ago), or insufficient minimum requirements(Checked the little thingy that installed itself under Support, it checks all the requirements as green).

Any ideas? Or am I now the proud owner of an EA coaster?

Make sure you're running a current version of DirectX and your video card drivers. What kind of hardware are you running?

The weakest machine I've ever run Generals on is a 1GHz Athlon with a 32MB GeForce2 MX card.

OS: Windows XP
Processor: AMD Family 6 chip, running at around 1600 Mhz
Oodles of drive space.
352 MB Memory.
DirectX 8.1
The video card could be the problem, it's a 'S3 SavagePro8', came with the box. Going to hunt down it's newest driver version.

EDIT: B's and 8's look similar sometimes. Especially to the sleep deprived.

your direct X might be causing issue as well. as the latest version is 9.0, not 8.1 iirc.

It's likely the 3D card then, see if software rendition may work, if not, might want to buy a new card or at least tone the graphics down.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:It's likely the 3D card then, see if software rendition may work, if not, might want to buy a new card or at least tone the graphics down.

If you know how to do either of those when Generals won't even get to the starting screen, please share.

Updated drivers for the graphics card, and updated DirectX. No change. ARGH.

Check the read-me and see if the game is compatable with that graphics card. I have a few games that aren't compatable with that particular card. I used to have the same problem with my onboard Intel card.

I had troubles also. Tried new drivers of video card, newest direct X... nothing. Eventually it was just my soundcard that needed to get updated

Admiral Valdemar wrote:It's likely the 3D card then, see if software rendition may work, if not, might want to buy a new card or at least tone the graphics down.

It probably is his 3D card. There is no software renderer for Generals.