demontraitor

Command & Conquer Generals problem.

My kids have a PIII 1.0g
ASUS V7100 MX400 64mb video card
400mb memory.
Windows 2000 SP4
DX9.0b

when playing the game the landscape keeps disappearing leaving a black
ground with just the buildings showing. this only happens when the
mouse is left hovering over buildings for the building labels to
appear and you are building something. however, when the building has
finished the landscape stays black!!!

the game is patched to the max.

any ideas?

Thanks

-Demon

athura

What video driver version you got/tried?

neil adamson

We had a 64MB GeForce2 MX400. It did exactly this with ZH (running
abysamally slow with Generals - I am told EA tweaked things in Generals to
try and maintain the game speed at the expense of graphics).

I dropped in a 64MB Ti card and everything was sweet. In fact shortly
thereafter I upgraded just about everything else as well and now Generals,
ZH, MOLHAA and Call of Duty couldn't be sweeter.

Basically you need to ditch the MX chipset.

Neil A

hexetic

I see two problems.

First of all, with a GeForce 4 or earlier card, you should use the 45.23 driver
version, and not the latest 50.xx driver versions which are optimised for
GeForce FX cards and newer and have known issues with older cards.

Second of all, there is in fact a savegame folder, but you didn't notice it. It
is in \My Documents\Command and Conquer Generals\ (for Generals) and \My
Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour\ (for ZH). These folders
contains savegames, options, profiles, replays, and downloaded maps. See
http://www.planetcnc.com/generals/help/faq.shtml#backup and
http://www.planetcnc.com/generals/ze...q.shtml#backup for more
details about these two folders.

Thirdly, you must patch up both Generals and Zero Hour. Note that the patches
are maintained independently e.g. patch 1.07 for Generals does not affect Zero
Hour in the slightest.


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- Tim G.

demontraitor

I installed Graphics Driver version 45.23 and Generals now works
perfectly - my Son has a big smile )

Thanks also for the info on the savegames.

thanks to everyone )