Destruk

check out dosbox... http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

If nothing else works, how good does the shiny surface of the cd look? And does it work in a different cdrom drive?

I apologize CCKing. I know you're not EA. I doubt they would even read this thread as they don't read any forums, including their own. If you want to break it down and be technical, all day would require a full 24 hours, so what makes you think I had just started wrestling with it with the timestamp of the first post in the thread? As for posting in the wrong section, that can happen alot, which is another reason some message boards have moderators - to move threads to the place they're supposed to be. In this case, as the issue is resolved, perhaps the thread warrants being deleted. I don't see much useful information in it. Thanks

if anyone cares, after all day messing with it, and changing bios settings, drivers, and more stuff than I care to mention, the game works. If EA expects end users to do all this just to get their games working, they have another thing coming.

Previous systems: This system ran generals Zero Hour FLAWLESSLY for gameplay - just a little slow: P2-450 EPOX motherboard GeForce2 MX 32mb Win2000 SP4 DX9.0 256MB Ram No serious errors encountered, could play as many games as I wanted for hours at a time with 7 AI and 1 human player. The game has always ran best on this pc, even though it's far, far, far below the minimum specs. The videos played out of sync with the sound, but the game was stable. ------------------ Figured it was time for an upgrade though, as more games were being released that I wanted to look at. And I wanted to make zero hour play faster...so I made the mistake of upgrading... Tested Zero Hour on the following systems: Syntax motherboard (CHEAP) SiS chipset Athlon XP 2600 512MB DDR W2K SP4 DX9.0 BFG FX 5500oc 128MB This gives Serious Error and crashes after about 10 minutes in a full skirmish 7AI+1 human map (always play versus toughest AI) So I went out and got anoither one: ECS K7VTA3 Sempron 2800 512MB DDR W2K SP4 DX9.0 BFG FX 5500oc 128MB Same problem/issue I've defragged, tried all types of different drivers, swapped video cards with the 32mb one, tested out every component the case has, no virii, no adware, etc etc. There appears to just be no solution for it except to run on an ancient computer, which I can't agree with. Motherboard and processor run at 33-40 C, power supply is fine, tried 350W and 400W, swapped cpus, etc. About now I'm wondering what I'd need to really watch the game run 'fast' - I'm thinking it'd take a 6Ghz machine with a 2Ghz video card and 20 terrabytes of ram. By contrast, Yuri's Revenge runs great. Fix the dam game already or your customer base goes byebye - and sims2 isn't going to save you as it has similar problems with accelerated AGP.