Pete999Tete

Hi, I created an account just to reply to you. My sons play this game between two computers at home. We had that error message pretty consistently early on. There are 2 things you need to do to get rid of it. Set the "generals.exe" to Run as Administrator on each computer, and then edit your Options.ini to ensure your GameSpyIPAddress and IPAddress are correct (on both computers). Once you do that, you shouldn't see that error message again. The options.ini is found in My Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data. You need to ensure the two settings are the local IP address of the computer they are running on. For instance, on one computer, that may be 192.168.1.3 (for both settings) and on the other, it may be 192.168.1.4 (again, for both settings). When yiou open the Options.ini file, you may find that they are both set to 0.0.0.0. We found that by changing the zeroes to the local IP (for both of these settings), it fixed the problem. The boys have since played the game dozens of times and have never seen that error again. Here is an extract from the options.ini file in case the above explanation was not clear. But remember, the local IP must be the one you are using on your computer : GameSpyIPAddress = 192.168.1.3 Gamma = 50 HeatEffects = yes IPAddress = 192.168.1.3 And on the other computer : GameSpyIPAddress = 192.168.1.4 Gamma = 50 HeatEffects = yes IPAddress = 192.168.1.4