Zero Hour online play not working

[Guest RedRock]

I recently bought Zero Hour and I am very dissapointed because there seems to be some bug that will not let me play online. Every time I try to log into Zero Hour online, I get an error message that says something like, "Could not connect to C&C Generals Zero Hour Online." I'm pretty sure its not my fault, because I can still play the unexpanded generals online. What is going on? I want to start kicking ass again!

[Sonic 296]

I think you may have to contact EA Tech Support about that one.

Its a strange problem since you can connect to Generals Online but not Zero Hour Online :?

[Koen 2]

Could be a firewall problem? Maybe you've opened up some ports for Generals, and you have to open the same ones for Zero Hour as well?

[chillin 0]

as i have sed else where, if all else fails reintsall reinstall reinstall

 

I dont mean more than once :?

[Guest RedRock]

Well, I have tried reinstalling. That didn't work.

 

I do not have a firewall.

 

So, I contacted tech support. If I find out an answer, I will post it here.

 

Thanks newayz for the tips.

[Guest RedRock]

I figured out what the problem was.

I only know that this problem/solution works for windows XP, but it could work on other systems too.

Generals stores the IP address information in options.ini. This file is stored in My Documents/C&C Generals Zero Hour Data/. When Zero Hour is installed, for some reason it only puts the correct options.ini file in the same user that Generals was installed in.

So, the problem can be fixed in one of two ways:

1) Only play Zero Hour online in the same user that Generals was installed in.

2) Copy the options.ini file in the user that Generals was installed in into the user that you would like to play zero hour in.

I hope this fixes any connection problems that anyone may have.

[Guest MasterWonka]

i had a problem with the original in that someone was using my cd-key gotta love generators...

[Guest aytek]

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When we play the game on lan some times it crashs and gives this report how can we solve the problem

 

 

Release Crash at Fri Nov 07 19:35:27 2003

; Reason Uncaught Exception in GameEngine::update

 

Last error:

Exception is access violation

WinMain at 4016e0

Error code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

Description: The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.

Access address:FFFFFFFF was read from.

 

Stack Dump:

<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x00567220

<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x0070042B

 

Details:

Register dump...

Eip:00567220 Esp:00C9F72C Ebp:00000000

Eax:00000000 Ebx:00000000 Ecx:00000000

Edx:00000000 Esi:0CAC6ECC Edi:0CAC6ED4

EFlags:00010202

CS:016f SS:0177 DS:0177 ES:0177 FS:2847 GS:0000

EIP bytes dump...

 

Bytes at CS:EIP (00567220) : 8B 45 2C 8B D0 C1 EA 05 F6 C2 01 75 4E 8B C8 C1 E9 04 F6 C1 01 75 44 F6 C2 01 8B 5C 24 10 8B 4B

 

 

Current stack:

[Koen 2]

I've seen this before

But for me it was singleplayer and the cause were several damaged files in my Zero Hour installation (bits were flipped randomly and stuff like that).

But it could be a sync problem too, though it would be wise to check if all files are correctly installed first (no easy way to check that though, EA should make a tool for that).

[Guest]

i want

[Guest]

thanks red rock, i had the same problem. now i have a different problem dealing with rushing, but ill fix that on my own.