Yet another serious error thread.

[Destruk 0]

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.

 

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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.

[Destruk 0]

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.

[Saracen 16]

Considering you posted your second message 3 hours and 19 minutes after you created this thread, there is little chance for the majority of the forum users to actually of taken a look at your problem... we're not the official Renegade Boards unfortunately, people don't post here at least once a minute.

 

The fact is also that had you of placed this thread within the tech support forum, there may of been a chance in the slim time frame you gave any of us, that we could of helped you.

 

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.

 

Did you bother reading when you came in here that we are not actually Electronic Arts technical support? Using such words as "damn" isn't going to warrant you with a response anyway since that is blatent rudeness on your part.

 

if anyone cares, after all day messing with it

 

Yes we do care when you don't come in rampaging and demanding answers. Plus I wouldn't say "All day" covers the timeframe of 3 hours and 19 minutes... unless you are a mayfly and only have the lifespan of 1-3 days anyway :roll:

 

If you are to return to these forums again, please follow these steps accordingly:

 

1) We are not EA!!

2) Rambling on with an attitude will not get you anywhere whatsoever!!!

3) Give people more time to reply, we have lives, we don't spend every waking hour here!

4) I recommend making sure you post in the correct forum so that you may get a response if you give us time!

5) You have been pwned

[Destruk 0]

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

[Saracen 16]

It won't be deleted, it'll just serve as a reference point to others who often come in bringing up the same points, it'll save me typing out another sarcastic lengthy post for my egotistical pleasures....

[Sonic 295]

You weren't overclocking your hardware were you?

Generals/Zero Hour has been known to cause problems on overclocked hardware.