Zero Hour Lagging on Opening EA Screen

[Guest Damian]

Help!

 

I have the proper versions of Generals and Zero Hour.

 

However when i load both games it lags really badly on the EA Sports : Challenge Everything screen, it takes about 10-15 mins to get thru that screen (and it should only take seconds )

 

When i get the game running it can work for hours, or it will only work for minutes before it crashed with the "serious error" message.

 

I have updated drivers for everything, my comp is alot higher than the recommended spec. The only thing i'm missing is Service Pack 1 and 2 from windows updates, could this be the problem?

[chickendippers 1]

Could be....perhaps your system is overheating? How does it handle other high spec games like Doom3 and Half Life 2?

[Hans5849 0]

defragment, run adaware to remove spyware (if you don't know where to d/l adaware go to google.com and search), if it still hangs up your system may not be able to go faster.

 

the crash screen that you get happens to me a lot, i really hate it how they had to add overheatring hardware to it because i know my system temps and i know their wrong.

[Sonic 296]

How old is your Windows installation? If its more than a year sounds like a good time to back up your important data, format your hard drive and re-install Windows.

 

I suspect and overheating issue here as well. I quick way to tell is to run your computer with the side panel removed, play your game for a while a see what happens.

 

I don't think not having SP1 or SP2 installed would matter. But in most cases Windows XP seems to be more stable with SP2. Installing SP2 on a fresh install of Windows XP is a good idea.