WINDOWS 7 wont work with zero hour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELP I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF AND CANT GET THIS TO WORK ON WINDOWS 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN ANY! HELP ME PLEASE???? I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING PEOPLE HAVE SAID TO TRY AND IT STILL DOESNT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HERE IS MY CRASH RELEASE INFO


Release Crash at Sat Jan 30 20:30:31 2010
; Reason Uncaught exception in Main::WndProc... probably should not happen

Last error:
Exception is access violation
WinMain at 401700
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:00000000 was read from.
Stack Dump:
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x004010BB
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A46238
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A468EA
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A47177
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A472F1
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x774200E6
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A4A484
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x70130B64
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x701322C3
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A4A52B
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x004014ED
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A46238
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A47298
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A47D31
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A47DFA
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A6272B
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A6288A
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A9F8D0
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A9FBAC
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A9FCAF
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A9FD2E
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A9FE81
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x76A9FEC6
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x00402098
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x0041385B
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x008E08AC
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x767E3677
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x77449D72
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x77449D45
Details:
Register dump...
Eip:004010BB Esp:00189D14 Ebp:00189D84
Eax:00000000 Ebx:00000000 Ecx:00000000
Edx:0095DA0C Esi:00000010 Edi:00000000
EFlags:00010246
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0053 GS:002b
EIP bytes dump...
Bytes at CS:EIP (004010BB) : 8B 01 68 84 00 00 00 FF 50 28 33 C0 8B 4D F4 64 89 0D 00 00 00 00 5F 5E 5B 8B E5 5D C2 10 00 8B

Current stack:


Can someone please help me? I bought a brand-New 1200 Dollar computer and This SHIT IS KILLING ME!!!!!!!!!! SOME1 please help me it would be much appreciated....

Matt

Which ones - Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour or

Pearl Harbor: Zero Hour

Unfortunately that error is actually a program bug.

So to get it to work is going to be a little bit hard as you have to find away of not triggering the bug in the game.

You could try updating audio/video drivers, or even downgrading them to older versions. But unfortuantely the slight differences in timeing/behavior in W7 have flushed out a bug in the original program.

Maybe the game has a patch for W7? Or is the game too old?

it is command and conquer gnerlas zero hour

thx for your advice fseal I will try updating drivers and even downgrading them. If that doesnt wrk I will try something else...

Hey,

In your case it's an access violation error you get. Did you already try to run the game as administrator or xp compatible mode?

regards, steph

This I found on another page and thought I would share it here as it worked for me.

Good News - Have just successfully managed to get it working, and it IS Windows 7 that causes the problem, specifically it's to do with access permissions to folders - Windows 7 blocks access to folders that Generals uses to run.
The way I fixed it was:
In 'My Documents' (usually at C:\users\YOURNAME\documents) there should be a folder named 'Command and Conquer Generals Data' or 'Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data', which was put there when you installed the game. You need to create a text file using notepad and save it into this folder. However, you must click 'save as' and change the type drop-down box from text file (.txt) to 'all files'. Then save the file as 'options.ini'
Before you save, paste this text into the file to get you started:


AntiAliasing = 1
BuildingOcclusion = yes
DrawScrollAnchor =
DynamicLOD = no
ExtraAnimations = yes
GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0
Gamma = 50
IPAddress = 0.0.0.0
IdealStaticGameLOD = High
LanguageFilter = true
MaxParticleCount = 5000
MoveScrollAnchor =
MusicVolume = 55
Resolution = 1024 768
Retaliation = yes
SFX3DVolume = 79
SFXVolume = 71
ScrollFactor = 50
SendDelay = no
ShowSoftWaterEdge = yes
ShowTrees = yes
StaticGameLOD = Custom
TextureReduction = 0
UseAlternateMouse = no
UseCloudMap = yes
UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no
UseLightMap = yes
UseShadowDecals = yes
UseShadowVolumes = yes
VoiceVolume = 100


This is simply how the game remembers what options you picked (music volume, brightness and the like) and you can change them once the game is running using the options menu.
Now the key bits - firstly, make sure that you have full read/write permissions for the Command and Conquer Generals Data folder - do this by right clicking on the folder, then properties then the security tab and change the permissions for all users. It might also be worth making sure no files are "Read-Only" in that folder.
Then change the game's compatibility mode by right clicking on the game in the start menu, clicking on properties and then the Compatibility tab. I used the "Change settings for all users" button at the bottom and changed to Windows XP (SP3), as well as checking the "Run as administrator box".

its defently compatible all you have to do is what i just posted... i have windows 7 x64 bit and after i did that about 4 hours ago it worked fine no problems!

Tried fiddling with UAC?

Works for me when games refuse to install or run.

Unfortunately that error is actually a program bug.

So to get it to work is going to be a little bit hard as you have to find away of not triggering the bug in the game.

Doesn't help when the game is copy protected, too. Then it makes that debug info clear as mud ie: useless.