Generals Zero Hour in Windows 7 |
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Generals Zero Hour in Windows 7 |
 30 Oct 2009, 16:50
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 Officer of the European Continental Army  Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods  |
Hey,
I've just got a brand new Windows 7 laptop  Unfortunately I can't seem to get ZH to run on it. Every time I run it I get the error about not having DX9.0 or needing to check the graphics card. I've looked up this error and the solution was apparently a reboot - no joy. I have installed DirectX (as far as I can tell, it was a web update SDK thing) but this doesn't help either. Things that you might need to know to help me out; -I have installed ZH to the default directory (C:\Program Files\CnC Gens or w/e) -I am using Windows 7 -My graphics card is 128mb dedicated (integrated) with correct drivers -ZH install has been patched to 1.04 -No mods installed. --------------------   |
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30 Oct 2009, 17:03
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 League is Life  Group: Tester Posts: 748 Joined: 14 June 2009 From: America Member No.: 153 |
128 mb graphic card with windows 7?!?! upgrade your card , DO IT NAO
also up your power supply to like a 450 W or 400 and buy ati radeon 4350 HD This post has been edited by Жao: 30 Oct 2009, 17:04 |
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30 Oct 2009, 17:06
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
QUOTE (Жao @ 30 Oct 2009, 13:03)  128 mb graphic card with windows 7?!?! upgrade your card , DO IT NAO also up your power supply to like a 450 W or 400 and buy ati radeon 4350 HD I literally only just bought this laptop ¬.¬ I have no money for buying extra hardware. I don't see how this helps my problem anyway :S -------------------- |
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30 Oct 2009, 17:10
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League is Life Group: Tester Posts: 748 Joined: 14 June 2009 From: America Member No.: 153 |
Do you have black water when you play? how much ram do you have , whats your power supply?
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30 Oct 2009, 17:11
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 Group: Members Posts: 227 Joined: 7 June 2009 Member No.: 65 Projects: SWR Productions |
You sure DX 9 is installed? You'll need 9, not the newer ones. It's a separate install I believe. A crappy graphic card can also cause these kinds of errors. My card ain't that good, so DX always crashes after I launcher some graphic memory intensive thing, giving a similar error. Since your card is worse, might be that.
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30 Oct 2009, 17:12
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
QUOTE (Жao @ 30 Oct 2009, 13:10) Do you have black water when you play? how much ram do you have , whats your power supply? I have not been able to execute the game... I get the DirectX error when I open it. I have 2GB RAM. And IDK where to find out my power supply, but it's a laptop 
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30 Oct 2009, 17:14
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
QUOTE (JJ @ 30 Oct 2009, 13:11) You sure DX 9 is installed? You'll need 9, not the newer ones. It's a separate install I believe. A crappy graphic card can also cause these kinds of errors. My card ain't that good, so DX always crashes after I launcher some graphic memory intensive thing, giving a similar error. Since your card is worse, might be that. I have installed this. I will look into getting DX9 as a separate package. My card is SiS Mirage 3 i think This post has been edited by Pickysaurus: 30 Oct 2009, 17:16 -------------------- |
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30 Oct 2009, 17:23
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League is Life Group: Tester Posts: 748 Joined: 14 June 2009 From: America Member No.: 153 |
You do not need DX 9 to run Zero hour JJ i know this for a fact as my computer when i reformat comes with a eariler version of DX...
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30 Oct 2009, 17:28
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Group: Members Posts: 227 Joined: 7 June 2009 Member No.: 65 Projects: SWR Productions |
But doesn't the ZH installer prompt you about that?
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30 Oct 2009, 17:44
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
I have even tried to install DX8.1 from the ZH disk... still no joy
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30 Oct 2009, 17:48
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League is Life Group: Tester Posts: 748 Joined: 14 June 2009 From: America Member No.: 153 |
IT does not prompt you to do so as DX 9.0 wasnt out at the time
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30 Oct 2009, 17:50
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  Group: Legend Posts: 731 Joined: 31 May 2009 From: EU Member No.: 8 Projects: SWR Tester Old sneaky german |
Can you run DXDIAG ?
-------------------- QUOTE (NergiZed @ 5 Dec 2010, 18:51) Just add some green particle effects and it'll be like X-mas~! QUOTE (The_Hunter @ 20 Oct 2009, 14:17) The ECM effects have a nasty side effect that it makes pilots drunk :P  |
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30 Oct 2009, 17:51
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
QUOTE (Wi-Ta @ 30 Oct 2009, 13:50) Can you run DXDIAG ? I've not ever heard of that :/ What is it? -------------------- |
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30 Oct 2009, 18:06
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 Group: Members Posts: 86 Joined: 2 July 2009 From: Kickassistan Member No.: 230 |
Start -> Run -> "dxdiag"
Direct X diagnostic tool, tells u what hardware u have amongst other things --------------------   |
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30 Oct 2009, 18:09
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
Thanks, found it.
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30 Oct 2009, 18:16
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Group: Legend Posts: 731 Joined: 31 May 2009 From: EU Member No.: 8 Projects: SWR Tester Old sneaky german |
You have Directx 11
It does look like your install DX8.1 did not work. I do not know how to uninstall under win7 -------------------- QUOTE (NergiZed @ 5 Dec 2010, 18:51) Just add some green particle effects and it'll be like X-mas~! QUOTE (The_Hunter @ 20 Oct 2009, 14:17) The ECM effects have a nasty side effect that it makes pilots drunk :P |
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30 Oct 2009, 18:27
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
QUOTE (Wi-Ta @ 30 Oct 2009, 14:16) You have Directx 11 It does look like your install DX8.1 did not work. I do not know how to uninstall under win7 Do you know how to do it under Vista? As they are essentially the same in many ways -------------------- |
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30 Oct 2009, 18:33
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 Frontline Chaos mod leader and creator Group: Tester Posts: 493 Joined: 6 June 2009 From: Dordrecht, the Netherlands Member No.: 25 Projects: ROTR Tester Host of |
Well, I have Direct X 11 and Win7 Professional, and I can run GenZH without any problems
 Try reinstalling Direct X and GenZH. --------------------  |
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30 Oct 2009, 19:40
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
QUOTE (Dutchygamer @ 30 Oct 2009, 14:33) Well, I have Direct X 11 and Win7 Professional, and I can run GenZH without any problems Try reinstalling Direct X and GenZH. I have, DX can't be taken below 11 on Windows 7 and I have tried both Gens and ZH - both report the same problem. -------------------- |
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30 Oct 2009, 19:58
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Group: Legend Posts: 731 Joined: 31 May 2009 From: EU Member No.: 8 Projects: SWR Tester Old sneaky german |
Did you install with administrator rights?
-------------------- QUOTE (NergiZed @ 5 Dec 2010, 18:51) Just add some green particle effects and it'll be like X-mas~! QUOTE (The_Hunter @ 20 Oct 2009, 14:17) The ECM effects have a nasty side effect that it makes pilots drunk :P |
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30 Oct 2009, 21:11
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 Forum Green Group: Legend Posts: 1350 Joined: 4 June 2009 From: Netherlands Member No.: 17 Projects: SWR Productions |
Die you dat SIS mirage 3 as your video chip? In that case i have to disappoint you. That chip is hardly to not capable of playing 3d games. It probably does not comply with the requirements of zh. It is old and pretty bad they still sell those chips.
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30 Oct 2009, 22:04
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
QUOTE (Wi-Ta @ 30 Oct 2009, 15:58) Did you install with administrator rights? I allowed both installations to have permission when the warning came up during the installation. QUOTE (Shock @ 30 Oct 2009, 17:11) Die you dat SIS mirage 3 as your video chip? In that case i have to disappoint you. That chip is hardly to not capable of playing 3d games. It probably does not comply with the requirements of zh. It is old and pretty bad they still sell those chips. Yes AFAIK it is a mirage 3 chip. It can't be that old :S The 128MB shared chip in my old laptop ran ZH just fine :S Plus this PC is brand new -------------------- |
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30 Oct 2009, 22:23
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Formerly Scopejim Group: Members Posts: 369 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: Land of the Cedar Member No.: 38 Electronics Engineer |
QUOTE (Жao @ 30 Oct 2009, 15:03) 128 mb graphic card with windows 7?!?! upgrade your card , DO IT NAO also up your power supply to like a 450 W or 400 and buy ati radeon 4350 HD *facepalm* You can't do this to a laptop without heavily voiding a warranty... 128Mb of integrated memory should run ZH but not nicely. When you install both programs(ZH and DX), make sure you install with admin privileges (right click the exe file). Also, make sure the .ini files supposed to be present in your My Documents folder are there else copy them from an older PC. Also, DX 11 is backwards compatible AFAIK. |
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30 Oct 2009, 22:35
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
QUOTE (Scope @ 30 Oct 2009, 18:23) *facepalm* You can't do this to a laptop without heavily voiding a warranty... 128Mb of integrated memory should run ZH but not nicely. When you install both programs(ZH and DX), make sure you install with admin privileges (right click the exe file). Also, make sure the .ini files supposed to be present in your My Documents folder are there else copy them from an older PC. Also, DX 11 is backwards compatible AFAIK. I'll try to reinstall as with right-click admin rights. I looked in to ZH My Documents folder and it only contained the ReleaseCrash files. Does this mean I have to copy the other information over? -------------------- |
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30 Oct 2009, 22:47
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Formerly Scopejim Group: Members Posts: 369 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: Land of the Cedar Member No.: 38 Electronics Engineer |
It happened with me on Vista and when I got files from an install on XP on another desktop, it worked like a charm. Alternatively, if you create a gamedata.ini (i think thats the one) you should fix your problem.
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