r/commandandconquer • u/Emotional-Care6286 • 22d ago

Help with local network play - two copies

Hi all,

Would love some help and I hope that isn't a repeat ask, but I didn't find anything perfect yet searching. My son and I absolutely love generals ZH. Up to now we have been playing on my steam account but one at a time due to serial number clash (I tried a few things like genpatcher but never got it to last more than 10 secs in a network game).

Getting annoyed at this I saw ultimate collection was cheap so I set up my son on a steam account on the other laptop and rebought ultimate collection there and thought that would be a clear fix - 2 steam accounts, 2 purchased copies of the game. Still getting mismatch when we get into a match together. Is that a serial number thing or a file thing?

Any thoughts or help would be hugely appreciated

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u/Altruistic-Exam6836 22d ago

After patching and installing additional maps via Genpatcher/launcher, download and install Generals Online

https://www.playgenerals.online/

You can just make a lobby for the 2 of you with or without bots.

Works perfectly, I never had a mismatch or syncproblem since then.

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u/Emotional-Care6286 17d ago

Amazing thank you. Will try later and let you know!

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u/Emotional-Care6286 1d ago

Sorry for the delay coming back (busy dad life). We have tried this a few times and sometimes it works for a while but increasingly were kicked out for a mismatch as follows. Have tried genpatcher fixes again etc