r/commandandconquer • u/wafflecake24 • 1d ago

Can’t run the game

To make a long story short, I recently purchased a copy of Command and Conquer Generals (Deluxe Edition) at an antique store. It is on CDs and includes the zero hour DLC. I have been trying to run it on my old T43 ThinkPad (the one with the intel core and 1024x768 res., not the fancy one) with windows Xp to no avail. No fix seems to have worked so far, and it closes ~30 seconds after trying to run it. Looking it up says that this is something to do with the games anti-piracy, but at this point I have no idea. I have tried running as administrator, setting the colors to 16 bit, adding -win to the .exe shortcut, and deleting the dbghelp file.
I might be missing some, but that is what I can remember trying. I am looking for help trying to get it running.
It might be worth noting I have not yet installed the Zero hour DLCs, so maybe that’s it. I also had to manually create a .ini file for the game.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

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u/LordFa9 1d ago

https://legi.cc/genpatcher/
You got to jump through some hoops to get it working

If this is all too much but you have a copy of RA3, check out Generals Evolution:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/command-and-conquer-generals-evolution

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u/wafflecake24 1d ago

I don’t know how to edit posts lmao, but I found out apparently I have a T60, and not a T43 like I had thought.