🚀 go-pugleaf

i've had fewer crashes after following this advice i got from n EA
techsupport board...........
helps a bit.....or maybe a coincidence???

Try setting the Monitors Refresh Rate to 75 Hz.
You can do this by:
1). Right clicking the desktop and selecting properties
2). Then choose the Settings Tab
3). Then click on the Advanced button
4). Select the Monitor Tab at the top.
5). Select 75H Hz from the drop down box.

Please be sure that your computer system meets the C&C Generals Minimum
Requirements

OS: Windows XP/ME/2000/98 (Windows 95/NT not supported)
CPU: 800 MHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
RAM: 128 MB
CD/DVD-Rom Speed: 8x
Hard Drive Space: 1.8 GB free hard disk space plus space for saved games,
Windows swap-file, and DirectX 8.1
Video: 32 MB AGP video card using the Nvidia GeForce 2, ATI Radeon 7500, or
more recent chipset with DirectX 8.1 compatible driver The latest version is
9.0b
Sound: DirectX 8.1 compatible PCI 16-bit sound card
Input: Keyboard, Mouse

If your system does meet the requirements:

Please end all of your background applications in order to correct this
issue. Applications running in the background can cause C&C Generals to
crash or perform undesireably. This is due to background applications
conflicting with C&C Generals. Applications running in the background may be
using one or more recourse that C&C Generals is trying to allocate. Please
follow these steps to ending background applications according to your
Operating System.

For Windows XP:

First, make sure that you are logged in as the Administrator (for Windows XP
Professional) or Owner (for Windows XP Home). This will usually be the first
account that was created once Windows XP was fully installed. If you are not
certain, contact the manufacturer of your PC for assistance in finding your
Administrator/Owner account.

Next, make sure that all background tasks are closed before running the
game. To do this;

Hold the Ctrl and Alt keys down at the same time and hit the Del key once.
This will in turn bring up a window called "Task Manager". You will then see
5 tabs; Applications, Processes, Performance, networking, and Users. Select
the Processes tab; this will list all current programs that are running.
Close all programs that have your login ID next to them. Your user ID is
listed in the second column next to the program name. For example here is a
portion of what you should see;

Image Name User Name Session ID

Explorer.exe Owner 01

The Image Name column is the name of the programs currently running. The
User Name column is where you will find your User Name. The best way to
check this is to locate "Explorer" and see what it says under User Name.

Also, do not close any applications that say "System" next to them. Be sure
not to close a program labeled "Explorer" or "Taskmgr" as well. You close
each one of these applications by clicking on each one and hitting the
button "End Process". Note some applications may take multiple times before
closing. Don't worry that you are permanently changing your system
configuration; these applications will return when you restart your system.

"GigaSurfer" <GigaSurfer@in.valid> wrote in message
news:ESDJb.113113$5l5.5355629@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> "redonblue" <jez@ianson54.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:bt6748$at7$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Hiya all
> > following on from the posts about slow down........
> > i've  been going through the skirmish maps against max  number of
> opponents
> > & there is some serious slow down,but just about playable.....except the
> > Mountain fox map which after about 5 mins locks up for good & a serious
> > error follows,anyone else having this problem.
> > sysytem is 2000XP,GeForce 4200 Ti,512 ram.
> > Cheers
> > oh yeah running patch 1.02
>
> I have the same problem with some of the skirmish maps.
> It seems that the game simply cannot handle a lot of activity.
> I've never been able to finish a 1 vs 7 skirmish game because of this.
> It's pretty annoying if you're playing for more than an hour and then have
> the game crashing with the 'Technical error...' message box :-(
>
> My system: P4 2.4GHz/GeForce4/256MB, still running 1.00 (I think, I've
never
> upgraded).
>
>