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Article #27602Re: Generals/Zero Hour
From: The Ancient One
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:38
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:38
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"Andrew P" <andrewportess@hotmail.com.nospam> wrote in message news:10v4p7lgshp710b@corp.supernews.com... > >>> Peri >> I see there are two keys. >> There is the option in the cd to enter the key for Zero Hour which >> I did. But how do you register the key for Generals? >> I tried registering with EA but it reprors I dont have an internet >> connection. I have a broadband connection. >> After entering the key for zero hour Installation still ends up with the >> dialog C&C disc not found. >> Help me pleese! >> Peri >> > > You need to install generals first and enter the key during the > installation where prompted. Then install zero hour and enter the > serial.. > > If my experience is anything to go by though I would bother installing it > at all. The game is buggy and continually crashes to the desktop. EA > claim it is end users hardware which is odd as my (or many others) > hardware has no problem with other recent (EA and non EA) games. > > > Andy It is a little weird, I have two computers, both far exceed the required specs. Game works perfectly on one computer and not at all on the second. I suspect it's the video cards that affect it, it works on the GeForce and won't on the Radeon. Just a guess there though, so don't hold me to it. ;-)
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!64.42.15.2!HSNX.atgi.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "The Ancient One" <onlytheone@thetopknows.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.command.and.conquer Subject: Re: Generals/Zero Hour Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:38:03 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <10v5ousqmqhuq2f@corp.supernews.com> References: <JDAHd.130$hd1.1@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net> <0BMHd.80$l8.6@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net> <10v4p7lgshp710b@corp.supernews.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 35 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit