Author Topic: Generals Serious error message - Post it here ! (Read 14935 times)

davemission · « **Reply #90 on:** January 17, 2004, 08:32:45 am »

ok forgot to set the virtual memory so i set it and i though it was fixed untill about an hour in again..makes this rrrr sound and my comp restarts..ill look into the names of memory and such.

davemission · « **Reply #91 on:** January 18, 2004, 01:19:39 am »

ok got most of the answers

3) brand of memory is Patriot 512MB DDR333MHz......How do I tell what the memory is clocked at?

4) Pentium 4 533/400MHz ......How do I tell what the FSB is?

5) motherboard is a VIA P4PB400-FL

davemission · « **Reply #92 on:** January 18, 2004, 02:38:02 am »

read a topic from the 2nd page he said he defragged and it worked so im going to try that.

Doc Nyar · « **Reply #93 on:** January 18, 2004, 12:17:26 pm »

At least no one will be able to say you didn't try anything.

Thanks for keeping us updated Dave !

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3) brand of memory is Patriot 512MB DDR333MHz......How do I tell what the memory is clocked at?

It should be stated in the BIOS.

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4) Pentium 4 533/400MHz ......How do I tell what the FSB is?

Your FSB is 533Mhz max for the processor.
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Phoenix · « **Reply #94 on:** January 18, 2004, 10:14:04 pm »

my generals is freaking out sometimes.. look at attachment to see what my screen looks like after a while...
.... HELP ....

system: P4 2,8
2x 512mb mem dual channel
gforce FX 5600

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Atomic Mitten · « **Reply #95 on:** January 18, 2004, 10:58:34 pm »

Has your GPU got a fan on it ? if so check it for dust.
Also maybe your drivers need updating..

gryphon · « **Reply #96 on:** January 19, 2004, 12:31:51 am »

he uses the latest nVidea drivers and think he also tried the Omega ones. . [ not shure if that was that PC . . ]

and for dust .. the card isn't older then a few weeks if I am correct. .. no dust in it.

davemission · « **Reply #97 on:** January 19, 2004, 02:28:18 am »

defragged, installed, left it on a single player game for 2 hours and it was fine. then played on the internet 15 min got the error..! i dont know what else i can do.

davemission · « **Reply #98 on:** January 19, 2004, 04:35:38 am »

was lookin around for help found my old topic hehe..anyway gona try those older gforce drivers..if it doenst work i dont know what im going to do.

http://www.gameheaven.nl/forum/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=125

yea tried older drivers didnt work

Phoenix · « **Reply #99 on:** January 19, 2004, 08:59:56 am »

yes, gryphon you are right,
my card isnt older than 2 months and I have tried the omega drivers and the latest nvidia drivers from 47.* till 53.03....

Doc Nyar · « **Reply #100 on:** January 19, 2004, 10:33:16 am »

@ David, has it ever worked okay for you, or does this error come up since the beginning ? If it has worked before, what changed ?

@Phoenix, you say it happens sometimes. Is there anything specific that happens when the problem occurs ? Do you have any background programs runing ?

Phoenix · « **Reply #101 on:** January 19, 2004, 10:36:57 am »

not running any background programs... and when I'm playing somethimes my screen freezes a second or 2, then it will continue, thats for me a signal of saving my game because not much longer my screen will freeze again and then my screen looks like as in that previous post with attachment.

Doc Nyar · « **Reply #102 on:** January 19, 2004, 10:53:31 am »

What ingame res are you running ? Have you tried lowering it ?

Phoenix · « **Reply #103 on:** January 19, 2004, 11:53:34 am »

yeah, tried it, didnt work... freaking game...
In my opinion is it the game engine which is not very good...

davemission · « **Reply #104 on:** January 19, 2004, 09:43:21 pm »

it has never worked

attached the crash info dont know if it helps

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gtblackice · « **Reply #105 on:** January 20, 2004, 04:57:53 am »

Hi there. I encountered the same problem with both my PC and laptop. I've enclosed the dxdiag report for my PC. As for my laptop, I'm using P4 2.53GHz, 2x256 RAM, 40HDD, and ATI Radeon 7200 64RAM.

I really like this game alot and it's darn disappointing I can't play it on both my units. I've even set the refresh rate to 75Hertz. What else can I do? Please advise.

Thanks in advance. Cheers!

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gtblackice · « **Reply #106 on:** January 20, 2004, 05:34:15 am »

Sorry...correction on my laptop's graphic card... it's ATI Radeon 7500 64MB instead of the ATI Radeon 7200 64MB I mentioned earlier.

Thanx.

number6 · « **Reply #107 on:** January 21, 2004, 03:00:46 pm »

Actually, looking at your DxDiag file you attached you have:

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Display Devices
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Card name: GeCube RADEON 9200 SE 128MB Game Buster
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: RADEON 9200 SE AGP (0x5964)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device ID: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5964&SUBSYS_017018BC&REV_01
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (75Hz)
Monitor: BenQ FP731
Monitor Max Res: 1280,1024
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.10.6414 (English)
DDI Version: 8 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 12/12/2003 12:50:24, 384512 bytes
Driver Signed: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a

Which should be fine. The only thing I would suggest is that you upgrade to DirectX 9.X. I know the minimum requirement for the game is DX 8.1, but it does not hurt to upgrade and it may help fix the problems you are having. Nothing stands out in your Direct X setup to me.

xeno · « **Reply #108 on:** January 23, 2004, 10:49:52 am »

Good Morning all

Well, i'm also fighting with this stupid serious error. This week i tried to solve it, so i first read the whole thread on the generals message board. Here is what i've done:

- removed one of my 2x512MB DDR 400 RAMs
- set FSB to normal 166 (333)
- set standart timings for RAM
- set swapfile to windows controled (not really possible with Win2k)
- set everything to "performance" (driver)
- set generals to low resolution
- disabled all details in the game
- set texture resolution and particle to low
- closed all unnecessary background applications
- set AGP to 4x
- disabled fast write
- enabled vsync

Now, with 7 hard players and myself i could play a litte longer then usual. But then firs my units began to stuck (also a common problem with my ZH), and then later i got the serious error. NO overheating, its impossible. Also NO virus. The detail and resolution was so low, it looked like crap.
I also read a few posts here, and someone mentioned to enable side band adressing. Unfortunately this is not possible with the detonator 53.03, it's gray and i can not check the box.
Oh and another thing.... after i pulled the 2nd RAM out, and put it in again later, my comp would not boot anymore (just stoped after the first boot screen with IRQ and so on...). I tried everything, default default default and even more default setting, it will not work. Now i just can use the one still inside. I tried the other one alone, but then not even my GFXcard bios appears - just nothing happens. Well... it seems i damaged it somehow when i pulled it out. Don't know why, there is no visible damage. Lucky G.E.I.L. RAM has a life time waranty. Maybe Generals don't like G.E.I.L. at all??

I really don't know how i ever will be able to play ZH and have fun with it... unless EA fixes it. But when i look into the generals message board, and count the answers from EA regarding this... 0. So sooner or later i have to scrap and dump ZH somewhere. Or claim to have my money back from EA... :/

frustrated greetings
xeno, Frankfurt - Germany

my comp:
Athlon XP2800@2,2GHz
Asus A7N8x deluxe 2.0
Gainward GeForce FX 5900 128MB
2x 512MB DDR400 CL2 G.E.I.L. Golden Dragon
Maxtor 200GB 7200rpm UDMA133
Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm UDMA133
Creative Soundblaster Live! Player 1024 (oldest part, year 2000)

Win2k Pro SP4 + some hotfixes, DX9.0b, detonator 53.03.

Doc Nyar · « **Reply #109 on:** January 23, 2004, 11:16:01 am »

Well you've tried a lot alright. First thing I would like to ask is to try the drivers from www.omegacorner.com. Do not use the latest, but try a version from 45.xx

Btw, did you already update your motherboard chipset drivers ?

xeno · « **Reply #110 on:** January 23, 2004, 12:22:21 pm »

I don't understand why ZH should run error-free with kind of a 3rd party driver...

But as i'm really pissed, i will try it on the weekend. I took me until early morning to fix my comp again, so i'm not very alive now here at work.

My chipset drivers are still 2.45 (or whatever), as i have heard bad storys about the new ones. You think i should try?

cheers
xeno

davemission · « **Reply #111 on:** January 23, 2004, 08:20:29 pm »

i cant find the right omega drivers, all i see is quake drivers and some others, i dont know which to use.

Atomic Mitten · « **Reply #112 on:** January 24, 2004, 02:10:34 am »

YOu have a Geforce card,so you need the Geforce drivers,from Omega.
Try the 52,16 one.

Phoenix · « **Reply #113 on:** January 24, 2004, 09:53:37 pm »

In my opinion has Generals just a bad engine which cannot run w/o errors. Any1 I know has serious errors occuring when in the game. in an early stage, or just when lot of performance from the graphic card is required. I have tried to let ghost recon run a whole night and it works fine n.p. but when I just rebooted my computer and I start generals, whitin 5 minutes my graphics are upside down, black squares etc etc.
So.... it's just a bad engine nothing more, nothing less....
EA has made more than one mistake in making this game.

gryphon · « **Reply #114 on:** January 24, 2004, 10:22:52 pm »

RotteVis, Ei and myself have played Generals in a gamecafe a few times [ I have even played it against the local drunk guy just wanting shelter there ones . . ]. . and not even there could we finish all of the games.

davemission · « **Reply #115 on:** January 25, 2004, 03:27:38 am »

how do i know which one to use??

http://www.driverheaven.net/downloads/index4.htm

Doc Nyar · « **Reply #116 on:** January 25, 2004, 01:02:43 pm »

nvidia_wxp_omega_14523a

gtblackice · « **Reply #117 on:** January 26, 2004, 02:28:04 am »

number6, thanx for your advise. will try to update to DirectX 9.0 in a short while. sorry for the late post...was celebrating Chinese New Year here..

anyway thanx.will post again after that for the results.

cheers!

davemission · « **Reply #118 on:** January 26, 2004, 07:22:38 am »

i installed the one under 14523, does it have to match my current nvidia drivers or does it not matter?

xeno · « **Reply #119 on:** January 26, 2004, 08:36:13 am »

It seems URLs doesn't work right, so just copy and paste it:

http://boards.ea.com/messages?14@239.Ouz9afqBI0Y.24@.1dee21e2

It may help or not, i'm just sick of it now.

You can add "me too" in the thread, you don't have to mean it.

cheers
xeno

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