Well guys, im sad to inform you all that i now have a new excuse for not entering any generals tournies (the old one was cos i lasted like 10 secs against you raiping rushing peeps lol). Zero Hour doesnt like athlon 64 X2's. The dual cpu prevents it from loading and you get lovely nice errors informing you that you need to have a minimum directx8.1 or that virus software is the problem, or even that the hardware doesnt meet minimum specs. After several emails with ea we have tracked it down to the said problem - dual cpus. Im waiting to find out if there is anyway i can force zero hour to start everytime in single cpu mode. I can do it via task manager, but you get like 3 seconds tops to change the affinity of generals.exe to 1 cpu and like 1 sec to do the same for game.exe. 9/10 times i dont make it. If anyone else has the game and an athlon x2 please try it and get back to me if you get it working. Also, if anyone knows of a program that forces certain programs to run in 1cpu mode then plz let me know too. It can be done, GPXPatch for Grand Prix 4 has a tick box option for setting it to just 1 cpu - otherwise its like watching a slideshow - the game runs so fast that it has to stop every 2 secs to catch up lol!!!
cheers all,
PK
cheers all,
PK