Be the Ultimate Modern Warfare General.
Command and Conquer Generals puts your trigger finger on
the pulse of modern warfare. Prepare your forces, General—it's time to
engage in the next generation of real-time strategy.
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What works
World Builder
Single player campaigns, skirmish
Internet/network play
(i don't guarantee)
What does not
Minimize/alt+tabMinimize/alt+tab
What was not tested
ummm... nothing
Additional Comments
Everything works flawlessly with very high fps. WorldBuilder (step 11) works too.
Everything works **without** any crack and/or disk!!!!!
Steps to make it work:
1. Add directx overrides http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/microsoft/directx-90c-march-2008-redistributable-on-linux-with-wine.html
2. Copy msvcirt.dll from your windows installation's c:\WINDOWS\system32 and put it to .wine/drive_c/windows/system32. If you don't have windows installed, you must manually download msvcirt.dll
*Note: .wine folder is hidden
3. Copy first CD's contents to your harddisk, and data2.cab from second disk into same folder
4. Open winecfg, go to drives tab, add a new drive, and set path to what was in 3rd step
5. Install C&C Generals from that folder by running setup.exe
6. Download the 1.08 patch, put into your virtual c: disk, and patch the game
7. I recommend running in virtual desktop
8. !!!Open game.dat instead of generals.exe, that is: "wine game.dat"
hahaha found this ^^ by incident, game doesn't need any crack or disk this way, internet play should work too
9. In this step, game runs, but in my case there was no sound/music. I played a bit, opened/closed a few times, set to emulate virtual desktop, and sound suddenly appeared. Dunno what made it work, possibly virtual desktop. Though it worked excellent without losing sound after I turned off virtual desktop emulation
10. Do not alt+tab or minimize the game when *not* in a virtual desktop, it crashes with error for me
11. To get World Builder working, just install vcrun6 package in winetricks (it needs mfc42.dll)
12. Every time you exit the game, it won't reset back your desktop resolution. To set resolution to somthing higher then 1152x864, preferably to native res., go to "~/.wine/drive_c/users/my documents/command and conquer generals data", open the file options.ini by some text editor, find the line
Resolution = xxx yyy
and manually change xxx and yyy values. In my case I changed it to
Resolution = 1600 900
13. If you don't want step12 and the game looks too stretched in your monitor, open "nvidia x server settings", that is nvidia-settings and go to the tab saying something like "DFP-0 - (%your monitor name%)" and set GPU scaling method to centered
some steps shamelessly copied from howto
RAM: 2gb
Video: nvidia 210 1gb
Video driver: version current-updates
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 x64
Desktop environment: Mate
1. Download msvcirt.dll and put it in your .wine/drive_c/windows/system32 directory
2. Copy both CD's to your harddisk into the same folder.
3. Install Command & Conquer Generals from your harddisk using wine setup.exe
4. Once the installation is done, find yourself a no-cd crack and replace the original game.dat and generals.exe with the cracked ones.
5. Start winecfg and, go to the Graphics tab, and at the bottom in the Direct3D area set Vertex Shader Support to none and unthick "Allow Pixel Shader" otherwise the world won't show but just the buildings.
6. Go into the Data folder and rename the folder Movies or delete it.
7. Next go into the english folder (sub-folder from data) and either rename or delete the Movies directory from there aswell.
8. Go back to your Generals Installation directory and launch the game using wine generals.exe
9. Go to the Options Menu. In the Display Options Area, Set Detail to Custom. A new window will pop-up. Make sure you unthick Extra Ground Lighting there to fix the bug that certain parts of the ground aren't showing.
10. Have fun playing the game! :D
Notes by Ambro
by Ambro on (May 1st 2007)
I also experienced the bug where the game failed to start after putting
my options.ini file to "~/Command and Conquer Generals Data". However,
I was able to bypass this bug by installing the game using the loki
installer.
To get this game working:
- Copy msvcirt.dll to "~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32"
- Install the game using the loki installer ( www.liflg.org/?catid=7) - Modify the "generals" script so it will only call wine
- Create the file "~/Command and Conquer Generals Data/options.ini"
and put the following inside (adjust the resolution) (this bypassed the
splash screen freeze for me):
- Run winecfg and in the Audio tab, select OSS, and in "Hardware Acceleration", select "Emulation"
- Start the game by running "/generals -quickstart" (quickstart will bypass the problem with sound blocking the second movie)
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Slow game and crash-to-desktop
by Gijs on Saturday December 1st 2012, 19:25
Using Ubuntu 12.04, PlayOnLinux 4.1.8, Wine 1.4.
Having the same problem as one guy above: the game is very slow. When I try to click options, both in the main menu as in-game, the game crashes-to-desktop, leaving the resolution to 640×480 or something like that.
Further than that, the game runs fine. It's just terribly slow.
Can't install it
by Sven on Friday September 14th 2012, 0:08
Hi,
I followed the how to but I fail even to start the installation.
It reports back with error:
1608: Unable to create IntsallDriver instance, Return code: -2147221164
I tried different Windows versions in the Wine configuration (98, 2000, xp) but none of them work.
I have to say that I start via rightclick and then "open with wine windows program launcher" as sudo wine setup.exe reports back "/.wine is not owned by you"
I have make with the id from my graphic card, yepee, the ground apears... but not perfectly, (can have desert blocs in grass) i have tested different model ID, nothings, i have a stupid idea,
I have replaced the value By 0 (0x0000000) and... terrain is ok and with no bug, and the best, can add all effect in the game option ("Extra Ground Lighting" is now working), and Vertex Shader Support to yes and activate "Allow Pixel Shader" on wine is fully working
My graphiccard is a 7900GS.
Enjoy and have fun.
I have not tested thios on othe graphiccards, can work or not with othe, make test
DRI on x86_64 system
by lirel on Friday April 9th 2010, 17:33
wine doesn't seem to correctly detect the necessary 32bit DRI-libraries generals relies on.
use
LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib32/dri wine generals.exe
to hint libgl/wine to 32bit versions of the libraries.
