Command & Conquer: Generals

What works

Everything I tried - installing and playing work fine.

What does not

Nothing I tried.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Network play and running without a nocd crack(I'm not sure the nocd crack is required but I am unable to test it as my CD 1 wore out years ago).

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

This is platinum because there is nothing below here that I wouldn't expect to have to do for a multiple-cd game. 1) Deleted .wine folder in ~ (to create a fresh install) 2) Ran winecfg 3) Setup /media/cdrom0 as drive D (CDROM) and inserted disk 1, waiting for it to spin up 4) Mounted /media/cdrom0 (sudo mount /media/cdrom0) 5) Ran 'wine d:/setup.exe' 6) Followed the setup through until I was asked for disk 2 7) Unmounted cdrom0 (sudo umount /media/cdrom0) 8) Ejected disk 1 and inserted disk 2 9) Waited for it to spin up 10) Mounted /media/cdrom0 11) Clicked retry 12) Allowed rest of setup process to run 13) Copied across the nocd crack (not sure if this is required to run) 14) Ran the game from the desktop icon. My machine: HP i5, 8GB RAM, 2TB disk (1TB for Debian)

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

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):

AntiAliasing = 4
BuildingOcclusion = yes
CampaignDifficulty = 0
DynamicLOD = yes
ExtraAnimations = yes
GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0
Gamma = 50
IPAddress = 0.0.0.0
IdealStaticGameLOD = Low
LanguageFilter = false
MaxParticleCount = 5000
MusicVolume = 76
Resolution = 1024 768
SFX3DVolume = 79
SFXVolume = 71
ScrollFactor = 50
SendDelay = no
ShowSoftWaterEdge = yes
ShowTrees = yes
StaticGameLOD = Custom
TextureReduction = 0
UseAlternateMouse = no
UseCloudMap = yes
UseLightMap = yes
UseShadowDecals = yes
UseShadowVolumes = yes
VoiceVolume = 70

- 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)