Command & Conquer Generals, and the Zero Hour expansion on the Acer Aspire One netbook
filed under: Gaming / Netbook Games
I have just recently installed one of my most recent favorite games, Command & Conquer Generals, and it's expansion, Zero Hour. The game installed fine over the network DVD drive, the only exception is that when it's time to change the CD, you'll get an error, "Error 1311. Source file not found: (Drive letter):\Language.cab. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.". If you see this error around 38%-45% installed, fret not, just swap the second CD into your networked CD/DVD drive and click retry.
I was able to patch it with the Zero Hour 1.04 patch and it runs great. I did have to use a no-cd fix to play, but that went flawlessly as well.
Once installed, I started it up and it loaded surprisingly quick. For the graphics settings I kept them pretty low, the game play was pretty smooth for the most part, though I imagine large group games would bog down most netbooks pretty quickly. I played a quick random skirmish against an easy CPU player just to brush up, as it's been several years since I've played this game.
So I ended up playing the Air Force General against the Chinese Infantry General, with the CPU being "easy", it didn't take me too long to cap the oil rigs and start whipping his ass. I will be playing this one quite a bit in the future I'm certain. My buddy has also installed it on his netbook (an EeePC), so maybe we'll try a network game some day and report back on that.
5 comments
Add a new comment »Categories
Recent Entries
- God of War 3 1024x600 netbook wallpapers
- Bioshock 2 netbook wallpapers
- Light-weight related articles mod for sNews 1.7
- Zenwalk Linux 6.2 on the Acer Aspire One netbook
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 1024x600 netbook wallpapers
Netbook Gaming Poll
Netbook Size Poll
Recent Comments
- Sven/Philippe (Uh oh... him again! Oui. It's me: inspecteur ...)
- jesth (That would be really, cool, atleast then I will know if I ...)
- Matt (jesth, I'll shoot ya an email tomorrow and see if I can ...)
- jesth (I tried all sorts of things, but can't move that darn ...)
- Matt (Yeah, it took me a while actually, my comment function is ...)
- jesth (Iv'e tried "hacking" around in the comment ...)
- Matt (Hi jesth, everything is controlled through the CSS styling ...)
Popular Entries
- Light-weight related articles mod for sNews 1.7 (5/5)
- Gravatar mod for sNews 1.7 (5/5)
- Compact archives for sNews 1.7 (5/5)
- Command & Conquer Generals, and the Zero Hour expansion on the Acer Aspire One netbook (4.75/5)
- Jagged Alliance 2 runs perfect on the Aspire One (4.75/5)
- An improved tag cloud for sNews 1.7 (4.67/5)
- Image / math hybrid captcha version 2, vastly improved (4.64/5)
Feb 26th, 2009 at 9:31 am
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Mar 10th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Mar 10th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
lol...
Dec 13th, 2009 at 2:00 am
If U play against 2 or more CPU with hard Difficulties(Hard army) and they attack U with Large Group Unit is it still can handle it?Lag or ...
please your answer..
thank's..
Dec 13th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Hi Jeff,
I didn't notice any serious performance degrading in a 4 player game at all. I guess with enough units on the map you might, but this game ran very very smooth. I haven't yet re-installed under Windows 7 yet.
If you Search youtube, there's a few videos of CnC Generals running on various netbooks, the game play is quite smooth.