If it helps, I was also looking for a source to ascertain XP Compatibility options without being at risk for virus or malware. It expands the game by adding two new sides, the Russian Federation and the European Continental Alliance, Rise of the Reds will also bring back the nine alpha generals (plus with six new generals) that were planned to be in the original Generals, but with a unique. Point is, I'm running myself ragged attempting to get ROTR to work. Rise of The Reds (abbreviated ROTR) is a modification for Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour created by SWR Productions. But after testing the game I'm actually having no problem despite the. Which I'm eager to learn but for the life of me I'm pulling my hair out trying to Google for a solution as to how to enable file extension conversion.Īnd what about the base expansions options.ini file? Little worried about having to overwrite this one. Upon further review I managed to discover that the video I found this attempted fix on was actually full of crap and I ended up learning that you have to create an Options.txt file with these settings and actually convert the. Alas, I do not have compatibility options for XP and it's respective Service Packs.

Now since Generals has trouble running on modern operating systems I went into Properties on the Mod launcher and attempted to set it to Windows XP compatibility mode since that works for most people. Speaking of options, I have actually tried running ROTR as Administrator. Now I've probably copy/pasted the wrong thing here and got a fix that just set it back to it's base options with LOD and Anti Aliasing unchanged. The most common fix that I found and have done involves going into Windows (C:) > Users > OneDrive > Documents > Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data and initially rewriting the options.ini file to say exactly this. Thanks to EA's wonderful porting to Origin, many options are limited on how to fix bugs like these even though the game runs A-OK on my laptop. Now upon a quick Google search I came across what looks like the most common solution to problems involving running Generals on modern PCs. And yet, no problems have arisen with the base game as I have previously stated.

Please visit the forms at for for suggested courses of action or consult your manual for Technical Support contact information. Serious errors can be caused by many things including viruses, overheated hardware and hardware that does not meet the minimum specifications for the game. And yet, I'm not having this problem with the base Zero Hour game.

I won't bore y'all with the details on what it entails, but to cut to the chase I seem to be having some kind of crash issue when playing the mod. To my surprise, I stumbled across a little mod called Rise of The Reds. After taking a trip down memory lane and reinstalling C&C Generals and Zero Hour, I thought I'd try something different and look for a mod that could spice up the gameplay.

Rise of the reds 1.87 trainer